The Bed List/The Dinner List

BED LIST: JONATHAN RHYS-MYERSOkay, Jonathan Rhys-Myers is a little dreamier and prettier than I usually go for, but he’s worth it, dontcha think? Totally adorable in Bend it Like Beckham, plays the naughty boy in Vanity Fair. Oh, and he’s been Elvis, too. Young Elvis. Young, good looking Elvis. And he has an accent. Good looking, gorgeous eyes, has an accent. Yep, that’s a...
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The Bed List/The Dinner List

BED LIST: DAVID DUCHOVNYSense of humor, reads, Ivy League education. And there’s a drinking game involving him. The truth is out there, and his name is David Duchovny. Come on over, Mulder, and let me X your Files!DINNER LIST: STEVE ZAHNThis man is off. But it’s a good kind of off. Who better to play the stoner sidekick? Steve Zahn is funny as hell. He’s the master of the...
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Tropically Depressing Ernesto

Central Florida’s suffering through its first bout of hurricane fever this season thanks to a weakling named Ernesto. The tracking maps showed him paying us a visit, so counties all over canceled school for today. Of course, now we have to make up the missed day the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. So much for travel plans.So today we stayed in, and it was…wait for it…rainy....
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Radioactive Republicans

Chez mimi’s been getting a lot of phone calls this week about political candidates. We’re a divided house: one Democrat, one Republican. DH and I figure that splitting the registrations means that each of us can choose the best candidate in the closed-party primary, then vote our respective consciences in the general election.Usually, there’s one obvious candidate on the...
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The Bed List/The Dinner List

BED LIST: JAMES MARSDENYou gotta like a guy willing to play straight man to Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. James Marsden is one interesting X-Man. It’s too bad that he keeps getting cast as the great guy who doesn’t get the girl, though: he’s on the losing end of romance in X-Men, The Notebook, and Superman. Methinks it’s time he got top billing. DINNER LIST: SUMNER...
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"Fast" Girls

I was screen snacking yesterday and took a bite of some stories about VW’s “Fast” campaign for the GTI. Apparently, the notion that young males in their late 20s (the ad agency’s target demographic) might be thinking more with testosterone than with sensitivity is both baffling and threatening.I don’t know about you, but DH and I laughed our butts off. But...
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