I know everyone has been sitting on the edge of their seats, but I have a some modifications and updates to make on my top 10 hottest women list. New additions to the list, Anne Hathaway and Claire Danes. Out are Aisha Tyler, sorry but I haven't seen you in years and Autumn Reeser, the OC is done and in the last few episodes I lost my interest for her.
More to come
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Saturday, February 3, 2007
20 Down
Well I reached the twenty pound loss mark today, a milestone of sorts. Twenty pounds, that does sound like and feel like a lot. My wife equates it in terms of sticks of butter. I just think our youngest pup, Marley weighs 30 pounds so I've almost lost the equivalent of a Marley. I finally felt what restriction feels like. First it came in the form of some string cheese that I had, but that was nothing compared to "The Great Tuna Fish Incident of 07." So it was a few days ago and I was supposedly ready to wien myself off liquid and pureed food, and my wife stepped me up to the tuna fish table. Packed in my little lunch bag that I bring to work everyday was a couple of tiny cups of tuna fish salad. So I dug in, thinking these little spoonfulls of mere tuna fish would be no problem. Think again. I shoveled (which seems like a funny word to use considering I'm literally using plastic baby spoons) about five little spoonfuls worth of tuna fish and there was a brief pause. Following the pause was a feeling, a feeling unlike anything I've felt before. There was a lump of tuna fish sitting somewhere in my sternum. It refused to go down, and like having clogged pipes, my pipe was full and nothing was moving. After struggling with this very uncomfortable feeling for about ten minutes I decided to excuse myself to the restroom, as I needed to escalate the situation and possibly get rid of the clog so to speak.
I've never been a drinker, so I'm not the least bit comfortable with vomitting. I guess that's not to say that all drinkers are expert vomitters, but I just think of my college buddies who could all throw 'em back, and were certainly accustomed to the concept of throwing up the next day. So, despite my inexprience and lack of comfort with vomitting, I felt like that was my only choice. There I was, on my knees leaning over the porcelan bowl waiting for something to happen. Well it didn't happen on its own. So, I went the route that all good bulimics go, and I inserted a finger in my mouth to stimulate the necessary reflex. All I got was a dry heave. So I washed up, figured that was it and went back to my office. Five minutes later I was back in the bathroom, and again nothing but dry heaves were to be my fate. Eventually the feeling passed and I was back to normal, but the feeling was still fresh on the mind. It would serve as enough of a wake up call to implant a memory that would stop me from repeting such an episode. Or so I thought.
Last night my parents came over for some Friday night hand and foot and they brought with them some delectables from Pick Up Stix. I had a small amount, ate slowly, chewed like crazy and without incident. But when they left, the devilish side of me that loves leftovers and loves to do his eating in private, went straight for the Pick Up Stix to prepare a small leftover plate. However, in my haste to dive right in, I had too much too fast and boom. The feeling was back and I sat there for about fifteen minutes in agony again.
They say the surgery doesn't change your head, and its true. I still have a lot to learn.
I've never been a drinker, so I'm not the least bit comfortable with vomitting. I guess that's not to say that all drinkers are expert vomitters, but I just think of my college buddies who could all throw 'em back, and were certainly accustomed to the concept of throwing up the next day. So, despite my inexprience and lack of comfort with vomitting, I felt like that was my only choice. There I was, on my knees leaning over the porcelan bowl waiting for something to happen. Well it didn't happen on its own. So, I went the route that all good bulimics go, and I inserted a finger in my mouth to stimulate the necessary reflex. All I got was a dry heave. So I washed up, figured that was it and went back to my office. Five minutes later I was back in the bathroom, and again nothing but dry heaves were to be my fate. Eventually the feeling passed and I was back to normal, but the feeling was still fresh on the mind. It would serve as enough of a wake up call to implant a memory that would stop me from repeting such an episode. Or so I thought.
Last night my parents came over for some Friday night hand and foot and they brought with them some delectables from Pick Up Stix. I had a small amount, ate slowly, chewed like crazy and without incident. But when they left, the devilish side of me that loves leftovers and loves to do his eating in private, went straight for the Pick Up Stix to prepare a small leftover plate. However, in my haste to dive right in, I had too much too fast and boom. The feeling was back and I sat there for about fifteen minutes in agony again.
They say the surgery doesn't change your head, and its true. I still have a lot to learn.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Did you start yet?
Well surgery day was Tuesday morning and everything was smooth as can be. We arrived at 6am by seven I had my IV in and I was ready to go. Minor complication with the IV as they tried to put in my right arm and apparently my veins are better in my left. But no biggie. The anasteoligist came in, and Mindy was relieved that he appeared to be a jew. I said to him that I had heard that if I looked pittiful and said I was nervous that he would give me some happy juice. He tested me, and wanted to see my pittiful look. Obviously not knowing he wasn't running into any amateur here, this was a trained actor and dramatist that could look pittiful in a moments notice. He was impressed with my look and indeed gave me the happy juice. Dr. Kosar came in briefly, said hello and then dissapeared. The rest is a total blur. My first conscious moment was probably around noon, but apparently things were even more interesting when I first came out of anastesia. According to the Dr. I put up quite a fight and it took 6 people to hold me down. Yeah that's right, not two or three or even four or five like some wimps, but six.
At around two, they wanted to get me up and walking but my body wasn't ready. The blood rushed to my head and some bad nausea overcame me. I just said get me back in bed and get me some meds. So they did and all was well again. I was going to take my sweet time and make sure that I was totally comfortable before leaving. Finally around 4pm I was ready to walk around and go for a pp. Normally an uneventful happening, but not quite the case when your wife is in the pp room with you and his holding your IV bag. I never have had such a difficult time with a simple pp. Eventually after Mindy had turned on the faucet and I stood there for about five minutes with my legs shaking, I conjured up the strength to go p. Shortly thereafter, they took my IV out and I was ready to go.
My time at home has been fine. Some minor pain, that is manageable with the pain medication. Some definite adjustment in figuring how to get up without using your stomach muscles, but not as much of a struggle as I had anticipated. I do a lot of walking, mainly pacing in the bedroom to try and get rid of the gas that they put in you which causes your shoulder to hurt pretty bad. Sleeping has been very on and off. At night I have been sleeping for a couple of hours, then awake for a couple of hours, then repeat. But again all in all the recovery has been pretty easy and pretty minor. I plan to go into the office tomorrow for a few hours, Poppi is going to take me, and hopefully more and more over the course of the weekend my life will return to some normalcy. More to come.
At around two, they wanted to get me up and walking but my body wasn't ready. The blood rushed to my head and some bad nausea overcame me. I just said get me back in bed and get me some meds. So they did and all was well again. I was going to take my sweet time and make sure that I was totally comfortable before leaving. Finally around 4pm I was ready to walk around and go for a pp. Normally an uneventful happening, but not quite the case when your wife is in the pp room with you and his holding your IV bag. I never have had such a difficult time with a simple pp. Eventually after Mindy had turned on the faucet and I stood there for about five minutes with my legs shaking, I conjured up the strength to go p. Shortly thereafter, they took my IV out and I was ready to go.
My time at home has been fine. Some minor pain, that is manageable with the pain medication. Some definite adjustment in figuring how to get up without using your stomach muscles, but not as much of a struggle as I had anticipated. I do a lot of walking, mainly pacing in the bedroom to try and get rid of the gas that they put in you which causes your shoulder to hurt pretty bad. Sleeping has been very on and off. At night I have been sleeping for a couple of hours, then awake for a couple of hours, then repeat. But again all in all the recovery has been pretty easy and pretty minor. I plan to go into the office tomorrow for a few hours, Poppi is going to take me, and hopefully more and more over the course of the weekend my life will return to some normalcy. More to come.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
61 Hours To Go
Not that anyone is counting, but there are exactly 61 hours, no, now its 60 hours 59 minutes until my surgery. After several days maybe weeks of nervousness, I currently feel very peaceful, relaxed, I'm ready. I went in last wednesday for a battery of pre-surgery tests, EKG, chest x-rays, blood work. I was poked and prodded in every way imgainable and I was given a clear bill of health and approval to go forth and get cut.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Insomnia Sucks
Here I lay wide awake at 3:24 am. Its all a fallout from my cold. It just threw off my sleeping pattern completely since I was sleeping during the day and now I can only describe my current state as tweaked. I never was a tweaker, never wanted to be one, but I have a little peak into their lives, and I want out. I have watched TV, read several chapters in Small is the New Big, a book by my marketing Guru, Seth Godin. Then when that failed, I watched some more TV, on a volume setting of two I'll have you know, with one being basically inaudible except perhaps to rats and mole like creatures. I got shushed twice by my wife asking me to turn it down. So I gave up and left the marital bed to come downstairs. There all three dogs looked at me as if to say "what the hell are you doing up, and would you please go away, we are trying to sleep." I tried to ignore their curled up bodies, sleeping peacefully. I dove into what I had recorded on Tivo. Watched an episode of Man Vs. Wild, a show Dary turned me onto as a joke. He is a fan of the show Survivorman, a Canadian guy who goes off into all of these crazy survival missions, alone for six or seven days. He films everything himself, and he is definitely a badass. So Dary says to checkout Man Vs. Wild because he thinks this guy is just a complete "Survivorman Light." His take is the guy in Man Vs. Wild is better looking, all sort of Hollywooded out, and the wuss has a camera crew with him, therefore clearly his show is a joke. Look to the best of my knowledge the camera crew doesn't help him in the slightest, but what they do provide is really good footage, unlike Survivorman who has to shoot everything himself. And yeah the guy is better looking, he's an ex special forces British guy with clearly a waxed chest. But this guy I dare say is a bigger badass. Rather than just experiencing whatever he would experience he jumps into danger so he can show you how to get out. Like he jumps into a frozen pond, and sits in it for several minutes so he can explain exactly how to get out and then what to do once you are out. Anyhow six one way a half a dozen the other or however the saying goes, both of these guys are far bigger badasses than I'll ever be. So I watch an entire episode, am I tired, not the slightest. So I jump on the laptop and I read about a dozen Digg articles on the post mortem of the Mac World conference and how the world is taking the big news of Apple TV and Iphone. Still no yawn, no sign of sleep ahead. So I decide to browse through the Tivo again. I find a few things to checkout, then I go to live TV and I watch that horrible newscast that is on at 3am on ABC where two zombies sit there and pretend like they have an audience. When in reality their only audience is insomniac zombies like myself. At least they had a piece on from Mac World with an interview with Steve Jobs. And that leads me to now. I figured if I type away and pump out a blog surely that will earn a yawn, a sigh, some sign of forthcoming sleep. Nope, wide awake.
Monday, January 1, 2007
Another Top 10 List
Did I mention I love Top 10 Lists. Here's another...
Top 10 Impactful People of 2006
For Better or For Worse
10. Sadaam Hussein
Why not start with a "for worse" person. He didn't have that much of an impact directly on 2006 but with his execution by hanging happening just two days ago, one would be remissed not to include him on the list. He was a bad man, no doubt, but hanging as a means of execution still in existance in the year 2006, really quite incredible.
9. Michael Richards
Guess I'm stuck on the "for worse" theme, but he was certainly talked about a great deal this year, or at least towards the end of it. So my question is if a c-list comedian walks into an empty comedy club and screams out the n word about a hundred times, does anybody care? Now what if he does it in a full comedy club. Is there really a difference. I mean here's a guy just screaming for attention, for some fame, some noteriety, something. That wasn't a real racist rant, that was as pre-meditated as OJ pulling the Ginzu Chef on Nicole.
8. Mel Gibson
Yep, another "for worse" entry. In fact I've decided to put all the for worst one's here at the bottom of the list, so the top is filled with the people I think deserved to be there most. Ok, now this wasn't pre-meditated, he had a career. He's just a moron, with deep seeded anti-semetic beliefs. Guess you mix a little liquid truth with a total anti-semite and his stripes appear. Anyhow, I would have loved to end this entry by saying "bye bye Mel, you can kiss your career goodbye." But it turns out that the truth is most the world hates the Jews, and there weren't any major box office boycots when his recent movie came out. The studio, probably run mainly by Jews, didn't even try to hide the fact that it was his movie. Instead all the trailers played "MEL GIBSONS APOCALYPTO!" It was so loud, so bold, so clearly attached they could have said "MEL GIBSON HATES THE JEWS. AND IF YOU DO TOO, YOU SHOULD SEE.....MEL GIBSONS APOCALYPTO." From this Jew I have one word to describe Mel, Schmuck.
7. George Bush
Ok, I promise this is the last of the "for worse" entries. But if you are making a list of most impactful, good and bad, he has to make your list. He sunk us deeper and deeper into this horrible war. The blood of thousands of dead soldiers is on his hands, not to mention all the disfigured supposed survivors. Guy goes away, young, in the prime of his life. Comes back with no legs and is given some worthless metal and pat on the head. Thanks for fighting our war for oil. How he sleeps well at night, how he spends 3/4 of his Presidency at that stupid ranch in Crawfod Texas, and how the Republicans think they stand a chance in 08 is all beyond me.
6. Nancy Pelozzi
I know very little about her, so I'm neither going to make it up or google it just for the sake of looking intelligent. But the deomcrats take back power and the new speaker of the house is not only a democrat, but a woman, now's that progress!
5. James Kim
I think he would be labeled under not really better or worse, but heart-wrenching. What a horrible story that was to follow, and you had that sad sinking feeling in the back of your mind that it wasn't going to end well. And with as much as I listen to Leo Laporte, and read Digg, I really followed the story. So much so, that you really felt invested, felt great elation when they found his wife and kids and then felt great sadness when they found him dead. You never really can tell if a guy was a good guy or just an ok guy directly after they die, because everyone comes to the forefront to always crow about how great of a person they were. But with James Kim, you really got the sense that he was a great guy, a true friend, a great family man and someone that was really admired by his peers.
4. Stephen Colbert
No one would say that Stephen Colbert did anything really impactful in 2006 unless you consider the value of entertainment as being impactful. I was always a huge fan of Jon Stewart and thought Comedy Central should kiss his little ass everyday as for several years he was their anchor, he was all they had. But then just like Mork and Mindy or Joanie Loves Chachi, The Colbert Report was spawned from The Daily Show. I don't watch it as often I should, but whenever I see a clip, the guy is brilliantly funny and the definition of satire.
3. Howard Stern
Sticking with the theme of just how impactful entertainment is on lives, Howard Stern was more relevant than ever in 2006. He bravely abandoned traditional radio and with the incentive of a half a billion dollars he moved over to Sirius Satelite Radio this year. At first I was actually hesitant that his show would take a turn for the worse. That he and his crew would abuse their new found freedom and it would fuck this and shit that every other second. But much to his credit it hasn't been. Sure a few explitives fly from time to time. but overall his show has gotten only better. He seems invigorated by his new freedom, and the overall creativity on the show has propsered because of it. I listen to him everyday. He makes my workday speed along, he makes my time in the car more fun, and I have several thousand shares of Sirius stocks, so I'm a believer not only in Howard but the medium of Satelite radio.
2. Steve Jobs
2006 was the year of the Apple for me. After wanting a Mac for the past few years and even wandering into Mac stores and making ridiculous blank statements to a salesman like "Uhhh, I know I want a Mac, but I don't know why. Tell me why I need one," I finally just bought one about nine months ago. I love it. I have always loved technology, loved gadgets, but I think I had experienced a couple of years without acquiring a new tech toy that would really impact life. That is until I got my Mac. It opened my eyes to podcast, and Iphoto, and just gave me a reason to fall in love with a personal computer again. If I'm sitting at home on the couch in front of the TV, my Mac is on my lap and I'm doing something with it. We got a second Mac for the house just a few months ago, this one a desktop Imac mainly for my wife. She loves it too, and as soon as she really dives into Iphoto, she's going to be as hooked as I am.
1. Kevin Rose
I think I first saw Kevin Rose on Tech TV about three or four years ago and I didn't think much of him. He was just another sort of geeky punk on one of the shows like Call for Help or the Screensavers, who would pop on the screen with some sort of quasi witty bantor. Then Tech TV became G4 and the whole crew pretty much lost their jobs and went their seperate ways. So, I guess with the extra time on his hands, Kevin Rose grew out of his geeky punk phase and grew into an innovator. A mover, a shaker, a creator of technology, really good and useful technology. He created Digg.com, a site where you can go and checkout tons of meaningful, relevant content. A one stop shop for all the interesting stories on the internet. I think its pittiful how little news I read before I discovered Digg. I mean on occasion I would go to Cnn.com, but with a site like that you are only getting the stories from one source. With Digg you get all the news, anything interesting, any tidbit of fascinating information and all from the entire web, not just one site. And how you get it is just as interesting. Its sort of popularity contest. If a certain number of people all "Digg" a particular article then it makes the front page of Digg. I was skeptical at first, thinking stories submitted and voted on as most popular would either represent a moronic measure of the masses, or it would be some clever advertiser with some type of hacking software that just gets his products or special interest on the front page because he cheats the system. But neither was the case. The masses that migrate towards Digg are an intelligent crowd that do their due dilligence with their digging. And as for people cheating the system, it has happened, and happened widely as recent as about a year ago, but Rose seems to run a tight ship and rather than closing shop because they couldn't keep one step ahead of the cheats, they got smarter, developed better systems and now thrive in their efforts to weed out the cheats and spammers. Digg is a great site, and Kevin Rose is the kind of guy that will change the world, for better.
Top 10 Impactful People of 2006
For Better or For Worse
10. Sadaam Hussein
Why not start with a "for worse" person. He didn't have that much of an impact directly on 2006 but with his execution by hanging happening just two days ago, one would be remissed not to include him on the list. He was a bad man, no doubt, but hanging as a means of execution still in existance in the year 2006, really quite incredible.
9. Michael Richards
Guess I'm stuck on the "for worse" theme, but he was certainly talked about a great deal this year, or at least towards the end of it. So my question is if a c-list comedian walks into an empty comedy club and screams out the n word about a hundred times, does anybody care? Now what if he does it in a full comedy club. Is there really a difference. I mean here's a guy just screaming for attention, for some fame, some noteriety, something. That wasn't a real racist rant, that was as pre-meditated as OJ pulling the Ginzu Chef on Nicole.
8. Mel Gibson
Yep, another "for worse" entry. In fact I've decided to put all the for worst one's here at the bottom of the list, so the top is filled with the people I think deserved to be there most. Ok, now this wasn't pre-meditated, he had a career. He's just a moron, with deep seeded anti-semetic beliefs. Guess you mix a little liquid truth with a total anti-semite and his stripes appear. Anyhow, I would have loved to end this entry by saying "bye bye Mel, you can kiss your career goodbye." But it turns out that the truth is most the world hates the Jews, and there weren't any major box office boycots when his recent movie came out. The studio, probably run mainly by Jews, didn't even try to hide the fact that it was his movie. Instead all the trailers played "MEL GIBSONS APOCALYPTO!" It was so loud, so bold, so clearly attached they could have said "MEL GIBSON HATES THE JEWS. AND IF YOU DO TOO, YOU SHOULD SEE.....MEL GIBSONS APOCALYPTO." From this Jew I have one word to describe Mel, Schmuck.
7. George Bush
Ok, I promise this is the last of the "for worse" entries. But if you are making a list of most impactful, good and bad, he has to make your list. He sunk us deeper and deeper into this horrible war. The blood of thousands of dead soldiers is on his hands, not to mention all the disfigured supposed survivors. Guy goes away, young, in the prime of his life. Comes back with no legs and is given some worthless metal and pat on the head. Thanks for fighting our war for oil. How he sleeps well at night, how he spends 3/4 of his Presidency at that stupid ranch in Crawfod Texas, and how the Republicans think they stand a chance in 08 is all beyond me.
6. Nancy Pelozzi
I know very little about her, so I'm neither going to make it up or google it just for the sake of looking intelligent. But the deomcrats take back power and the new speaker of the house is not only a democrat, but a woman, now's that progress!
5. James Kim
I think he would be labeled under not really better or worse, but heart-wrenching. What a horrible story that was to follow, and you had that sad sinking feeling in the back of your mind that it wasn't going to end well. And with as much as I listen to Leo Laporte, and read Digg, I really followed the story. So much so, that you really felt invested, felt great elation when they found his wife and kids and then felt great sadness when they found him dead. You never really can tell if a guy was a good guy or just an ok guy directly after they die, because everyone comes to the forefront to always crow about how great of a person they were. But with James Kim, you really got the sense that he was a great guy, a true friend, a great family man and someone that was really admired by his peers.
4. Stephen Colbert
No one would say that Stephen Colbert did anything really impactful in 2006 unless you consider the value of entertainment as being impactful. I was always a huge fan of Jon Stewart and thought Comedy Central should kiss his little ass everyday as for several years he was their anchor, he was all they had. But then just like Mork and Mindy or Joanie Loves Chachi, The Colbert Report was spawned from The Daily Show. I don't watch it as often I should, but whenever I see a clip, the guy is brilliantly funny and the definition of satire.
3. Howard Stern
Sticking with the theme of just how impactful entertainment is on lives, Howard Stern was more relevant than ever in 2006. He bravely abandoned traditional radio and with the incentive of a half a billion dollars he moved over to Sirius Satelite Radio this year. At first I was actually hesitant that his show would take a turn for the worse. That he and his crew would abuse their new found freedom and it would fuck this and shit that every other second. But much to his credit it hasn't been. Sure a few explitives fly from time to time. but overall his show has gotten only better. He seems invigorated by his new freedom, and the overall creativity on the show has propsered because of it. I listen to him everyday. He makes my workday speed along, he makes my time in the car more fun, and I have several thousand shares of Sirius stocks, so I'm a believer not only in Howard but the medium of Satelite radio.
2. Steve Jobs
2006 was the year of the Apple for me. After wanting a Mac for the past few years and even wandering into Mac stores and making ridiculous blank statements to a salesman like "Uhhh, I know I want a Mac, but I don't know why. Tell me why I need one," I finally just bought one about nine months ago. I love it. I have always loved technology, loved gadgets, but I think I had experienced a couple of years without acquiring a new tech toy that would really impact life. That is until I got my Mac. It opened my eyes to podcast, and Iphoto, and just gave me a reason to fall in love with a personal computer again. If I'm sitting at home on the couch in front of the TV, my Mac is on my lap and I'm doing something with it. We got a second Mac for the house just a few months ago, this one a desktop Imac mainly for my wife. She loves it too, and as soon as she really dives into Iphoto, she's going to be as hooked as I am.
1. Kevin Rose
I think I first saw Kevin Rose on Tech TV about three or four years ago and I didn't think much of him. He was just another sort of geeky punk on one of the shows like Call for Help or the Screensavers, who would pop on the screen with some sort of quasi witty bantor. Then Tech TV became G4 and the whole crew pretty much lost their jobs and went their seperate ways. So, I guess with the extra time on his hands, Kevin Rose grew out of his geeky punk phase and grew into an innovator. A mover, a shaker, a creator of technology, really good and useful technology. He created Digg.com, a site where you can go and checkout tons of meaningful, relevant content. A one stop shop for all the interesting stories on the internet. I think its pittiful how little news I read before I discovered Digg. I mean on occasion I would go to Cnn.com, but with a site like that you are only getting the stories from one source. With Digg you get all the news, anything interesting, any tidbit of fascinating information and all from the entire web, not just one site. And how you get it is just as interesting. Its sort of popularity contest. If a certain number of people all "Digg" a particular article then it makes the front page of Digg. I was skeptical at first, thinking stories submitted and voted on as most popular would either represent a moronic measure of the masses, or it would be some clever advertiser with some type of hacking software that just gets his products or special interest on the front page because he cheats the system. But neither was the case. The masses that migrate towards Digg are an intelligent crowd that do their due dilligence with their digging. And as for people cheating the system, it has happened, and happened widely as recent as about a year ago, but Rose seems to run a tight ship and rather than closing shop because they couldn't keep one step ahead of the cheats, they got smarter, developed better systems and now thrive in their efforts to weed out the cheats and spammers. Digg is a great site, and Kevin Rose is the kind of guy that will change the world, for better.
A Top Ten List
Now I know you thought that every post would have something to do with my forthcoming banding. Well think again. Anyone who knows me knows I rarely stay on one topic. My mind bounces around from one topic to the next and I expect my blog will be the same. So, I love lists. I love top ten lists, and I love beautiful women so here is my much anticipated (by who I have no idea) Top 10 Hottest Women of 2006. Of course my wife is number one, but she will skipped for the purposes of this exercise, I'm sure she will understand. Ok, here it is....
10. Gwen Stefani
She left No Doubt and I thought she was nuts. Thought there would be no way she could carry a solo career. How wrong I was. She's a bigger star now then No Doubt ever was. She got married, had a kid and whipped that body right back into shape. And damn, what a body. She can look a little Olive Oil'like at times depending what whacky outfit she wears, but the flat stomach and her overall unique look and style, sneaks her on to my all important top ten list.
9. Tina Fey
I know, I can hear you say "Tina Fey?" but I like smart chicks and she's one of the smartest. From Saturday Night Live to her new show and writing movies in between she clearly not only smart but very funny. And those glasses really do it for me.
8. Samarie Armstrong
This time I can hear you say "who is Samarie Armstrong?" She had a part on the OC (and yes I consider myself an intellect but I still enjoy the OC). She is also a regular on Entourage, one of the greatest shows on TV. She falls more into the category of cute, but I'm not one of these cave man morons who fills a list with Carmen Electra and Pam Anderson, so cute works just fine for me.
7. Aisha Tyler
Not exactly super relevant in '06, but I have always dug her. From her time on Talk Soup, to some interviews I have heard on Howard Stern, she's smart, she's funny and she's damn sexy.
6. Natalie Portman
Ok she hits the trifecta. She's smart, she's hot and she's a Jew. I could care less about Star Wars and her role as Princess whatever, but check her out in Garden State. She's a little nutty, she's cute as can be, you can fall in love with her from that movie alone.
5. Morgan Webb
I catch a lot of crap for my obsession with her. Ok, she's basically a nobody. She's on G4 TV which nobody watches, she did game reviews for FHM which doesn't even exist anymore and she has done some Maxim type spreads. If you are a gamer geek, which I'm not, I'm sure you have obsessed over her far more than I. But she's got many of my favorite qualities, dark hair, dark eyes, she's tall and athletic, basically she's hot, even if she is a nobody.
4. Abbe Girl
Ok, here's the ultimate nobody making my list. I mean she makes Morgan Webb look like an Oscar winner. Abbe Girl is someone who posts videos on You Tube. I think I was on there one day, bored out of my mind and noticed she had one of the most viewed videos. I don't normally go with the flow, what the masses generally like is not my bag, but I checked out her video and I was hooked. For one day (actually it was a weekend when my wife abandoned me and went out of town) I was the junkie and videos from Abbe Girl was my crack. She's definitely smart, assuming she writes and edits her own stuff. Her videos were really witty, and funny, and ohh yeah, she's good looking to. Maybe I'll look back on this in twenty years and she will be a well known actress that got her break from some Hollywood Independent filmaker who saw her on You Tube. Most likely I will look back on this just five years from now and have no idea who she is or was. But for now, she makes the list.
3. Autumn Reeser
Another one where I can hear the echo's of "who the f*** is Autumn Reeser?" but sit tight, she's a star in the making. She's the redhead on the OC. Yes, another pick from the OC, and I could have picked three had Rachel Bilson made my top ten, but noooooo, I have some restraint. Anyhow, she's smart, witty, one heck of an actress and she's smoking hot. And where is she from........La Jolla, CA. No I'm not a stalker, I just looked her up on IMDB.com
2. Ivanka Trump
I could never have imagined ten years ago that the seed of Donald Trump could possibly produce an offspring capable of cracking my list. But then again he did marry all of those various models, so I suppose he was bound to produce something good looking. But damn, she's not just good looking. Again, smart, sharp as hell, and sexy with a capital S.
1. Scarlet Johansson
I know I look like a total poser, since I pride myself on picking somewhat unique, sort of off the beaten path kind of women for my Top 10, while Scarlet has been on all sorts of Top 10 lists, from People to Maxim etc. But I can't help it. I think I first fell for her in 2001 when she was in the quirky flick Ghost World. And she was just a girl back then. But what a woman she has become. She is classy, unbelievably good looking and seems like a relatively adjusted and normal person. Ok, who knows about the normal part, it will probably come out a year from now that she is a wicka or she credits her success to the Church of Scientology. But until that comes out, she is my number 1 hottest woman of 2006.
10. Gwen Stefani
She left No Doubt and I thought she was nuts. Thought there would be no way she could carry a solo career. How wrong I was. She's a bigger star now then No Doubt ever was. She got married, had a kid and whipped that body right back into shape. And damn, what a body. She can look a little Olive Oil'like at times depending what whacky outfit she wears, but the flat stomach and her overall unique look and style, sneaks her on to my all important top ten list.
9. Tina Fey
I know, I can hear you say "Tina Fey?" but I like smart chicks and she's one of the smartest. From Saturday Night Live to her new show and writing movies in between she clearly not only smart but very funny. And those glasses really do it for me.
8. Samarie Armstrong
This time I can hear you say "who is Samarie Armstrong?" She had a part on the OC (and yes I consider myself an intellect but I still enjoy the OC). She is also a regular on Entourage, one of the greatest shows on TV. She falls more into the category of cute, but I'm not one of these cave man morons who fills a list with Carmen Electra and Pam Anderson, so cute works just fine for me.
7. Aisha Tyler
Not exactly super relevant in '06, but I have always dug her. From her time on Talk Soup, to some interviews I have heard on Howard Stern, she's smart, she's funny and she's damn sexy.
6. Natalie Portman
Ok she hits the trifecta. She's smart, she's hot and she's a Jew. I could care less about Star Wars and her role as Princess whatever, but check her out in Garden State. She's a little nutty, she's cute as can be, you can fall in love with her from that movie alone.
5. Morgan Webb
I catch a lot of crap for my obsession with her. Ok, she's basically a nobody. She's on G4 TV which nobody watches, she did game reviews for FHM which doesn't even exist anymore and she has done some Maxim type spreads. If you are a gamer geek, which I'm not, I'm sure you have obsessed over her far more than I. But she's got many of my favorite qualities, dark hair, dark eyes, she's tall and athletic, basically she's hot, even if she is a nobody.
4. Abbe Girl
Ok, here's the ultimate nobody making my list. I mean she makes Morgan Webb look like an Oscar winner. Abbe Girl is someone who posts videos on You Tube. I think I was on there one day, bored out of my mind and noticed she had one of the most viewed videos. I don't normally go with the flow, what the masses generally like is not my bag, but I checked out her video and I was hooked. For one day (actually it was a weekend when my wife abandoned me and went out of town) I was the junkie and videos from Abbe Girl was my crack. She's definitely smart, assuming she writes and edits her own stuff. Her videos were really witty, and funny, and ohh yeah, she's good looking to. Maybe I'll look back on this in twenty years and she will be a well known actress that got her break from some Hollywood Independent filmaker who saw her on You Tube. Most likely I will look back on this just five years from now and have no idea who she is or was. But for now, she makes the list.
3. Autumn Reeser
Another one where I can hear the echo's of "who the f*** is Autumn Reeser?" but sit tight, she's a star in the making. She's the redhead on the OC. Yes, another pick from the OC, and I could have picked three had Rachel Bilson made my top ten, but noooooo, I have some restraint. Anyhow, she's smart, witty, one heck of an actress and she's smoking hot. And where is she from........La Jolla, CA. No I'm not a stalker, I just looked her up on IMDB.com
2. Ivanka Trump
I could never have imagined ten years ago that the seed of Donald Trump could possibly produce an offspring capable of cracking my list. But then again he did marry all of those various models, so I suppose he was bound to produce something good looking. But damn, she's not just good looking. Again, smart, sharp as hell, and sexy with a capital S.
1. Scarlet Johansson
I know I look like a total poser, since I pride myself on picking somewhat unique, sort of off the beaten path kind of women for my Top 10, while Scarlet has been on all sorts of Top 10 lists, from People to Maxim etc. But I can't help it. I think I first fell for her in 2001 when she was in the quirky flick Ghost World. And she was just a girl back then. But what a woman she has become. She is classy, unbelievably good looking and seems like a relatively adjusted and normal person. Ok, who knows about the normal part, it will probably come out a year from now that she is a wicka or she credits her success to the Church of Scientology. But until that comes out, she is my number 1 hottest woman of 2006.
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