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Friday Fluff.

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Tonight, after the kids are in bed, I’m going to lie down on the sofa if front of the TV with a Netflix copy of Pan’s Labyrinth. And I will fall asleep fifteen minutes into it. And nobody is going to stop me.

Before I do that, I have an axe to grind with my hostess, which I have bravely waited until she’s well and gone before I bring it up: What’s with her stealing my celebrity boyfriend?

Sayid
This will not do. I do not share my celebrity boyfriends! And don’t think I didn’t read the comment threads on those posts – the rest of you have to back off, too.

Furthermore, I will see your Sayid and raise you one House.

hugh

Have a great weekend, boyfriend thieves!

60 thoughts on Friday Fluff.

  5. I’m sorry – I just can’t stay away from Sayid. Or House. Especially since I hadn’t seen these pictures before and am now sitting here having a hotness-related aneurysm. Your plan has backfired, and there’s now no chance that I can give them up. *Clings to them*

  7. Oh, how I love Hugh Laurie. (He bears a striking resemblance to my Liberal Studies advisor, on whom I developed a serious crush halfway through my sophomore year of college when he pierced his ear and commented in a Lit class on how difficult it must be to be a woman in our society, what with the objectification and the unrealistic beauty standards. I think I and every other woman in the class let out a dreamy sigh after that remark.)

    Sayid is a sexy hunk of man, too, but I can’t resist the allure of the smart guy.

  8. I’d like David Boreanaz more if I hadn’t seen him on Buffy (and if he hadn’t have such dorky hair!)

    I’ll stick with Hugh Laurie. Mmmm.

  9. Hugh Laurie is adorable even while playing a jackass— maybe there IS something to that “some women are attracted to jerks” theory. If the jerk looks like that…

    PURR

  10. House is hot even to a lesbian… well, this lesbian, anyway. His being an ass hardly matters at all, it’s not his personality I’m interested in.
    *grraaOOoow*

  11. But the thing about House is that he’s a jerk in an interesting way; he’s smart, he’s funny, and he’s an equal opportunity ass (he hates us all the same?). 😉

  12. You know, I have no idea how Guillermo del Toro looks. But I heard on NPR today what must have been a rerun of an interview he did about Pan’s Labyrinth (an amazing, incredible movie) and sweet Lord he had a sexy, sexy voice. Plus I loved how he talked about his own fantasy life as a child and why he imagined the fantasy world that the girl in the movie encountered as real, rather than a figment of her imagination, though as he said, it can be seen as either one.

    I hope the syntax scans here, I’m a bit tipsy.

  13. You know, I have no idea how Guillermo del Toro looks.

    He looks like a great big giant teddy bear that you could cuddle with for days. Can you tell I’m a fan? 😉 I think even my husband got a boy-crush on him after we watched the Hellboy special features.

    My favorite radio voice is Andrei Codrescu. He has the weirdest/coolest Romanian/New Orleans accent you’ve ever heard. He sounds like a trilling bird.

    And don’t get me started on Alan Rickman ….

  15. As long as nobody touches David Tennant, we’re good here. Nothing to see. Move along.

    I promise I’ll just gaze adoringly at Sayid and drool to myself. He DOES have that whole classic, tragic hero thing going for him. Like, in a Classical Greek Tragedy sort of way. While he gets all sorts of empathy and heavy sighs from this corner, I read too much Greek tragedy in school — I’ll stay far away, thanks, and let the gods sort out those who get too close to him and his Tragic Destiny. 😉

    Give me my lovely British snark with a side of intelligence any day. 🙂 Going through withdrawal, here, actually. Too damn busy with real life! =:O

  18. That is a fabulous shot of Hugh Laurie. I’m currently watching DVDs of the Jeeves and Wooster series he did yonks ago for UK tv. He was perfect for the part but definitely not nearly so fantasy-worthy as he is now.

  19. Betsy, I heard the same interview and had two reactions: 1) It made me want to write my own fairy tale, and 2) I fell in love.

    Luuuuuuuuurve.

  20. Haha- while everyone here is fighting over House, Sayid and I are busy making some hot island love! [. . . in my mind]

  21. He was perfect for the part but definitely not nearly so fantasy-worthy as he is now.

    That’s because Bertie Wooster was a dim-witted, albeit good-natured, ass. He was written that way and Laurie played the role to perfection. Given the role he played on Blackadder, it’s clear that Laurie excels at playing upper-class twits. I was surprised at how good he was at playing House.

    Naveen Andrews is TEH AWESOME! I was swooning over him in his bit part as Balraj Bingley in “Bride and Prejudice.” Which, since you’re meant to swoon over Darcy and feel that Bingley is a twit in any adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice” was a testament to Andrews and an indication of how boring Martin Henderson is. Both Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen were swoon-worthy in their turns as Darcy.

  22. I can easily live without Sayid, but Hugh Laurie (in House, anyway) has got to be the sexiest man alive. Grrrrr.

  24. Oh God, Milo! Milo Milo Milo! Maria B, do you share? (Cause I’ll fight you for him. Oh lordy will I fight you for him.)

    Sayid and House = ubersexy as well. Thanks for the eyecandy!

  25. My primary joy in watching House is the lurking suspicion that someday Hugh Laurie will forget where he is and start simpering around with an, “I say!” and “Well, this is a joly good time, isn’t it?”

    “That’s Wooster!” my brain says, gleefully, “pretending to have an American accent! Hee hee!”

  27. The funniest thing about House is that British people are constantly talking about how over-the-top and fake-sounding Laurie’s American accent is, while Americans are constantly talking about how it’s perfect and they didn’t even realize he was British.

    I know this is a total cliche fan-girl crush, but I just bought the Serenity DVDs, because they were on super sale at Target, and I am crushing on every. damn. person in that series. I mean, I am crushing on Badger. It’s sad, really.

  28. Sayid is hot fire, for sure. House is ok, he’s just older, is all. He kinda looks like how I think my husband will look when he’s an old man (except my husband will be hotter than that).

    I totally didn’t know the actor playing him is British!

  29. Mohinder is extremely pretty, but not as interesting as Sayid. But when I say extremely pretty, I mean his smile is like looking into the sun. Blindingly dazzling.

    Mal = hotter than hot.

  30. Mohinder is ridiculously hot. Of course, he’s also the ditziest geneticist to ever repeatedly accidentally aid a serial killer, but I just can’t bring myself to care. He’s just so pretty.

    And Laurie, I’m afraid you and I are going to have to do battle for David Tennant. Pistols at dawn (or noon, if dawn is just too damn early)!

  31. Mandolin, I am TOTALLY with you. I expect House to chirp “Pip pip!” when he leaves his office or something.

    Sally, everyone in Serenity/Firefly is amazing. Yum. Although I have to admit, when the movie came out and some guys I knew saw the picture, they were all crushing on River and I had to tell them she was like 16. They were very disappointed.

  33. delurking for the firefly talk…
    i didn’t really crush on badger but i did think he looked like he could be some kind of weird cousin of jude law…for what it’s worth

    i kind of prefer mohinder to the lost guy, probably because i don’t watch lost…and yes, mal is pretty great 😉

  34. Badger looks and sounds almost exactly like one of the staff from my English study abroad program.

    And you can have Sean Maher over my cold dead body. omg squee.

    Mandolin, one of my friends is utterly unable to see the hotness of Hugh Laurie as House because she can’t get past his portrayals of Bertie Wooster and the Prince Regent. XD

  36. Firefly DVDs, not Serenity. My brain doesn’t work on weekends.

    It seems pretty self-evident to me that the hottest person on Serenity’s crew was Zoe.

  37. Yes, but the most fun to rampage around a bed with would be Jayne. Kaylee if you’re more into frolicking.

  38. Re: Serenity’s crew; I’d bet all my dollars that Inara knows things none of the rest of them do. Plus which, she’s very clever, adept at weaponry, and gorgeous.

  39. brains are sexy, thus house rocks. he should keep his american accent though – i heard him on an interview and the british accent didn’t work at all for him.

    and speaking of rocking, i saw pan’s labyrinth the other night. i could never fall asleep during that movie. it was simply way too capivating.

  40. Back off, bitch! I WILL KICK YOU OFF OF THIS BLOG!

    Yikes! I’m pretty sure fantasy boyfriends are clonable. Just saying.

  41. I’ve got to agree with Sally: Zoe is entirely the most mind-blowingly hot person on the crew (Wash comes second for me, at least in part because of the dinosaurs).

  42. Back off, bitch! I WILL KICK YOU OFF OF THIS BLOG!

    Ha ha on you, I’ve changed the locks while you’ve been gone. Don’t make me cut you.

    And once I’m done with you, I’m going after Cara, who is proving to be problematic.

  45. Sally: Fuck yeah. Gina Torres is practically the definition of sexy.

    The wife’s current Big Celebrity Crush is Laila Ali by way of Dancing With The Stars. Mine’s Katee Sackhoff via Battlestar Galactica. Le sigh.

    And Hugh Laurie is teh hawt. Fortunately, I don’t have anything but House in my head, so I get the hotness unimpeded. Mwahaha.

  47. You ladies just keep up your petty squabbles. Gael Garcia Bernal and I can’t hear you from our island hideaway.

    Mwahahahahah!

    That’s the animatronic Gael Garcia Bernal, sucker! The real one is making me French toast!

  49. Oh ho, that’s what you think piny – I’ll have you know that Gael Garcia Bernal is giving me a footrub even as I type. (All your hot TV/Movie actors are belong to me. ;p)

  50. I totally had a crush on Hugh Laurie as Bertie.
    But I have on Bertie Wooster in the books, too. He’s just so damn nice. Real nice, not Nice Guy Nice. There’s something endlessly adorable about his willingness to endure suffering for his friends.
    House, though, I can take or leave.
    *steals Sayid and runs away*

  51. Dauphine, I’m sure we can work something out. I’m trying to be a pacifist and hey, fantasy boyfriends must have pretty good stamina anyways. 😉

    Sendhil Ramamurthy is gorgeous, yes, but Mohinder isn’t exactly the brightest tool in the shed so I find myself tuning out when he’s on screen. And then I miss important plot stuff. *sighs*

  52. Gael Garcia Bernal and I can’t hear you from our island hideaway.

    Yeah? Ask him where he was last night. Sloppy seconds, bitches.

    And hey, Viggo Mortenson? Totally my other boyfriend.

  53. Tessa:
    Dawn is way too early unless I’m coming at it from the other way ’round. 😉 Noon is much more my speed. Come to think of it, MIDNIGHT is more my speed. Hard to see to shoot at midnight though.

    We could always just SHARE darling David. After all, the Doctor has had more than one companion oodles of times. 🙂 Alternating weeks perhaps? *grin*

    And dear gods in all the heavens that be, yes, yes, YESSS!! to the entire crew of “Firefly/Serenity”!!!! Ultimate fantasy cast, all of them, and Mal looks awfully damn good in those tight captain pants. 🙂 Or in skin and a cool tattoo…. O_O

    Frack — I may have to jump universes here…

  54. I dig Hugh Laurie myself but whenEVER I see him it’s always the back of my mind that if a woman on T.V. looked half as haggard as he does you’d constantly hear about how terrible she looks.

  56. Laurie: Sharing the Doctor certainly works for me (with the added bonus of my not having to figure out where I’m going to get a pistol ;p). Ahh, to be a companion; it was my greatest childhood ambition, and it never quite went away (especially now that the Doctor is so damn sexy!). 😀

    Also: so much agreement to you re: Nekkid!Mal. Why has no one yet invented a device that can be used for jumping to parallel universes? *Shakes head* Lazy, lazy scientists…

  57. Mmmm. Hugh Laurie. Zow.
    I concure that there’s a compelling mix of wit, passion, intelligence, and piercing eyes at work there that I’ve always been susceptible to. Add jazz piano and unabashed silliness, as well as the ability to write well, and I’m a goner.
    Take a peek at his interview in Inside the Actor’s Studio, and read his book “The Gun Seller.”
    S’good.
    He totally looks like my partner, and has similar patterns of conversation. heh, heh. I win Gamer Dating!

  58. Did “The Budda of Suburbia” ever get broadcast in the US? Naveen Andrews plays a young actor dealing with being part of an immigrant community in England, while being very much a young brit himself. Serious hotness was involved, I’ve had a crush on him since then (the 90’s) in which case, I BEAT ALL OF YOU TO HIM AND HE’S MINE!

    Neener.

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