Seven days a week, seven deadly sins; it just seems like certain days should lend themselves to certain sins and while I'd prefer to save Lust for Saturday or Friday and leave Sunday for Sloth but I was reminded that Friday Night Lights is coming back to NBC and of course Taylor "Tim Riggins" Kitsch is...well simply the hottest thing in all of creation
Also Mark Sanchez is pretty hot himself (and he actually plays football, like in real life)
I hope to be forgiven small sins of the flesh [-o<
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Sunday, January 4, 2009
Sin of the Day-Lust
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Meet The New Boss
perhaps the same as the old boss.
Our dear Fidel resigned this morning which in actuality means little but symbols are all this world is anyway.
And with that news the La Times had a mini gallery of the four leading candidates to replace him
Raul, who is Fidel's brother but also old and possibly gay
Raul Castro, who has filled in for Fidel Castro since his brother was sidelined by illness almost 19 months ago, is a pragmatist more concerned with putting food on Cuban tables than with spreading revolution abroad.
The outwardly dour 76-year-old lacks his elder brother's charisma and has lived in his shadow for decades. But as acting president, Raul Castro has encouraged Cubans to openly debate the shortcomings of Cuba's communist system.
The camera-shy army general has acknowledged that wages paid by Cuba's socialist state are too low. Yet he is not expected to follow China's example and free up a market economy, at least not while his brother is alive. And he has promised more socialism.
Since their guerrilla war in the Sierra Maestra mountains and the triumph of their revolution on Jan 1, 1959, Raul Castro has always been his brother's most trusted right-hand man.
CARLOS LAGE
The son of Havana laborers, Lage became a vice president of the Council of State in 1993, positioning him as the third most-powerful figure behind the two Castros.
Lage, 56, studied medicine at the University of Havana, where he earned a degree in pediatrics. He has been involved in politics since his student days, becoming head of the Federation of University Students in 1975.
Lage, was elected to the National Assembly in 1976, and a decade later, was recruited by Castro for the Council of State and his Assistance and Support Team, the strategic planning force from which he sprang to national attention with the Special Period reforms.
Appointed secretary of the Council of Ministers in 1990, he has served a prime ministerial function, albeit under constant guidance -- some would say intrusion -- from Fidel Castro. Although he is thought to support free and direct parliamentary elections and to advocate more private enterprise to boost services and quality of life, his few public expressions on international relations have toed the revolutionary line.
this guy looks pointy and forceful and fiery enough to be a Latin American dictator
RICARDO ALARCON
The President of the National Assembly since the early 1990s, Alarcon serves as the voice of the Havana hierarchy at the annual U.N. General Assembly and on issues of international conflict.
Alarcon, 70, has made the public case for the U.S. extradition of radical anti-Castro exile Luis Posada Carriles for trial in Venezuela on charges of having bombed a Cuban civilian airliner in 1976, as well as in demanding freedom for the Cuban Five, jailed in the United States since 2001 on espionage charges.
An undergraduate at the University of Havana when Fidel Castro was in the Sierra Maestra plotting his revolution, Alarcon served as a leader of the National Student Front, organizing high school and university students in boycotts, building takeovers and street protests. He joined the Foreign Ministry after receiving his doctorate, and in less than a year, he was heading the ministry's Latin American directorate.
In 1966, he was appointed ambassador to the United Nations, a post he held until 1978
and my personal favorite and the one I hope "gets it"
FELIPE PEREZ ROQUE
The youngest of Cuba's emerging leaders and among the least likely to stray from Castro's policies, 42-year-old Perez Roque has been foreign minister since 1999, when he became the first Cabinet member to have been born after the revolution.
A student of electrical engineering at a Havana technical school, Perez Roque followed the well-trodden path to power through the Federation of University Students into the Communist Party ranks in his early 20s.
His activism caught Castro's eye, and he was submitted as a candidate for the National Assembly in 1986, earning a seat in the rubber-stamp parliament three years before being appointed as Castro's personal secretary and gatekeeper.
Not known to have expressed support for loosening political or economic strictures, he has served as palace bulldog on contentious and internationally sensitive issues.
He's young, he's a hardliner, his last name is Roque- he's perfect!
I could totally see him being a dictator for 40 more years
Viva Felipe! Viva la Revolucion!
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Chris Mottram is Creepy and Briliant
He’s the guy in the sunglasses in each of this photos that were taking during Super Bowl week and posted on his blog at The Sporting News (and yes I know this is a few days old but I was looking for a moment)
But yeah he definitely is a stalker.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue: The Annie Leibovitz Covers
Because I really adore Annie Leibovitz and like pretty pictures
here are her covers from Vanity Fair’s annual Hollywood Issues
(The left third of each image is what was visible on the cover before unfolding.)
MARCH 2008: “FRESH FACES” Emily Blunt, Amy Adams, Jessica Biel, Anne Hathaway, Alice Braga, Ellen Page, Zoë Saldana, Elizabeth Banks, Ginnifer Goodwin, and America Ferrera.
MARCH 2007: "MEN IN BLACK" Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Chris Rock, and Jack Black.
MARCH 2006: (the scandalous) "FORD'S FOUNDATION" Scarlett Johansson, Tom Ford, Keira Knightley, and Scarlett's…
MARCH 2005: "NOT SO DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES" Uma Thurman, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Claire Danes, Scarlett Johansson, Rosario Dawson, Ziyi Zhang, Kerry Washington, Kate Bosworth, and Sienna Miller.
APRIL 2004: "SEND IN THE GOWNS" Julianne Moore, Jennifer Connelly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Naomi Watts, Salma Hayek, Jennifer Aniston, Kirsten Dunst, Diane Lane, Lucy Liu, Hilary Swank, Alison Lohman, Scarlett Johansson, and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
APRIL 2003: "ALPHA LIST" Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford, Jack Nicholson, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Jude Law, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Cheadle, Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Ewan McGregor, and Matt Damon.
APRIL 2002: "RHAPSODY IN BLUE" Kirsten Dunst, Kate Beckinsale, Jennifer Connelly, Rachel Weisz, Brittany Murphy, Selma Blair, Rosario Dawson, Christina Applegate, and Naomi Watts. (surprisingly meh)
APRIL 2001: "MASTER CLASS" Nicole Kidman, Catherine Deneuve, Meryl Streep, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Vanessa Redgrave, Chloë Sevigny, Sophia Loren, and Penélope Cruz.
(i really like, the color in this one-just gives off elegance)
APRIL 2000: "SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS" Penélope Cruz, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Marley Shelton, Chris Klein, Selma Blair, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, and Sarah Wynter.
(this group really didn’t explode into the stratosphere)
APRIL 1999: "NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK" Adrien Brody, Thandie Newton, Monica Potter, Reese Witherspoon, Julia Stiles, Leelee Sobieski, Giovanni Ribisi, Sarah Polley, Norman Reedus, Anna Friel, Omar Epps, Kate Hudson, Vinessa Shaw, and Barry Pepper.
APRIL 1998: "THE HOT NEXT WAVE" Joaquin Phoenix, Vince Vaughn, Natalie Portman, Djimon Hounsou, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire, Claire Forlani, Gretchen Mol, Christina Ricci, Ed Furlong, and Rufus Sewell.
APRIL 1997: "THE NEXT WAVE" Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Claire Danes, Renée Zellweger, Minnie Driver, Alison Elliott, Jada Pinkett, Jennifer Lopez, Charlize Theron, and Fairuza Balk.
APRIL 1996: "BOYS' TOWN" Tim Roth, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew McConaughey, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Rapaport, Stephen Dorff, Johnathon Schaech, David Arquette, Will Smith, and Skeet Ulrich.
APRIL 1995: "HOLLYWOOD HIGHEST—THE CLASS OF 2000" Jennifer Jason Leigh, Uma Thurman, Nicole Kidman, Patricia Arquette, Linda Fiorentino, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sarah Jessica Parker, Julianne Moore, Angela Bassett, and Sandra Bullock.
(Uma is perpetually gorgeous; those outfits not so much)
It does seem from these that glamour and sophistication is not compatible with smiling. And also looking back, the mid 90s were not nearly as cool as they seemed at the time; it's kinda tragic.
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