Homer's Hot 10 - #3 Alessandra Ambrosio

Yes, I know, another lingerie model... I am predictable if nothing else. She is also an important reason why Casino Royale with Daniel Craig was so successful, so I'm supporting the Bond franchise as well.

Homer's Hot 10 - #4 Salma Hayek

Desperado was on the other night.... It reminded me why I love Salma, it also reminded me that Melanie Griffin must either have a magic vagina or some sort of dark powers that we should be grateful she uses only to snag Antonio Banderas. Salma's guest spot on 30 Rock last year only reinforced her awesomeness.

Homer's Hot 10 - #5 Heidi Klum

I love Heidi. She's hot and she is no bullshit. Based on her catch-phrase delivery "You're out," I can only imagine that her and Seal have efficient German sex... Either way, she looks as good today as she ever has.

Homer's Hot 10 - #6 Diora Baird

I know, you're asking, "Who?" I agree. I was flipping channels one night and there was a movie on Syfy (or whatever the hell they call that channel now) and a bad movie was on, but there was this really pretty actress in it. She's no Meryl Streep, but guess what Meryl doesn't look like Diora either... and she can line up a putt like no one's business.

Poor Dead Dennis Hopper...

Got no love in the pool. Well, actually I'm sure that he was probably invited to a Playboy party at some point in his career, so I can't reasonably say that. Anyway, no points for anyone.... I'd say something about Hopper, but that was one strange dude. I know it was lingering, so I hope he is at peace. Just like the man to mess with the Gary Coleman's last bit of fame...

Homer's Hot 10 - #7 Kim Kardashian

I know, I know... she's a vapid fame-whore. I get it, but you know, it isn't like I have to sit down and talk to her. Curiously, her candid photographs always look better than when she's done up for a photo shoot. Why is that?

Homer's Hot 10 - #8 Marisa Miller

I am keeping it on course, but I decided to put Marisa here at #8 in honor of the Vanilla Gorilla and his 58 point lead in the pool. My wife asked me the other day why Victoria's Secret had let Marisa go.... It was a sad few minutes until a VS ad came on my television and she was there. All was right in the world again...

And The Vanilla Gorilla Leaps Into The Lead....

So it is official.... VG (the original, not the racist asshole... wait) now has 58 points in the 2010 Dead Pool. A strong opening salvo, but not insurmountable. Anyway, congrats on the points VG and RIP Arnold.

Homer's Hot 10 - #9 Kate Beckinsale

This was another obvious pick.... my feelings on Kate are well known, keeping my commentary here to a minimum.

Proof that we are going to hell...

The Disney princesses are more than marketing, they represent the good, innocent, and pure things in the world. Well, actually they don't, but they are there for all of those little girls, setting unrealistic expectations and prepping them for their eating disorders and body issues. So what happens when you add comic book dorks to a Disney princess? I guess you get this:



It is more than a little disturbing, but I guess there's a market out there for this which is why we live in the world we do.

Homer's Hot 10 - #10 Megan Fox

I haven't forgotten my promise to create a better list than Maxim. I could put in some sexy chihuahuas in spots 2-9 as long as Megan is in the top 10 somewhere. I am just going to post them as I can, by all means argue with me about who I pick. Oh yeah, I'm totally going to ignore the few rules that I wrote down earlier. I find these ladies hot/sexy/just plain attractive. I don't really care what order they're in or how they became famous. Right now I'm loving Megan because unlike a lot of Hollywood types, she has the stones to walk away from a movie franchise for no other reason than she's not going to work with an asshole like Bay. Yeah, her tats are ridiculous, but whatever...

It's Okay, You Can Let Go Now...

I had planned on writing up something about my favorite episodes of Lost, but as usual, life got in the way. That's okay, it is still going to happen, but I did want to jot down some ideas about the finale of the show and my reaction to it and since this is my blog, I will.

"The End" was an episode that I dreaded seeing, primarily because I was afraid that the creative team behind Lost would drop the ball. I feared this because I believed that they were going to pander to their fans and give us answers. Nobody really wants answers, not really. We want understanding, and quite frankly those are two completely separate things. I found the end of Lost to be an emotional, bordering on poignant experience. No, this is not going to be a Doc Jensen explication, because while I appreciate what Doc does and it can be very entertaining, I think that Doc Jensen and all of the other Lost freaks who have been searching for answers and meaning are barking up the wrong tree.... I get to that in a bit. No, I found the end of the series to be great because I was able to find closure for a group of characters that I had come to care about. I wanted to see them resolve, but I didn't need to know the minutia of their after-island existence. It was enough for me to know that there is a crazy-assed island out there somewhere where the world that we know may or may not exist in, and that this sad group of lonely people were able to fight their way off and that in the end they were important to each other.

The reason that I believe that Doc Jensen and the genre fans that are upset about the end of the show get it wrong is that their approach was wrong. To the science fiction geeks: this piece of fiction played the genre straight and true. Everyone forgets that science fiction is never about the science, it is about us, it is about searching for meaning in our lives and using the fantastic to try and find the truths that are out there. The search for answers is never straight, never linear. Doc and his ilk get it wrong because searching for meaning while the story is ongoing is nothing more than an academic trick to show how much you know, not what the story wants us to take from it. Only upon reflection and with time can you determine what a piece of art means to you and what it could and should mean to others.

I'm not sure I'm there yet.... I don't quite know what it all means, but I do know that I enjoyed the ride, enjoyed the ambition and the effort put forth.... I do know that I loved the little moments in the finale, the reunions, the fun little call backs, but there was a moment that really hit me, that I found to be the essence of what this last episode is, and maybe the show (I'll have to sort that out later). It was when Jack was going back into the source, he was telling Hurley that he believed in him and that it had to be him that protected the island, there was a cut-away to Ben, where you knew how hard it was for him to hear that.... for all of the sacrifices he had made for the island, from his own humanity to the lives of those who he loved, that he would never be the one. It was a quick but beautiful moment. You can't get that from a sit-com, or from a procedural or any other network prime-time drama, because they don't aim for that kind of height. They entertain, but to reach the level of art takes more than that.... and over 120 hours of television Lost made it.

Homer's Hot 100

Well, actually it is only going to be 10. My list will be as arbitrary as Maxim's was, but I'd like to think that I have better taste than those fools. I would like to stress that these will be the 10 sexiest celebrities that are working today 'in my opinion.' One key is that they have to be relatively active... I think Dagmara Dominczyk is crazy hot, but no one knows her, nor has she done anything lately. I also vow to not just post up 10 pictures of Kate Beckinsale either...

Number 10 will be up tomorrow. In the mean-time, here's a picture of Rebecca Mader who was on Lost for a season. She never seemed all that attractive to me until she came back on season 6 and wow. Anyway, your opinion will be different, but it will be wrong. When putting this together, I went through a thorough process that was complex and time-consuming.

What I go through for you guys.

Ronnie James Dio

My earlier post was a bit off-handed... but I did love Dio. I didn't actually listen to Dio until the mid-80's. The Last in Line was out and I was on a skiing trip with some friends. I was out of tapes to listen to in my knock-off Walkman (Sony was expensive back then...) and a friend had Holy Diver and The Last in Line. I spent the rest of the weekend listening to Dio, even borrowing some Dio-era Sabbath. There was just something about the way he sang. His lyrics were stupid and over-wrought, but he was belting it out about the eyes of the witch or rainbows in the dark, you knew he believed it, even if it was ridiculous.

I loved listening to the man, and his is the only totally random encounter with a celebrity that I have ever had. He was exceedingly generous to an obnoxious 21 year old me. No one had Dio in the pool, which was an oversight... but you'll have to forgive me.... I'm going to go off and listen to some Sabbath.

Shoulda had Dio in the Pool....

RIP you little elfin barbarian. Get the horns up!

Thanks for Nothing ABC...

In the midst of a Lost Lovefest, trust ABC to be killjoys for people who enjoy good comedy. Despite the fact that there are two major holes in their Wednesday night comedy block - c'mon, do we really need a repeat of The Middle kicking off the night? And Cougar Town? A stupid idea executed with all of the subtlety of Gob Bluth after six or seven forget me nows - ABC officially killed off Better Off Ted this week. It was only one of the best comedies on television, the writing, acting, and casting were all top notch. And it doesn't even get to air all of their episodes. Dumb....

And a big screw you to Fox as well, their studio actually makes the show.... but they would rather air shit like Sons of Tucson. Makes no sense to me. Oh well, I guess I just have to wait for Portia to make another hilarious show that no one else watches.

Just for Kicks

See what I did there? When former guitar god Edward Van Halen came out with a line of shoes recently, I was disgusted. These shoes are ugly and really, who is his audience anymore? A bunch of 40 year-old men? A 40 year old man wearing these things should get punched in the face. Anyway, why bring this piece of old news up? Because I saw these for the first time today:






Now, I know what you are thinking, these are the second ugliest shoes ever to appear on this blog. And I would have to agree with you, but damnit if I just don't love them anyway. I would never own them, but I am jealous of those who would throw on their Dharma jumpsuit and lace these babies up.

No, they wouldn't be able to wear them to work, fry grease would mess them up, but they would provide killer traction for climbing those basement steps...

Don't Give a Damn

I'm trying to watch Sports Center tonight and instead of highlights and analysis of baseball games or the upcoming NBA semi-finals I get some loser talking about how much heart his horse has followed by a preview of this summer's World Cup. Look, soccer fills an important niche, allowing little kids who cannot afford a ball an opportunity to kick a bundle of rags in the street as well as allowing kids who get cut from basketball to earn a varsity letter. I really just wish the US would not even field a team in this and leave the populace in peace. Instead we'll get all kinds of media coverage and an embarrassing early exit. And then we'll hear about how soccer is the sport of the future in the US, just like they told us when Pele came here and he died of old age before anyone cared.

Soccer just makes me yawn.

"I've already seen Castaway and Gilligan's Island..."

I believe that those were my exact words when the premier of Lost aired oh those many years ago. My sister-in-law was hooked immediately, as were others whom I both knew and respected. I tried watching an episode somewhere in season 2 that seemed to involve a lot of wandering around an island... not exactly hooking me in the process. But really, when Lost first started airing, I was still ridiculously busy coaching several sports at a local high school. Not conducive to catching a television show on a regular basis.

So I missed out on the first season or two of the show, and after that, I couldn't be bothered to try and catch up. At least that is what I thought until last year. The wife and I were talked into giving the show a shot after listening to family and friends rant, rave, and generally act like lunatics about a television show that seemingly only came on for a few months a year. We watched over 100 hours of Lost in about two months, and I'll tell you it was time well spent. So now that the show is coming to a close next Sunday, I thought I'd spend the week posting about my favorite characters, episodes, and explain why I'm not as insane as people like Jeff Jensen.

I am excited to see the end of the show, but I really feel bad for those fans like my sister-in-law. She and her friends have invested so much time and energy into this show that I hope they have enjoyed a ride unlike any of us have ever seen on network television.

Until later...

The One Where Maxim Begins the Death Rattle....

So Maxim magazine put out their latest sexiest woman in the world issue with singer Katy Perry as their Sexiest Woman Alive... Really? I mean, she's not a freak or anything and compared to past winners like Lindsay Lohan and Brittany Spears she really is a goddess... but this is the sexiest woman in the world? She looks great in this picture because her eyes are closed and you cannot see her horrible eye make up style, but no, I don't think so....

This week will be a busy one for the blog as there will be heavy Lost activity, but I will make time for Homer's Haven Sexiest Woman issue to correct the situation... at least in my mind.