I always wanted to take a look at Swank's chromosomes, just to make sure there isn't a Y in there...

I wasn't going to mention it, but there is a Jamie Lee Curtis aura about her...

Ha ha, you said "Rob blows"!

I couldn't believe Swank's new boobs never got an honorable mention the whole night! Her sports bra should have won Best Supporting.

Hilary and I were both born in Lincoln. In a way, I feel as though I too have won an Oscar. I wonder how I would look in that dress with Chad on my arm.

I wasn't going to say anything either, Jeff, but I definately think she has the Janet Reno effect beginning to show its face.

Maybe she is taking hormone...

RP, was that the Lincoln bedroom or Lincoln Nebraska? :p

Hilary's speech at the Oscars was a riot! She totally outed herself in the end... [cue music...But Hilary tries to pull-off a Cuba Gooding:] Oh God, Oh God WAIT!!!!!! I can't believe I almost forgot! I must thank my best friend and publicist [my pleasure puss, my girlfriend...my shopping-bag holder--who gets six figures to follow me around like a trained canine)]...I love you!!!! clap, clap, clap. God that was beautiful. Humm, now where have I heard that before???? Sounds a lot like the millions of speeches she gave about her hubby Chad after dissing him at the BDC Oscar. I'd say she's seguing into some real material here.

Hey Martin, if I say the Lincoln bedroom, will I sound like less of a hick (in spite of everything that I've posted)?

I love how she went from being the next Karate Kid to snogging Ian Ziering to winning 2 Oscars. It's a career trajectory to die for.

LOL, na. Then I'll think you're from Arkansas :D

-Besides, being hick isn't always a bad thing: if you or I had the choice of being a humble hick with horse sense or Barbara Streisand (aka, just a mule), which would we pick? Hick can be a compliment.

I personally think Hilary is gorgeous- one of the most real looking actresses around.

how's about the choice of being a humble hick with horse sense or a humble hick with horse scent?
suddenly, I'm feeling very home sick.

"I personally think Hilary is gorgeous- one of the most real looking actresses around."

Are you sure you didn't mean to post that comment here: http://people.aol.com/people They love thought-provoking feedback like that. Say...what do you think of Julia's babies (on a scale of 1-10)??? I personally think they're gorgeous, the best looking babies around.

Ah, nothing beats the perfume of a horse. Well, almost nothing. Going horseback riding alongside one's girlfriend is probably an example of the merging of two wonderful worlds.

As one wisely once noted, there is hardly anything so good for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

Martin, you may be the perfect man! You treat your horses like babies, take your gf riding, and quote Winston Churchill. *sigh* ;)

Now my horse has loathed every bf i've ever had. :(

Listen to your horses, Jinn, they always know ;). People think I'm crazy, but the girls I date must pass the "field sublimity test". If the fuzzy hoofed people have misgivings, there's probably a reason.

"there is hardly anything so good for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse."

is that quote from Churchill or the linear notes of some horse-on-man bestiality video?

That's "horse", singular and without the "W" :p

ScottM- you think she looks masculine? I think her film choices have influenced you that direction. With longer hair, I think she is quite feminine.

Mefish, just so I don't misinterpret, are you being facetious? Just in case you weren't truly trying to be a cerebral asshole, let me expound, using as many words as I can: Hilary Swank doesn't have those perpetually perky, apple-shaped breasts, the perfectly sculptured nose, a body like a toothpick sporting double olives; her teeth are her own, not the handywork of a Hollywood dentist.

And, just to cover all my bases, I personally have yet to see Julia's babies, but the names are atrocious.

How was that?

Yeah, given his/her/its pattern of caustic commentary, I gather that "mefish" was being an asshole.

Somehow that's considered more to be more "thought-provoking feedback" than yours.

And I agree, Hillary Swank - though possessing a certain masculine bone structure - is a remarkably pretty girl, in a very natural sense.

"Yeah, given his/her/its pattern of caustic commentary, I gather that "mefish" was being an asshole."

"caustic commentary" You do flatter me!
Unfortunately, I'm earnest to a flaw--but I'm working on it.

Rae: In all earnestness, phrases like, the most of anything: the most beautiful, the best dressed, the sexist alive, are almost always on the cover of People magazine, reducing everyone on every level to competition (we are very culturally vulgar in that way.) I agree with you that Hilary is lovely; I just don't know why anyone has to be the "most" of anything, or even what that means. Sorry if I sounded insulting--it was late I was irritated by Salma Hayek ;-)

Excellent recovery, Mefish.

And for the record (again), I think Salma Hayek is one of the most beautiful Latinos.

Yeah, that was a good recovery.

Bill, dear, when am I going to get blog love from you? We keeping bumping into one another, saying practically the same things; I laugh at most of your repartee (I am not complete sycophant).

You've been on my roll since I first ran into you.

Respectful reciprocity, love?

Bill, remind me never to trust you with national secrets ;-)

I think that publicly asking to be on a blogroll is very bad form. It assumes that just because you've rolled me, that I need to reciprocate, and that I like your blog enough to read it on a regular basis. Try that logic with Instapundit.

For some reason, in my limited experience with this phenomenon, attractive blonde women seem to be predisposed to attempt this approach. I'm not sure if it's a lack of experience with rejection.

And I'm not commenting on the quality of your blog, which is fine, I guess - but I really dislike getting repeatedly asked about it in comments, thus I'm less inclined to encourage this behavior by adding you. And more than that, I hate being put into a corner where I have to explain this or ignore for the umpteenth (ok, third) time. Sorry.

Honest question: has the possibility that this is bad protocol ever crossed your mind?

Ouch Bill! (and I don't even know Rae's blog.) Where's your sense of humor? you take yourself way too seriously. Honestly, you need to lighten up, have a scotch; we're all going to be dead from bird flu or cholesterol soon enough, even SSalma.

Well, I don't mean it meanspiritedly. It's just a logic exercise. I'd personally be afraid to ask people to be on their blogroll repeatedly, because what if they don't like your blog? Sort of puts them in an awkward position.

(Not that I don't particularly like Rae's blog, I just don't understand this tactic)

Wow, Bill. I am sitting in the public library passing a bit of time until I need to retrieve one of my children from play practice, and I could actually feel my face get hot from embarrassment. I don't think I've been dressed down like that since, like 7th grade gym class.

Blonde women- so I take it you at least clicked on a link somewhere, because the picture in my banner does show me with light hair, but it isn't very current. However, I will take the compliment. Thank you.

No. It never occurred to me that this would be bad blogosphere form, but, well, it now occurs to me. Thank you, again.

Btw, I don't have Instapundit linked because I don't read Instapundit. I figure he enjoys enough fame, if not a small fortune, and my miniscule blog won't do much to move him or his bank account. I didn't realize that you were on the same par as Glenn Reynolds. My bad.

Consider yourself relieved from proverbial corner. From now on, I'll just wait be noticed.

Oh, and Mefish, please forgive my snap judgment. I had apparently accused the wrong cerebral asshole.

Well, it's a pet peeve of mine due to a few annoying previous experiences. And that was my polite form.

But you seem like a nice enough gal, so just chalk it up to experience that there are psychos like me out there. Larger point is, if I reciprocally added everyone that had my blog linked, according to TLB or Technorati, I'd have a blogroll of 790-900-something blogs.

And for what it's worth, when I started blogging, like Day 2, I e-mailed Reynolds and said, "hey, mind adding me to the blogroll?" In retrospect, it was pretty naive.

(not that I am making an analogy between him and me)

Polite, Bill? Go read Jane Austen or something and see that men can be firm and yet also be gentlemanly.

I understand your point. Fine.

Speaking of Jane Austen, my perception of you is very like the initial one that Elizabeth had of Mr. Darcy. Though the end of theirs will most definitely not be the conclusion to ours, except that perchance I might see my understanding of you altered should you show it worthy of being so altered.

Let us pass through the conversations of the blogosphere with a conscience acknowledgment of the other but certainly without compelled regard, m'kay?

Ceasefire- no more justifications or explanantions. I'm finished. I have learned a valuable lesson, Bill, and for that I do thank you.

I don't read Jane Austen novels. I'd rather drive a railroad spike through my eye.

And I didn't punch you in the mouth, I elucidated my rejection in rather cold, clear terms. (The blonde thing was smarmy, but I figured you'd recognize the reference to the last person that did this, who will inevitably crawl out of the wordwork at any moment to crucify me)

What do you expect?

If you're going to be critical, specifically explain the concept of gentlemanly rejection in a public forum. Ignoring it several times didn't work, and that's a gentlemanly route.

How about, "I can't add you to my blogroll, my carpal tunnel is acting up?"

I elucidated my rejection in rather cold, clear terms.

Exactly why I referenced Mr. Darcy, and exactly your lack of gentlemanly reserve. Ask around, I am sure there are people whose opinions of which you are far more respectful, and thus more capable of inculcating them, whom will outline gentlemanly conduct.

The blonde thing was smarmy, but I figured you'd recognize the reference to the last person that did this
I have absolutely no idea whom you are referencing, Bill, but I think your loathe of whomever she is, quite obvious. Apparently, she has gone the route I will go: finé y adidos, Bill.