Big, Burly Men

…are currently tearing up my kitchen. Today my new counters arrive. Woo hoo! Our has has beautiful real pine cabinets, so divorcing them from the 30-year-old Formica counters was just not an option. Enter Kornerstone Tops, who will transform worn-out white to sexy black granite by lunchtime!!This is pretty cool, actually. The guys came out a few weeks ago to measure and make a template of...
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The Bed List/The Dinner List

Eclectic choices this week!BED LIST: BEN AFFLECKOkay, let’s admit it. The whole J-Lo era was embarrassing. He could make better choices in the career department (I hear he’s thinking about directing, which may be a good thing right now). The rehab trips could have been avoided. Despite all these missteps, Ben still gets my vote. He’s hot. He can do the smolder for the camera...
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The Bed List/The Dinner List

Today is my mother’s birthday. Turns out a whole slew of interesting people were born in 1942 besides her, including Muhammad Ali, Carole King, interviewer Charlie Rose, Terry Jones of Monty Python fame, Aretha Franklin, Mr. Documentary Voiceover Peter Coyote, Madeleine Khan, Penny Marshall, musical geniuses Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys and Andy Summers of the Police, and the high priest...
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The Bed List/The Dinner List

DH went with a friend to a sneak preview of Sin City this week. Amazing visuals, he says, but really violent. You know, your basic graphic novel. It got me thinking about comic books (this is a very weird brain I tote around), so I present to you the all-comic-book version of the Bed List/Dinner List!BED LIST: PETER PARKER, aka SPIDER-MANSmart men just do it for me. Peter Parker is one smart...
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The Bed List/The Dinner List

Since I’ve been in full-bore home improvement mode all week, I nearly went for the home improvement version of Bed/Dinner (Ty Pennington, anyone? Carter Oosterhouse? Bob Vila?). In the end, though, some classics won out. Submitted for your approval:BED LIST: DENZEL WASHINGTONI read somewhere that the reason women respond so strongly to Denzel Washington is that his face is nearly perfectly...
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