We Discuss: Kidnapping Harry Styles.

 A: So, I listened to this:

M: Oooh I need to listen

A: And then immediately bought his album. It was involuntary.

M: The album is very good

A: It’s literally just Hamish Bowles reading the interview which was disappointing but the article is great

M: lol Hamish has such a crush

A: He’s def got a crush, who wouldn’t?

M: Seriously! It’s just cute

A: The album isn’t 100% my thing but it’s growing on me

A: Were you the one that posted that story about Harry Styles and the telescope?

A: Oh, wait, was it on the celebs IG?

M: Yes Overheard Celebs

A: Yes! That was SO CUTE

M: He is PRECIOUS

A: Like, can you Imagine

M: Indeed I cannot

A: How has he not been kidnapped

M: BY ME

A: By some middle aged lady

A: Hahaaaaaaaa

M: lol jinx

A: He’d make an excellent pool boy for our future Golden Girls retirement plan

M: Indeed

****

A: This Harry Styles album is musical Ativan

M: mmmhmmmmmm

A: Also, it is such an insane stretch to be offended by Harry Styles in a dress. 

A: Like, you have to WANT to be offended.

M: Oh lord, I was going to say WHO is offended but of course someone is offended

A: Apparently people are SO offended because never in the history of music has a man worn a dress

A: I mean, except for David Bowie 40+ years ago

M: lollll

M: Think of the children! They will grow up to think they can wear whatever they want! Horrors!

A: That is crazy! Next, women will be wearing pants

M: Remember when that dude called me a cross dresser because I wore jeggings

M: #neverforget

A: OMG

A: That was one of the single weirdest moments in our blog history

M: Truly incredible

A: Where have all the weirdoes gone?

M: Tiktok probably

M: Anyway, Harry Styles

A: I LOVE HIM

M: It’s not on this album but have you listened to the song Sweet Creature?

M: Le sigh

M: What a lil dreamboat

A: I’m listening to it now

A: The comments seem to think it’s about Louis Tomlinson

M: Oh they always do

M: The One Direction obsessed are just certain they are deeply in love

M: It’s a whooooole thing

A: The Internet cannot seem to decide which way he leans

A: And honestly? I just think he’s darling and no curr

M: Exactly!

M: I mean I think he’s pretty solidly into women but also doesn’t feel like it’s anyones business

M: He says the song is about his little sister btw

A: Awwww

M: See? He is just delightful

M: I am glad you are with me here

A: I am way too old for this but maybe it’s what I needed

M: It’s the one bright spot in this beshitted year

A: Yes, yes it is

M: I also love his band and the women in it

M: I watched a whole Howard Stern interview with him and his bandmates clearly just adore him and he them and it’s SO sweet

A: He just seems like a nice person

M: yes

A: And, he seems to actually LIKE women

A: We always know when they don’t

M: Yup

M: agree

A: Now I’m watching his tiny desk concert:

M: Oh so good!

M: I am watching Golden again ha

A: Hee

M: He really seems to be enjoying all of this so much. It’s nice to see someone just ENJOY being successful

M: Instead of acting all tortured or whatever

A: Plus, he mentioned David Bowie twice in that Vogue interview which is truly the way to my heart

M: YES

M: Now fully in a Harry Styles wormhole AGAIN even though I have so much work

M: Sorry/not sorry

M: Goodbye forever

We Discuss: Veronica Mars (and some mild Logan body-shaming)

M: You haven’t started the new season of Veronica Mars at all right?

A: I HAVE NOT

M: Ok

A: Omg

M: No nothing big just let me know

A: It might be a few weeks

M: No rush!

M: Are you watching it for the first time or re-watching

A: Re-watching

M: Kk

M: I should have. I just watched the movie and dove in. But I rewatched a couple of years back

A: Is the movie available on Hulu?

M: It’s available to rent on Amazon

A: I’m rewatching from the beginning, but mostly only watch when I’m stuck inside on the bike trainer

M: Gotcha

A: I might have to jump ahead

M: You may get spoiled if you don’t but I don’t think it’s a huge deal. I don’t have huge thoughts but I’m curious what you’ll think.

A: Hmm

M: Don’t read into it!

A: Okay, okay

M: I’m not done yet anyway

***

M: I am honesty uncomfortable with how jacked Logan is now

A: NO TALKING ABOUT THE NEW SEASON

M: That’s not a spoiler his abs have been all over the Internet for like a year!

A: I know, but I’m pretending it’s not real

M: 😂

A: He really should’ve worked his legs too, tbh

M: Yeah it looks WEIRD

M: His head is too small

M: Too much cod sir

A: That’s what happens when you only work your mirror muscles

M: 

A: Give him some carbs

A: I really love Logan, tho

M: Yeah

M: I really loved young Logan

A: Agree

M: And Dick!

A: YES

A: He’s barely in season 1

M: I love Ryan Hansen so much

A: I’m enjoying young Max Greenfield so much

M: Also adore!

Cute Boy Friday: Home Tour Edition.

M: Oh my god

M: Lenny Kravitz's farm

A: 


M: Me too

A: my mouth is hanging open

A: Just your average Brazilian farm

M: He is SO tiny

A: I can make it work

M: Oh sure

M: I mean he gets it done, you know it

A: I can imagine

A: omg the photographs

M: It’s so beautiful

M: Now I’ve fallen into a wormhole

A: Yep, I gotta castle

M: It’s his wife’s ancestral home!

A: Well, of course it is

M: Rich people really shouldn’t get to marry other rich people

M: Spread it around

A: Seriously. And I like that they’re all, “Dominic West’s Castle”

A: Naw, bro, it’s Dominic West’s WIFE’S castle

M: RIGHT

M: Misleading!

A: You know if they get divorced he is BOOTED from that castle

M: First comment: Inside Dominic West's Wife's Castle

A: Heh

M: Ugh he’s so cute

A: I’m still reading the comments - apparently the castle had to be put up for sale so they bought it along with her sisters, so he’s a part owner

M: Oh okay then he gets a pass

A: Yeah

M: He is very charming

A: He used his Wire money for good

A: Gosh he’s cute

A: Like so cute

M: I’ve never really been into him but okay!

A: Me either but I’m on board now

A: God, that staircase

M: THEY ARE SO CUTE JEEZ

A: This castle is so beautiful

M: It’s kind of hurting my feelings

A: like, they live Downton Abbey

A: SIXTEEN OH ONE

M: The grounds are insane

A: ooh, castle ghosts

A: And they have four children!

M: Can I be one of them??

A: Sameeeee

We Discuss: Tights and the Patriarchy. And Hemsworth.

M: I kind of want overalls? LOVE these from ASOS!

A: For overalls, those are really cute.

M: I think I’m missing my summer jumpsuit rompers.

A: Aw, yeah.

M: And I am maybe turning into Diane Keaton mixed with Sally from When Harry met Sally.

M: And I want to wear sneakers and a big cardigan and overalls on the weekend.

M: I am certain they will be a disaster.

A: I see no problems with this.

M: But like the wide leg pants I have to know.

A: Of course! I think those overalls look pretty cute and I don’t normally think overalls are cute.

A: I am basically dressing like a boy these days.

M: Same

M: A tomboy

A: Yes

M: In a Nora Ephron movie

A: Yes

A: I just cannot deal with winter dresses.

M: Me neither. And tights? Fuck off.

A: FUCK YOU TIGHTS. I just want pants and boots and big-ass sweaters.

M: Patriarchy

A: I wore tall boots with a dress the other day and was mad about it all day.

M: Tights are the patriarchy.

A: They are, yes. But they keep me warm if I wear a stupid dress.

M: Men don’t wear tights and dresses because they know.

A: I just need more pants. I want some trousery pants and I think I’m finally ready for boyfriend jeans. (Are they on their way out?)

M: Haha

M: Nah you do you.

M: Status: read a headline that asked “are ankle boots over?” and said oh fuck off.

A: Aw hell naw

M: Just everyone stop

A: Unrelated: just realized I was not following Idris Elba on IG

M: Ooh me neither

A:

A: VAST OVERSIGHT

M: Mmmm

A: I'm seeing the new Thor movie on Saturday with my guy. He doesn't get my ulterior motive.

M: Heh

A: Hemsworth. Elba. Goldblum.

M: Hemsworthhhhhh

A: I KNOW I KNOW

M: My favorite Hemsworth

A: The best Hemsworth

M: Unh

A: Sing it

Cute Boy Friday: Oh Lord, James Norton. Again.

Look, I know I already talked about Mr. Norton earlier this year but I spent some quality time over the holiday binge watching Grantchester and I think he's worth another look. Because:

That is a good looking man. And because I'm nothing if not gratuitous:

😬 YAS. What? You want more? You need only ask:

And here's a nice little NSFW rear view for you because you've had a long week and maybe need a little pick-me-up. I think my favorite is him ride a bike:

Or even just standing with a bike:

I'm going to go lie down now because I feel a bit faint.

The Spirit of Hot Dude Christmas, Part Two.

(Part One is here.)

A: I can’t stop thinking about this movie. He was a ghost. He was dead.

M: He was earthworm food.

A: Right. You don’t get to un-ghost.

M: It's not a CHOICE.

A: You are DEAD, DUDE. Your body is no more.

M: You know what? I think I'd like to be not dead.

A: I am tired of being a rotting corpse. I shall undo.

M: I think it would be fun to live to bone in the 21st century.

A: Apparently that’s tote possible.

A: The magic of Chrimmus and all.

M: Chrimmus boneing.

A: You just have to really want it.

M: I need you to watch this movie.

M: Sorry

M: It's on Netflix.

A: Okay, I will do this for you.

M: Thank you

*Later*

A: He's most definitely immediately dead.

M: Straight away.

A: Karen's name is Kate, btw.

M: Kate, Karen, whatever.

A: Karen staying alone in this inn is totally contrived.

M: She's a property appraiser.

Why

Is

She

Staying

Overnight

A: She's actually a lawyer, so, even dumber.

M: I was pretty fuzzy on the details.

A: Hot ghost is rull hot.

A: And so cranky.

M: Sooooo cranky.

A: Still zero reason for her to stay there.

M: None reason.

A: And she's been there for days!

M: TWELVE DAYS IN THE END

A: I have to say, his high-and-tight, jaunty vest, and penchant for mixing vintage cocktails makes him more of a hot hipster ghost than old timey ghost.



M: Oh 100%

A: OMG, the convo with the caretaker about how he can't get with Karen because of his "circumstances.” DUDE YOU ARE DEAD.

M: Circumstances being no body.

A: Oop, Karen just unghosted him with her magical Christmas kiss. ✨

A: Oop, his cranky ghost gf is all, "okay, I guess."



M: Sorry dead girl I have a live girl now.

A: I watched that entire movie.

M: Yeah you did.

A: He was super hot.

M: Insanely hot even with a dubious haircut.

A: I enjoyed the completely gratuitous shirtless scene.

M: And the random bar tending.

A: That was...odd.

M: It was all written in a fever dream.

A: DED GHOST MIXOLOGIST.

M: Hipster af.

A: Ghost gf was rolling her eyes.

M: She sees how it is.

M: She knows where his beard is waxed.

A: Heh

A: Just so we're clear, not watching any of your recs ever again.

M: What is wrong with you.

A: There was a side plot where his dead gf married his brother because she was pregnant. Or something.

M: It's not important!

A: Goddammit

M: I thought for sure she would end up with his identical great great grandson.

M: After he passed on.

A: Oh! THAT would be a plot twist.

M: All that time spent on the baby that turned out to be his.

M: Like he is gone then identical baby shows up to love her.

M: I should write this shit

A: Marianne. Nobody should write this shit.

M: Except me

M: Thomas Ernest Marius Beaudoin

M: Marianne Ernest Marius Beaudoin

A: Girl, stop

M: Be cool

A: BUT SERIOUSLY

M: HIPSTER GHOST WITH A REAL BODY

M: GETS UNDED

A: If Karen wants to bone hipster undead, fine with me.

A: Lort, it's so dumb.

M: I want to meet the people behind it all.

A: Haaa

M: All gold.

A: This movie is a gift.

M: Told you.

We Discuss The Spirit of Hot Dude Christmas.

M: By the way I watched the most amazing movie last night.

A: Oh, do tell.

M: It's a Lifetime movie called The Spirit of Christmas.

A: No.

M: We open in Ye Olden Days where a dude is murdered straight away.

A: Well, that is very Spirit of Christmas.

M: Then flash forward to the present where a flustered property appraiser (yes that is her job) is being flustered and getting a promotion because she has no life.

A: This sounds very not compelling.

M: Then she gets a job--an old inn in the country needs to be appraised before it can be sold.

A: Oh no.

M: And for some reason, this requires her staying AT the old, empty inn.

A: Molly, you in danger, girl.

M: Which the caretaker warns her against! Because it is HAUNTED.

A: WELL OBVS.

M: But not by any ghost, a ghost that turns into a real person for the 12 days before Christmas.

M: Spoiler alert: he's hot.

A: Oh my God. No.

M: 

A: HAUNT ME.

M: So our flustered property appraiser whose name I can't remember but let's call her Karen. She's a redhead of course.

M: She meets the hot ghost and he's a total crank!

A: Pls hold, looking for the ghost emoji.

M: He is always locking her out of the inn, picking her up in his amazing arms.

A: 👻👻👻👻👻

A: So, like he’s the ghost Luke to her Lorelai.

M: He also makes a mean drink.

A: What even. You made this movie up.

M: So Karen decides she needs to help the ghost solve the mystery of his death so he can pass on and she can appraise this dang inn because her boss is pretty mad she's still up there!

A: Sorry, too busy banging the hot ghost.

M: Hijinks ensue.

A: Sorry, too busy banging the hot ghost FOR REALS.

M: In the end she helps him solve his mystery which involves being a rum runner and being murdered by his cousin.

A: Oh boy.

M: And then

M: It's time for him to "pass on"

M: After they kiss though.

M: And there's a dance?

A: They always ghost in the end.

M: I'm hazy on the details.

A: 👻❤️🍻

M: And Plot Twist!

A: Oh shit!

M: He decides he doesn't want to be a ghost anymore!

M: Because that's how it works I guess!

A: But he still dead.

M:

M: Nope

A: That is NOT how that works.

M: And I guess she gets fired and they live at the inn forever the end.

A: SHE IS LIVING WITH A CORPSE IN THE HAUNTED INN.

M: THE END.

M:

A: MERRY CHRISTMAS.

A: Seriously, tho, he is really hot.

M: SO HOT. And he speaks French. God bless us everyone.

A: Yes. That.

(Part Two is here.)

Cute Boy Friday: The Matthews

M: Have you watched The Wine Show

A: No, I haven’t heard of it

M: Has a bit of the GBBO to it

A: Ooooh, do tell

M: It’s on Hulu

A: SAD FACE

M: Lots of pretty travel stuff

M: Dammit get Hulu

A: Matthew Goode is on the Wine Show? WHAT.

M: Yes!!!

A: I’M IN

A: I’ll have to get Hulu over the holidays so I can watch it

M: We can watch next time you're here

A: Oh, yes! Even better

M: The Matthews are cute

A: This show is girl porn

M: Totally

A: Climb Goode like a sapling tree

M: Rhys has his appeal too



A: Definitely

M: And drink wine

A: YAS



A: I mean, I love wine and cute boys and watching TV with you

M: It's a venn diagrammatically perfect show

A: It seriously is

A: CuteBoys/Wine/Glamorous Scenery: HappyGoodTimes

M: Win win win

M: They call him Reese-y

A: Adorable

A: If they threw in some cookies or something

M: It's early yet

M: Oh god they are so cute

M: All cheeky

A: *happy sigh*

Cute Boy Friday: The Durrells in Corfu

I've been struggling a bit with Cute Boy Friday because cute boys have been a bit thin on the ground lately and I've not been inspired. Then I started watching The Durrells in Corfu.

Are you watching this? I've always loved the books and was really happy when I heard this was coming to Masterpiece. And it's totally great - just the kind of thing I like to watch on a Sunday night with a glass of wine or two and, as it turns out, it's chock full of cute boys. Yay!

First, and most obvious, we have the brooding Swedish farmer, Sven:

He is kind of a pain in the ass but he's very tall and takes his shirt off a lot. I appreciate this deeply.

Also, hiiiii:

Next, I have to give a hearty shout-out to super-helpful neighbor Spiros, who is a favorite character of mine and also quite my type:

You might be thinking, "Adrien, really?" and I would respond, "YES REALLY" because:

Right? Right. Finally, I should mention the doctor-poet Theodore who is also a stealthily hot dude:

Just adorable and and smart and very into nature and stuff. And also happens to look like this: 

I LIKE NATURE TOO JUST SAYING. For the younger set there are two annoying and petulant young men and any number of adorable young Greek love interests but you'll just have to watch it and see for yourself.

Cute Boy Friday: Milo Ventimiglia

I recently powered through all seven seasons of Gilmore Girls because I'd never watched it before, much to Marianne's horror. This wrong needed to be righted.  There were many text convos that went like this:

A: Dean's hair is not getting better.

M: Oh certainly not.

A: Like, wow.

M: Matches his personality.

And...

A: Season 7 WTF

M: HAHAHAHA

A: NO SERIOUSLY

And...

M: I am a Paris Emily Mrs Kim hybrid

A: I love Paris so hard

M: Same

ANYWAY. Poor Marianne, she had to relive it all through me. I think Jess is probably my favorite of Rory's men because he seemed like exactly the guy I would've fallen for in high/school college. I mean, a moody little bitch, yeah, but a moody little bitch with dark eyes and amazing hair:

RIGHT. Not bad. Not bad at all. There's some Jake Ryan feels up in here. 

Ugh, seriously. No contest. You suck, Dean. This guy:

AND THEN. Then I started watching This Is Us and YOU GUYS. It opens with a shot of Milo's bare ass. They definitely know their audience. Also, he looks like this now:

This boy? Has been EATING HIS COD:

And, he does actually know how to smile: 

This is cute. The End. 

Cute Boy Friday: Oh, Lenny.

A: Lenny Kravitz just showed up on Better Things and I am feeling very swoony.

M: Nice

A: I would climb him like a tree.

A: A small tree.

A: Like a sexy bonsai.

M: Heeee

A: No curr

A: David Duchovny is also in this episode but he looks odd. Very…smooth?

M: Never been my thing.

A: I loved him in the X-Files, but the nineties were a different time.

M: X files were suuuuper not my thing so I think I just missed him as a thing.

A: He's mostly kind of gross now. Lenny is foine tho.

M: Yas

A: Look, he's making you breakfast because he's sorry your vacation is over:

M: Hahaha

A: You're welcome.