Keen Eddie (and by default, Sienna Miller, and by double default, my ex-roommate who looks like Sienna Miller) is the New Hotness.
Backstory: so one of my best friends in the world, the most tattooed Jew I know (I only mention this because I was given to understanding that the Chosen couldn't have "marks upon their skin"- she had 12 or so before she converted and now is getting more- actually I don't know any other tattooed Jews) sent me an Amazon giftcard last week and it really perked me up, cos I was sick last week AND had cabin fever from staying in the house too much. So I bought the Keen Eddie series... for those less informed, it stars Mark Valley (currently in Eureka on the Sci-Fi channel) as Eddie Arlette, a NYC detective seconded to Scotland Yard (which is in London, ponces) and plays off the interplay/disconnect between the Yanks and the Brits. There's a foppish sidekick, an by-the-book boss, a beautiful, time-stutter-inducing Ms Moneypenny, and (of course) the hot roomate (Sienna Miller) with whom the hero has a love/hate/going-to-pounce-any-minute-now relationship. Somewhere in each episode, Ms Moneypenny says something that ... induces a time stutter for Eddie, he picks up a matchbook that he eventually pins to a map of London, and he gets to say "How do like me now?" in a quasi-ironic fashion. It's funny as hell, stylish in the way only the Brits and particularly Londoners can be 'pimp' (to use an American-ism), and unfortunately only lasted one season on Bravo.
But I own the series now and have watched 6 out of 13 episodes this weekend while recovering for whatever it was I had last week, and am truly indebted to my friend L, for creating the opportunity for me. And thus perhaps L is also the New Hotness for this week. She gets star-billing alongside Keen Eddie (and Sienna and my ex-roommate, for now, get supporting actress status). A little more on her: we've been friends since 1995 when I lived in the flat below her at Rhodes, when I realized that she wasn't really the big scary lesbian that she tried to make everyone think she was, and she realized that the funny Christian kid downstairs wasn't one of those hateful, homophobic Christians. Since then, our friendship has endured a lot, including ill-advised attempts at starting group exercise programs and yoga (social malcontents such as us should never attempt to exercise in groups*- it is unbecoming, and at least for L, incredibly funny), escapades with tall blondes on balconies (mine, not hers), fantastic road trips singing ancient hymns (her idea, not mine) at 3am in the morning, great concerts and all-night costume parties, and even moving back to the same small university town and managing to prosper. She's since converted to Judaism, I've moved to the US and other friends who should have stuck by have faded away. We might live seven time-zones and thousands of miles away from each other, but she is one of my best friends in the world and I am proud of her, and honored and humbled to have her in my life.
For all of those reasons and so many more that I don't have the words or can't sufficiently articulate, L is the New Hotness for this week, and ever.
* we should only exercise on the sly and alone
Backstory: so one of my best friends in the world, the most tattooed Jew I know (I only mention this because I was given to understanding that the Chosen couldn't have "marks upon their skin"- she had 12 or so before she converted and now is getting more- actually I don't know any other tattooed Jews) sent me an Amazon giftcard last week and it really perked me up, cos I was sick last week AND had cabin fever from staying in the house too much. So I bought the Keen Eddie series... for those less informed, it stars Mark Valley (currently in Eureka on the Sci-Fi channel) as Eddie Arlette, a NYC detective seconded to Scotland Yard (which is in London, ponces) and plays off the interplay/disconnect between the Yanks and the Brits. There's a foppish sidekick, an by-the-book boss, a beautiful, time-stutter-inducing Ms Moneypenny, and (of course) the hot roomate (Sienna Miller) with whom the hero has a love/hate/going-to-pounce-any-minute-now relationship. Somewhere in each episode, Ms Moneypenny says something that ... induces a time stutter for Eddie, he picks up a matchbook that he eventually pins to a map of London, and he gets to say "How do like me now?" in a quasi-ironic fashion. It's funny as hell, stylish in the way only the Brits and particularly Londoners can be 'pimp' (to use an American-ism), and unfortunately only lasted one season on Bravo.
But I own the series now and have watched 6 out of 13 episodes this weekend while recovering for whatever it was I had last week, and am truly indebted to my friend L, for creating the opportunity for me. And thus perhaps L is also the New Hotness for this week. She gets star-billing alongside Keen Eddie (and Sienna and my ex-roommate, for now, get supporting actress status). A little more on her: we've been friends since 1995 when I lived in the flat below her at Rhodes, when I realized that she wasn't really the big scary lesbian that she tried to make everyone think she was, and she realized that the funny Christian kid downstairs wasn't one of those hateful, homophobic Christians. Since then, our friendship has endured a lot, including ill-advised attempts at starting group exercise programs and yoga (social malcontents such as us should never attempt to exercise in groups*- it is unbecoming, and at least for L, incredibly funny), escapades with tall blondes on balconies (mine, not hers), fantastic road trips singing ancient hymns (her idea, not mine) at 3am in the morning, great concerts and all-night costume parties, and even moving back to the same small university town and managing to prosper. She's since converted to Judaism, I've moved to the US and other friends who should have stuck by have faded away. We might live seven time-zones and thousands of miles away from each other, but she is one of my best friends in the world and I am proud of her, and honored and humbled to have her in my life.
For all of those reasons and so many more that I don't have the words or can't sufficiently articulate, L is the New Hotness for this week, and ever.
* we should only exercise on the sly and alone