The 13 Thursday Limelight
1. Quote floating around on Facebook: Is heck where people go who don't believe in Gosh?
2. Satan responds to Pat Robertson's claim that Haiti's tragedy is a result of a pact they country made with the devil HERE.
3. Have you ever wondered what lives on the other side of your computer screen? Look HERE if you dare.
4. Did you know that the new Republican senator of Massachusetts once posed nude in Cosmo magazine? Can you imagine the flak the female Democratic candidate would have gotten from her opponents if she had done that?
5. Poor Ted Kennedy is turning over in his grave right about now.
6. While watching the Golden Globes Sunday night, I was wondering why the black knit skull cap looked out of place on Dexter's Michael Hall but cool on U2's Edge. And then I found out that Hall has cancer. (I wish him well.)
7. One of the hottest internet searches the day after the Golden Globes was "how old is Sophia Loren" and "Sophia Loren plastic surgery."
8. I grew up in the 60's, when nearly my entire generation saw Yellow Submarine while high on pot, so I got a good laugh when Paul McCartney was presenting the Golden Globe award for Best Animated Feature at the Golden Globes and said, "cartoons aren't just for children, they're also for adults who are on drugs."
9. Speaking of plastic surgery, I'm disappointed that Hollywood holds women to a false standard of looks, so much so that they go from being sex kittens to cougars in the blink of an eye.
10. "Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a wing." Emily Dickinson.
11. When I image googled "limelight," I got THIS
12. So it looks like I won't be wearing hot pink taffeta ... or a French twist like Grace Kelly's ... I won't be dying my hair red to match the Cabernet ... or breaking up Jeff Bridges' 33-year-old marriage ... Follow the dialogue from the poem the above was excerpted from HERE.
13. I can't stop thinking about key lime pie.
Follow the link to more Thirteen Thursdays HERE.
Comments
I said that statement in #5 today...sigh...damnitalltohell. I thought Michael Hall looked great in that cap..cancer...gah. I'm going to borrow that Cosmo link for FB...sigh...
Posted by: Janet | January 20, 2010 10:12 PM
You can't stop thinking about key lime pie because of your lime bulb! And I WISH that puppy was on the back of my computer screen! Thanks for this post! I loved it!
Posted by: Forgetfulone | January 20, 2010 10:31 PM
Huh, now you have me thinking about key lime pie. Happy TT!
Posted by: Brenda | January 20, 2010 10:55 PM
One of my favorite comedians, the late Mitch Hedberg, has an album called "Do You Believe in Gosh?"
Posted by: Jeanne | January 20, 2010 11:17 PM
Sophia Loren doesn't seem to age, and one stylist noticed that her dress was from a previous show. Ahh...movie stars that act like normal people and wear their clothes more than once. Great TT!
Posted by: sobeit | January 20, 2010 11:58 PM
#8 cracked me up. It's actually cool! Great list for this week!
Happy Thursday!
Posted by: MommyBa | January 20, 2010 11:59 PM
Terrific list to read through. Especially for someone across the other side of the globe and quite a different society.
Having read a bit about the washup from Boston, I despair about the ability of the people to withstand that sort of onslaught. We get targetted. They press all our buttons. We are their kewie dolls. We don't get the candidates we deserve, we get the candidates that weedle their way into our deepest recesses. We have candidates like that over here. They are known as "retail" politicians. They sell policy as though it were a spanner from the Wal-Mart.
Posted by: Julie | January 21, 2010 1:27 AM
Very good list, I actually made it to all the links. As for Mass. the Democratic Party should have sent a serious candidate.
Posted by: Tabor | January 21, 2010 4:34 AM
Testing...
Posted by: Tabor | January 21, 2010 4:35 AM
hope the dems are paying careful attention and will figure it out before the mid-terms. this election was much bigger than MA - it was in many ways a national election.
now i will be dreaming about key lime pie!
your TTs are my favs - always.
Posted by: sky | January 21, 2010 5:06 AM
You didn't bring me a laugh today. You brought me several.
I'm more into citrus than fame, so I really loved your limelight.
Posted by: Grandma | January 21, 2010 5:47 AM
Politics used to make me think. Then it made me angry. Now it just makes me sad.
Great TT. Maybe they need key lime pie in MA?
Posted by: CountryDew | January 21, 2010 7:01 AM
I really enjoyed this TT and the comments.
Have a Happy Thursday!! xox
Posted by: Sherry | January 21, 2010 7:48 AM
I've been to a site by and for anthropologists and Pat Robertson's claim is hot and kicking in there. From sex kittens to cougars opps... that's a topic a friend and I sometimes chat and laugh about :D
Posted by: Hazel | January 21, 2010 8:08 AM
absolutely unique TT :)
One Word Only
Posted by: Americanising Desi | January 21, 2010 8:24 AM
I have the same cancer as Dexter..I thought he was most chic..
Posted by: sandy | January 21, 2010 8:57 AM
It's the same cancer my friend Wolf has who we recently had a benefit for. How long have you been managing it, Sandy?
Hazel, they are calling Courtney Cox a cougar now! Give me a break. She has done something to her lips to make them looks swollen though, so maybe the definition of cougars should apply to women who do plastic surgery to try and make themselves younger. But as in cases like Meg Ryan (like Sky pointed out) she ruined her natural looks.
Posted by: colleen | January 21, 2010 9:58 AM
Oh i like the #10 quotes i guess it is true. Thanks for sharing. Mine is up...
Posted by: life's journey | January 21, 2010 10:18 AM
The links of n° 3 and 4 are terrific, lol ! He really was a very nice looking man ! For once they dig out a nude of a man and not always a woman, like the wife of the french President Sarkosy. Carla posed nude too !
Posted by: Gattina | January 21, 2010 11:01 AM
I have been managing on and off for 8 years though my immune system can go in a matter of moments. My biggest problem is a constricted throat due to radiation and failed surgeries, and a dimished heart 49 per cent heavy chemo- I take Ip 6 a cancer fighter supplement - mutake gold mushroom oil and fungal fighters. I nearly dioed 2006 from gungus in the body. today I awoke with a blood clot, and had strep throat and glands swollen this week. I have no resistence but consider myself blessed. A lot of my body is gone even facial aand teeth..
Posted by: sandy | January 21, 2010 11:53 AM
gungus new word - hah fungus
Posted by: sandy | January 21, 2010 11:53 AM
Wolf has been at it for four years. He declined a second round of chemo because of the permanent damage it causes. He still has some side effect symptoms of the chemo too, but he is living a full life, just has to be vigilant. A new tumor was discovered in March but it has not spread. The idea is to shrink it away though his health regiment or contain it. My heart goes out to you and I admire your positive nature. Wolf has that too.
Posted by: colleen | January 21, 2010 12:04 PM
Well Pat is an idiot and the link was seriously funny. I will have key lime pie sometime this week thanks to you. And while Senator elect Brown is no moral giant (you said he was the new governor btw) his being elected is a signal that liberal dems need to heed.
My T13 is up. It is 13 things about me through Google Image Search. Stop by if you get a chance.
Posted by: Dane Bramage | January 21, 2010 1:50 PM
Robertson's quote makes a bit more sense when you know how many Haitians still believe in Voodoo. Brown is a senator, not a governor, but posing nude is apparently for the young and foolish, male or female. Hadn't seen the Gosh quote--just got on Facebook.
http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2010/01/thursday-thirteen-magazine-clutter.html
Posted by: Norma | January 21, 2010 2:35 PM
Correction to #4 - he is the new Senator, not Governor. I saw a funny suggested slogan for Brown in connection with his nudie photo..."He Has One Hell of a Stimulus Package" - haha!
Did you know he is also married to Channel 5/WCVB TV reporter Gail Huff and his daughter Ayla was a semi-finalist on American Idol? He's got it all goin' on in his family.
Marth Coakley got cocky and presumptuous that the election was a slam dunk. He blind sided her with his campaign and by the time she figured out she was losing ground, it was too late. Her negative ads and his lack of them I think did her in. I voted for her myself but can't say I'm surprised in the result given the (lack of) effort she put forth.
Posted by: Bumbles | January 21, 2010 2:45 PM
Some people make God cringe in embarrassment.
Love the computer screen thing.
Posted by: Nessa | January 21, 2010 3:20 PM
Oh no. I dared. Now my screen is dirtier than before the cleaning.
Posted by: Alice Audrey | January 21, 2010 3:49 PM
I am so gonna use the screen dogy, one of these days-love it!
Copying the highest form of flattery :-)
Posted by: Paige | January 21, 2010 4:05 PM
As to your #4, I thought the very same thing!! What a scandal it would be had, say, Nancy Pelosi done it.....lol
Posted by: kenju | January 21, 2010 7:21 PM
ok, girlie - just found out your man, JB, is going to be on oprah tomorrow (friday). i can't remember if you guys have a TV or not. maybe you can make plans to watch it. you might enjoy seeing him!
by the way, i am a cougar, and i have never had any plastic surgery - and i don't look like demi moore either (much to my chagrin!). ;)) i am married to a younger man with a full and giving heart who is as gorgeous to look at as he is intellgient and nurturing. he has never had a critical word to say about anyone in all these years i have known him. i am blessed beyond words. he is the person i admire most in this world, and when i "grow up" i want to be more like him!
Posted by: sky | January 21, 2010 8:07 PM
that satan's response is golden!
9. that's why I opt out pop media.
10. lovely.
Posted by: Pearl | January 21, 2010 9:16 PM
#8...Wow does that bring back memories. I spent my summers back then working at the Loews Theater in Houston...We showed all of the Beatles movies as a marathon event for a few months one year.
We all laughed about how you would get stoned just walking into the theater. From the front door to the doorman was about 25 yards and I swear you would feel lighter with each step...By the end of each day we were all looking for the nearest Jack-in-the-Box for a dozen tacos...To be young again.
Posted by: Gary | January 21, 2010 9:59 PM
Jeff Bridges! He's so real and could be the guy next door I grew up with. Since getting HD, I don't get the channel Oprah is on. Maybe I can watch it online.
My husband is younger than me too. I've often said that the highlight of my life was being Josh and Dylan's mom and marrying Joe was the reward of my life. I once said to him, "If I could change one thing about you, what do you think it would be?" He answered playfully, "You wish I was younger?"
"No, I wish you'd play Scrabble," I answered him.
I did know about Brown's TV news wife and American Idol daughter and even that he really was a Senator and not a Governor. Guess I didn't proof well and have since corrected it. Thanks all.
Posted by: colleen | January 21, 2010 10:12 PM
I never watched the awards, but I always check out the red carpet pics and best and worst dressers. Man does Cher ever look good for her age. Still turning heads. Great post.
Happy T13!
Posted by: Adelle Laudan | January 23, 2010 12:11 AM
Great TT, Colleen...!
Posted by: OldOldLady Of The Hills | January 23, 2010 10:38 AM
Norma, you really ought to do more research about Voudon before you state that Robertson's comments "make a bit more sense when you know how many Haitians still believe in Voodoo". Voudon is a much more complex religion than you know.
Robertson is a narrow-minded bigot who is an embarrassment to Christians.
Posted by: Jeff | January 23, 2010 11:45 PM
Cool stuff, big fan. And curt response typer :D
Posted by: jenn air grills | February 18, 2010 2:09 AM