::Vows to make next list::

Heh, thanks for the unfortunate reminder that I signed up on MySpace a while ago. I was content not remembering....


And fun list :)

Did you really mean to call Adam Curry sexy? Or was that just thrown in for the podcast clout? I mean, after all, didn't his haircut used to be the mutant splice between the mullet and the Flock of Seagulls?

The term sexy is not necessarily intended as a sexual reference - perhaps coolness. Take it as you will:)

Nicolette, next time....

If we are judged by past bad hair days: I'm screwed!

Unless, of course, you're being rated by someone that thinks overcoming a bad hair cut is in itself sexy :)

Bloggers with sex appeal -- I love it, Aaman. Great job.

Damn, that link to Big "Dick" is going to be with me for way too many sleepless nights. That's just plain wrong... by funny? Yes, I must admit, it was hilarious.

And The Duke surly? Not to me, no. Colorful and not for everyone? Most definitely.

And I'm assuming my scruffy-looking pic from my completely unused myspace page never made it to your attention...

So EricB, apart from his lucky wife dickie's prowess is gonna give you sleepless night?
heh

I don't want to get anywhere near dickie's prowess (or lack thereof), swinging, and in fact would enjoy, love, appreciate, and desire any and all of that realm, kingdom, universe, and multiverse of topic to flee my head and vanish into some horrid hell dimension, never to return again.

All I can say is thank god I'm not on the list - that would be a sad day in blogdome.

Oh, and wasn't Adam Curry the one who had a kind of blond afro back in the MTV days?

Dave

Lol, didnt think otherwise Eric, but its kind of funny that a man so...er.. seemingly strong has suffered four heart attacks.

Adam Curry used quite a bit of hairspray back in the day, but is better known now as kind of the Godfather of podcasting.

swingingpuss: You're not helping me leave that multiverse... you're keeping me way too close to that painful image, in fact... ACH! My head is shrieking from the agony of it...

very brave Aaman, digging the hot SP pic!

Not a Xeni fan, at all; have come around on Adam, used to think he was a total pud. Very cool to resurrect Dawn and Matt. What the hell ever happened to Matt? But we can ask that about many. Thanks!

hahahah mother of god! i saw this post a few times on the comments sidebar and kept meaning to click it for to leave a hilariosu rant about why i wasn't in it. and i am! hahaha what's the world coming to? Aaman, i fear for your sanity.

Dawn, thanks to Aaman I got to see your old site and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Aaman, you should be working for the CTU.At times you really do 'scare' me ;-)

Yeah, my old site's a real scream :) seriously though thanks, those were fun blogging days and I am glad you made it on list SP!

Eric and Dawn, Aaman is still on time-out for putting my picture up without my knowledge. It will take sometime before he is let out of the doghouse.

Where's Aaman's picture at, then?

Wouldn't that be proper retribution?

thank you aaman, for takin' one for the team, so to speak.

I think we should all have big scary pics next to our posts like some *ahem* people do.

You first.

ok, here's mine.

Damn, you're hot Mark!

Wait -- what am I saying, I'm married!

Eric, I'll update this post with my own pic soon.

Philip, that would be an interesting (and easy?) tweak to the post php - a placeholder for the pic.

Who's yer sexiest bloggers then?

YES!

Okay, I really need to eat breakfast... I'm getting silly.

silly's right...i'm married too!

;-)

OK, I've updated the post with my own pic, such as it is:)

Super cool, Aaman!

I think your little man is mere years away from qualifying for the List.

You got him into the blogging yet?

Wow Mark, are you the same guy dating Angelina?

Does your wife know?

Aaman, you are no slouch yourself, and that boy - oh boy!!!

i'll never tell.

Okay Mark, since you were brave, here's mine.

oh...my...gawd...you starred in one of my favorite movies!!

i still can't believe you gave your panties to that geek.

Better that geek than the creepy Asian kid living with me.

long dong duck?

good point.

THanks, Dawn - and I won't comment on your describing Eric as long dong duck;)

Anyone checked out xiaxue's site yet?

I hate to say it Dawn, but your career went downhill post Fresh Horses.

Aaman, Yah, she be sexy. Gazillion photos, so I'll type while they load. Pink is now my favorite color... Hey, you look just right for your name, and your boy is going to be a heartbreaker. Congrats!

Duke is pretty sexy for a man type fella. Swinginpuss does something for me too. None of the others catch my eye.

Thanks for the good times!

The pic of Jim on the thread devoted to him actually came from a blog he wrote in response to another blog that was very similiar to this one. Several people had commented at the time about attaching a pic to a byline. There would be bandwidth issues with that, I think, although I know we often get curious as to what others look like.

Here I am being all silly and no, I wasn't the one who put the stupid glow in the pic. Laugh away. Ironically, I was going to post my pic on that blog from a year or two back, but there were some comments made humorously on it about Kenny Chesney (if I recall) and his 'gay looking sleeveless flannel shirt'. I thought 'how stereotypical' and then sighed as I hit delete instead of post because, um, of the shirt I was wearing in that pic.

Steve S, as a woman I can say- What a waste. You are a real cutie;-)

Thanks SP, you are too. You actually look very similiar to our surrogate. I actually hate pictures of myself, but don't we all?

I second Steve S. as a cutie! (Or is that too forward to say after only being around less than a week?)

I had found out that I was pregnant a few hours before the pic was taken and I dont look like that any more third trimester and all that.

BTW all your babies are adorable. You're a lucky guy.

Nope, Nicolette he is a real doll, he won't mind:)

flattery is so rare these days anymore, it's always good to hear. Thank you, Nicolette.

And congrats to you SP on the coming addition to your family!

Damn Steve, I thought you were Mark Harmon circa the late 80s for a long second there.

Here's a scruffy-looking pic of me, taken a little while back now.

I'm a bit more cleaned up nowadays.

And mad congrats s-puss... and Aaman too, I would assume?

I think it's all the lighting and camera angle and stuff, I've been compared to a young Eric Roberts and a young Howie Long. You can take two pictures of me in the same sitting and put them side by side and people will swear it's two different people.

I think you're just fine looking scruffy. You ought to be up on that list too.

Now, now Eric don't put questionable thoughts in Aaman's head. DNA tests are way too expensive.

You look like a real party dude...sunny boy from sunny California ?

Me? No... you jest.

On top of all the others in a special highlighted box, adorned in special (yet subtle, mind) Flash animation?

Well, you spoil me... really.

Seriously though man -- I think you'd have us all beat in half a sec flat with all the ladies going on about the "...it's always the case with the..." and so forth (as was started already).

Swinging - Who'd thought I'm (originally) a nice Jewish boy hailing from Long Island, New York?

Been out in Cali for about 6 1/2 years. That pic was taken up in Santa Cruz. Wife and I are in Pasadena these days, just north of LA.

And partying... mostly in the past nowadays (save it up for trips to see old friends in NYC). Except the party of the mind that is BC, of course!

My #48 was in response to Steve's #46, just in case there's confusion.

This sexy blogger stuff is Serious Business.

Dang! Leave the site alone and it becomes a fanfest for Steve, and sundry hunks.

How about non-blogcritics folks? Any one up to contributing their votes for sexy bloggers?

Steve - that's some pic:D

actually what's sexy is character. Compassion for others, concern and a passion for what is right, conviction and the ability to temper it all with tolerance and the knowledge that sometimes one might be wrong or that some people look at things differently and that doesn't make them wrong. Male or female, that is what is sexy to me.

But there's nothing sexy about what I blog about though, that's for sure.

Damn, that was well said, Steve.

Steve, you've earned yrself a spot in the list, that was a fine sentiment:)

And what, I'm not compassionate, you bastards!

How about Markos, the founder of DailyKos?

No oomph, IMHO

Markos is sexy with the progressive grassroots tech-savvy Democratic set.

So like Howard Dean would be all about Markos, I suppose.

That cracks me up - the Dean/Markos Lovefest - coming soon to a Convention near you.

How abt the woman bloggers?

Don't forget Eric, you get the flash ad.

Well, all right... I suppose. If it has to be that way...

For females, I'd add to the list Meredith, pictures of her here
(warning, full frontal nudity)

She's a former On Our Backs pinup girl and was a sex columnist for the online zine DykeWrite. She won the best lesbian blog of 2005.

Her blog is here, and do NOT click on it if you are offended by female nudity, hot lesbian sex or are at your office.

See, and you all thought I spent all my time battling religion. :-)

Yeah, well she's... Yeah, well okay.

She's perty...

It's all about conviction and passion, Eric, remember that's what I find sexy. She works tirelessly for the satisfaction of vaginas everywhere. Is that not noble?
Just kidding. Actually it's her pride and wit that make me nominate her.

Isn't there someone relatively new here who blogs about female bloggers regularly?

I was totally responding to the conviction and the passion...

...and the conviction. Don't forget the conviction.

LOL. I'll leave picking out the sexy bloggers to everybody else.

Well, if I weren't married and Steve weren't so disinclined, and if Eric B weren't so far away, and if SP and A-man weren't so into each other...

Hey I had a thought, how about you all come to our annual blogger party?

That is NOT a swinger party, but we do break out swinging music :)

Is Meredith invited?

I don't think she plays on our team, Eric

You are all so...young.

You are all so...young.

LOL, Eric. Sexy is subjective remember. And I can't find Angelina Jolie's blog to nominate her.

And thanks Dawn for your comment too. I've said before that sexuality is shades of grey there are no black and whites. I'm really pretty grey, it's the love of the ring on my finger though that knocks me out of the loop, rather than my orientation.

Lisa, I'm 40. I got ID'd for alcohol up until I was 33! In my community I'm the old geezer.

I was thinking the same thing Lisa, though I only thought it once (smile)

Tell me about it Steve. Just yesterday, an older woman dropped a "You don't look like you're old enough to be..." in the profession I'm in. I said back, "How do you know how old I am? I might be older than you think. I'm old enough to know how to deal with your sorry ass."

Okay, I might not have said that last bit.

Steve, I'd love to see 40 again.

Eric, I could've sworn I hit the button once, but at my age, you never know ;-)

it all gets hazy, I know

EricO, you almost made the list, but I couldn't find a good pic anywhere - showcasing you in your dotage:)

Oh A-man, I can take care of that...

Aaman and tiny Aaman!!! awwww

Here is Al Barger, in all his quixotic demeanor - from his blog

Dawn, still waiting for you to deliver on your promise

Damn -- that looks as much like Al Barger as it is possible to be. Wow -- it's strange to put names with faces. Strange but good.

Objects becoming defined from out the foggish void.

Human objects, even.

HAHA It is like you guys are having some big photo orgy over here.

Hot Or Not : the Blogcritics Edition.

You're all olderthan dirt...being that I'm only 29....I can say these things!

being that I'm only 29....

Andy, get ready, 'cause the fast forward button of life is about to get pushed. You'll blink once or twice and say "how the fuck did I get to 45 so fast?"

Acutally, I think Andy is already asking that question ....

Damn...it happened already! Doesn't mean I have to admit to it!!!

*Never* admit to it, Andy - hold the fort! The hell with this "growing old gracefully" crap, I say!

allow me to interject that "middle age" now extends to at least 60

cool! 60, really???
I have an aunt that's 10 years older than I am...I always ask her what fossil age is this year, because it's always 5 years older than her...keeps me safe that way!

middle ago also starts at 50...or, five years beyond whatever my current age is.

hmmm, maybe i'm already middle age...since i don't appear to be able to spell anymore.

spelling isn't related to age. You don't forget how to spell a word as you get older, but the mind does wander and you can be unable to finish a

I dunno Mark, was fine with "middle ago", rather poetic actually.

the only problem with "middle ago" is that it implies "middle" is past

"men get naughty at four-naught forty" was the bingo exclamation when 40 was drawn in clubs in India when I was a kid.

40 is SO 1998

43 is the new 35

What's the point? No one can compete with that rather riveting photo of Al.

My eyes, the burning, will it ever stop.......

Who do he remind you of? I can't place it, but there is something there.

Aaman good to see you up there; weren't there when I checke din before. I have wondered (in a non-sexy way of course LOL ).

EricB - you are absolutely NOTHING like what I pictured. Not a bad thing just a mis-non-observation.

Nice thread. Occasionally one needs to feel the love.

Temple - that pic was taken during a particularly unkempt phase: post dot-com bust and pre-grad school, if you can dig.

I'm slightly more cleaned up these days... though today, after a rough week, I certainly don't feel like it!

Damn, Eric. I didn't notice you'd posted the link. That's every California stereotype rolled into one. :)

Where was it taken?

Yeah, I kind of snuck it in there late at night, didn't I?

California stereotype, eh? Heh -- funny. Just ask my wife when I don't leave the house (chained to the computer) for days upon end.

It was taken in Santa Cruz, about an hour south of San Francisco on the coast. Cool/bizarre little beach town. Point of note for filmic buffs: the scenes on the beach pier were where the film The Lost Boys was filmed.

That's very cool. I've got family out in San Diego and I look forward to visiting the place. There's something to be said for perfect weather all year round (except during monsoons or forest fires).

Yeah -- SD is pretty spectacular. It's the affording to live there part which is the real trick...

Santa Cruz isn't nice all year long either! I was stationed on TI back in the day, as they say, and used to cruise down there on my bike. Nice ride in the summer but northern Cal winters can be brutal for a biker!

Completely different brand of Californian in the north also!

This post has been referenced by a Chinese site, perhaps Podcast Podium, quite interestingly - translated by Google, not very well - can anyone interpret this better? Killer quote at the end:

Who can say again clear, is the sex appeal causes these abundant guest sex appeal, or sexy Blog causes them to have the sex appeal?

Wow,Ms. Swingingpuss is very easy on the
eyes.Or simply put: Damn girl,you fine!

ha, this has become a feast of hotness. mr berlin there, all laid-back on the beach. mr steve s, all laid back against a wall. all these laid back people!

and steve s, if i were a homogenous metrosexual man-fiend, as i think the preferred term is nowadays, then, yeah. probably, i think you'd make some sort of grimy list.

An EricB, haha, that pic just SO fits whatever mental image i had, man. its perfect!

and i second, third, fiftieth, whatever, the swingpuss comments being flung around.

and i do think i would invite that Ana Marie Cox woman round for to watch Manhattan without a second's hesitation. and she looks a bit like geri halliwell out the spice girls one time.

What about Meredith?

Ann Marie Cox = Snobby Spice?

HW Saxton, even the Chinese are talking about us. Unfortunately I can't understand a word they are saying despite the google translation.

Aaron, if only I was Irish and single...

Adding Dave Nalle's pic to the list, thanks to Shark

Dawn, we're still waiting for Eric's...

Here's the man!

whoa! he looks like the actor jere burns.

lol or the next Senator of Cleveland. Dawn get your pearls ready.

Arty Sharky

PS: Much older than any of ya.

Yah, I know: Charles Manson meets Igor.


"It's pronounced 'eye-gor'"

Just for the record I've had the wisdom to shave off the beard featured in my picture since it was taken. If only Shark could say the same.

BTW, how old are you Shark, it's hard to tell from your picture because it's even more heavily edited than mine is and the gray in your beard belies your smooth and unlined face.

Based on the picture I've got a sinking feeling you're one of the superanuated hippies who infest Austin like a plague.

Dave

Maybe you're the plague, Dave.

How would you know?

Very cool getting a glimpse at some of the BC personnel.

I'm trying to get a read on who E Olsen looks like... can't quite put my finger on it.

Well, I may be a plague as well, but I'm not infesting Austin anymore, having moved to the Exurbs. Plus, I've left behind plenty of the libertarian bacillus to keep Austin infested with that particular plague. Strangely it's the only effective counteragent to the hippy plague.

Dave

So it's plague v. plague v. counter-agent in Austin, eh?

As Bob Hope said in Spies Like Us:

Doctor. Doctor.

Glad I'm not sick.

Black Spy vs. White Spy

>>I'm trying to get a read on who E Olsen looks like... can't quite put my finger on it.<<

Did the picture link Dawn posted back in comment #116 not help?

Dave

That's what I was referring to.

I'm trying to get a read on who E Olsen looks like... can't quite put my finger on it

btw, the pics of both Dave and Shark are equally disturbing. What, don't you people smile?

Sharp pointy teeth, maybe?

Sting?

Yeah, I can see that.

Yeah, Dave, I'm an old hippie -- and I have roach burn scars older than you.

As to young looks and the lack of lines; it's genetic.

===========

Dawn: "...the pics of both Dave and Shark are equally disturbing..."

Almost as disturbing as that closeup of your tongue with chickenpox pustules.

Where is that? I tried to find it but couldn't. Maybe someone could post a link and we'll compare "disturbing"?

[winky face]

To me, Eric Olsen looks like a Lutheran Youth Minister.

I think EricO looks like one of the Kennedy boys.

Ted?

God forbid, no - more like a mix of JFK and Robert.

I've got it!

Neal Patrick Harris

>>btw, the pics of both Dave and Shark are equally disturbing. What, don't you people smile?<<

When I smile it scares people.

Snark: "and I have roach burn scars older than you"

Then you must have started smoking at the age of about 12, because if you're any more than about 12 years older than me you're too old to be an old hippie and have graduated to ancient hippie.

Dave

How old is an ancient hippie? I'm just curious...

yeah, me too

I think the dividing point between 'Old Hippie' and 'Ancient Hippie' is whether you were college age or younger during the Summer of Love. Old Hippies would have still been college age or younger in 1967 and have been in their teens by 1974. Ancient hippies were over college age in 1967 but not yet 30. If you were over 30 in 1967 you probably missed the boat on being a hippie but may have sympathized anyway, as my parents did despite being in their 40s at the time. If you were under about 8 in 1967 you just weren't old enough to be any kind of hippie before the 60s ended in about 1974. There are of course all sorts of neo-hippies or people with hippie attitudes and lifestyles who weren't part of the period chronologically.

Dave

Well, thanks, Dave - I'm old, but not yet ancient. I guess that's a relief.

I should point out that the theory behind my analysis of hippie classifications is largely based on my knowledge of disc golf tournament age divisions.

Dave

I turned 9 in '67 - I was a young sympathizer and I remember staring out the car window in zoological awe as my Dad drove us through "the Haight" some time around then. But I was always a capitalist

Well, that means you were a teen before the 60s officially ended (1974), so I think you can be an 'old hippie' if you like. The alternative is to accept being called a 'Disco Love Child', and no one wants that.

Dave

I'll buy that for a dollar

Well, in my defense, I was referring more to your penetrating glares, rather than your countenance.

I was born in 1974... the year the hippie movement died, by some accounts?

I first saw the Haight in 1998. I met a girl who lived just off the Haight in 1999 and married her a few years later.

She's no hippie though: she's a straight SoCal surfer girl from a good, conservative OC family.

good move, EB

There u go, EB - proof that the hippie movement was dead by 1998. Imagine meeting a wholesome girl in the Haight. Scary.

Dave

Well, she moved to Berkeley right after we started dating. Right down the block from me, through a bizarre coincidence.

I think she had had enough of the street scene in San Francisco.

I think Dave is the biggest surprise. not as smug looking as I anticipated...but more devilish. :-)

The merideth lady is a nice surprise.

I walked up and down the lower Haight in '01 and not a hell of a lot has changed. Less street people no doubt, but just a grungy as ever.

Lot's more tourist dives selling pseudo hippie stuff. Played a gig in some dive there in the mid 80's, here's a pic. I'm on the left with the four stringed thingy.

As I recall, all three of us had a deadly case of the flu that night. Ah the memories.....

That looks like a pretty sweet band there, Bennett. Tell us more about your gigging out days.

Unless I have my geography wrong, it's the upper Haight where you have the pseudo-hippie stuff and most of the skid row type punker/homeless scene.

There are some half-decent spots on the Haight, which is kind of like the rest of San Francisco: it's an almost impossible city to get a hard and spot-on read on. Therefore, my New York sensibilities (south of 92nd on the East Side = good, north of 92nd on the East Side = very bad) never quite meshed with the vibe there.

Definitely good to see you there Bennett. I'll write the songs - if you'll play 'em.

- temple

"Tell us more about your gigging out days."

Echhh... Prolly more than you want to know. Genius guitar player, best buddy from '79 on, and endless Spinal Tap drummers. Just when we would get it together, another drummer would explode. Played most of the SF and East Bay clubs from '80-'90.

Never quite hit the right tone fer the times. Lots of great songs, lots of small audiences. Occational sparks of momentum, and the rare sound system that amplified the mix we had in the studio. Standard fare for most bands I'm afraid. Watched the Chilli Peppers and Primus hit it, from the wings.

It was a phase, a good one, as is being a farmer (small) in Vermont these days. Actually, the last five have been the best years, and it's just getting better.

......tolja!

:-]

did you ever where a piano tie to one of your gigs? oh an where you more smiths, or huey lewis? the jam or the cure?

also... I'm 26 years old..wondering if there are any people that post on this site who are younger or roughly the same age. I saw one person was 29..

system is supposed to say sydney. did I type my name wrong?

Sydney, No piano ties, for me anyway. We were kinda Bowie/Who/UFO-ish, but that's not quite right either... Hard to compartmentalize original rock.

Age, what is age? Me, I'm 47 but still 25 inside.

Temple,

If the songs you write can be accompanied by a chain saw, weed whacker, or roto tiller...

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