Category: Beauty

Longtime Crush

Gratuitous Chick Pics

I have to admit that I’ve always enjoyed Bruce Dern’s little girl Laura in her movies.  She’s not pretty in the traditional Hollywood sense (whatever that is), but she’s rather sexy.

And I loved her in Rambling Rose:

Now, at an advanced age (for Hollywood) she gets to play with the hotties:

Laura Dern has admitted she felt ‘so lucky’ to be able to perform a racy sex scene with younger costar Liam Hemsworth in their new movie Lonely Planet.

The romantic drama, which landed on Netflix on October 11, sees Dern’s character Katherine Loewe, a successful and respected writer, travel to a Moroccan resort to finish her latest literary novel – which is where she meets Hemsworth’s character Owen Brophy.

New Wife and I watched Lonely Planet  the other night, and it was quite enjoyable despite its obvious unreality (when was a rom-com ever realistic, anyway?), because in no small part Laura’s performance made it credible.  (And the “racy sex scene”?  Compared to some of her other efforts — e.g. her bedtime activities with Nicholas Cage in Wild At Heart — it was brief, and unlikely to cause Hemsworth’s family much embarrassment.)

Anyway, here’s Laura over the years:

And she’s now 57?

Lovely.

Missing The Cold

Beauty, Weather

From Reader Joe Donuts (probably a pseudonym):

“Your wallpaper got me pondering as do many of your posts about what used to be Great Britain.  I spent most of my 20 plus years in Uncle Sam’s Traveling Air Circus stationed in East Anglia. Miss it terribly and shudder at what it, and the rest of Europe, has become.

“Fall left here last week.  The snow has been on the ground since Monday and is here to stay until late April. I’ve woken to single digit temps the last day or two; they’ll have a negative sign soon enough. Call me odd, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.”

Nor would I.  Possibly the strangest thing is that as much as I wouldn’t live pretty much anywhere in the North that I used to (Chicago, New Jersey etc.), I do miss the seasons thereof.

I loved the spring:  the way that one day it’s brown and ugly after the snow has melted, and a week later the trees are in full bloom and the grass has somehow recovered after being buried in snow for a few months and is now green again;  the joy of a warm, occasionally-hot summer when it feels good to be outside and life just seems more worth living after the February-April dreariness;  of the fall, where the trees change from uniform green into a kaleidoscope of many colors and the sweaty heat of summer is replaced with cooler temperatures;  and finally, that first snowfall, the beauty of the white covering over everything and the incredible hush that falls after the snow has fallen…

I miss it all, terribly.

And yes, I know that raking the leaves is a pain in the ass, that shoveling snow every morning at 6am in sub-freezing temperatures can become tiresome, and that after the snow has more or less melted away in the late winter/early spring that everything looks dirty and ugly.

As the man said:   “Show me paradise and I’ll buy us the tickets.”

Wallpaper

Beauty, Weather

This doesn’t count as a post, but I thought I’d share my Fall wallpaper with y’all.  I think it’s somewhere in England, but it could equally be somewhere in New England.  Whatever.  Right-click to embiggen and/or save for yourself.

“Why Fall wallpaper, Kim?”

We had our first cold-ish snap of the season last Wednesday… 49°F when New Wife went off to work.  Sure as hell beat the 85°F at the same time during the week before.