TV Boyfriends

I’ve written in depth about my love and admiration Michael Jackson.  You can read about it here, here, here and here.  Then, go here, here, and here. 

The way I see it, someone lost a child, someone lost a father, someone lost a brother, someone lost an uncle and many people lost  friend.  I had no idea just exactly who his friends were.  I mean, he was indeed a private man.  He was friends was the likes Liz Taylor, Liza Minelli and one of his younger buddies, Usher. 

Usher was on CNN news and was interviewed regarding his friendship and subsequent performance with Michael.  He had a tough time even speaking through part of the interview.  He was more than just a little choked over the loss.  And, the fact is, Usher is a youngster compared to Michael Jackson who was indeed a young man himself. 

But, the one thing to remember, Michael Jackson was pretty.  Usher is down right awesome….

Michael never looked this good but Usher will probably never sound as good as Michael did even at the age of 7.

About Elizabeth Elizabeth Fournier
All Men Are Cremated Equal: My 77 Blind Dates
After she got over her dream of being a Solid Gold Dancer, Fournier promptly headed into the local funeral home and asked for a job, any job. She became the live-in night keeper which meant she resided in a trailer in the far reaches of a large, hilly cemetery and slept with a shotgun near her bed. It was the scariest summer of her life.
She is currently the voice of the autopsy exhibit in the forensic wing at the United
States National Museum of Medicine and a full-time mortician. She is also a ballroom dance instructor at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. But she couldn’t resist writing the story of her unusual method of dating that led her to the love of her life.

I was sitting outside the principal’s office of my tiny Catholic grade school yet again. Sister Bernadette just couldn’t get her habit around the fact I was in love. She deemed it inappropriate to write "I <heart> Shaun Cassidy!" all over my white pleather Jordache purse with a pink felt pen. I had written the same thing on my pee-chee folder, but that time in purple.
What really Frenched her toast was the forbidden Teen Beat magazine found in my desk. I took a picture of myself and pasted it next to Shaun’s face. I told her he wrote Hey Deanie  for me after he secretly attended my piano recital where I performed a crisp version of Da Doo Ron Ron.
Shaun was dreamy on TV, but in my upstairs bedroom, I was his front row audience. We had a super hush-hush friendship: Shaun, his Adam’s apple, and little old 4th grade me. I wore out the grooves on his vinyl disks. I studied the liner notes of all his albums and even inked in my name as acknowledgment for his inspiration.
The sexier of the two Hardy Boys was pasted inside my closet wall. Not a poster, but an Elmer’s School Paste collage. Every picture, paragraph, and sentence on Shaun I could find was affixed to that chunk of cardboard. Whenever he was on a glossy page, the headline would scream SHAUN!
I made him birthday presents and sent them to the address I found in 16 Magazine. I wrote him letters and included my name, address, and telephone number, but didn’t need to send a photo since I was certain his closet wall held an anthology of me!
Yes, I had intact mental faculties, and no, I didn’t live in the middle of nowhere without a mall or something better to do. Did I want to marry him? Totally no way! I didn’t even want to date him, mind you. Remember when Victoria Principal got all that hate mail for dating Andy Gibb?
Fast forward to 2004. I was sitting alone in my room and was watching a show starring Kate Hudson’s big brother, Oliver, called The Mountain. The credits rolled and Shaun’s name was listed as the executive producer. I felt that familiar gooey emotion akin to Bonnie Bell Lip Gloss and Jean Nate Bath Splash. I was so excited I immediately craved a Candy Stix Cigarette with the famous red tip.

I love to listen to John Mayer’s music.  I could sit and listen to the same songs over and over again honestly.  I am not a big fan of just listening to a certain artist over and over, I usually prefer to just take what ever I get on the radio.  But Mayer’s music has a certain appeal to me.  And, now, now he is sporting a new girlfriend.  No kidding, he is seen smooching on some chick in a car and the paparazzi wasn’t necessarily sure that he knew the girl.  UH?

What do they mean they don’t know if he knows this girl or not?  He’s kissing her right?  I mean, not just a peck, this is a kiss.  You don’t just walk up to folks windows and kiss them like this even if you are John Mayer.  And, what’s really going on?  How come he is in and out of relationships faster than I can write these doggone TV Boyfriend columns?  Amazing uh?

I try not to waste a lot of my time on a lot of these men that are hot.  But, to be honest, John Mayer wasn’t really hot to me until he got hooked up with Jenn and was singing some really gorgeous stuff.  His appeal starts to go away when I find out he kissing strangers on the side of the road.  I mean, really, just walk up to someone, ask them to roll down their window and plant one on their ol’ kisser.  Just looking at these pictures, if I were that girl, I’m not sure I would have recognized him and been so open to just be smooching right there in the public.  As a matter of fact, if you ask me, that dude behind him, which I assume is a body guard, he looks much better.

Now this guy, yea, I’d roll the window down for him anyday…

I’ve never been one to just look at any ol’ celebrity like they are hawt!  And, Seal is no exception.  He has never been a real attention getter for me.  And, then I saw him in a magazine photo spread with his family and nothing turns me on like seeing a man dote on his wife and kids.  So, from the perspective of him just being a TV Boyfriend, we can keep him for that.  But, it is very apparent that he and his wife are crazy about one another.

And, then, when you hear him sing, you wonder how she ever makes do with that man’s voice around.  I mean, I’d never sleep for begging him to sing to me.  And, now, guess what, I have him right by my bedside every night. 

How you ask?

Well, I happened to win Seal’s New CD “Soul” on a blog which was sponsored by One to One Network and it came today.  I haven’t even listened to it, I’m simply telling you about it because I know it’s gonna be good and I can’t wait to listen to it. 

You can get yourself a copy off of the shelves in stores I’m sure but don’t expect yours to be autographed, ok?

Hahaha!