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.
January 20th, 2010 10:12 pm
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…
January 20th, 2010 10:31 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!
January 20th, 2010 10:55 pm
Huh, now you have me thinking about key lime pie. Happy TT!
January 20th, 2010 11:17 pm
One of my favorite comedians, the late Mitch Hedberg, has an album called “Do You Believe in Gosh?”
January 20th, 2010 11:58 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!
January 20th, 2010 11:59 pm
#8 cracked me up. It’s actually cool! Great list for this week!
Happy Thursday!
January 21st, 2010 1:27 am
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.
January 21st, 2010 4:34 am
Very good list, I actually made it to all the links. As for Mass. the Democratic Party should have sent a serious candidate.
January 21st, 2010 4:35 am
Testing…
January 21st, 2010 5:06 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.
January 21st, 2010 5:47 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.
January 21st, 2010 7:01 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?
January 21st, 2010 7:48 am
I really enjoyed this TT and the comments.
Have a Happy Thursday!! xox
January 21st, 2010 8:08 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 😀
January 21st, 2010 8:24 am
absolutely unique TT 🙂
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January 21st, 2010 8:57 am
I have the same cancer as Dexter..I thought he was most chic..
January 21st, 2010 9:58 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.
January 21st, 2010 10:18 am
Oh i like the #10 quotes i guess it is true. Thanks for sharing. Mine is up…
January 21st, 2010 11:01 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 !
January 21st, 2010 11:53 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..
January 21st, 2010 11:53 am
gungus new word – hah fungus
January 21st, 2010 12:04 pm
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.
January 21st, 2010 1:50 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.
January 21st, 2010 2:35 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
January 21st, 2010 2:45 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.
January 21st, 2010 3:20 pm
Some people make God cringe in embarrassment.
Love the computer screen thing.
January 21st, 2010 3:49 pm
Oh no. I dared. Now my screen is dirtier than before the cleaning.
January 21st, 2010 4:05 pm
I am so gonna use the screen dogy, one of these days-love it!
Copying the highest form of flattery 🙂
January 21st, 2010 7:21 pm
As to your #4, I thought the very same thing!! What a scandal it would be had, say, Nancy Pelosi done it…..lol
January 21st, 2010 8:07 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!
January 21st, 2010 9:16 pm
that satan’s response is golden!
9. that’s why I opt out pop media.
10. lovely.
January 21st, 2010 9:59 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.
January 21st, 2010 10:12 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.
January 23rd, 2010 12:11 am
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!
January 23rd, 2010 10:38 am
Great TT, Colleen…!
January 23rd, 2010 11:45 pm
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.
February 18th, 2010 2:09 am
Cool stuff, big fan. And curt response typer 😀