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08 May 2008
He's back! My gorgeous friend, Paul, that is, in his latest TV commercial.
Jan, your friend is hot. In that "I'm going to age gracefully like the next James Bond" sort of way.
Derail (my apologies -- Eidetecker reminded me of a story):
I have heard a straight man utter "gorgeous" unironically. He was uttering it at me, in fact. When I was married to my now-ex. In front of my now-ex. At age 32. At my highest weight, which was 240 lbs at 5'9". While I was wearing a renaissance gypsy costume (It was a costume benefit).
In addition, the person in question was the lead singer in a local rock band, and a total hottie (especially if you, like I, get the hots for small men).
He then picked me up (!!) and gave me the raunchiest hug that I've ever had in my life, swinging me around using his pelvis as leverage. (note: although my friends in the band were harmlessly flirtatous, that's not why we broke up.)
I should note that my now-ex's response was, "Why doesn't he ever hug ME like that?" (note: although my now-ex was probably less than totally straight, that's not why we broke up.)
In retrospect, that was one of the greatest gifts I've ever been given.
In retrospect, if I needed that kind of attention from friends because I wasn't getting it from my now-ex, I should have seen that there were problems in the marriage.
In retrospect, that was still probably one of the greatest gifts I've ever been given.