Lacey Chabert gives us a body update

It's good to see Lacey Chabert has some new projects coming out.  It's also good to see Lacey wearing lacy stuff to promote the stuff she's got coming out.  She made a previous appearance in Maxim in lingerie, and she indicates that she's still pretty well shaped.

More here:  Lacey Chabert Maxim lingerie shoot

Modern fossils

I was amazed by these pictures of birds from Africa's bizarre Lake Natron, that have died and then been preserved by the high mineral content of the waters.   Very strange, and visually fascinating.

Example:  a flamingo.

Ghostly statues of birds from Lake Natron

Aaron Paul likes his wife, too

In a previous post, I noted how I like Aaron Paul's wife so much that she's on my list of women I'd like to see nude but very likely never will.  

Well, Aaron is in a situation where he has that privilege, and I think he knows the best way to keep getting that privilege, and all that comes with it.

Adore your wife, frequently and publically.

It's official:  Aaron Paul is the greatest husband ever

Oh yeah, I bet he's getting some, frequently.  But not publically.

It took some work, but here's a link to her by herself, in glamorous mode (this was an Emmys red carpet appearance with Aaron when she managed to get a picture taken without him).

Lauren Parsekian Paul

Bob Woodward on the shutdown

Bob Woodward, famous reporter most famous for the Watergate exposure, has an opinion on the Republican government shutdown:

Blackmail.

Now, I don't know if that's the exact right word here; extortion seems more apropos, but clearly they're trying to force an issue through means that aren't the norm for the Congress.  And obviously I think the Dems and the President are in the right to not let the Tea Party get away with this.

So, here's Woodward's extended opinion:

Bob Woodward hits GOP over 'blackmail'

“Let’s call it what it is, they are trying to blackmail the president and say, ‘Look, we’re going to shut down the government or default on our debt unless you — we go back, rewind the clock, on Obamacare and delay it or somehow cut off the funding,’” the longtime Washington Post journalist said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “You can’t govern that way. It will not work. It will be exposed.”

The new Miss World

The new Miss World is Megan Young of the Phillipines.  Now, Miss World is traditionally a looker; past winners have included Aishwarya Rai, at least once called the most beautiful woman in the world and Rosanna Davison, who recently posed nude for an international Playboy edition and showed that she's truly world-class.  Halle Berry finished fourth;  I'd like to see who won THAT year.

Megan is a model and a Philippine soap actress.  As one would hope for a beauty pageant winner, she's really beautiful.  I did some research and below are my results showing how beautiful she really is.  I also included some bikini pictures, because this year's contest didn't have a bikini section due to it being in Indonesia and this caused concerns about appeasing Islamic propriety.

(I also included some bikini pictures because she's no-show topless in a couple.)

A snippet about Brooke Mills

A very short time ago, I posted a "Whatever Happened to..." article about the beautiful model and actress Brooke Mills.   I called it a mystery, because I don't know what happened to her.  But I have been indefatigably curious about her, and I did a little more searching, and I found a mention of her in a book that Amazon has online, entitled Close Encounters of the Worst Kind by Philip Lambro.

So here it is:  it turns out that Brooke was married to a mostly editor, slightly director named David Rawlins.   His directing credit is an episode of Rod Serling's Night Gallery, entitled "The Tune in Dan's Cafe", which had as one of its co-stars, get this - Brooke Mills.  Now, I'd found that credit before, but didn't know that the director was Brooke's husband.   According to the book, one of Rawlins' most noted editing jobs was on Saturday Night Fever.

But wait, there's more.  In the book, it turns out Brooke became pregnant by David around 1974, and they only had one child.  This is where I think it gets interesting.  Because Brooke stopped acting after 1977, when her child would've been 2 1/2 to 3 years old.   Which makes me suspect that she retired from show business to raise the child, presumably drawing child support from the relatively successful David Rawlins.  But that's just a theory.

So here's my inspiration.  Even though I don't know where Brooke is, I might be able to locate David Rawlins.  Big maybe, because there's one post on his entry from someone else looking for him, which isn't promising.  However, if it's possible to find David, maybe he knows what happened to Brooke Mills.   On the other hand, he may have died (IMDB isn't clear, neither are any references about him), so that would make it harder.

But I sure would still like to know what happened to her.

And now a message from a walrus

Did you hear about the huge walrus haul-out?

10,000 walruses on an island

They did this because of lack of sea ice;  something that the climate skeptics say wasn't as big a problem this year (referring to the lack of sea ice at the sea ice minimum time).

Which inspired me to make a comment on behalf of the walrus, using a picture from the USGS:

Here's another article about it (from my pals at Deep Sea News):

TGIF - Tusk, tusk