The Random Stuff of Interests Page

Was there any doubt that of all the cast of “Star Trek: Voyager”, that Jeri Ryan would be the only one with a viable career after the show went off the air? Okay, so that guy who played Tom Paris has the occasional role playing a supporting role here and there (I think he even played a bad cop on NYPD Blue), but it’s Jeri Ryan who has carried the mantle of ex-”Voyager” castmate with a viable career. And it’s not like she’s the token “sex” role on CBS’s “Shark”. That’s a meaty role, kids, and Jeri Ryan, besides James Woods, are reasons why you should watch “Shark” if you haven’t given it a shot yet. For a lawyer show, it’s damn good.

British model, actress, and all-around famous chick Jennifer Ellison likes pink lingerie, likes wearing pink lingerie, and we like to watch her wearing said pink lingerie. Okay, so she’s put those pink lingerie on way after we see them, but if you just use your imagination instead of sitting there like a big lump of couch snack food, you’d know where I was going with this completely ludicrous post. Oh great, now even I’m lost. Um, let’s see. Jennifer Ellison. Pink. Underwear. Bra. Oh right. Jennifer Ellison in pink lingerie is friggin’ awesome.

Alicia Keys has always looked good, and I heard she can sing, too. But I wouldn’t know anything about that, being that the last time I bought an album it was, oh, 10 years ago, and the Beatles were popular. Wait, is that right? Damn my math. But I digress. The last time I saw Keys was on the big screen when she starred as a hitwoman in the wild action flick “Smokin’ Aces”. Now that there’s a sequel to that movie in the planning stages, and Alicia’s character survived the original, I’m starting a petition to bring her character back. By the way, how hot is Alicia Keys looking here? Damn.

Scottish TV babe Kirsty Gallacher looks really good in a two-piece bikini, which is probably why she ends up in a two-piece bikini in most of her photoshoots. Then again, it’s not like I’m present at all her photoshoots (not that she knows of, har har, just kidding, don’t send the cops!). Now this isn’t a photoshoot, more like a day at the beach for our Scottish lovely. And yes, if you were wondering, I have the DVD of Kirsty’s “Body Sculpt With Kirsty Gallacher” because, um, I want to sculpt my body and such. (Okay, okay, so I don’t have the DVD, but it just seemed like the thing to say when you’re posting completely gratuitous bikini pictures of someone.)

Okay, first of all, let me just say that this video is really stupid, and kind of embarrassing considering how hard they’re trying (seriously, the whole Obama Girl thing was soooo last week), but I love what this guy who uploaded the video wrote, and I think it’s worth posting just to repost his intro to the video: “Until women are given the right to vote theyre gonna have to express their political opinions through scantily clad dance routines. I for one will be voting for whichever side goes topless first. Thats how a real American picks his president.” You’re damn skippy!

You know, aside from that whole she can kick my ass ten ways to Sunday deal, Laila Ali, daughter of flamboyant pugilist Muhammed Ali, is kinda hot. I mean, from the right angles, and preferably without those boxing gloves on. Who wants their woman to be wearing boxing gloves all the time? Okay, so there are times when boxing gloves in the bedroom would be pretty cool, it’ll at least break the monotony, right? Then again, if only I can get over that whole she could probably kick my ass all over the house at anytime if I so much as make her mad thing that I can’t quite shake. Anyhoo, maybe it’s all academic, since last heard, Laila Ali had gotten hitched to some ex-NFL player. But a guy can dream, can’t he? (About getting beaten by his lady, I mean, because that’s kinda hot, too…)

Those guys at Break.com, I swear, I don’t know where they get these crazy videos. (Actually I think people upload them, so the Break.com guys don’t actually do all that much, but never you mind that; never let the facts get in the way of a good gag, I always say. Mind you, not that I talk to myself, but I’m just saying.) Anyhoo. It’s a mixed martial arts cage fight between two guys, then one guy gets kicked in the face and goes down. The guy who did the kicking runs around screaming like a jackass. It’s fun had by all — except for the guy that got kicked in the face, anyway.

Here’s a new one: Our Brit Babe of the day, Martine McCutcheon, is an English TV actress and singer, but she actually got her show business start at the tender age of 12 doing a Kool-Aid commercial in the States. How about them apples? Well Martine McCutcheon has since returnd to Britain, where she’s enjoyed a thriving TV career, having appeared on the popular soap “EastEnders” as Tiffany Raymond, before going on to play Eliza Doolittle in the play “My Fair Lady” at London’s West End, a role that garnered her a best actress awards at the 2002 Laurence Olivier Awards. Not bad for a girl who started her career drinking bad artificial water!

I don’t think America fully realizes what kind of hot-bodied beauty they have under their noses, waiting to blow up as the new Bionic Woman in NBC’s remake of the ’80s show. The 20-something actress from England has a fabulous body and a gorgeous face, and extra points? She’s got a fantastic rack. She isn’t showing that off right now, but wait until the geeks in the audience gets a load of that chest during a wet T-shirt scene. And trust me, the writers are gonna put in a scene that requires Michelle Ryan to get wet and show off the body. They would be stupid not to.

Speaking of “The Sarah Connor Chronicles”, former “Firefly” (and “Serenity”) hottie Summer Glau has left space behind for the cold, hard killing grounds of — well, okay, it’s not that nihilistic of a show, but you get the idea. Summer Glau plays a killer Terminator in the show, but don’t fret — this killer Terminator kills for the good guys! She was sent back in time to protect young John Connor, which means you get to see a lot of scenes of Summer Glau kicking giant male Terminator ass, and looking sexy as heck doing it. (Yes, I said heck. I’m very Christian that way. NOT.) Anyways, Summer Glau is bound to look good on the show if she looks this good in real life.

I’m still not entirely sure why Lena Headey has put a movie career aside to star in FOX’s upcoming “The Sarah Connor Chronicles” TV show. Then again, from what I’ve seen of the show, it looks to be pretty darn good. Or at least, on part with the “Terminator” movies from which it was spun from. And besides, it’s Lena Headey. She could do a TV show where all she did was sit in an armchair and read a grocery list, and I’d still think she rocked in it. And lest we forget, Lena can kick ass as well as the next man — even the metal kind.

You gotta wonder if Dido Armstrong ever thought about going by the name “Dido” and thinking, “Ooooh, I don’t wanna do that,” because, you know, Dido sounds a lot like, well, you know. But you also gotta give the girl respect for not only going with her real name, but just going by Dido ALONE. Now that takes guys. I mean, hell, I don’t even have an embarrassing name, but I’m still embarrassed by it, mostly because I have this very unnatural ability to be embarrassed by just about anything. But I digress. This is a Dido Armstrong appreciation posting, so appreciate her, you bastards!

Emily Deschanel has some incredible eyes going on there, oh boy. The last time I ran across an actress with this kind of “shazam!” ability with her eyes was Meg Foster, but she had a combination of creepiness going with the eyes. “Bones” star Emily Deschanel is all about understated sex appeal. True, you’ll probably never catch her in a two-piece bikini, but don’t you just wonder what it would look like if you did? Seriously, folks, it’s those kinds of thoughts that keeps me working on the site. That, and getting cancer from the computer radiation. What, you didn’t know you could catch cancer from your computer? Yessir!

You knew it was coming, didn’t cha? I think everyone did:

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Lindsay Lohan was arrested in the Los Angeles area early on Tuesday on suspicion of drunken driving and cocaine possession, just days after she completed a 45-day rehabilitation program, authorities said. Police said they had received a report of a car chase and that Lohan and two companions were in the pursuing vehicle. A police spokesman said he believed the people in the two cars knew each other.

It would appear that the CW’s Winchester brothers are getting a little help in their demon hunting ways, and maybe a little nooky or two, if all goes well for the boys. SciFiWire reports that the horror/fantasy series, entering its third season, will be introducing some fresh blood in the form of Katie Cassidy and Lauren Cohan to the show. Lauren Cohan will play Bela, a bounty hunter (of demons, one supposes), while Cassidy will play Ruby, a fellow demon hunter who gets in the boys’ way. “Supernatural” follows the adventures of two demon hunting brothers played by Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles, and is basically one of the only cool shows on the CW for the boys.

Jessica Stroup is an American actress whose biggest role to date has been the horror sequel “The Hills Have Eyes II”. Not the original sequel, but a sequel to the remake. Yeah, Hollywood is that out of ideas. But in any case, while “Hills” sucked the big donkey balls, it did have one redeeming feature — Jessica Stroup got known, and now she’s parlayed the role into more lucrative jobs, including leading roles in the upcoming “Prom Night” remake and the, um, “April Fool’s Day” remake? Oh man, we love Jessica Stroup, but she’s gotta stop doing these really awful horror movie remakes. Come on, Jessica, break free, baby, before they trap you in the genre forever!!!

The general consensus among TV folks (i.e. those overpaid guys paid to watch TV and write about it; nice job if you can get it) is that Patricia Heaton’s return to TV in the FOX sitcom “Back to You” (co-starring some guy name Kelsey Grammar) is a hit in the making. Or at the very least, it’s got potential, or as much potential as any sitcom has in these day and age of serialized dramas ala “Lost”, “Heroes”, and just about every other TV series that lasts more than 30 minutes on TV nowadays. Here are some promotional images from the show. And yes, if you were wondering, Patricia Heaton still looks bloody good post-Raymond. So what’s the show about? Anchors at a TV station. And Patricia Heaton. Did I mention Patricia Heaton?

Here’s your first look at Canadian actress Laura Vandervoort in costume (sort of) as Supergirl (thumbnail to your left, a bigger version of the image below). The image comes courtesy of the CW Network, who sent it over to the blokes over at SuperheroHype. (Man, I wish people would send me cool stuff like this!) You can catch blonde Goddess Laura Vandervoort playing a superhot Supergirl on the CW’s aging “Smallville” TV series when it comes back from break. I don’t know when that’ll end, but it’ll be worth waiting. I mean, come on, Laura Vandervoort is frakkin’ hot, guys.

I don’t know if this is in a real prison (if it is, and going by the looks of the guys, it must be in some kind of Asian prison), but if it is, man, that just makes this video about 5,000 times cooler than it would be if this was some staged parody of Michael Jackson’s Thriller music video. And yes, there is a reason why Thriller is so often parodied. Remember that Indian parody? Basically, this is Michael Jackson in his heyday, back when he couldn’t do any wrong. (The whole touching kids inappropriately thing sort of put a damper on that.) And if this is being done by real prisoners? Apparently prison only sucks in America…

Apparently I’m the only person in America who didn’t run out to buy the latest Harry Potter book when it came on sale over the weekend. Then again, I like to think that I’m a rebel; when people were buying Backstreet Boys CDs, I was overdosing on Rage Against the Machine; when everyone was watching The West Wing, I was too busy catching up on episodes of Family Guy. And when people run away from danger, I run towards it. Okay, so maybe that last one was kinda stupid of me, but I didn’t go out to buy the latest Harry Potter book. Now if Harry Potter was in the hood like he is in this music video, I might think about buying a copy. Maybe. Okay, probably not…