1. If you know me well, you are already disturbed by my attraction to strange-looking men. I can proudly say that none of them are on this list! So there. Pfft.

2. As a follow-up to 1, I’ve recently learned of not one, but TWO indviduals who agree that Alan Rickman is one of the hottest Englishmen to have sneered sexily at us from the big screen. You are not alone, ladies. Let’s see if I can dig up that $5 AR biography I bought in a moment of celebrity lust.

3. I want to adopt a new grandfather (gotta have watched Scrubs to know what I’m talking about). Melissa lent me her Buena Vista Social Club DVD and Ibrahim Ferrer is just about the cutest, oldest, black-eyed-est little Cubano that I ever did see! Can’t I take him home and feed him applesauce? Please?? Oh wait, he’s dead. Booo.

4. See my salsa site: added the lyrics and English equivalent of “Candela” as performed by the BVSC and subtitled by the DVD folks. As I can’t take credit for the translation, I bet it’s pretty good. [Update July 2007:  this site no longer exists now that I have consolidated everything under karenhamilton.ca]