I still feel like I should apologize to the whole family flea about the 7' ceiling in our converted attic/tv room. Since we're 5'3" and 5'7", it never really occurred to us when we bought the house that our tall friends would spend all of our parties flinching like the sky was about to come crashing down on their heads.

Anyone complains, amych, just start calling them Chicken Little.

The only actor I've been up close and personal to (even got to kiss him) is Bradley Whitfield, because he went to high school with me. And that was well before he was famous.

My gf's best-friend's fiance is 6'6" and he is one of the rare people I know that makes my 6'2" self feel short. Anytime I encounter someone bigger than me I end up doing a sort of uncomfortable double-take because I'm not used to it. I imagine encountering Mr. Bjornsson would be incredibly intimidating.

In the famous people who are even more attractive in real life category: Gerard Way. This is not just my swooning crush talking. He's astonishingly pretty.

I once did extra work on a Matthew McConaghey movie filming (partly) in SF and got about 10 feet away from him, from which I can report that he was (a) utterly, luminously, blindingly beautiful in person, and (b) so slight and wee that any attraction prompted by the dazzling beauty was instantly overwhelmed by a desperate desire to go full-tilt Nana on him and march him straight into the nearest North Beach pasta joint, then sit and glare lovingly at him as he ate plate after plate of pasta carbonara so the next light breeze that came by wouldn't knock him over, poor little wisp of an angel that he was. An angel! Straight from heaven, kissed by God! No, the cannoli and the tiramisu. Trust me, you need them both.

And he lost weight for Dallas Buyers Club? Holy shit! He looked like a rail in his HBO series too. Yeesh.

As opposed to Christian Kane, who looked me right in the chin with the aid of some impressively-heeled cowboy boots. 5'9" my ass!

I've met Kane, and he's shorter than me, and I'm 5'8", so yeah. He is extremely attractive, however.

I've also met Timothy Hutton, and he seemed taller than his reported 6'. He's also thin, holy cow. I put my arm around him (photo op!) and could feel his ribs. I wanted to wrap him in a blankie and haul him off to feed him.

::read this in gravely Spock voice::

JZ...I have been, and always shall be, madly in love with you.

Matty Mac should be so lucky as to have someone like you looking out for him!

eta: THutton strikes me as the kind of guy who could use a hug. Zen could do him good.

Suddenly, I'm seeing an entire platoon of 'istas deploying to bring comfort and chicken soup to the ravaged and beautiful souls of this world.

eta: THutton strikes me as the kind of guy who could use a hug. Zen could do him good.

I sure could. I give great hug.

I'm not a hugger myself, in that I don't go in for the hug, but if someone else wants to hug, I'm totally happy to hug back. (Unless it's a creepy guy who wants hug me in lieu of copping a feel. I can always tell; it's not just a hug, creepy guy.)

In the famous people who are even more attractive in real life category: Gerard Way. This is not just my swooning crush talking. He's astonishingly pretty.

He's very pretty, but looks about the same in real life as he does in pictures.