HUNKITUDE RATING: 8/10. Don’t deny you watched Reading Rainbow for a FEW MORE YEARS than was strictly necessary.

So guilty as charged here.

t drives me batshit how often the questions are not factual, one-answer questions. Father's year of birth, great. Favorite movie? How am I supposed to remember at a later date what I might have said?

Yes! Or even when they have options, it's "Favorite movie" and "favorite book" and "where was your honeymoon?" and "who was your best man?" Thanks, bank. Rub it in. And yes I could make up fictional answers, but I'd never remember them.

so I have a child hood neighbor, that probbably knew form birth that she was going to be an artist. She is doing VERY welll and yes she majored in art

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the article has some of the prices her art has fetched.

That Hunks of PBS list? Made me so happy with #2 Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews!

HUNKIEST ATTRIBUTES: I mean, can we just keep looking at the photo?

HUNKITUDE RATING: 10/10. Package deal takes it to another order of hotness magnititude.

That there was my 10th grade year. 9th grade? One of them anyway.

OH MY GOD this is the third time this car alarm has gone off in the last 30 minutes and I am going to CUT SOMEONE.

so I have a child hood neighbor, that probbably knew form birth that she was going to be an artist. She is doing VERY welll and yes she majored in art

I can't claim success on that level, but I knew from a very early age that Art was what I wanted to do with my life - by Middle School I was looking at Interlochen brochures - and I remained laser-focused on that through college and into my professional career. There were other things I had options to pursue a career in (Psychology had a certain appeal, and the head of the Mathematics department once horrified me by saying I would make an excellent mathematician if I wanted to...), but there was never any doubt about what my first choice was going to be.

For the record, I picked what was behind door #3: do the Nestea plung einto bed.

Yes! Or even when they have options, it's "Favorite movie" and "favorite book" and "where was your honeymoon?" and "who was your best man?" Thanks, bank. Rub it in. And yes I could make up fictional answers, but I'd never remember them.

This.

Matt, you have job doing art, the practical side of being an Artist, yes? It reminds me of a childhood friend who is a professional musician -- for the Navy. I would never have pegged him as a professional musician, OR for going into the military, but the combination makes so much sense. He was always a practical kid, and it's a steady full-time job making music.

Can I be more cranky this morning? I think not.

Not unrelatedly, it's supposed to hit 100° today.

It's a fucking nightmare out there.

I'm pretty sure I'm not leaving the A/C in the living room today unless the apartment is on fire.