"I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less."
21 November 2005Live at 24 framesSix minutes of last night were spent watching Maureen Dowd on The Daily Show, an old 2004 clip at Comedy Central's Web site. If you're going to tell me I needn't have bothered, well, you're right, I needn't have bothered. Still, curiosity won out. The superficial stuff I got through in a matter of seconds: very nice legs, a hairdo apparently specifically designed for maximum flipability should she decide to act saucy, and a smile that isn't really a smile. Yes, it turns upward at the edges, and yes, she does noticeably brighten when someone (or when Jon Stewart, anyway) agrees with her, but it's not a smile: it's as though she's keeping her teeth at Maximum Clench back there, in case Dick Cheney gets mentioned. Either that, or she doesn't want anyone to know that she's chewing gum. I have a weakness for what I call "voices that will melt zinc." Dowd, alas, leaves my metal cold; one-third nasal, one-third whiny, and one-third Lily Tomlin's "Ernestine" character, she undercuts her every effort to sound flirtatious. If this is supposed to be saucy, it's the Chef Boy-Ar-Dee stuff in a can, and it's been left on the stove too long. The horror, I suppose, is twofold: first, that MoDo is probably only six months in charm school and $75,000 worth of therapy away from being a genuine catch, and second, that I'd even think of that. Posted at 7:32 AM to Warn Mode DueTrackBack: 4:37 PM, 22 November 2005 » Tuesday Revue - November 22, 2005 from New World Man - he's got a roadmap of Jupiter Tuesday is sponge off other blogs day here at New World Man. I post the Watcher's Council results from the previous Friday, direct you to some of the great posts on that week's Carnival of Liberty, and post this Tuesday Revue of the best posts I've com......[read more] I told you so. (w/o false modesty) This is why I go to bed early. Posted by: Sheila Rene at 2:39 PM on 21 November 2005I don't know that I've ever heard her voice. But in her latest pix to promote her book, she looks hard, which is something I can't quantify but like obscenity I know it when I see it. Posted by: Rachel at 7:13 PM on 21 November 2005I've always thought that Maureen Dowd was kinda hot, but was afraid to say it. Unfortunately, the voice really does play to the worst of her columns' characterization of her. No amount of auburn hair or leg can make up for that. Posted by: Brian J. at 9:38 PM on 21 November 2005From Fred on Everything on Maureen Dowd: "Maureen’s agonizing does however provide exegesis of the American female mind at a curious moment. Again and again their question seems to be, what form of pretense is needed to achieve marriage? Must I feign sex-kittenhood? Be a calculated suck-up who always laughs at his jokes? Hide my brains? The underlying idea is that they must commit some fraud to attract a man. This of course implies that they aren’t attractive without committing fraud. I’ll give them that. Those of us who have wives from Mexico, Thailand, the Philippines, Chile, or China view Maureen as being a very strange creature indeed, perhaps expelled from a geothermal vent. (“Hi! I’m Fred. What’s your phylum?”) Like Maureen, so many gringas don’t seem to know who they are, what they are, what they want to be, or how to get there. I think of a tinkertoy construction made by an insane two-year-old: a lot of protruding parts that don’t fit together. By contrast foreign women are psychologically coherent. They are sexy because they are women and like being sexy, not as a Vaudeville act or marketing tool. Resentment is not their primary emotion. They love their children and regard raising them as a pleasure, not an imposition of which they are ashamed." I find her attractive too. (Please, no one tell!) Posted by: Eric Scheie at 7:04 PM on 22 November 2005Her feet's too big. Don't want her, 'cause her feet's too big. Mad at her, 'cause her feet's too big. Posted by: Mister Snitch! at 11:33 PM on 25 November 2005 |