2001-08-21 - 1:14 p.m.

So here goes.

I have no plans to link to Gus' diray today, because I find the entry so boring. Maybe if I were new faculty at Carnegie Mellon and had not just heard him say all of this at the panel discussion we just participated in.

But I am reminded of the last time one of us uttered the title of this entry. It preceded the playing of an mp3 of the Bjork song.

Which, in part, provoked me to write this in June:

Review: Gus' Celebrity Crushes

Maura Tierney as News Radio's Lisa Miller:� I have it on good authority that she's hot, but I just don't see it.� Maybe because they have mostly shows oldish episodes of NR on A&E lately, in which she has this sort of dated, early Jennifer Aniston kind of hairdo.� In one of the few post-Phil Hartman episodes, she did have longer hair which she wore up, and it looked perhaps a shade darker.� Very nice.� Plus, she plays a driven carrer woman, and, though not as funny as Vicki Lewis as Beth, she's an exception to that "you have to have a penis to crack a joke" rule that some networks seems to cling to even now. B

Wendy Richards as Miss Brahms of Are You Being Served?:� Yeah, this one caught me off guard as well - I mean, was ANYBODY attractive in 1970s Britain?� Brown polyester?� What's that about?� Maybe it was the short skirt and the fact that Gus went to an all-boys school his entire life.� At any rate, I can't help but take off points for too much eye shadow and playing a character named Shirley for 12 years - does being dated make one less attractive?� Yeah, I think it does, as does unflattering lighting. Perhaps that explains why many of the pictures online are in black and white- when you can't see the blue powder caked on like a Mardi Gras mask, actress Wendy Richards is quite a looker.� (Then again, when Gus was 16, maybe racoon eyes were his thing.� Or maybe she just looked that good next to Mrs. Slocombe.)� In her favor, Miss Brahms does possess both a cockney accent and an acid wit, unlike a good number of TV blondes.� B+

Bjork: Had this particular yen not ended when she showed up to the Oscars in that weirdass swan garment, I would simply type F-- and go on my bitter way. But before I trash Gus' once-lustful admiration of the Icelandic ingenue, I should probably explain why I didn't approve.� 1.) He didn't like her music.� 2.) He concluded, with little to no prodding from me, that Bjork would be the worst girlfriend in the world, as dating her would require pretending to like her music.� 3.) Not only was the basis of said infatuation not talent, it was also not physical: "She's so mysterious!" he used to say.� Yeah, well, so is a plague of locusts, but nobody wants to get with that.� But should I harp on the fact that weirdness does not necessarily indicate coolness, talent, or sex appeal.� Probably not.� In fact, I'll give this one a passing grade, just as a testiment to Gus' improved taste in women. D-

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Mary Tyler Moore as Laura Petrie:� Do new crushes replace old ones?� Because just about two months after Gus swore off Bjork for good, we happened to be watching The Dick Van Dyke Show - a favorite of� mine, but Gus had never seen it.� Suddenly, he said, "You know, before she had like, a hundred facelifts, Mary Tyler Moore was hot."� Yay!� Bjork guilt assuaged!� Better yet, Bjork was being replaced by someone with actual good looks and lots of charm and talent - not to mention the best fashion sense ever. "Especially in that sweater," he added later.� Ok.� Perhaps he was laying it on a little thick.� But who could care?� He was showing some taste!� Too much taste?� I thought not... until he whistled at the screen.� But then again, Gus and Mary deserved a honeymoon period, right?� So I let it go, and to my knowledge, Gus is not taping every episode of Dick Van Dyke and hiding the tapes under his bed like so much hard-core porn... or has he?� Mad props to this crush, minus the fact the he prefers the housewife version to the associate producer that would come along in the Mary Tyler Moore Show. A.

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