I watched 100 greatest sex symbols the other night. Well, I caught it from about number 40 or something. It turns out that Angelina Jolie is the greatest sex symbol… ever. Greater even than James Dean and Marilyn Monroe.
I’m not entirely sure I agree. I’m not denying that Angelina is a very beautiful woman and also had a certain unhinged quality which somehow seems to make her more attractive to the public, but come on. Greatest sex symbol ever?! Of our times, maybe, but ever?! Maybe I need a male opinion on this.
My big news is as follows. I was adopted when I was a baby (that’s not the big news, stick with me on this) and for the last couple of years I’ve been kind of loosely searching for my birth mum. Jonic and I found an address a while ago on 192.com which seemed to be my birth grandad, so recently my mum wrote to him to say I was looking for my birth mum, would he happen to know where she was etc.
Anyway, 8 weeks passed and I figured it’d been lost in the post, or maybe she just didn’t want to speak to me. I’d pretty much put it to the back of my mind for now. Then, the other day my mum rang and said they’d had a letter back. (That’s the big news, hope it isn’t an anti-climax…)
It’s just the strangest feeling, I’m really happy of course, but it’s also so huge I’m not sure I’ve taken it in. 20 years is a long time. Now I’ve just got to figure out what to write back…
Just thought I’d share that. Anything to make it seem more real is useful I think.
I’m so chuffed you got a letter back. Have you read it yet?
As fr the pretty people, I watched it too, and really it’s an entirely subjective proposition. Of course some people are more sexually alluring than others but isn’t it a matter of taste? I agree with you entirely that Marilyn Monroe, James Dean et al should rate higher, but I would also put, say, Scarlett Johansson above Angelina Jolie. But I guess the point of these programmes is to make you talk about how much you disagree with them. Which clearly this one has done.
I’m so glad that the evenings we spent in the library paid off… It’s no fun going through reel after reel of micro-fiche tapes, but to say that doing so has changed your life would be an understatement.
I’m really glad I could help you with it
Wow, that’s huge. Thanks for sharing it out here. It’s odd to be so excited for someone you’ve never met, but I am excited for you. Hope this all goes great. Gets me thinking again about meeting my biological father (haven’t seen him since I was 3, I think,though my brother has). Hoping the best for you.