Home improvement hotness

Everyone seems to love the hotness that is home improvement. I know I do. I love my plumbers, carpenters and electricians (along with construction workers, security guards, utility workers, mailmen, UPS drivers and guys mowing lawns(to name a few)). Anyway, I’ve received a few suggestions from that post that I thought needed to be shared.

Semipsychotic invokes the name of our Lord when talking about Jeff Devlin from Spice up My Kitchen. God, I see why:

Jason suggests Lynn Kegan from Designed to Sell. Love the red heads. Red on the head…

And my addition: Jason Cameron. No, he has never been on HGTV but I don’t hold that against him. I loved him on TLC’s While You Were Out. He’s now on the DIY network show Man Caves (insert butt sex innuendo here).

And here’s a video of him shirtless:

I see why these posts are so popular.

So that’s how that works (or Cute with Paddy)

If you have been watching the news these past few months, you hear a lot of terms being thrown around while discussing the cause of our current financial mess. Things like hedge funds, credit default swaps and mortgage backed securities. I, like most people, have heard these terms for a while but don’t fully understand what they mean. Wiki helps a bit but sometimes reading what something means and understanding are two completely different things. That’s why I was so happy to find this guy (thanks to Greg Mankiw’s Blog (and I don’t understand half of what he says either but I still recommend reading it.))

Not only does he do an excellent job of explaining the murky and sometimes boring world of financial markets and big business, he also happens to be really cute and has a great Irish accent (this shit is important).

Hedge funds made simple:
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Leverage and balloons. That’s the stuff.
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More understanding (and cuteness) can be found here. Thanks, Paddy!

Sorry, Dan Mitchell. You are now officially considered back door trade.

Tuesday’s hottie

Jason Statham. I’ve never seen any of his movies but I love my hot British manflesh (don’t be jealous, Daniel).

Crazy gay bear cat lady lover

I so love Cute with Chris. Especially his “Men with Pets” category. The combination of (sometimes hot) men and cute pets is irresistible to me. The cuter and furrier, the better.

(laser eyes are a bonus)

Rising star (or Schock and Awww)

Aaron Schock is running for Congress in the 18th Congressional district of Illinois (not mine). Not only is he incredibly cute, he has an incredible story. And you might be saying to yourself, “er, John, he looks a bit young” and you’d be right. He’s 27. Inexperienced, you might think, but you’d be wrong. He was elected to his local school board at age 19, defeating the school board president. He is currently serving his second term as an Illinois state representative. I’ll let him speak for himself:

If he wins, he’ll be the first congressman to be elected that was born during the Reagan years. Go Aaron!

(Sadly, I’m stuck with this guy. At least my district spoons the 18th…)

The Billy Mays of tax policy

Yeah. He’s back. And I think I’m in love. Is it his common sense presentation about the benefits of a flat tax? (I’d like to see his GDP) Is it his abrasive voice? Or maybe I just need to admit that I have a tie fetish.

Big things

I don’t travel in general and my fear of flying has kept me grounded for more years than I care to admit but if I got the chance to go anywhere in the world it would be Dubai. That country (part of the UAE) is an amazing spectacle of what man can do with enough money and enough effort. While the riches of the UAE originated from oil, Dubai never had much. So they turned to other ventures:

There once was a sheikh who dreamed big. His realm, on the shores of the Persian Gulf, was a sleepy, sun-scorched village occupied by pearl divers, fishermen, and traders who docked their ramshackle dhows and fishing boats along a narrow creek that snaked through town. But where others saw only a brackish creek, this sheikh, Rashid bin Saeed al Maktoum, saw a highway to the world.

One day in 1959, he borrowed many millions of dollars from his oil-rich neighbor, Kuwait, to dredge the creek until it was wide and deep enough for ships. He built wharves and warehouses and planned for roads and schools and homes. Some thought he was mad, others just mistaken, but Sheikh Rashid believed in the power of new beginnings. Sometimes at dawn, with his young son, Mohammed, by his side, he’d walk the empty waterfront and paint his dream in the air with words and gestures. And it was, in the end, as he said. He built it, and they came.

And build they did. Here is Dubai (City)in 1990:

And here it is now:

And that’s just the beginning. Run out of room or need more coastline? No problem, you just make more (and more).

Now this is where it really gets large:

Billy Mays and Vegas have some serious competition.

(Quaker inspired)

I’m here, I’m queer and I don’t need a cabinet full of cleaners

Now that I outed myself (with the help of a recent commenter): 

Man hands (on men) are hot

Kevin’s Wednesday (on Saturday) hottie almost (I said almost, bitches) made me forget about Daniel Craig.  It also somehow led me to this great site devoted to men and their hands.  I should have known there were other people out there enthralled with beautiful man hands. 

Speaking of man hands:

Quit complaining, Charlene (or Are there Asian Gay Bears?)

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