Au Contraire, TV Guide!

Well, apparently TV Guide has decided that Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria-Parker is television’ hottest female actress. Naturally GAF disagreed. What started as a thread of posters expressing their shock quickly turned into the second coming of “The Hot Women Thread” with everyone posting whoever they thought deserved the honor.

Melina Melina Kanakaredes.

Christina Hendricks.

Sophia Bush.

Olivia Wilde<. br />

It was a nice enough thread, but there was one glaring problem: No Tricia Helfer! We can’t have that. No sir. I spent a few minutes scouring the net for nice pictures of Ms. Helfer (google safe search: ON!) because I didn’t have any at the ready (honest) and used the below to fix that thread right up.

What say you now, TV Guide? -.-’

What rule was that again?

…or “How I learned not to be amazed by the internet (or items discovered therein)!”

A few minutes ago I was perusing NeoGAF and came across a link to the site of one Justine Lia, a fairly talented painter doing rather… interesting work. From Lia’s Mission Statement:

In Join Or Die, I paint myself having sex with the Presidents of the United States in chronological order. I am interested in humanizing and demythologizing the Presidents by addressing their public legacies and private lives. The presidency itself is a seemingly immortal and impenetrable institution; by inserting myself in its timeline, I attempt to locate something intimate and mortal. I use this intimacy to subvert authority, but it demands that I make myself vulnerable along with the Presidents. A power lies in rendering these patriarchal figures the possible object of shame, ridicule and desire, but it is a power that is constantly negotiated.

I approach the spectacle of sex and politics with a certain playfulness. It would be easy to let the images slide into territory that’s strictly pornographic—the lurid and hardcore, the predictably “controversial.” One could also imagine a series preoccupied with wearing its “Fuck the Man” symbolism on its sleeve. But I wish to move beyond these things and make something playful and tender and maybe a little ambiguous, but exuberantly so. This, I feel, is the most humanizing act I can do.

Sounds interesting, yeah? Here’s a preview:

The others are decidedly more NSFW…