Scouting for Boys

Scouting for Boys in Dark Places Where the Shadows Lie : Aragorn

2008-11-03T22:15:00.002+13:00

Name: Aragorn, son of Arathorn, last King of Gondor (at least until he gets shacked up and has babies, but that doesn't happen in the movies.)

Known aliases: Strider, the Elfstone, some other ones I can't remember.

Habitat: Middle-earth, in particular dark places or remote wastelands where he can skulk around being mysterious yet also awesome, and where he won't have to wash his hair.

Distinguishing features: Scandavian good looks. Failure to shave fully. Ability to fight everything, and to fall down cliffs painfully and survive.

Common habits: Running away from and then back to his destiny. Saying soppy things to Liv Tyler in elvish. Being awesome.

Scouting for Boys on Google

2008-07-12T15:45:00.004+12:00

The Unintentionally Hilarious Underwear Model, or What You Get if You Google "hot man."

Name: James Dawson Martin, aka mostbeautifulman.com's July 2008 most beautiful man.

Habitat: The internet, although originally British (I see a theme developing!). Apparently he was noticed through his motivational and body building videos on Youtube.

Distinguishing Features: Muscles, hairy legs, inability to stand up straight or keep his clothes on. Eyecatching...features.

Common Habits: Posing. Taking off underwear. Being covered in oil.

Scouting for Boys in Narnia: Prince Caspian

2008-06-28T17:02:00.004+12:00

The Highly Touted Next Big Hottie Who Actually Is

Name: Prince Caspian (a.k.a. Ben Barnes)

Distinguishing features: Decidedly un-English tan; attractive Franco-Spanish-European accent which occasionally falls off; flowing locks; big sword.

Bonus points for: Nice smile, and being actually hot instead default-someone-has-to-be-hot hot. (I'm looking at you, Legolas).

Commonly found: On horseback, either fleeing certain death or rescuing fair maidens half his age and then smooching them. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Other regular haunts include Narnian strongholds or palaces in general. In future we'll be finding him on a boat, but that movie hasn't come out yet.

Habits: Fighting with people and looking heroic.

Scouting for Boys in the English Countryside: Mr Darcy

2008-06-20T23:09:00.006+12:00

Well, here we are, and it's about time I got around to it: The inaugural (eek! tricky to spell) scouting of good looking boys. And because my charming co-scout Stephanie is, as I type, boarding her plane for the mighty rainy isle of Britain (via the mighty hot isle of Hong Kong) where she will make her home for the next two years, our first victim is that man among British men, the inspiration for all heroes of contemporary romances* ...Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy.

You can really see why people went by their last names. It was quicker.

Anyway. As Mr Darcy is, as is common knowledge, a work of fiction, and, sadly, Pride and Prejudice is not a picture book, we shall be forced to endure a head to head battle of BBC Darcy (aka Colin Firth) vs Movie Darcy (aka that guy from Spooks....Matthew MacFadyen?)

En avant!

The Greater Darcy of BBC.

Other names: Colin Firth (but let us suspend our disbelief for now).
Distinguishing features: Lovely sideburns, an upper crust accent, and trousers that come up very high without looking silly. Until he gets married, and then I can't look at them.
Commonly found: Ballrooms and very fancy houses; on horseback; occasionally amphibious.
Habits: Striding manfully about England, staring lovingly at Elizabeth in drawing rooms.

The Lesser Spotted Emo Darcy.

Other names: Matthew MacFadyen, but I can't spell it.
Distinguishing features: A lovely haircut. Also, a manner which suggests reserve.
Commonly found: Roaming the countryside in front of picturesque scenery.
Habits: Not being tempted by tolerable women; being shy.

This is briefer than my intention; but I've just noticed the time. Time for bed!

*it's true! Give me a hero, any hero, and I undertake to demonstrate the relationship between him and Mr Darcy. **

** By which I mean the way in which he is based on Mr Darcy, not that following their wedding, Mr Darcy and Elizabeth separated and he invented the time machine, allowing him to travel freely through time and space and play flourish-the-sword with other heroes. ***

***Although it would be interesting if he had. But then he is only fictional, and we cannot expect everything.

Testing, testing, 1 2 3...

2008-04-09T19:39:00.002+12:00

Righto.

1. Must remember how to edit HTML
2. Must inform Beth of blog
3. Must come up with theme for blog
4. Must come up with better layout for blog
5. Must live up to newly-earned reputation as Designer Extraordinaire

Alternatively, I could eat pizza.