Dollybelle's Peepshow

Candyman Monday: Olivier Martinez

Well done Halle Berry! She always gets the hotties in extreme and being one of the most beautiful women in the world, it would take a very special guy to snag her. Voila! Olivier Martinez is about as gorgeous as they come. From the outside he looks just about perfect. They make a gorgeous couple! Plus Martinez looks like one of those dudes who looks even better as he ages! Yowzz!

Candyman Monday: David Gandy

Happy Monday! Just a little eye candy for you to kick off this week! David Gandy aka Dolce and Gabbana calendar and fragrance model is todays hottie!

I like him cuz he looks a little rough around the edges! Plus he looks like he has a sense of humor. Which we love right ladies! He is British. How cute is that!

Candyman Monday: Top Ten Hotties 2011

2011 was quite a year for delicious men. Here is a re-cap of my favorite hunks of the year.

10. Random soot smudged fire fighters. Classic American heros. Apparantly firemen go commando. Who knew?

 

9. Michael C. Hall. Ladies, he goes to the same yoga class I do. He is utterly adorable and so sweet. And hunky. It was hard not to put him at number one..

 

8. Jon Stewart. Funny men are my fave.

 

7. James Franco, renaissance man, all around cute.

 

6. Viggo Mortensen. He is just so dang hot.

 

5. Joe Manganiello. Everyones favorite warewolf. Grrrrr...rawr.

 

4. Ryan Gosling. Particularly in boxing shit.

 

3. Jason Statham. Y'all might not agree. But I think he is yum. He reminds me of my husband. Is that bad? Hee hee. Well, get yer own list.

 

2. Jason Momoa, aka Khal Drogo, aka Conan, aka Lisa Bonet's baby daddy. If you are like, "who?" unto you I say..."Time to rent A Game of Thrones."

 

1. Alexander Skarsgard. I know. Not totally original, but I am hard pressed to think of anyone more hot and adorable than this guy! With his gym bag no less! And might I add, excellent choice in eyewear.

Hope you enjoyed the recap of my top ten hunks of 2011!!

 

Candyman Monday: Sexy Brits

I am not ashamed to admit that I am an accent girl.

The delicious, slightly deranged Tim Roth.

Hot even sitting among a pile of clutter. Sean Bean.

Did you see the Tudors? Yeeeahhhhh. The new superman, Henry Cavill.

Classic youthful beauty. Robert Pattinson.

Y'all need to watch The Wire. Dominic West.

Hugh Dancy looks like a nice husband. Claire Danes ought to know...

Timeless talent and hotness. Colin Firth. I think of him as the modern Laurence Olivier.

Paul Bettany is my fave. He is a hunk of blonde gorgeousness. Married to Jennifer Connelly.

Matthew Goode.

This is Idirs Elba. He played Stringer Bell from The Wire. I am telling you, the Wire is replete with hotties. I guess I should do a post about the hotties from the Wire. There are plenty more hot British guys, these are just a few of my favorites.

Candyman Monday: My Personal Favorites

I love male beauty in all shapes and sizes. But there are a few dudes that for whatever reason stand out to me a little more. Who knows why. I am sure you all have your very favorites. Here are mine! Enjoy!

I am just going to go ahead and get the obvious right out in the open. If I had to pick just ONE guy from True Blood, I have to go with Eric. Sorry Alcide fans. You know I worship him too, but there is just something about Eric. Alexander Skarsgard's male beauty is just so sublime! Rrrwaawwrrr!

This is Ben Wishaw. Isn't he yummy? I love his sensitive Brit thing he has going. And he is a great actor. He was Grenouille in the movie Perfume. And he played John Keates in the movie Bright Star with Abbie Cornish. I dunno. I just think he is cute.

Ladies. This is Marco Dapper. If you don't know who he is google him. Now. Hot right? He is all bod. I don't even know what he does. An actor I guess... Anyway, this is the beefcakiest I get. Just thought you might like to know about Marco.

I think Joseph Fiennes is really cute! He reminds me a teensy bit of Gilligan. Which is not really a good thing, but those hazel eyes make me melt. So cute.

Yeeeeahhhhh. This is Johann Urb. He is a super fox. My favorite pix of him are the nerdy ones with his glasses on. But I though you might enjoy this one more.

This is Michael K. Williams. Omar from The Wire. If you haven't seen the Wire, you are in for a huge treat. But make sure you have lots of time, because once you get into it, you will be forced to sit and watch all seasons at once.

Wentworth Miller is sexy.

Michael C. Hall is in my yoga class. I loved Six Feet Under, but haven't really seen Dexter. I just love him because he is the sweetest, most polite, warmest guy on the planet.

Tahmoh Penikett From Battle Star Galactica. I never said I wasn't a total nerd.

Lastly but not leastly, Jason Statham. What can I tell you. He reminds me of my husband. I just love his rugged somthin' or other.

These are my special picks. I would love to know some of yours. I know I am forgetting a bunch...

Candyman Monday: The Dashing and the Debonnaire

I think one thing we can all agree on is dashing, suave gentlemen are always attractive. Whether it be dressed in a suit, or simple tee shirt and jeans, the softspoken and debonnaire dudes are always in style. I fantasize that they are smart and kind and open doors for you and stuff.

We forgive them of thier indulgences on highballs and an occasional cigar, because underneath that genlemanly exterior we imagine a intelligent, complex man who knows how to treat a lady.

*sigh*

The charming and "gone-too-soon" silent film star Rudolph Valentino.

The ever pontificating Peter O'Toole.

Dreamy eyed Gary Cooper.

The charming thespian Denzel Wahington.

The conscious playboy Leonardo DiCaprio.

The ledgendary Michael Jordan.

The gentleman Aussie Hugh Jackman.

The very kind and suave Mr. Fred Rogers.

The handsome, softspoken and totally yummy Gregory Peck. Aka. Atticus Finch.

Flirty Thursday: Flirting Audrey Style

 

“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe tin kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.”

Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn really understood flirting. Flirting is about embracing the joy and the light hearted things in life. Flirting is putting on that flouncy dress and twirling.

When we see Audrey on screen, her beauty is so all encompassing that her natural glamour floods our senses and inspires us to be our most glamorous and flirty selves too.

I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love Audrey. To not love Audrey is to not love happiness, freedom, fun and the joy of life.

I will never get sick of Audrey because she embodies everything that bliss is to me.

If Audrey represents bliss to you, I invite you to share this post! And live today the Audrey way!

Sweet Treat Tuesday: Coffee Break Panache

Coffee makes me cray cray. In the bad way. But I still love it. I have one cup in the morning and that is it. Otherwise there would be trouble.

So what is a girl to do when coffee break time comes around? Why look at gorgeous photos of coffee of course.

I love the idea of sitting down with a book, and sipping away at a latte with cinnamon sprinkles, while feasting on a delicious sweet slice of sumpthin’.

Only if I actually did that I would be so buzzed that I would have to have a self-imposed time-out just to save others from myself. Lady is caffeine sensitive.

So instead of indulging with our mouths, let’s feast with our eyes! Join me for the most decedent coffee break ever in which we have it all from the frothy foam to the chocolate sprinkles, served in a pink cup.

*Oh, and if you want credit for your images, please email me and I will be happy to link you!

Candyman Monday: Joe Dallesandro

 

Joe Dallesandro is so beautiful it is almost blinding.

Andy Wharhol thought so too. As did everyone else in and around the factory.

I have no idea why he isn’t more of a household name because his hotness transcends all time.

You may recognize his crotch from the Rolling Stones “Sticky Fingers” album, or if you are really into 70’s art films, he was in several of Andy Warhol’s film (really Paul Morrissey) such as "Trash," and "Flesh."

He has become a huge cult icon mostly due to his art house pedigree and unabashed pusher of sexual boundaries on film. I gotta love him for that.

Not sure why he never caught on in the main stream, perhaps he was a little too controversial. But jeez back then it seemed like films were doing all kinds of boundary pushing.

Perhaps it was his laid back attitude. It has been theorized that it was because he was too beautiful. But I don't know...

At any rate, today we celebrate Joe and his timeless man beauty!

Happy Monday!

 

 

 

La Femme Friday: Artful Erotica. Cara McKenna Dominates.

 

I love to read. Sometimes I read up to 3 books a week. Romance and erotica books are my guilty pleasure. I sandwich all my well-being reading with lots of delightful lusty romance.

About a year ago I discovered a book by Cara McKenna called Willing Victim. While the subject matter might not be everyone’s cup of tea, it was clear that the voice of the book was the freshest thing going in the romance/erotica genre that I had read in a long time.

I stayed up until like 3 am with a flashlight under the covers (before my hubs got me a much needed light for my kindle..) to finish this book. It was that good.

There are so many romance books in the marketplace and ever more coming all the time. So it makes sense that sometimes books become predictable, cliché, and formulaic. It is not uncommon for me to start a book, get a few chapters into it, then give it up to the dust pile because the hero and heroine are so idiotic and unnatural that suspending disbelief becomes impossible.

So when I read Willing Victim I was utterly blown away. I was amazed how well she tackled what could potentially be intense, heavy subject matter that could go all kinds of wrong in terms of resembling plausible sexual fantasy. I was captivated how Cara managed to not only make the story and characters real, approachable and fun, but defined healthy, honest sexual care and boundaries between two responsible consenting adults, while still making the characters layered, fun and realistic.

Dang.

I was hooked.

So I promptly downloaded all her books. They are all pretty different from each other, but the "realness" of the emotional world of the characters is always substantial and always interesting. No two dimentional nit-wits in the bunch. She seems to really understand on a very primal level what is sexy to women.

The thing about Cara is her men are always that delicious balance of masculine, and sensitive. Animalistic and humanistic. Utterly sexual and emotionally approachable.

She worships at the alter of the everyday hero. She picks out the best parts of men and revels in the really sexy bits, while revealing what vulnerable qualities might matchup with their complexes. She defines the line between sexual fantasy and reality with rugged aplomb.

She is a modern writer breathing fresh paradigms into an old genre.

Don’t get me wrong, I still love my romance classics, but Cara’s work speaks to modern women and makes it ok to embrace our fantasies and sexuality in a way that matches our contemporary ideals.

Cara McKenna writes smart erotica. Meg Maguire is her romance genre pen name.

If you are not sure if you like edgy modern erotica, then definitely give Meg Maguire’s romance line a try. You get the same voice and textured characters with more of the relationship build up.

Honestly all her books are great, but I feel like she comes largest to the page and is really in her element with her erotica.

I like all her books. Here are my faves:

1. Willing Victim. Published by Ellora's Cave.(This is a book about domination and role-play FANTASY, so yeah, not for everyone. But I think it is one of her best.)

2. Ruin Me. Also by Ellora's Cave.

3. Trespass. Published by Samhain.

All her books offer snapshot bits of life between two people who are facing their authentic emotions and their sexual edge, and how these come into play in terms of relationship potential. Her work gets better and better, I can not wait to see what she does next!

 

I had the privilege of being able to ask her a few questions. Here is what she had to say.

1. What is your daily routine like? How do you stay disciplined to write?

Unless I have major revisions to tackle, I write new words every morning, Monday through Friday, usually between seven and twelve. By lunchtime I'm usually tapped, creatively, so I switch to other tasks, like edits or web updates or paperwork. If inspiration strikes, I'll write in the evening or on the weekend, but I try to keep that time writing-free, to recharge my brain and to remind myself that there's a greater world outside the one in my head. I stay disciplined simply because writing is the thing I usually want to be doing most, and because I believe if you treat writing like a serious, lucrative, full-time job, eventually it can become just that.

I don't have daily word count goals. I used to, but I found that I beat myself up unnecessarily on days when the words weren't flowing, and stopped short on days with good momentum as soon as I hit my 2,000-word goal, even though I probably could have gone on and maybe doubled that. So now I have weekly goals, usually 10,000 words a week. That's still an average 2,000 per day, but I might write 1,000 on Monday, 500 on Tuesday, 4,500 on Wednesday... My word counts fluctuate like the weather here in New England, so I quit viewing a 500-word day as a failure, because usually a drought one day will mean a flood a day or two later.

2. What is your favorite aspect of male beauty?

Oh, there are as many favorite physical traits as there are lust worthy men! Eyes, hands, arms, voice... But above all, I think charisma is what makes a man truly attractive. And you can't pay a tailor or trainer to give you charisma.

3. Are there any core beliefs that you have that inform your life on an ongoing basis? (Ex. vegetarian, dog is my co-pilot, church of warm baths, etc.)

I guess the closest I'd have to that is, "Trust your gut." I'm a big believer in intuition. Oh and karma, too. I have to believe in the laws of karma, since if karma weren't real, the world would simply be too unfair a place to live in.

4. What are your top three favorite things about being a woman?

a) The aforementioned gift of intuition
b) more interesting clothes and accessories than men get
c) multiple orgasms

5. What are you most proud of?

Huh. I've never really thought about that question, possibly because I don't have children yet. I guess I'm proud of lots of small things, like having some books out, having no credit card debt, being able to run a few miles without stopping, the volunteer work I've done with penguins, traveling alone to New Zealand, and having cultivated the perfect chocolate chunk cookie recipe.

6. Just for giggles can you tell us what your top five favorite books are?

I'll give you my all-time top five, some of the books I re-read on a nearly yearly basis, in no particular order:
1. The Long Walk by Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King)
2. A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell
3. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann (no, really)
4. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
5. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Oh, and 6. anything by David Sedaris

Thank you so much to Cara/ Meg for the quickie interview!

 

And the most exciting thing is Cara has offered to give away a book to one lucky reader.

So just leave a comment and your name will be entered in a drawing to win the book of your choice!

You can read more about Cara McKenna here, or Meg Maguire here, or visit her blog!