X3 Watch & The World's Sexiest Woman
My nightly wont is to eat supper while keeping half an eye on something TiVo'd and reading through news stories from Yahoo! News, CNet, Wired, and other sources. Not one to leave well enough alone I tend to research a particularly intriguing article or four (or more). Really, it isn't much of a life but it keeps me amused and out of trouble.
Well, it did until I read "And the world's sexiest woman is" which proudly announced that "British actress Keira Knightley was voted the world's sexiest woman in a magazine poll on Thursday, beating model Keeley Hazel and Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson into second and third place respectively." Well, I can understand that. She's British, afterall.
Miss Knightley is, indeed, a comely lass, my opinion that still photographs don't really do her justice aside and I am rather attracted to the unique beauty of Scarlett Johansson, but I was clueless about Miss Hazel until I triggered an X3 Watch alert (I think ... I have to check).
Um ... a what? That requires a quick trip in the Way Back Machine to last year's celebration of Porn Sunday for explaination.
Like many Americans I've wasted time looking at Internet porn. And I mean wasted. There are so many other productive things to do. Besides, it's a terrible insult to the Lord and can easily lead to violating several of the Commandments. To help keep my weak self honest, I installed X3 Watch software last October -- and (facetiously) wrote about it -- so a buddy of mine could be alerted if any porn crossed my computer. Nothing like having a Big Brother in Christ watching to keep you honest. Now I spend my time doing better things, like reading the news.
And accessing porn in the process. Having no idea what Keely Hazel looked like I Googled her and the first hit linked me to a page that was 95% topless photos. Now I know what a lot of her looks like. Wow. She's very attractive. And pleasantly proportioned. And surprisingly plain compared to Miss Johansson or Keira Knightley. Here are some photos:
Miss Knightley's performance in Pirates of the Caribbean (2003)was marvelous. I also enjoyed her work in King Arthur (2004)and plan to rent Domino (2005), a movie in which she was anything but glamorous. She's a bit skinny for my tastes, but looks aren't everything. Her English accent is as much a part of my attraction to her as is the cunning displayed in her eyes and the humour in her lips.
It is no surprise that actresses rather than everyday people make lists such as this and I'm not surprised that Miss Johansson is on the list. The only film I've seen with her in it was 2003's Lost in Translation and she was completely captivating. If a woman can look good without fancy hair and makeup she can look good anytime. While watching the Academy Awards ceremonies aired after I saw the movie I was awed by a stunning blonde on the red carpet then was awed again when I saw it was this young lady. She's quite right in any light.
Then there is Miss Hazel and her chief accomplishment of being a Page 3 Girl in the United Kingdom. She's certainly qualified for it (by the standards I'm aware of) and I gather she's been featured several times. In the photos that I saw -- and that probably caused the X3 software to send out beacons of distress to my buddy -- she seemed rather expressionless and vapid, almost as if she were simply a voluptuous figure with the solidity of a typical chocolate Easter bunny. Maybe her usual state of undress doesn't leave much opportunity for a variety of expression and would the situations be different she would be likewise. We can only assume.
But my vote -- if we are basing this on simply external beauty as is typical for this type of poll -- is for Scarlett Johansson out of this group of three. If the list was limitless I could probably extol the virtues of many a fine woman (Charisma Carpenter, for one). In the long run, all women are true beauty unto themselves, though, for each is one of God's children and by seeing His love within them we are witness to beauty unparalleled.
