Category: Gratuitous Chick Pics

When I moved Over Here in the Great Wetback Episode of 1986, one of the things I immersed myself into (as part of my ahem acculturation program) was morning TV programs — pretty much enforced, as I was waiting for my work visa to be approved.  Anyway, not knowing which TV program to watch, I chose ABC’s Good Morning America, more or less at random.

Which is where I discovered the velvety voice and MILFY looks of Joan Lunden.

Of course, GMA (then and still) was the most appalling pablum and Lefty agitprop, but somehow none of that mattered because I was quite smitten with Miss Lunden (okay, Mrs., as I later learned, to much disappointment).  That voice and her occasional dirty chuckle got me going, let me tell you.

It became worse when I discovered that she had freckled boobs (!):

…which led to several naughty fantasies.  (Sadly, she later developed breast cancer, so I have no idea what happened to her girls.)

She’s a granny by now, of course, but then I too am an Olde Phartte, so none of it matters.  But for several months back there in the mid-80s…

So one day you’re strolling among the highways, byways and no-ways of Teh Intarwebz, when you discover this little piece:

Cute, huh?

Only she’s not real;  she’s an AI creation with her own website, even, where morons errrr people converse with her like she’s a real person and not something created by someone else.  [cue outrage]

Frankly, I don’t see her as much different from a modern-day Playboy centerfold, given how “retouching” has become so pronounced nowadays.

Modern Playboy model:

Classic Playboy model:

Anyway, it’s all becoming academic as women become less and less real thanks to surgery and “body sculpting”.

I don’t want to live in this world anymore, because unfortunately I prefer reality, in all its ugliness and beauty.

…and I’m not talking about granny-swapping at the retirement home, either.

Earlier in the week, I referred to the “Swinging 60s” in talking about the late Jane Birkin, and I found her pics in a long-forgotten pic folder of similar totties.  So why not show them?  After all, they make a great review of what the latter half of that decade was all about.

Anita Pallenberg

Brigitte Bardot

Charlotte Rampling

Françoise Hardy

Jane Seymour

Jean Shrimpton

Judy Geeson

Julie Christie

Julie Ege

Lulu

Lynda Bellingham

Lynn Redgrave

Sally Geeson

Twiggy

Verushka

Random Totties

All I want to know is, when did Christina Hendricks turn into Kathy Griffin?

At least the important bits stayed put.