People magazine has once again named the world’s sexiest man, and once again they somehow overlooked my qualifications that should have assured my winning. I don’t harbor any resentment for the winner, naturally, but I do feel I fare much better in the moderately-overweight, middle-aged man with bad habits. And that’s something I just don’t see Mr. Hugh “I’m totally Wolverine AND Van Helsing at the same time” Jackman “Oh, and I can dance and sing, too”.

He’s a triple threat: a star who can sing, dance and wield a weapon.

At 6-foot-2, all scruff and biceps, Hugh Jackman looms large in the epic “Australia,” which he says kept him “dirty 95 percent of the time” and left people stammering, “Oh … my … God,” according to costar Nicole Kidman, who adds, “Women’s jaws drop when Hugh walks into a room.”

The interviewer with the magazine goes on the ask him about such silly topics as the success of his marriage (he and wife Deb just are happy to be together), the secret of keeping passion alive (his costumes feed fantasies of affairs), and what he wears to bed (hey, you’ll have to look that up yourself). No mention of how he produces claws from his knuckles, nor how he gets through airport security without the alarms going off (is adamantium non-magnetic? I think X2 says otherwise, but that could just be poetic license). No discussion of his experiences as a werewolf, nor the pain involved in infection, transformation, or cure.

There is a mention of his new movie Australia, but I’m really not at all interested in talk of a fictional nation/continent on the bottom of the world, unless they at least film with authenticity and show everyone upside-down. Folks – the world is flat, and people would fall off if they were on the bottom. Really. What do they teach you people in “school” these days?

UPDATE: Images added

Technorati Tags: Hugh Jackman, People magazine, World’s sexiest man, Mythical continents

As I’m sure you’ve noticed, if you are either of my regular two visitors at least, the Blahg is finally back, although still not updating daily.  I am in the process now of restoring 1200+ image files that got lost in the move to a new host and went unnoticed among all the other issues that kept me mostly inactive.  I still have a few hundred to try to recover, but my backups are either incomplete, broken, or on my recently deceased laptop where I worked on the Blahg most frequently.  So while I will restore more as I can track down what else I’m missing, there will likely be an occasional dead image that is unlikely to get restored unless I get lucky and find a more recent backup that is complete and not damaged.

I’m trying my damndest to get posting again. Unforunately, I’ve had problems with WordPress (well, really a problem with MySQL, but I might be able to rectify with WordPress changes until I can get my new host to upgrade MySQL), the problems with my previous host I’ve mentioned before, and problems finding the time to get back in to blahgging. I know no one wants to hear about my problems, so I’ll skip all that and just mention that my goal right now is to have 50 new posts of actual content by the end of the month. If I can hit that target, I suspect that will be a good motivator for me to get active again. Just not sure what I can give up timewise to get around to blahgging enough to hit my target. But I’ll try, because I miss writing and miss having visitors.

OK, dear readers, I’m finally getting back on track.  I’ve had to make an ugly hack to get WordPress to display posts in the right order.  I’m going to have to take up the real cause of this malfunction with my new hosting provider, but the ultimate cause of the problem is a bad MySQL bug that made it in to the release a lot of web hosts are using.  Expect some real problems while I work out further troubles (like no history of older posts available, sadly), but hopefully I can resolve everything soon and get going on content again.

If you’ve ever wondered how to kill a blog, sticking with a host for months after you discover a problem that you can’t get resolved, then taking too long to move once the problem kills your site is a powerful motivator for readers to move elsewhere.  I’ve gone from roughly 1000 readers a day at the start of the year to about 500 per day by the end of March when posting slowed and eye-candy pics stopped showing up, to fewer than 50 a day now after more than 15 days of irregular site availability.  Since the Blahg is still more a hobby to entertain my own interests than a site maintained for real for readers, I’m OK with that, but it’s still moderately disappointing that I let myself fall down on getting this situation resolved earlier.

Look for more and real updates to start soon, and hopefully all posting and reading problems to go away very soon.