Some choices are harder than others:

Watched the new ABC show Eastwick and the first episode of the series that grumpy TV critics are already calling "Desperate Housewitches" was predictably bad.  But if I had so rightly avoided it, I'd have missed out on Canada's own Paul Gross being very funny and looking this good:

What to do next week with episode two?

On the web, Puma athletic wear has introduced the oddest new website -- a stock ticker with male and female models who strip down when the market falls.  No one wants to see the stock market tank again but now I'm tempted to hope it does!

And finally, an international incident that has us playing "Which Homophobe to Cheer For?"  The asshat British soldiers who went all faux-gay for "Womanizer" or the Canadian woman with anger-management issues who attacked them for "being perverted?"  (The UK papers have clearly made their decision.)

Fortunately, I've got a weekend to mull it all over -- have a great one!

As Ottawa begins gussying up for its ten-day Pride fest, we're seeing more than a few makeovers...

We've all seen those Terminator movies where cyborgs travel back from the future but the photo shoot for Adam Lambert's upcoming album cover makes him look like a Terminator from the Elizabethan era:

Meanwhile, Canada's most famous Mountie is again heading due south -- not to America, but to Hell.  Playing the Devil in the new TV series 'Eastwick,' Paul Gross is looking good in a suit:

Speaking of pretty Canadians, Hayden Christiansen is finally starting to put that 'Star Wars' debacle behind him through modelling, though he seems to have kept his Jedi powers:

Sex advice columnist Dan Savage is already easy on the eyes but we're waiting to see him glammed up for his new TV pilot for HBO.  

Further abroad, even Sweden is getting a makeover -- watching them try to be hip and sexy is adorkable:

But not every transformation is met with delight. Weighing in on the bizarre controversy over South African athlete Caster Semenya's gender, feminist writer Germaine Greer gets nasty:

"Nowadays we are all likely to meet people who think they are women, have women's names, and feminine clothes and lots of eyeshadow, who seem to us to be some kind of ghastly parody, though it isn't polite to say so. We pretend that all the people passing for female really are. Other delusions may be challenged, but not a man's delusion that he is female."

Now sure, I could be snotty and point out how such vicious transphobia is pretty rich coming from a woman who looks like this --

-- but hey, Makeover Monday means I should change too, getting serious and putting such snide cheap shots behind me.

Until tomorrow!