Heros & Gyros

Lately I've been super into Greek food so I'm pretty much always thinking about Gyros.

And since it's pronounced the same and Heros I thought I'd use this post to talk about both.

Evita

High Flying Adored.

I'm obsessed with Evita. First of all I just love the movie with Madonna and at work I love to listen to the broadway soundtrack.

Why is she my hero though? She was a crazy power hungry terrible control freak that used people and slept her way to the top? But she was determined and she was never satisfied. I admire her tenacity. What she did was unprecedented. She went from a poor litle girl born to a man's mistress out in the country wasteland to being the First Lady of Argentina (and Juan Peron would have never gotten anywhere if it hadn't been for her) and she was almost V.P. except cancer killed her.

Corrie ten Boom

She is the best person that ever lived. I can't even explain why, you just have to read The Hiding Place. She is the most admirable person of all time. A true heroine. (but not my own personal brand of heroin)

George W. Bush

Even if Shwn thinks I should give up the W. He's wonderful, Republican, Texan and hilarious.

Wino

I'm already sad thinking about the day I wake up and watch the news and they tell me they found poor dear Amy Winehouse dead. She's so sick and frail. But have you heard her voice? Her voice is my hero. Buy her first CD Back to Black and it will change your life. I love her.

Oscar Wilde

What a dandy!
I'm in love with him even though he mocks me.

I have a book of  his quotations (that my wonderful and ever thoughtful KS bosom buddy Brittany Anne got for me). I am in love with every single quote. And then I came across this one, that is mean to me for what I love in him.

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."

Ah! How humiliating. Oh well, I still love all his short stories and The Picture of Dorian Gray. This guy was nuts which makes him my hero! Read everything he's ever written! It's the most beautiful use of irony and cutting dry humor.

Here are a few diddys I can't help but quote even though it means I'm witless.

*The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain*

*I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying*

*All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.*

*I never travel without my diary. One must always have something sensational to read on the train.*

*Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.*

*The very essence of romance is uncertainty.*

*To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.*

*I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.*

Jack Skellington

He's the pumpkin king. I kind of have a crush on him but he is my hero becasue he discovers himself and realizes that we should all love ourselves for who we are and what we are good at.
Also - the song "What's This" is so much fun.
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