Mike Rowe, Hot.

Mike Rowe beat out David Blaine as my TV personality love a long time ago.  Dead-behind-the-eyes Blaine was pushed aside, along with Bear Grylls.  Though that one was a short-lived affair after I read that he has those animals shipped in from the London Zoo.  I know!  Its easy to find a nice, clean, dead camel to sleep inside of when its been all nicely taken care of for you.  Though, to his credit, did you see the episode in Ireland when he skinned a sheep, turned the skin inside out,  slept inside of it to keep warm, and then the next morning filled it with his clothes and survival gear, and then used it as a flotation device to cross a lake?  The skin.  The lambs skin.  I know.  It was amazing.  And that was after he pulled the carcass out of a bog and ate its raw heart.  You know what.  It's worth seeing.  This was supposed to be about Mike Rowe, but if you haven't seen Bear make his "sheeping bag", then you need to.  Sadly the floating part isn't in here, but the rest is enough.  The comments on youtube include lots of gems like "looks like he's tryin to fuck the sheep", and yes, it does.

Yikes. 

But back to Mike Rowe, who also does disgusting things.  Is part of the attraction that he does these hypermasculine, down in the dirt, shoveling rocks over his shoulder jobs?  Am I really so conditioned to be attracted to "manliness"?  I think it's that, plus the fact that he flirts so sweetly with all the kind old farm-worker women while still being able to keep up his ongoing dialogue of fucking raunchy sex jokes, and somehow the Discovery Channel lets him get away with it.  So tonight I stumbled upon a treasure trove of Mike Rowe history.  It turns out that in 1992, he was a QVC spokesperson for their middle-of-the-night shows.  His sarcastic and tongue-in-cheek delivery is pretty great.  At first I thought that he seemed miserable to be there, but the more you watch it's clear that he's just using the opportunity to get as much out of it as he can - being on TV and mostly just entertaining himself.  These are my favorites.  NOTE:  If you don't like or know Mike Rowe, don't bother.  I'm sorry, but it'll have no meaning. 


Wait until the video of the cat at least.  "The most gripping video" ever shown. 

A John Steinbeck reference?  Also, "You've seen one mouse, you've seen 'em all" and "I wonder how the mouse feels about being carried around in a stocking..."  What?