  &emailalert=no&email=adgrant@indiana.edu&url=http://closeproximity.blogspot.com&name=Proximity&bgcolor=003399&fcolor=FFFFFF&link=FFFFCC&words=comments&title=Comments &width=350&height=350"> Just so all y'all know, I'm planning on going on a blogging blitz on all topics Valentine's Day related and beyond here in the next two days...let's see if it actually happens.
So to start things off right, I thought we could discuss our unconventional crushes. Who do you have the hots for that isn't conventionally attractive or known as a sex symbol (we know all about your skeevy crushes, Leah)? Anyone who knew me sophomore year of college was well aware that I had a raging crush on Hal Sparks, host of E's Talk Soup, now starring on Showtime's Queer as Folk...He also is incredibly funny on VH-1's I Love the '80 (and '70's).
The obsssion was so out of control, all my Christmas presents that year were addressed as such:"To Alison, Love Hal" or maybe even "Dear Alison, Hal Sparks cuts farts. " Yeah my parents are mature. So I know Hal's not fly–even for a white guy, but he's funny and that's what melts my butter. Too bad he likes Kiss, we could never be together. So what are your wierd crushes, you freaks?
For inspiration, check out urlLink Normal Guys who Make Women Wild for some Jerry Orbach, John Malkovich and Philip Seymour Hoffman lovin' (among others). P.S. I was looking at the Hal montage, and I can't help but think he bears more than a passing resemblance to "Crazy" Pat Koenig in some of the shots. I'm I crazy? 
