So I've been asked how I come up witht he material for this blog.  The answer is that this stuff really pops up in my head and I wish I had someone to talk about it with.  Lots of times I would be too embarrassed to talk to someone in person about the random topics that come in and out of my head for fear of being labeled scatterbrained or weird.  So I've decided to make this blog a place where my stream of consciousness can live (it's ok to be called scatterbrained or weird online).

Just the other day I was thinking about how I'm so interested in computers and how they work.  I got to college and really hadn't spent any time on a computer and I wonder how things would have been different if I had more exposure to technology as a child.  At my elementary school we used to get an hour every other week to play computer games.  Almost every kid would play Oregon trail, but I would always ask for the floppy disk with Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. I would never have enough time to beat the game, which utterly upset me because you couldn't save your progress back then and I didn't have a computer at home (nor did I think I wanted one).  So this morning I googled Carmen Sandiego to see if I could find the game and finally beat it (yes, I have serious accomplishment issues).  What I found was the picture above.... Hmmm Carmen was kinda fine.  No wonder I spent all of my computer time chasing her all over the world (of course back in the 80s it was a more pixelated/greenscreen version of her).

Now of course I felt a little weird eyeing a computer game character, but she reminded me so much of a woman that I've admired for years...

Then my stream of consciousness took over and I was like... hmmmm... there were some hot cartoon characters back in the day.  So here's my list of the top 5 hottest cartoon women, along with the women who should play them in a real-life movie.

5. Betty Rubble = Ashley Judd - Same slender frame, girl next door look, and simply cute.

4. Jem = Shakira - Both go by one name, the hair is identical, and have they both have musical talent.  Wait until The Misfits get a view of that belly dancing flare (Oh... and yes, I watched Jem.. she was truly outrageous).

3.  Daphne Blake = Isla Fisher - Both redheads.  Daphne was always looking for ghosts and goblins, Isla's most famous line in Wedding Crashers was "CAUSE I'D FIIIIIND YOU!"

2.  Jessica Rabbit = Melyssa Ford - I went to a bar called Sliver in SoHo a couple years back and my boys were like..."I think Jessica Rabbit is bartending."  When I arrived I fell in love with this bartender who later became a video vixen, BET show hostess, model (even though the picture below looks like a bad senior picture), and probably a struggling actress.  The similarities are uncanny.  These are the most curvatious women in the cartoon and real world that I've ever laid eyes on.  I can always say that she served me a beer (more like 8 of them) before got her big break.  I think my tab was over $100 that night. :-)

1.  Princess Jasmine = Halle Berry - The most beautiful women in both worlds have to be these two.  I don't even remember the movie Aladdin, but I remember Princess Jasmine's eyes.  Same for Halle Berry.. I don't think I could describe the plot of any movie she was in without ending up describing how fine she is.  Even in Monster's Ball, Queen, and Jungle Fever where she is not looking her best in the movie, I am brought back to Strictly Business, Swordfish, and Boomerang.

RECAP:  My mind went from technology to elementary computer class to Carmen Sandiego to finding an unconquered video game to Salma Hayek to hot cartoon women to hot women in general.  Funny how my mind works.

So here is my Carmen Sandiego Mix.

I'm going to find her if it kills me!!!