His name is Blake Mycoskie.
I have never met him. I first saw him on the Amazing Race, (season 2) with his sister Paige. I liked him, but soon forgot all about him. These TV crushes of mine (un)fortunately don't stand the test of time.
Fast forward a few years. I see a man on Oprah, he is definitely attractive and he has started his own company called Toms Shoes, where for every pair you buy they give a pair to a child in Argentina. Rad, I think, an attractive and socially conscious man! SCORE! So I buy a pair. Then I buy another pair. Then I become a little umm...interested in him. I do some research using good ol Google, and realize he is Blake from Blake and Paige! Then I read that he was in a Man Pageant ahem...a "Bachelor of the Year" program which appeared on Fox in 2000. I was sad because I missed that boat. As luck would have it, I happened to see this program this summer. Yes, I watched it. It was terribly painful and Blake did not make it very far.
But the reason for this blog was to share something he wrote on his blog back in January which I love...
"A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. he simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both."
- Francois Auguste Rene Chateaubriand
Well, to close this blog up, here is a picture of Blake from his Man Pageant days:
And now a recent photo of him with his shoes:
whoever said men don't get better with age was seriously disturbed. (not true in all cases)
good heavens, he's adorable.
ReplyDeletei'm glad we wasted a ridiculous amount of time watching that man pageant.
1. You watched a man pageant this summer?! Oh goodness. I was not even aware such things existed. Naturally you would though.
ReplyDelete2. I will agree with you that he looks much much better now than in his man pageant days...but I would like to point out that he does not have glasses, which is what it takes for a man to truly win your heart.
Man Pageant. . . I'll be chuckling to myself about this for the next few days.
ReplyDeleteAnd I've seen him! He's on a commercial for AT&T for his business! He is good-lookin.
And a man can always wear a pair of glasses with clear glass instead of prescription lenses (Dan Thompson comes to mind. . .). I do think he'd look pretty sexy with glasses.
For the love. Literally, Dana. He's a keeper.
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