The Mock Dock

I don’t know if you guys are aware of this, but Laura Zigman, famous author and friend of The Mock Dock, loves Hugh Jackman.  Like, really loves him.  The way that I love Robbie Williams.   And if you go to her site right now, you’ll see that she’s trying to win a contest which would result in Hugh Jackman premiering his movie in her town,  which Laura would then go to, which would mean that she would have officially been to two premieres with Hugh Jackman (the first being when she was barely allowed to go to the premiere of Someone Like You, starring the Faux French Intellectual, and she FREAKING WROTE THAT STORY).  But I digress.  The point is, you can help her out by voting for her zip code.  Just read her post about it and you’ll see what to do. 

I know she’d do the same for me if this were a Robbie Williams contest, because this is just what girlfriends do.  And I am proud to call Laura Zigman a girlfriend.

Anyway, I hope this helps your cause, Laura!  And as an added bonus, I give you this:

And I KNOW you’re not looking at his hands.

I am not sure if you all have been made sufficiently aware of the fact that Laura Zigman is a mockdocker. Even if you have, you may be unaware of Laura’s total crush on Hugh Jackman (who by the way starred in the MOVIE VERSION OF HER BOOK Animal Husbandry alongside a beast who will, at least for purposes of this post, remain unnamed.)

Laura – this will hurt you to watch, because a) it’ll be probably the one time in your life you’ll have ever wanted to BE Barbara Walters, and b) it’s freaking BARBARA WALTERS and that’s just wrong.

For the rest of you, all I can say is I’m sorry. But it was one of those things I couldn’t not share.

Hey – remember how I told you about how critically acclaimed author and fabulous person Laura Zigman likes The Mock Dock?  And then remember how I kept telling you that over and over and over and over again until you probably all were like, “OK, Mock.  We get it.  You’re as bad of a namedropper as Ashley Judd anymore.  Enough already?”   WELL GUESS WHAT!

I just discovered that Laura Zigman, author of four novels, has added The Mock Dock to her blogroll.  If you go to her site, and scroll aaaaall the way down to the Stuff She Likes, The Mock Dock is listed there SECOND.  There is only ONE SITE above mine. 

If I were a peacock right now, ALL of my feathers would be out, and I would be strutting around like I was the most important peacock on the planet.  But I’m not a peacock, so what I’m doing is just sitting here in my family room giggling with glee. 

P.S.  She’s got a great video clip up right now of Hugh Jackman rehearsing for the Oscars, which he’s hosting tomorrow night.  I think it’s safe to say that Laura Zigman loves Hugh Jackman as much as I love Robbie Williams.  Which is a LOT.  And Hugh Jackman is awfully dreamy.  I think Australian accents are my favorite.

Hey – do you guys remember that movie Someone Like You, with Hugh Jackman and Ashley Judd?  I will always remember it as being a demonstration of how horrific of a kisser Ashley is, because she’s a smash mouth kisser.  If you watch her kissing scenes with both Greg Kinnear and Hugh Jackman (particularly at the very end of the movie) you’ll notice her smashmouth technique.  It’s horrific.  Plus, you may or may not have noticed that in nearly EVERY SCENE of that movie, Ashley is eating something.  I remember seeing an interview with Ashley during the film’s promotion, and the interviewer made some comment about her eating in every scene, and she obviously wasn’t aware that she was eating in every scene, and was totally put off by the comment.  It was priceless.  If I could only find it, I would share.  But for now, you’ll have to trust me that she was irritated, and it was FLAT AWESOME.

ANYWAY, guess what?  The author of the book on which that movie was based, Laura Zigman, has a blog.  On it, she writes in 3rd person about various goings-on in her life, and not terribly long ago she wrote about going to the movie premiere of Someone Like You back in 2001.  And not surprisingly, she had a less-than-positive experience with our good friend Ashley.  She called Ashley “The Faux French Intellectual” which I LOVED, and so I made a comment on her blog, encouraging her to visit The Mock Dock to see the I Hate Ashley Judd category.

So today – look what I found!  Laura Zigman, famous author of four novels, has given a shout-out to The Mock Dock!  Scroll down to #10 on that linked page.   How cool is that?

So to Laura Zigman, if you return here to see this post, know that I share your disdain for The Faux French Intellectual, as do many of the mockdockers who frequent this site.  You are officially a Super Awesome Friend Of The Mock Dock, and I hope that you visit often. 

Give Laura some love in the comments, mockdockers!

Apparently, this kind of greeting is popular not only with Eskimos and toddlers but also Aussies.  Is it just me, or does Nicole Kidman look four billion years old in this picture?  Is it the neck vein?  Is that it?