Hunk of the Month

I'm a little spotty at keeping up this blog due to my strange schedule and all, so I think I missed last month's Hunk. I don't know if it's in me to really try and be all that punctual about a blog! So I might make it 2 hunks. I don't know. I don't care! How Moose does it so well with kids and a hubby is beyond me!!

Today's Hunk of the Month goes to Mike Rowe of the Dirty Jobs hit show on Discovery Channel. I love a lot of strange shows when I get the chance to watch, CSI Vegas is one of them. The daily news is probably the strangest and most disturbing show ever, even more than CSI. Dirty Jobs is a close 2nd in disturbing factor, as we watch hunky and hilarious Mike Rowe wallow in poo, slime, grime and premordial ooze, all with a bright (yet slightly strained) smile.

Mike is the host and one of the producers of the unlikely hit show. He bravely goes where most men and women would never go...into the roach-raining, rat-slithering, reeking bowels of San Fran as a Sewer Inspector, sqeezing green crap out of baby chickens as a Chicken Sexer, or nearly being killed by angry ostriches (probably the funniest episode ever) as an Ostrich Farmer. He and his team find people who actually do these jobs for a living, and they roll up their sleeves and get in there right with them. It's horrifying. It's fascinating. And with Mike as host, it's funny as hell.

Quote from Mike on the Discovery Channel website:
"We wanted to do a show that pays tribute to the men and women who earn a living doing things that you and I would never want to do. Whether it's a sewer inspector or a roadkill-removal specialist, we wanted to honor real people by rolling up our sleeves, literally, taking an honest look into their world and ultimately magnifying the importance of what they do to earn a buck. Essentially, that's what the show does."

Another Mike quote:
"The dirtiest job so far? "Bat biologist has got to be near the top. Bracken Cave is home to 40 million Mexican free-tail bats. The bats are hanging overhead, urinating constantly, defecating deliberately and giving birth randomly. All of the aforementioned substances are falling upon us. The guano that we're standing in is filled with billions of flesh-eating beetles, which survive on dead bats that periodically plummet from the ceiling.

Bracken Cave is like no other place on Earth, and quite possibly the dirtiest hole on the planet."

Mr. Rowe apparently has quite a female following. Go to the website's forum and there are many an adoring treatise to the man. Can you imagine hundreds of women sitting down promptly at whatever-o'-clock to watch a show about bat poop and exploding toilets? Well, with Mike and his baby blues, charming grin, runner's physique and self-deprecating wit, they're all over it. Like flies on...well, you know.