The Top 10 coolest alcoholics on television

Whenever I think that I should drink less alcohol, or maybe even stop drinking at all, being the television junkie that I am I immediately think about all those characters who make drinking look so cool on some of my most beloved shows. It's true, these people are so cool and popular, so funny and sympathetic, because they drink and are very nonchalant about it. They influenced and encouraged me in a bad way with their weekly antics over the years. But this should not be read as denying responsibility for my own actions please. But it really feels right to, with my first real entry after more than a year, - by keeping in mind the dangers and often sad realities of drinking at the same time - nethertheless honour all those loveable heavy drinkers on my favourite shows,

The Top 10 coolest alcoholic characters on television 

Honorable Mentions

I have been planning to do this list, and who would be in it and who in which spot, for at least two and a half years, so the honorable mentions are characters who didn't make the list because I had never watched their respective series when I first composed the list (but now I have). But they are definitely good enough that they would deserve a spot.

1. Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) on "Game of Thrones" 

Everybody's favourite dwarf - actually everybody's favourite character on the show - is almost always seen with a glass, bottle or animal hide full of (Dornish) wine in his hands when he's not whoring. Or when he's whoring. As always, I'm a little bit different than everybody else and he's not my absolute favourite character of all of them in the show. He didn't mean that much to me in Season 1, but by Season 3 he had grown on me. Anyway, this little drunk has the sharpest wit in the Seven Kingdoms, he speaks the truth when others don't dare, and he really likes to party. What could possibly be wrong with that?

Chloe Moretz on "My Name Is Earl"

It must have been years since I first saw an episode of "My Name Is Earl". I've seen many episodes, I've watched it almost regularly for some periods, then not for some time, never anything close to religiously. But there definitely is something to it. Chloe Moretz arguably started becoming a bit of a household name for me even before I've seen the movie that made her immortal in pop culture, "Kick-Ass",  which finally signed the deal for me, but probably long after my first round of watching "Earl" quasi regularly. When I started to really kind of get into Chloe, post Kick-Ass, checking out a couple of movies more or less because of her, I noticed that appearently she also was in an episode of that show. I've seen some episodes occasionally since then, but never got around to see the one with her. Lately, there are re-runs of the first season again in my country, and appearently her episode is in the first season, and damnit! I already missed it, it seems!

So one of these days, I decided to search for it on the internet, and there I got the answer to the big question that I had never actually asked: what could ever be cuter than Chloë Grace Moretz? (If you should doubt that she is that cute, and/or consider it weird that I dedicate a whole post on my blog to her cuteness, please check out this guy's posts on IMDb...) The answer is of course: A very young, super-cute, pre-teen Chloë Grace Moretz! Check out all her scenes in the aforementioned "My Name Is Earl" episode in the link below (underneath the cute pic), and tell me that she isn't totally adorable!

http://vimeo.com/36339526

Jackie and the Rains of Castamere

Isn't it great, when two things that you both love, but seemingly have nothing to do with each other, come together and the outcome is perfect. Don't you love it? Like, say, the great singing voice of the wonderful, talented, innocent Jackie Evancho, and something that comes from the great, dirty-sex-and-intrigues-filled TV series "Game of Thrones"?

The red lion of House Reyne confronts the golden lion of House Lannister. This image represents the events that the song "The Rains of Castamere" is about.

Belated birthday post for Alyson Hannigan

I actually wanted to post this a lot earlier, but didn't manage to come along. Still the occasion is too great to just skip it. Alyson Hannigan, pictured below, not exactly an unknown, but not really a big star either, who more and more became one of my favorite actresses during the last years, celebrated her 40th birthday on March 24th. If I had posted it on the big day itself, I would have titled the post "To Alyson on her 40th birthday", alluding to a 90's movie starring Michelle Pfeiffer that I have actually never seen, but almost two weeks later this seems ridiculous.