Ideally. . .

Delicious Mala Powers

I was watching Mission: Impossible, the complete first

TV season, not the crappy remakes, and I saw actress

Mala Powers in an episode called The Reluctant Dragon.

And I looked her up on eBay and Google Image Search

so I'd have something to share with you. Ideally, that's

sort of the way you got here in the first place. You saw

an obscure actress in something old and looked up the

name on the web and found her at Starlet Showcase.

And you fell in love with her face or eyes or her butt or

whatever, and you bought a pile of B&W 8x10s of her

on eBay. And your girlfriend or boyfriend or wife or

whomever thinks you're crazy. But you're happy and

to hell with them. (There's a guy on eBay with a lot of

Mala Powers pictures, and it's not me.)

The nice thing about watching shows like

Mission: Impossible, The Sopranos, The

Shield, The Wire, Combat!, Magnum P.I.,

and Rescue Me is that you can watch them

when you want to, can pause them to take

a leak or talk to your cat, and you don't have

to sit through all the commercials about cars

you can't afford and cell phone service you

don't need and sports scores up in the corner

and late breaking Bush news or Britney news

or celebrity buzz scrolling across the bottom

of the screen. You can take control and skip

all the noise. And you can make cool vidcaps

of Mala Powers in glasses and a wig.