I just met Ingrid Michaelson (she did that song “The Way I Am”) as she did an interview for one of the adult contemporary stations. She’s totally got the cute nerdy thing going on and when everyone left I told her I was a fan and would totally want to see her open for Coldplay or Dave Mathews, which she talked about during the interview. Ingrid’s awesome and totally doesn’t sound like she’s from New York. Ingrid Michaelson is my Crush of the Moment.

FOX’s More to Love reality show ala The Bachelor premiered Tuesday evening with some lovely looking ladies. I must say, I thought quite a few of them were pretty hot. Two of the contestants stood out to me: Lauren (a student from Atlanta, GA) and Shari (a waitress from Miami, FL, who did not make it through the first round). Since Shari was voted off she is my official Crush of The Moment. So, Shari, if you’re reading this…

My Crush of The Moment is Carol Scott, the 30 year old Sous Chef from Knoxville, TN on season 5 of the U.S. version of Hell’s Kitchen on FOX. I just saw her tonight…she is the cutest thing…my God I just wanna cuddle with her all day and all night…

…that wasn’t creepy at all.

Update: Turns out by the end of the season Carol was a leading contender to win and a damn good chef.

Anna Bader, 23 year old winner of the 2008 European Cliff Diving Contest from Germany is my Crush of the Moment. She even has a website. My crush isn’t due to the fact that she’s sexy or her last name sounds suspiciously like Vader, but because she’s gorgeous and cute and photographs very well (woo-hoo!). So, Anna, if you’re reading this: how about we go do something romantic together somewhere that you might enjoy in a dating situation. I might need to brush up on my German, though.

Here’s a film by Philip Bloom she appears in:

3 Seconds HD from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

I’m watching Bill Nye videos on YouTube and as it turns out the guy got married to this LOVELY woman named Blair Tindall back in 2006. She’s a musician and author and damn fine lady. As it turns out, their wedding license was invalid and he put a restraining order on her and the marriage was friggin’ over in about seven weeks after the ceremony.

So I do a little research. Turns out she has a website and she’s still hot. Of course I love intelligent, funny women and well, here I am gushing about a woman I’ve never met…again. So, congratulations Blair Tindall: you’re my Crush of The Moment. Let’s celebrate over dinner with some fine wine.

I have a great big huge crush on Bonnie Hunt. I just wanted everyone to know that.

She’s getting a two-year commitment from Paramount for a syndicated television talk show and we’ll be airing it on the FOX affiliate where I work. I’ve always known Ms. Hunt’s work but I don’t think I actually became immensely sexually attracted to her until the remake of Cheaper By The Dozen with Steve Martin. There was something especially hot about her making out with frickin’ Clark Kent during the end credits outtakes. Bonnie Hunt is totally hot and I want to take her to dinner. You listening out there? I’ll be a guest on your show and give you a photoshoot!

My crush of the moment is the host of Top Chef Padma Lakshmi. She’s a cook, an author, actress and former super model. Oh yeah; Ms. Lakshmi is everything a food loving photographer and movie phile could want. She’s also a humanitarian and ambassador for the United Nations and I hear she also likes Star Trek; which makes her a geek. And one more thing: she has a badass scar on her right arm from injuries she sustained during an automobile accident when she was young.

And she photographs well.

Brooke White of this season’s American Idol is my crush of the moment.

Any woman who can play the piano and sing is super-ultra-mega hot to me. I think she needs to lay off the piano playing and concentrate on the singing since American Idol is a singing competition, but whatever; she’s super-ultra-mega hot. Alicia Keys is hot for all the same reasons. Keys, however, is way more talented than Ms. White.

So, Alicia Keys: wanna wrestle? We can duet on Ebony And Ivory. Me and you; let’s do it.

Oh, and today’s the due date for federal taxes here in the U.S. and I’m sure many of us are running around like headless chickens. But I did mine in January, so no worries here.

I have a giant, gargantuan, massive, immense crush on former American Idol contestant Kellie Pickler. It started when she performed the Righteous Brothers song “Unchained Melody” on the fifth season of American Idol. Kellie said that she loved the song because it was in the movie Ghost, which she loves, but was sad because she doesn’t “have anyone to play pottery with.” I rose my hand and said, quite sincerely, “I’ll play pottery with you, Kellie.”

Then one day I saw her on “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?”, taking the infamous Budapest question with stride and, I don’t know, I just wanted to hold her. So, basically, I want to cuddle up with Kellie Pickler. Maybe take her to a movie, have dinner, I don’t know. I know she’s into helping charities, too, which is nice. She seems like a real sweetheart and I’d love to get to know her.

I even love her name. Not only is her name one of my favorites, but the spelling of her name is my favorite version; i.e. “Kellie” vs “Kelly”.

The only downside I can think of is that she’s a little bit country, and I’m a little bit rock and roll. Oh well. Like another song says: opposites attract.

Maybe Ms. Pickler will Google herself one day and find this post and, I don’t know, shoot me an e-mail. I think I’d like that.

Ok, so I work for a local Fox affiliate in Texas and we record all the prime shows that FOX Network feeds us via satellite as it airs, and I’m watching this past episode of Hell’s Kitchen, the one with the lobsters, and I’ve decided that I love Bonnie. She’s hot, she’s cute, she can be bitchy and aim her bitchiness at someone who’s a bitch to her (cough, Melissa, cough).

She was cute talking about how she doesn’t like to kill lobsters but she loves how they taste. She was gushing about getting made up all pretty for a magazine photo shoot. (Hey, I’m a photographer…)

So, if I could, I want a date with Bonnie Muirhead. She’s the right age, has the right attitude, she’s cute as hell and she can cook! That grilled lobster she prepared looked amazing — I could almost taste it through the television. So I have this huge crush on Bonnie. Besides, she’s an actress. Every actress should have a photographer significant other. And reading her profile on Friendster (which I stumbled over while finding a photo to go with this entry) she does seem to be pretty goofy…a quality I love.

So, Bonnie: look me up. My attention will always be on you…hey, cool — that Members Project PSA with Martin Scorsese…