Crush on the Bad Boy

Even though I said a different answer to Lauren's post (go down two posts) . . . my number-one crush of all time is Anthony Bourdain.

For those who don't know him, Anthony is an American chef, and an author (a really amazing writer!) and stars in a show for the Travel Channel. He's subversive, funny, a recovering drug addict (big-time drugs), and may be . . . judging by his television show . . . an alcoholic. He at least can party with the best of them.

I love Anthony for all those reasons. He's a bad boy, and with a crush, I get to fantasize about someone who would be all wrong for me "in real life."

You see, as my best friend puts it, considering the way I like to party, and the way I burn the candle at both ends, the the way I have moments of sometimes-crazy spontaneity, and given that I am a b*tch to argue with sometimes, she says she's give Anthony and I about a year.

Not that a relationship would last a year before we broke up. Oh, no! She'd give us a year before we would both be dead, because we'd bring out the worst in each other. There are some people you just know . . . are ALL WRONG for you.

I've got four kids. I have a career. Dogs. Pets. My dad is blind and needs some help--he and my mom are moving near me soon. I have this "R-word"--responsibilities. So no, someone like Anthony would be the death of me.

But crushes aren't about real life. It's why we can have crushes on vampires or all sorts of "all wrong for us" types.

So how about you? Is there a bad boy you secretly--or not-so-secretly love? And do you just KNOW it would be a disaster if you ever got together? (And oh yes, my first "blink and it's over" marriage . . . one of those.)

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