Debutante.

Debbie Gibson is posing naked in this month’s Playboy.  I know this because an old college friend of mine is having his birthday, and he used to be a huge fan of hers.  We’re going to give him a copy of the issue as a gag gift.

Okay, I’m lying a little bit.  I’d probably know about the photos even if my friend wasn’t having a birthday.  After all, Deborah and I go back a long way.  I knew her when she was still just an electric youth.

Anyway, I recently read an interview with her.  She said that she agreed to do the shoot because “she’s grown more comfortable with her sexuality.” I’m pretty sure that Tiffany said the same thing when she posed for the magazine a while back.

So this makes me think that I’ve confused the meaning of “comfortable with one’s sexuality.” Because, to me, that means that you have no problem asking your partner to dress up like a pirate and make ostrich noises.  But no--apparently posing naked in Playboy is actually being comfortable with one’s sexuality, whereas the pirate/ostrich thing is what I previously misunderstood to be “Grasping for a few final fleeting moments of fame before even VH-1 forgets about you.”

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

and *that* was the sound of my coffee hitting the screen - thanks, monsieur howard.

Posted by romy  on  03/09  at  05:26 AM

Feel the power, you see the energy
Comin’ up
Coming on strong
The future only belongs
To the future itself

Posted by helenjane  on  03/09  at  06:10 AM

Are you sure you aren’t jealous because you were not asked to pose naked for Playboy?

Posted by Papa Goose  on  03/09  at  06:55 AM

Dude, Tiffany is H O T !

Posted by Cloudy  on  03/09  at  07:21 AM

You like to dress up like a pirate and make ostrich noises too?  And I thought I’d never meet another kindred spirit…

Posted by adrianne  on  03/09  at  07:51 AM

And I thought being comfortable with your sexuality meant being comfortable about whether you choose to bed down with a boy or girl or both or neither. So now that she’s sorted out that equation, Playboy makes sense? Silly, Debbie. Although I believe she prefers Debra now. Now that she’s comfortable with her sexuality that is.

Posted by Meredith  on  03/09  at  08:06 AM

grown more and now comfy with her sexuality = boob job to show off.

Posted by snowy  on  03/09  at  11:12 AM

i can tell you for a fact that the layout is nothing to get excited about. i loved that the photographer said her best feature was her legs.  he might as well just admit that he has no clue why they made him photograph her. that’s the naked equivalent of saying someone has a nice personality. blah.

Posted by patricia  on  03/09  at  12:24 PM

pea you are freaking hilarious.  greg, i think “comfortable with my own sexuality” means that she finally got over that yeast thing and the piercings have healed.  till then, though, things were pretty touch-and-go.  as they say. 

Posted by dan  on  03/09  at  02:03 PM

I happen to be a leg man, although I agree that the pictures are boring.  They’re so tasteful and elegant that they’re about as erotic as a birthday cake with pink frosting.

Posted by Greg  on  03/09  at  02:04 PM

I think she really got “uncomfortable” with her bank account. 

Posted by Lisa V  on  03/09  at  05:49 PM

Cloudy, you vowed not to call things hot.  What gives?

Posted by Kathy  on  03/09  at  05:56 PM

Nothing says “Has Been,” like “Playboy Spread.” Unless the pictures were taken without consent and bought on the black market!

Posted by  on  03/09  at  08:11 PM

I’m with snowy on this one, probably a torso job. (Not like the one you had, Greg.)

Posted by Flip  on  03/10  at  04:06 AM

First time here..c.ame through the blogies link… you deserve it man.. great posts…

Posted by Prateek  on  03/10  at  08:51 AM

Thought she was doing it for her boyfriend Jamie Foxx, cause he loves big bootie!

Posted by Iza  on  03/10  at  03:10 PM

I saw Debbie on Broadway in Cabaret.  She was terrible.  But I did get Lost in Her Eyes.

Posted by teahouseblossom  on  03/10  at  05:55 PM

You just made me spit coffee on my dominatrix!

Posted by Donovan  on  03/10  at  07:46 PM

I’m writing a page for TerriblyWrong.com called “Blogs of Note"… you are sooooo going on it!

Posted by Mace  on  03/12  at  02:38 AM

Getting your partner to dress up is being comfortable with their sexuality. To me, if she was comfortable with her sexuality, she’d be naked in hustler doing some interesting things with a dildo and an alien.

she’s just comfortable with her airbrushed boobies.

Posted by sarcastic journalist  on  03/12  at  08:19 AM

I was all set to say something clever, but it was wiped from my mind when I realized I don’t know what an ostrich sounds like. Obviously, my love life is not what it should be. 

Posted by Elsa  on  03/13  at  07:38 AM

thats the first thing I thought of too! what *do* ostriches sound like? maybe, greg can enlighten us with an audio clip?

Posted by loki  on  03/15  at  01:36 AM

no...we really *must* have video.

mmmmmmmmm, pirate…

Posted by  on  03/15  at  07:07 PM