Southern Dude

I was watching this stupid show on ABC about the best movies of our time, and #1 was Gone With the Wind. Which reminded me:

Rhett Butler



Say what you want about the treatment of race/the South/the Civil War/whatever in that novel, a) it's epicly awesome, 2) Rhett Butler is like the epitome of bangable. As a young girl, I was (idiotically) partial to Ashley, mostly b/c I found Leslie Howard to be attractive (he was British and his name was Leslie). But as I have grown older, like Scarlett, I have seen how vastly inferior he is to Rhett Butler, blockade runner, war profiteer, and all-around wonderful rogue. Plus, he gets one of the best kiss-off lines in all of literature. Great balls of fire!