"Nice eyeballs, and eyelids, and eyelashes."

Tonight's post is probably going to be a rather short one, yet the topic is... well, I'd like to think it's interesting. The topic at hand is eyeballs and eyelids and eyelashes. And here is where the requisite Vincent D'Onofrio related stuff comes into play. Recently I had been watching some more "vintage" episodes of Criminal Intent. Stuff from season 2 or so. In any case, the second time around I decided to record on the DVR some of the ones I remembered particularly liking in HD (for the first time around, I record them in SD because it takes up less storage space and I can record more episodes. I've kind of gotten used to seeing it in SD.) so that I could get a better look at all the little details and stuff that isn't quite so easily spottable in SD. One of the things I noticed was that Vincent (yes, we are on a first name basis here) had very nice looking eyeballs and eyelids and eyelashes. Some would argue that I could just say he had nice eyes, although I like the phrasing of "nice eyeballs and eyelids and eyelashes", and plus, that specifies some additional things aside from the eye itself - eyelids and eyelashes. Basically the point here is that I thought those eyeballs and eyelids and eyelashes (I wonder how many times I'll use that phrase in this post?) were quite nice looking. Lovely to look at in HD for some portion of about 45 minutes. I just have to hope that for the sake of avoiding the urge to give Vincent a strange compliment on his nice eyeballs and eyelids and eyelashes (in that phrasing exactly) that I don't happen to run into him. Which very most likely won't happen, but if it somehow did, I'm not sure I could resist commenting on those nice eyeballs and eyelids and eyelashes of his. 

One of my friends thinks that there isn't anything particularly notable about eye shapes, however, there is. Some people have very nicely/interestingly shaped eyes. I have been dabbling in watching SVU, just episodes here and there, and Mariska (as Olivia Benson) also has a very nice eye shape. They really stand out and I can't help but notice them. 

And now, to the focal topic, the thing that compelled me to write up this post here. Tonight I was idly watching the news, on CNN, Don Lemon's program. They were talking about Donald Trump and there were some commentators. One of them, on the right of the screen was particularly fetching to look at. It was his eyeballs. They had such an interesting shape to them, and it showed brilliantly on the screen, in HD, of the pretty big television in the living room. In addition to the shape, they seemed to sparkle. They were quite glowy.. this guy really did have quite nice looking eyes as I watched him on the news. I had to find out who he was so I rewound the program back to the beginning of the segment and it showed his name when he began to offer commentary. It turns out that he is a journalist/political commentator and also author of at least one book. It also turned out that I had looked him up before in the past after seeing him on the news, commentating. His picture on Wikipedia, albeit rather unflattering, was familiar and so then I had to go and search my text messages to find out when I had noticed him previously, since I remembered I had texted someone about seeing this guy on the news. It was Saturday, January 9, at 4:23 pm of this year that I had texted someone about seeing the guy on the news the previous evening. The content of the message was as follows: "This guy was on the news last night. You could really see his eyelashes. [link to Wikipedia page]" In following messages I elaborated that I had noticed his eyelashes although didn't really recall what exactly they had been talking about on the news while he was on. They "might have been talking about Donald Trump" (I like to use the technique of embedding quotes whenever I can.. I'm sure my English teachers would be proud..). After that the conversation went on to a consideration of how strange I am compared to other people. (According to the person I was talking with, I am "probably in the upper middle of strangeness," if it matters). But I digress. Upon further googling (tonight) I came across the knowledge that this guy on the news is a conservative, which, if I'm being completely honest, is kind of a shame. Regardless. I think his eye shape is perhaps somewhat reminiscent of James D'Arcy. In any case, this guy on the news caught my attention not once, but twice because of his eyeballs and eyelashes (not so much the eyelids with this guy, but they certainly weren't ugly eyelids or anything). I think it would be really weird if this guy were to somehow read this blog post, which is why he is going unnamed. Perhaps even if he were named in this post, he wouldn't ever end up coming across it and reading it, but I don't want to take any chances. Anyways, I think keeping him nameless helps keep the focus on those nice eyeballs and eyelids and eyelashes of his. 

I do realize this was a strange topic for a post and it ended up being quite a bit longer than I had expected when I initially started typing it up. For entertainment, I'm going to tally up how many times I ended up using the phrase "nice eyeballs and eyelids and eyelashes" in this post: 

"eyeballs" = 11 times

"nice eyeballs and eyelids and eyelashes" = 6 times

"eyeballs and eyelids and eyelashes" = 9 times 

as a little addendum, this guy on the news, his irises were gray. And so very sparkly. They seemed to glow.