Disclaimer: Mrs. G. has been married for eighteen years to the same man, Mr G. He is handsome, kind, loyal, and doesn't do household chores of any kind is a wonderful father. Many, many people (some of whom do not reside at Derfwad Manor) believe he makes the best pasta sauce in the world. Period. He uses a secret ingredient, and he will not share it with anyone, because Mr. G. is Sicilian and that's just the way they are.


Reader, just look at those Canadian baby blues and unkempt hair, and you will understand why Ryan Thomas Gosling is Mrs. G's Secret Boyfriend #18. She says secret boyfriend, because while her love and esteem for Ryan is as hot-blooded as the most torrid kiss, he has no idea that Mrs. G. exists. Ahh...Mrs. G. thinks unrequited love is healthy in a long term marriage she wants to last.


Ryan got his big break on the Mickey Mouse Club along with Justin Timberlake, Christine Aguilera and that little girl to his right. Mrs. G. did not love him then, because he was a child and she is not, despite her flagrant hussification, a depraved degenerate.


Luckily she didn't discover him until he was old enough to vote.


No, her flame was ignited when she saw him in a little movie called Murder by Numbers. He plays a creepy punk named Richard who, along with his creepy punk friend Michael, wants to commit the perfect murder.


Then she saw him in this strange and moving film which is based largely on Camus' The Stranger. He plays an odd bird named Leland who has inexplicably committed a horrible killing. His teacher in prison tries to make sense of his illogical crime, while the families of the victim and the perpetrator struggle to cope with the aftermath. Oh man is he good in this movie.


And then, dear Lord, along came this movie and that. was. it. Mrs. G. swooned, cried and decided Ryan was perhaps the best kisser on God's green earth. If you haven't seen this, wait until you have PMS, six Snickers, a box of Kleenex and a door to close so your family won't know that you are sitting in your rattiest robe sobbing in that snotty, unlovely way. If you have seen this movie, you know what Mrs. G. is talking about. Can we all just take a moment and collectively sigh.




Anyway, back to the best kisser on God's green earth part. This is exhibit A.


This is Exhibit B.


This is Exhibit C.


And this is Exhibit D if you know what Mrs. G. is saying...


Did Mrs. G. mention the guy can act?


This 2006 movie is on Mrs. G's Best Movies Ever list. He plays an inner-city junior high school teacher who forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students. The movie and Gosling received Academy Award nominations.


And he took his mother to the awards cermony. You know how Mrs. G. is about men who are good to their mamas--but don't live with them.


And, finally, Lars and the Real Girl, also on Mrs. G's Best Movies Ever list. Only Gosling could pull off the sweetest and most innocent performance about a man deeply in love with a blow-up doll. Yes, a blow-up doll...who looks sort of like a low-rent Angelina Jolie.


Rumor has it that Ryan has a temper and can be difficult to work with--sort of a Hollywood Heathcliff, but Mrs. G. kind of likes angst and brooding in her Secret Boyfriends. Just not her husbands.


This 6'1 former homeschooler speaks French and sings. He loves jazz, the color blue, Chet Baker, large assed, blonde women in glasses, calamari and his dog George.


Gosling has said that when it comes to women, it comes down to intelligence. I think that's the ultimate aphrodisiac.


Well, Mrs. G. is very, very smart. So smart that she declares Ryan Gosling her Secret Boyfriend #18.