you are cuter than jeremy irons, said rikita to robert dudley (whom i took out into the square today when running errands.) huh? i asked, and robert dudley looked confused. it turns out rikita is following a mini series set in elizabethan england (or something like that) in which jeremy irons plays the historical robert dudley. oh! i said, is he hot in it? he was not un-hot, was the tactful answer, and he lended a lot of gravitas to the role. and robert dudley the bear, who has no gravitas at all, basked in all the attention.