YES. I've been kind of going back and looking at those two photos, since they were posted. Maybe you don't like it, but I think Michael Stipe has NEVER looked this handsome and intriguing.

I have a serious crush on Michael Stipe and have had one for as long as I can remember.

And I love his outfit.

I also think he's aging in a really interesting way.

Old Man Kensey wants to be a sign painter

First he’s got to learn to read
He’s gonna be a clown on TV
Flexes his elbow taunt and free
That’s my folly, I believe
Drink up the lake Kensey’s awake
That’s my folly, that’s my mistake

wow, he looks like the guy that played Gandalf in that picture

@0wiiFAIL0 Gay people all look the same to you, don't they?

Stipe is gay?

yep.

or bi.

or pan.

or whatever.

I think he looks like Freud. Or an old timey Aurtian dignitary. He just needs a jacket with medals and sashes on it.

um, that should have been Austrian

I thought it was John Malkovich at first.

@AArtaud: It's all part of the Malkovich Initiative. Some people are coded with a particular gene that makes them look like John Malkovich after they hit a certain age. It's all about BEING John Malkovich, if I may say so.

(I almost snorted cookies out my nose from laughing so hard.)

Yes it's stipe. Wasn't the leg pose/ hand on face pose a give away? Even if there's probably a cell phone under there somewhere.

it's crazy, all this avoiding radio and mtv, the last time I saw dude was a Pete and Pete episode on DVD

He was great on Jimmy Fallon. Got to show off some of his sculpture work. Smiled with his eyes, and was just generally pleasant.