@zejuicebox_528: I have to disagree... it doesn't glorify anything, it's usually just a statement of fact. Celebrity-ville is studded with plastic surgery; it's almost the norm. I actually find the denial of plastic surgery (Not saying that's what you're doing here) more disturbing, as if people want to ignore that…

@glucious: The undead-rotting flesh aspect keeps zombies from being mainstream romantic, in my opinion. If you look at fans of romance and what they want, Vampires and werewolves are perfect stand-ins for the usual suspects in terms of romantic interests.

@Lamar Henderson: That's it! Thank you for this, I could never put my finger on what I didn't enjoy about Being Human, despite it having all the ingredients of something I'd love. Wildly uneven, indeed.

@Bruce Wood: I wasn't crazy about that one, I must admit.

@Jesse Astle: Of course, of course, goes without saying.

I, I... LIKED Fear her.

@Clixx13: I have to agree. I miss the old review style, and find these harder to read.

@Aaron Martin-Colby: I think you're right, and I also believe it was a strong form of denial - he was cheerful cheerful cheerful with rage streaming out the edges. The whole 'my wife and I get along great I pay her rent except she's a frigid teasing bitch' dichotomy, if that makes the sense.

@ShrikirtiRaven: Naaaturally he knew better than you on all things.

@Oleander: Oh, god, your poor friend! *shudder* It's the "Cheerful" part that's especially disturbing, isn't it?

@REALTALK: This is a really wonderful crap email from a dude. Streamers!

@StackedLibrarian: This is mortifying and yet a truly fantastic story. Did she talk to you?

The tale of the Booby-Trapped Baked Good:

@jvac88: Because she's probably contractually obligated to Gossip Girl at this point?

@Kaiser-Machead v.2.3: Reading Richard's biography - when he was younger he would have his goonish hanger-ons do some serious shit-kicking for him now and then. He is totally unrepentant for this behavior.

@Claire Hummel: yes! Well said. I had a poster I bought when I saw it in London, and then saw it twice when it toured the States... and using my program book, the tickets, and postcards of actors/scenes I ordered online I had a wonderful poster created. This isn't usual behavior for me; seeing one performance several…

@perargentine: Hmmm, but who are you or I to know a playwrite's intentions? I suppose that's a massive part of my question. Shakespeare most likely wrote many (if not all) of his major plays collaboratively, and it isn't just one intention we're discussing here.

@zogood: But it's all relative, isn't it? Do we really experience these plays as 'original text' after several hundred years and also endless fiddling with the academic viewpoint of what Shakespeare 'meant' and how much of the author is inserted in the plays? (May I recommend James Shapiro's excellent "Contested…

@Oooh Shiny Objects: You know, I don't always like her, but here, I could really see it. Before I knew anything about her I thought she was incandescent in "Layer Cake".

Marianne looked at her feet and mourned the many owls who died in service of her hideous coat, not to mention the many fuzzy unknown animals who bit it for her boots. 'I can't do this crap any longer,' she thought sadly, 'I just can't.'