Yeah, all of that is kinda my problem. All of the characters are decidedly one note: sexless but smart, sexy but heartless, romantic but naive, etc. and they can only create some kind of Voltron full picture of a dynamic woman when glued together. That's crap, IMO. Even if you don't think it's a how-to, that's such a…

That was my field of expertise in college, so I tend to agree. Also worth reading Molly Haskell's From Reverence to Rape and Sin in Soft Focus. The reasons are myriad, but critic Anette Insdorf talks often about how the great verbal sparring partners (Hepburn/Tracy, Grant/Dunne, Cooper/Stanwyck) were replaced…

Really? I found it despicable, I don't like pink, I don't like cupcakes, my relationship status isn't my self-definition and I hate that this show told an entire generation of women and girls otherwise. I do not live in the most vibrant city on Earth for "love and labels."

In some small way, I made this happen with the power of my mind.

Check out www.mermaidsofnewyork.com for some more urban sirens.

She is kicking all the ass.

Come the fuck on. I'm named for Elise Cowan, she was a friend of my mom's. This is not even high school goth stuff. Sick.

She is freebasing Botox.

Bambi vs. Godzilla

If puppies had guns they would have to wear booties!

I'll add another wrinkle as someone who often works with magicians: practicing magic is actually a pretty asocial hobby. Getting good at just the basics means hours alone in your room practicing card fans, sleight of hands and {ahem} cup and balls. It's really repetitive and it's pretty lonely. Along with…

Tom's help people, those are not CPAC values.

Her mother, Mama Jean, was also a Christian Scientist, so her medical care (where she got it) was often too little too late.

Wolf pee collector has to be a challenging career choice.

Does anyone have anything tailored anymore? It really would save a lot of these looks. Even with a great figure not everything looks good just off the hanger, stylists.

It's called something else in the US, although it was briefly Ugly NY (I was repped by them for a hot minute). For variety acts and body mods, there can actually be a lot of well-paying work. I didn't take it to mean I was a hideous ogre (I blame society for that), it's just a way of getting attention and indicating…

This will have all the ethnic diversity and sophistication of mayonnaise (less the French origins.)

I can say it's not a church mouse.

Perhaps there is some mitigating factor in the poutine for they have seen fries and raised them up to the lord with cheese and gravy!

And you guys have pickle potato chips, which are so good it's evil. Why hath you not been smote?!