Do you always reference writers by their first names? I just think it's weird.

I have absolutely no sense of whether the lingerie is attractive or not. Are these advertisers assuming men do all the purchasing, or something? Meh.

Why do you call her "Tracy" and not "Moore"?

Yes, she is ridiculously likable.

Uh, why is this woman described as sex-crazed? She sounds pretty fucking patient to me.

Does it have eyes? For the love of poon, why?

Yes, but it only made sense to me once it was accompanied by the image of a naked woman writhing in a bathtub, while various greying men smoked things and hit fur with sticks.

Yes! That was great.

I am surprised Gaultier never did a line of these...

I like to think the nakedness was the excuse, but the real reason was the overwhelming douchiness of Mr. Ford. I mean, talk about creepy and narcissistic...

Oh yes, this book. I used to steal it from my mother's bookcase and read it under the covers. It provided a nice contrast to The Joy of Sex or Nancy Friday's My Secret Garden.

Poor Wasikowska. To go from clinches with Fassbender to this shit... But the movie does look like it might be fun.

I had forgotten that they kill a grifter in the Secret History. You would think a morbid longing for the picturesque would make one appreciate a good flimflam.

I thought Bane's mask was more Goatse-inspired...

I know I am responding well after the fact, but I just caught up on my TB and recaps today...

I think we have a first amendment case on our hands.

Yeah, the bad food one is new to me. Explains why I was never popular at my Richmond, VA, daycamp. That, and the fact that I was the pale, sweaty Canadian kid who spent the afternoon play hour lying in a limp heap in the shade under the slide.

To be conservative, I'd go with a shade that resembles your skin tone, like a buff or whatever. Slightly more daring would be a gold, copper or bronze metallic or maybe a tangerine yellow or some other tone-on-tone pairing (as long as it looks intentional, and not like you tried for a match and missed). And if you…

Yes, once several other studies are able to reproduce these findings, then I'll consider them meaningful.

This is just excellent - thank you for saying this, and saying it so cogently. I went through a horrible break-up (basically a divorce) and nothing worked to shake the ensuing depression, until I started reading romances. It sounds nuts, but they really reminded me what I like about men, what I want and do not want…