I like playing first one and then the other, for hours. It gets me by at work.

I think it's questionable that Cleopatra's cast Caucasian European but it's equally questionable that we expect her instead to correspond to a vaguely exotic Ancient-Egypto-Arab stereotype, swanning about in hoop earrings watching the pyramids being built or something, instead of throwing both those approaches in the…

I'd love some advice on this one: I had a terrible, alcohol-fueled one-night stand with someone in a band I still like a few years later and want to see now that they'll be playing around my neighborhood. Can I show up without being, like, Creepie Groupie Girl?

Ugh, after the mess that was Addams Family I'm not so sure about my Astronaut Mike Dexter-esque longing for a Nightmare Before Christmas Broadway musical.

@14Kgold: I'm no composer but if you end up directing some Jezebel's musical, hook a girl up with a costume design job. ;)

@foodbaby: Congrats! If you don't mind my asking, in what capacity to you work at LJ?

With just this trailer to go off it's probably a little early to break out the voracious naysayin'.

@pssshwhatever: Yeah, I like this answer. I'm kind of surprised that we're still talking about this person *being rude and profane at a sports game* like it's a fierce political debate.

I use Old Spice extra-strength. It puts a smile on my face because I smell like "the man your man could smell like" and also because it works and smells surprisingly girly with a little orange oil sprayed on me for good measure.

@nicholas1987ucsb: I think the idea that celebrities use paps in some ways to keep themselves 'relevant' is sensible and hardly revolutionary, but I am leery of taking that too far: just because you may stop by a known paparazzi hangout for a little lunch photo op doesn't mean you and your kids and your friends…

I think it's so interesting how the variety of body shapes out there has stayed pretty much the same but the "ideal" body shape has changed just about every decade or more for a century and a half. I'm a costume designer so sometimes I see modern bodies through ten or twelve 'lenses' at once. Plus side: everyone's…

@7andfive: You are correct, but I'm going to go ahead and trust that they are correct in saying that she was a Ptolemy of Greek descent who lived thousands of years after the pyramid at Giza was built.

@jadelyce: As I said upthread I'm going from biographies I read of her in grade school but it's backed up on her Wikipedia page: she was a Ptolemy, ethnically Greek, very inbred, rather plain-looking, and came to power thousands of years after the Great Pyramid at Giza was built.

@7andfive: @jadelyce: I'm going off several biographies I've read of her since grade school, but it's throughly backed up on her Wikipedia page. Her entire dynasty and (inbred) family were Greek, and she was born thousands of years after the Great Pyramid was built.

@Uhuh.: I hear you on Prince of Persia, which makes me rage, but Cleopatra was ethnically Greek and I don't think Angelina's an inappropriate choice in the same way. She may be stereotyped as an Egyptian princess cavorting around having pyramids built but shit in Egypt was wayyy different by then.

If Jezebel was an opera, this part would be like this:

Ugh, and OF COURSE my tickets are for later this week. :(

I think the comment about Kesha thinking she deserves to be famous is interesting in itself. I am always mystified by this kind of attitude: that pop stars or other famous people become famous because they think they are awesome enough for us to look at them, and we seem to be pretty eager to say, "Excuse me, you are…

Uh, how would a Jamaican restaurant negatively impact kids' safety? Are those scary ethnic rotis going to chase them and burn them with their fiery hot curry?

She reminds me of Tricia Helfer enough for me to double-take and then be like, "Oh, it's you." YOU AINT NO CYLON.