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Purely on the basis of the “I gave her my heart, she gave me a Peep” entry, I had to share this with y’all:

The Washington Post’s Gallery of winners in the Peep Diorama Contest.

A graceful curtsey to IL#2 for the link.

EDITED TO ADD:

A link from the intrepid Zoe:

Passover Peeps!

I am so building that on the seder table next year. No question.

Looking at our search referrals yields some very very funky results. So, it’s time to play “Guess that really-fucked-up-sounding novel” based on what someone entered into Google at 330 in the morning local time.

russian bride rape father suckle nipples breasts: I don’t know, but I bet it’s erotica. Or weird.

bitches: Ooh, a book with a really awful heroine or villainess, I’m guessing. Cinderella?

my cock: This has to be an inspirational. Right?

pictures showing the vulva before and after brazilian waxing: Finally, someone crosses the self help/hygeine/romance genres and comes up with a great idea! 

Sent to me by Darlene and posted just for the pleasure of knowing Candy will squee: A little romance on Friday.

Note: there’s no need to listening to cooing tourists - you can turn down the volume and imagine your own soundtrack. 

Thanks to Kalen, I got a lot of coworkers asking me, “What are you laughing at?” and had to use words like “homo-erotic overtones” and “Man-titty.”

And to give y’all even more to read and ponder, here’s Dan Savage’s take on the movie (scroll down to bottom) 300. Raining men, indeed. 

Sheena asks:

Out of curiosity, are there romantic films that you would unhesitatingly recommend, besides Sense and Sensibility? Is that a post for another day? Two of my favourite films are The Scarlet Pimpernel (the Jane Seymour, Anthony Andrews version) and Moulin Rouge.

We discussed this back in 2005 when I revealed in a multitude of ways how uncool I am in my love of movies and television shows. But I will say that for Hanukkah this past year, Hubby got me a set of the entire season of Cupid PLUS unaired episodes from some bootleg DVD vendor overseas. *le sigh* Jeremy Piven. What a lovely Hanukkah gift.

But it’s never a problem to come back to a topic - particularly almost two years later, when we have more readers with certainly more opinions - many many more opinions!