And Theda Bara could take it off like nobody else!
LolGoths: collect the whole set!

Dorothy Parker has an heir. Please go to max‘s blog and read her story Table for Two; it is all of the things a Dorothy Parker story is except motivated by hopeless unrequited love for a closeted gay man.
I think.
Also related, this Cowboy Junkies song:
lyrics over the jump. Who’d have guessed I’d be all about the wistfulness tonight (or, indeed, ever). It probably has something to do with the first summer storm and the nostalgic smell of hot asphalt sprinkled with raindrops. Seriously, I must be undercaffeinated or sumpin’. If I go for a jog and encounter raccoon babies I might just start snivelling. Awwww, time to dig out the old Meg Ryan movies.
The second in our ongoing series of accordion interpretations of Nine Inch Nails songs. This is the emotionally fraught and somewhat overwrought “Head Like a Hole” from their first album, Pretty Hate Machine. Truly, there is nothing like a good, solid accordion version to put solipsistic emo thrashings in perspective, eh?
Pretty much outed, actually. Stolen from the voyeuristically delightful Celebrity Cosmetic Surgery blog, here’s a lovely little vid of before and after shots of celebrities, set to a classic tune.
Is this not the perfect place to mention that Spy reported that Angelina Jolie‘s pickup line was “Five bucks if you can guess what’s real”? That so TOTALLY would only work in LA.