Oh, trust me -- when Batman isn't being campily gay, he sounds a lot like Bale or Clooney, depending on my precise mood.

Wait, when did Clooney do a non-campily gay Batman movie?

Isaac Mizrahi.

D'oh!

I have a question. Doesn't this seem a little backwards? I mean shouldn't the couple who backed out be sued and not the show? It seems like the show did what it said it would do, but the couple turned out to be asshats.

Don't you think it's less useful a term for conversation than attraction or desire, though?

My gut feeling is that I dislike severing physical attraction from the romantic love equation. I think it's Paul-ist or something - distrusting the body. I think it is as valid a definition of love as any other we have. I don't much like the exalted love ideal as promulgated by Medieval troubadours which has dribbled on down to our century. I think a lot of western culture's notions about love are kind of pathological. Particularly in USian culture.

There's also some suspcion that the ideas of romantic love that don't factor in sexual attraction are either acts of bad faith or rationalizations.

In sum: I suspect that romantic love may be a subset of sex with a lot of higher cortical function dancing around madly trying to distract us from this unflattering truth.

when did Clooney do a non-campily gay Batman movie?

Neither here nor there. Adam West is better suited to yell the line quoted above, and leave Clooney to be snarly and stubbly and angry and usefully sexual.

It's a lack of vision on the director's part that mismatched him so. The movie wouldn't have been so risible my way.

To be fair, I have known a couple of people who quite literally fell in love at first sight and went on to have lengthy relationships. For me there's always been an initial infatuation perod that was mostly hormones, but I'm willing to accept that experience as something other than universal.

I think Love at First Sight is still just desire that happens to be inspired by a person that was also otherwise a good match.

And I say that as someone who could/does say "Love at first sight" about my relationship with dh. We met at a party, and that was it, for both of us. There was never any will we-won't we. We became a couple the moment we met. It's just that that time, desire wasn't drunk driving on the wrong highway. It had a route mapped out and drove responsibly.

Plei, here's the dress: [link]

See, after watching many seasons of Family Guy, Adam West is now the crazy mayor of Qahog, for ever and ever.

Sister!

"When I water this plant, someone keeps STEALING the water!"

My Batman is Bale.

Honestly, the *voice* I hear is either Michael Keaton or Kevin Conroy.

No such thing!

It's mostly the summery thing I would worry about. If it fits okay, I can always pair it up with a jacket for the office, or just wear it on the weekends.

If this were Vegas and the board were a slot machine, I would have just won enough to pay for dinner for a group of people.