I can't believe only one person mentioned "Keeping the Faith" with Jenna Elfman and Ed Norton and Ben Stiller! I mean, not that Ben Stiller is ever going to be a completely non-neurotic and "normal" guy, but he was definitely Jewish, and not super super nebbishy in that movie...

Scott Cohen's character in Kissing Jessica Stein was a fine Jewish male lead.

ooh, good point! I'd blanked it out, because I hated the character of Jessica SOOOO much.

I have to go use my voting rights to force all men to wear eye-liner and leather, funded by a repressive hike in property taxes. And maybe something involving gay pr0n on PBS,

I like! Let's go, ladies!

or I'd want my enemies to be laid off, crushed, and driven before me, and I could sit back and listen to the lamentation of their women.

flea rocks

For purely narrative purposes, tell me an occasion where somebody did you wrong in such an egregious manner that they deserved to have a hellish revenge visited upon them.

Uh....nothing as bad as some other people have told! Mostly I wish I had a time machine so I could go kick some kids' asses back in the day...but I don't really want to hurt the people they are *now*, if that makes any sense.

Honestly, the only people I've ever felt that burning drive for vengeance towards have been people who've done something to someone I care about, not to me. I mean, I've casually wished harm on any number of people, but that's really more free-floating ill-will than a focused anger.

Thanks for wishing ill on my behalf, bodhisattva Hec! I feel embraced by the lotus... something, now.

Hey, Clive Owen is on my tv. he's cute.

Why isn't Clive Owen on my tv?

TAR: Well, only one all female team left. I guess this isn't the year that an all women team gets as far as the final 3. I am so happy that several people took the slap dancing challenge over the stunt bottle cracking challenge.

BTW, did anyone here watch that "Great Inventor" show? One of my co-workers did and it sounds like it's wacky fun.

Why do I read that Heather Television-Review-Chick on Salon? I don't think she knows anything, I don't agree with her, and I don't think that jaded Gen X-er who secretly spends her weekends wrangling dust bunnies and painting her toenails in her sweatsocks shtick is funny in the least little bit. But at least once a week, I get sucked into reading this bullcrap...why? Am I secretly a masochist, or is hating the administration not enough anymore, or what?

Huh. I don't actually want revenge.

Not even against the "friends" who tried to talk Paul into calling off the wedding at his bachelor party. (I didn't learn about it until years later, and while it stung and still does to an extent, I figure they're poopyheads and anyhow, they lost Paul's friendship as a result.)

I just kind of want one or two psycho exes (one physically abusive, one mentally, because the fire looked so warm and comforting after the frying pan) to disappear off the face of the planet so I don't ever have to worry about running into them.

I'm gonna live FOREVER!

Man, I am en route to be the God of Grumpitude!

Also, favorite new word; Humbleocity!

And another '!' for good measure...

I don't want vengeance against anyone. I am content in the "living well" thang.

Shit. I'm single, live in LA (in a great part of LA to boot), have pretty hair, am surrounded by interesting people, have a book deal, AND have the best nephew EVAR!

Life, while annoying, is mostly good.

A lot of the people who have caused me injury and aggravation have either been punished by the criminal justice system or karma.

I'm reserving all vengeance on behalf of my nephew, should he ever need it. Auntie Allyson knows a lot of people. My wrath shall be swift and merciless should anyone cause him pain.

Right?

ETA: He is 2 years old, today!

I don't really want to hurt the people they are *now*

Yeah. I hear you. There were points at which seeing the people in question suffer would have cheered me. Points much closer to the pain. Mostly, though, I'd have preferred the suffering to happen in a time/fashion that'd have stopped them from doing the full extent of the things that caused me the pain in the first place.

Don't get me wrong--I'm not an overly forgiving person. There are grudges I expect to hold until I die, people I have no intention of caring a bout, or even speaking less than tersely to ever again.

But that's not much of a punishment.