#watch me as I fruitlessly aim barbs at someone who can't or won't answer back

[peterlorres21stcentury]

I am sorry but I cannot contain myself, I must comment on this one thing and one thing only and then I will stop

This essay. Again from my former foe, whom I tease with impunity now only because she has, purposefully or not, deleted all her media in an apparent attempt to slink away into the ether. But oh, this is why I donate to the Internet Archive each year.

This essay is short and feels entirely unfinished, and it bothers me. It equates Peter's beauty with thinness; a thinness that was a forced product of Hollywood standards and wasn't wholly natural to him. It seems to disparage his perfectly normal human appetite. It screams "tell me you have an eating disorder without saying you have an eating disorder." It contains this howler of a statement:

Food, like prescription narcotics and cigarettes, was a needful part of the ecosystem that made Peter Lorre happen.

Oh really, you don't say. Surely food isn't a core necessity for all life on Earth, you absolute noodle. Not only that but food, and I mean good food, a genuine enjoyment of food as a celebration of life, is central to much of Jewish culture too. Which tells me you know nothing of that, either.

Such enjoyment is certainly central to ME, also a secular Jew like Peter, at any rate. If taking pleasure in food makes one a "fresser" (glutton) then I am one too (and I know full well than I am, and I don't apologize for it).