There Has Been a Sighting

(a completely biased essay on femslashy goodness by Sensei Riley LaShea) Once upon a time, the cheese stood alone. And the cheese was Xena. In the time before Xena, there existed in the universe relatively dull substances that occasionally joined together in a union somewhat resembling femslash, but the emergence of girl/girl pairings like fire…

There is a rare, bittersweet joy in watching the unfolding of a love story that will never be allowed to fully blossom. It’s what makes movies like Malena and Never Let Me Go so poignant, what makes songs like Almost Lover feel so lonely. That stated, the subtext in Going Home was so-not-even-subtext that I will…

Snark and snappy tunes make this next special a totally must-love event. A major character arc makes it gripping. The cheesy warmth makes it Christmas. Riley’s Fave Christmas Special #3 A Garfield Christmas – Starting out with Garfield ‘tude in spades, as Garfield fantasizes about a Christmas in which he is obscenely spoiled, A Garfield…

I feel remiss in having left Sofía Vergara off my ‘actresses who didn’t make my list’ list.  And here’s why – If you have not seen Madea Goes to Jail, then you have not seen Sofía as T.T. Until I saw it myself, I never could have imagined it. It is glorious.

It was several years ago that I first fell into unrequited lust with Caitlin Keats. It was this Oil of Olay commercial that first carried her into the Realm of Riley™. Then came this Olay commercial and then this Olay commercial. She’s paying the bills with commercial work, because the powers that be are clearly…