• It's a Twitter meme right now: #CandyHeartRejects. I came up with my own last year: the less-romantic movie-themed candy hearts. For the rest of us.
• Dramatically speaking, the point of the story isn't to bring the lovers together but to keep them apart. We need to stretch this out to two hours, after all. Or two seasons. Or 10. If the couple gets together? Nobody cares. So find some way to keep them apart. Which means if you're alone on V Day, you're the point of the story.
• A poem from Leigh Hunt.
• Have you gone to Google's Valentine's Day Images page? Prepare to be blinded by red and crap.
• Seven years ago, for MSNBC, I wrote a piece sorting Hollywood kisses into several categories: the desperate kiss, in the rain, the manhandle, the woman takes charge, and the wow kiss. It's still not bad. Not wow but not bad.
• ABC News picked up on this piece a few years ago but ... Well, here. With a little Elvis Costello thrown in.
• For all the marshmallow valentines out there:

Sorry for the denture smell.