Take back Valentine's Day!: "Cut out a paper heart, mount it on a doily, make a collage, and mail it to someone you like." (from A Brief Message, a site that airs the opinions of designers in 200 words or less)
And then make sure that what you've taken back is cruelty free, fair trade, and organic (listen to Democracy Now's Valentine Day Special on corruption among cocoa growers and diamond traders)
Read a love story, but bear in mind:
"When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. A love story can never be about full possession. The happy marriage, the requited love, the desire that never dims—these are lucky eventualities but they aren't love stories. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name."
(From Jeffrey Eugenides' introduction to his collection of love stories, My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead which includes Eileen Chang's "Red Rose, White Rose," also found in her Love in a Fallen City. Don't know what unrequited love has to do with encouraging kids to write, but the book raises funds for 826 Chicago.)
Boycott Valentine's Day and celebrate Vallotton's Day along with Zyzzvya's blog and Félix Fénéon, who illustrates Mr. Eugenides' point again and again in his capsule "novels":
Matters of the heart. M. Simon, a café owner in Verquin, township of Béthune, married and the father of three, committed suicide.
Prematurely jealous, J. Boulon, of Parc-Saint-Maur, pumped a revolver shot in the thigh of his fiancée, Germaine S.
Discover a love that dares speak its name: that of a little girl for a demure black resident of Greenwich Village.

This picture is offered up by a Princess Latifah at the Datalounge who describes herself as still wanting "a jewel encrusted nose-flute" (like the one the Persian Madame Butterfly has) and says:
"Here's Miss Jenny in all her feline hotness. Is it any wonder a little, gay African-American girl fell in love with this beautiful creature?"
(Thanks Fran, for bringing this to our attention)
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