I (heart) jumping the shark

I hereby declare a moratorium, at least on the pages of this blog, on the use of the word or symbol (heart) as a synonym for "love."

It is kind of cute on the little I (heart) NY T-shirt I bought in early 2002.

It was sort of cool and PoMo as part of the title of the film I (Heart) Huckabees, a movie which deserves praise if only for its simultaneous inclusion of Jude Law (hot), Jason Schwartzman (geek hot), and Dustin Hoffman (formerly hot--correction, formerly geek hot).

And I also really like the "I (heart) Mountains" bumper sticker stuck on my car in support of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy.

But when ABC's The Note starts using (heart), I stop. And that time has come.