If you were online in a wanting-to-date capacity roughly four years ago, and you were man enough to be aged 38 to 48 and actually seeking same instead of a 12-year-old, and you lived somewhere within a 10-mile radius around the Undisclosed Location that serves as communicatrix HQ, you might have stumbled upon this: Loyal, [...]
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Between coming off a lollapalooza of a trip and the crapload of work staring me in the face upon my return, I’ve been kind of overwhelmed and under-motivated. Happens. But in a twin stroke of magic from the Serendipity Fairy, I got an infusion of inspiration on a trip to Ojai visiting a lady-homey, and [...]
Tasked with the challenge of designing a fake online dating site for a TV show, I registered with a few dating sites to gain access to their page layout. Now before any of you cranks jump down my throat, I signed up (a) as a man (the fake site was supposed to be a chick’s [...]
Ten-and-a-half months ago, I woke up hungover from what I hope will be my last New Year’s Eve alone. Not because I have a problem with being alone or even being alone for New Year’s Eve, but because on January 1st, 2005, I was lucky enough to meet someone so wonderful and so brilliant and [...]
“So…you still have that blog?” “Uh-huh.” “Yeah? How often do you post to it?” “I try to post twice a day. One post, one quotation. But today I didn’t post.” “How come?” “Uhhh…. Well, my boyfriend just got back from five days out of town.” Beat. Beat. Beat. “We have some, um, catching up to [...]
I’m not prone to giving advice, wait…yes, I am. Well, not unsolicited advice, shit, I do that, too. Sigh… Okay: I love giving advice. I’ve been addicted to advice columns since I found Dear Abby on the funnies page (her hipper twin, Ann Landers, was in the Sun-Times and we were a Trib household all [...]
