August 2008

For the past 20 years (I wasn’t interested in boys until kindergarten) I have been blaming my inability to meet the right guys on a whole host of issues. They are all dumb, I am sometimes confusing — they can’t get their acts together, I am sometimes intimidating — they don’t know what they want, I flirt weird. Right. So maybe just two issues, but …

Last night a Swedish man taught me a lesson. No. Ew. Not that kind of lesson. I was out with friends for a drink or four at The Spotted Pig. It was, like always, a weird mix of people sporting hard-to-place accents and clothes that look vintage but are not. I had just been to the impossible-to-get-used-to co-ed bathroom (Ally McBeal-style, not single stall) where …

As promised, Cliff’s Notes/Barrons for the longer posts. Below: Why Girls Go for Assholes. -They don’t know they’re assholes-They’ll take any kind of attention they can get-They like a challenge-They think they can fix them Four theories. Three dislaimers. Lots of assumptions that make girls look not-so-great. But, in fairness, the basis of the post is that a lot of guys are assholes. Enjoy!

By very popular demand – an expose on the age-old question of why girls go for assholes. A fact everyone acknowledges but no one understands — sort of the like the solar system. The below attempts to explain why girls respond to assholes in social settings. It does not address why girls stay in relationships with assholes that treat them terribly. That’s for Oprah to …

We’re not the only ones who used the Olympics as an excuse to hook up. Apparently the 16,000 athletes were hip to the trend too… Sex and the Olympic City “Last night thousands of young men and women with the most fit, toned bodies in the world mingled for the last time before they fly home. What might they get up to?” *back to real …

It’s typically incompatibilities than end a relationship. She’s a Mormon, you’re a man. He’s a banker, you just got back from Peace Corp. She went to Notre Dame, you went to BC/USC/Georgetown/Michigan/Stanford/Villanova. This is not a revolutionary concept. Heavy hitters tend to be religion, level of intelligence, and cheating style, but a few recent conversations (slash nights) have made me wonder how the issue of …

It’s come to my attention that my posts are on long side of long. This seems very valid. From now on the long ones will come with Cliff’s Notes so you can decide that you want to read the whole thing. Today, in two sentences. I think dating progression goes weeknight after-work drinks, weeknight late-ish dinner, weekend dinner and drinks, day-date, then no-plan plan. My …

I was talking to my Mom the other day about a date I’d recently been on. I probably went on for five to ten minutes about the date details: where we went, what we ate, how he was great, blah blah. She listened intently-ish. “Wait, when was this?” she asked, just as I was getting to the part where we shared a cab and he …