February 2009

I spent the greater part of 2008 being very open-minded about men. I dated someone slightly more conservative, someone mildly less caucasian, and someone much more divorced than myself. I also went on two blind dates with people my gut slash Internet search told me wouldn’t be a match. Some of these were great guys and even greater learning experiences – some of them were …

Patti – I’m confused… I’m a loyal fan of your show, The Millionaire Matchmaker because it is wildly entertaining and oddly informative. Also with every episode I get closer to deciding if you’re a. actually a man and b. don’t have ears. And really P – you do a hell of a business. 99% success rate!? Even if you’re lying by 20% it’s still pretty …

It’s not often that I’m willing to admit I’m a hypocrite, but I thought I owed it to you to come clean on this one. It’s actually really hard to set someone up.  I now understand why people don’t offer to do it. Since my soap box post on dating it forward I’ve tried to practice what I preach. I went through my roster of …

I saw it. I enjoyed it. At some points I laughed. At some points I cringed, but I can’t deny the fact that it represented a lot of what really happens out there; good, bad, and vom-worthy. Yes – the movie centered on “the rules” but then ended with most characters ending up the exception. A. Hollywood does that, and B. it is true that …

Monday’s post incited quite a bit of insightful commentary (thank you Pierson). Most of the broo-haha centered on the idea of calling someone out on account of bad behavior. On Monday I implied that people get away with treating people like crap – flaking out, using people and the like – simply because they can…because we let them get away with it. If people stopped …

I recently adopted a child in northern Mongolia because the guy offering her was really attractive. I believe this is what they’re referring to when they say rock bottom. It was a cold and snowy afternoon in Manhattan and I was coming home from seeing The Wrestler and grabbing a sandwich at Tiny’s Giant Sandwich shop with my friend Chris. Justin Hi-I’m-a-Mac Long was there …

You knew this was coming. In light of the Sex & the City-episode-turned-book-made-movie coming out this past weekend I thought an assessments was in order. As background, I saw the episode, read the book, and intend to see the movie. Like most people, when I first heard the concept – that any wishy-washy, flakey, confusing interest on the part of a guy means he’s…all together …

I was assigned the below freelance piece by The Daily Beast just before the New Year. Unfortunately they’ve since killed it and all recession lifestyle related stories on account of there are way too many of them and Obama took office. Thought it would be a shame to let all this embarrassment go to waste.  Enjoy!  80% of it is absolutely true.        …