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What the hell I wrote 405 posts about.

admin - April 9, 2010

The other day I glanced down at the blog post tracker inside my post settings section and went, “Four hundred posts!? What the hell have I written four hundred posts about??!!” Soooo I decided the only option was to go through them all and figured it out. Here, after two hours and more than a few whatwasIthinking moments (Again, John Legend, really sorry about that…) …

The why we’re single series: because we don’t talk about the fact that we are

admin - April 7, 2010

Two posts officially makes this a series. Here’s where it started. Cliff notes: “We tend to be all the-universe-is-against-me about the New York dating scene, when in reality it’s far more numbers-and-charts than we’re willing to admit (slash can understand). And so in a spirit of growing the hell up I’ll be exploring the reasons we’re single.” Last week? we discussed the fact that the …

Why my apartment is covered in Sandra Bullock-covered rag mags

admin - April 5, 2010

There are currently five magazines in my 300 square foot apartment featuring a picture of a stone-faced Sandra Bullock and some headline with the phrase BLIND SIDED! included (which is just like, really God, really?!). I can’t stop reading about it – all the details and rumors and new information that’s never actually new information. I’m officially obsessed, and I could not be more pissed …

The Dating Ref: Should she be like eeww or like aaww?

admin - April 2, 2010

Date: Thursday of this week. Subject line: a lil nugget for you Sender: a smart and sensible female friend I have something that may or may not merit your attention/discussion — if not, just disregard and call me crazy while your roll your eyes, but if so, here you go: I just started working in the newsroom of a large network, and on my third …

The bullshit of opportunity cost

admin - March 31, 2010

I was gchatting with a friend who wants to leave his job to pursue a life of not his job about how exactly he’ll go about making money should he leave. For the time-being said friend needs to keep his current job, so he’ll stay identified as “a friend.” This friend is one of those modern renaissance men – a writer, graphic artist, video producing …

Are all guys really looking for three girls, three ways?

admin - March 29, 2010

I got involved in a chat the other night about the different types of girls you can come across slash date with a guy who happens to be seeing more than one type. Our conversation was about girls as characters – not like, “that Jessie…she’s such a character” – or, “that Jessie, she has good character…” like if I were to structure a screenplay with …

The truth is, we all know why we’re single.

admin - March 24, 2010

I stumbled across a post from one “Nick” of Wade the Tides on a post of one “Polly” of The Hitchlist the other day. Nick wrote an impressively detailed expose on why he’s single including what appear to be power-point-sourced charts highlighting several of his more mathematic points (…while I contemplate adding videos but think, that seems harder than not adding videos…). Nick’s point: several …

Re-writing the meaning of the “career-obsessed” woman.

admin - March 22, 2010

A female friend and I were having dinner at an Italian restaurant on St. Patrick’s Day because it seemed like too much of a challenge to catch up with all the wasted kelly green polo shirts stumbling around the village. We spent the first fifteen minutes like we typically do “catching up” about other people, the next fifteen catching up about work stuff (She is …