Below is an essay that I asked one of my favorite guy friends to write upon hearing that he up and quit his job two weeks ago. Some context: this friend is a hard-working go-getter who has worked non-stop since we graduated from college. He is self-made (read: sans trust fund) and knows the importance of paying one’s dues (read: not an entitled jerk). But …
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What gay marriage passing in New York means to me
admin - June 27, 2011
I have had three, male best friends in my life – one from middle school, one from high school, and one from college – and all three of them are gay. None of them were fully aware of this fact when I met them at ages 12, 14 and 18, respectively but one by one they came to the realization and subsequently out to me. …
*(photo credit below) Lori Gottlieb has done it again. You may remember that name from the wildly controversial article she wrote for The Atlantic called Marry Him! The Case For Settling later expanded into a book. I actually wrote about it long, long ago. Now Gottlieb is back with an equally buzz-building article (with an equally grabby title): How To Land Your Kid In Therapy. …
L.A. 9.5 Months In: Social Currency in LaLa Land
admin - June 15, 2011
…how to craft this post so that you don’t end up hating me slash the city of Los Angeles… Perhaps a list of disclaimers will help: Every place has a social currency – a system of understanding who is where in life (succeeding, failing, struggling, rising) based on given factors about their life (they have a lot of money, they published a book, they have …
Whether or not college is a waste of time: my take
admin - June 10, 2011
My response to the article I posted yesterday by a recent college drop out who believes college is a waste of time. I’m going to start this post by saying the thing I hate to say when it comes to matters of judgment. It depends. Take me for example. I went to an expensive college and majored in something many less expensive colleges offer – …
Is college a waste of time? This guy thinks so.
admin - June 9, 2011
So this kid thinks college is a waste of time. Not like, so make the most of it by packing your schedule with internships. He actually thinks you shouldn’t go at all. Read his thoughts here via CNN.com. Tomorrow I’ll share mine, but feel free to throw yours in comments now.
Doesn’t it take two to have a love child?
admin - May 18, 2011
Something about this whole Arnold Schwarzenegger as baby-daddy ordeal struck me as strange. No, it wasn’t the fact that Arnold hid a love child from his wife of 25 years nor was it that the love child was the product of an affair with a member of his house staff. Sadly, I didn’t find all of that particularly shocking. What was strange in my admittedly …
Why IRL (in real life) is becoming a ubiquitous at OMG, and what that means for relationships
admin - May 4, 2011
Once a year the New York Times’ Modern Love column runs a contest for college students to submit their essays about love, intimacy and relationships. For the past several years the winning submissions have had something to do with “hook up culture.” Students trying to find intimacy where there generally is not or trying to defend the fact that they’re not looking for it. This …
An open letter to this year’s high school seniors
admin - April 5, 2011
Hi you guys – how’s it going?… If my memory of exactly one decade ago (gulp) serves me correctly, a fairly high percentage of you are freaking out. You have 50 + school days left of high school and under 5 months before college. All anyone older than you is asking is what you think you’ll major in, or if you plan to pledge a …
The supply/demand economics of casual sex today
admin - March 7, 2011
This is going to be tricky because I never took economics and make it a point not to know anything about investing in the stock market. That said, when my friend Emily passed this Slate article along, my interest was instantly (and obviously) piqued. Sex Is Cheap: Why young men have the upper hand in bed,even when they’re failing in life. Mark Regnerus hits on …