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Send me your first date stories

admin - June 11, 2009

New, new series. Thursday First Dates(it rhymes if you say it really fast) Send me your tales of first-date luck, crap, shock, and woe. I’ll post every Thursday moving forward. We’ll learn lessons, have laughs, feel better slash worse about ourselves and the like. You can be anything from anonymous to featured with a photo, but you will be cut off at 600 words. Send …

TFLN Tuesdays

admin - June 9, 2009

It’s officially a series. Below is a TFLN from TFLN.com. Below that is what I think happened before that text. (775): Wish i knew that 10 minutes ago when i told him to dance with my blackberry while i went to the bathroom I go out with Jamie and Kelly because they’re fearless. Always talk to randos. Always know somebody who knows somebody who wants …

How to break up once you’ve broken up

admin - June 8, 2009

My friend from Friday’s post ended his relationship on amicable terms with the girlfriend who’d been sending mixed messages. They sat down to talk about “things” and the net net was that she wasn’t ready to give what he was looking to get. He was hurt but understanding. She was definitive but said she really wanted to keep him in her life as much as …

Should he end it?

admin - June 5, 2009

A good guy friend of mine is trying to decide whether or not to break up with his girlfriend. They’ve been together for XX months – generally happy, fight-free months involving the meeting of several family members on both sides and a getaway to San Francisco (cross-country couple vacays = whoa territory). My friend likes this girl very, very much. He’s attracted to her. He …

I think we’re ready to talk about religion

admin - June 3, 2009

This question/issue comes from Laura in Chicago — the MVP of blog post ideas. Writes Laura: “Recently my friend was set up with a friend of a friend. Before the date, she did a facebook search (obviously!) and found out he is Jewish. She has several Jewish friends and has total respect for people’s religious choices. However, she is Catholic and knows that she wants …

TFLN Tuesdays

admin - June 2, 2009

Trying something new based on my complete and utter obsession with Texts From Last Night. Below is a TFLN text. Below that is my guess at the story that ended in that text… (734): i just walked with a girl who was carrying a chair down the street. apparently she got mad at the bartender and took the bar stool when she left. It started …

Don’t you want somebody to text…don’t you need somebody to text…

admin - June 1, 2009

It tends to go like this. You’re out in a cute outfit drinking vodka sodas (splash of pineapple juice – ‘l change your life) and bopping ever-so-whitely to that “Boom, Boom, Boom” song (genius). You take a bathroom break when the new Kelly Clarkson comes on (cannot get behind it) to perform the classic toilet seat breath-a-lizer test (the degree to which you miss the …

An Open Letter to (that minx) Rashida Jones

admin - May 29, 2009

Rashish — we have a problem sister friend — You seem to be a little bit confused about what I like to call “the way things work up in this piece.” See you — the bangin’, bi-racial daughter of a famous black R&B musician are supposed to engage in some variation of the following: be hot mess, get knocked up by someone with tatoos in …

How to make other people make you look good

admin - May 27, 2009

Back to this issue of the “Generic Me” that John brought up last Friday. There is — like it or probably not — a one to two sentence description our friends use to pitch us to people who may want to date us (that’s after they get through the physical description).Examples: “Oh you want to know about Amber? She’s cute, brown hair, pretty tall and …

Do we expect too much out of marriage?

admin - May 26, 2009

I was chatting with friends this past weekend when the relationship issues of a couple not present came up and under judgement. This tends to happen when groups of people I know get together and drink alcohol. Someone was saying they wished ____________ and ___________, as two successful, attractive, youthful people had more obvious love and romance in their life (sex). That it’s a shame …