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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.        …

When I first moved to the city I met this guy with whom I had the greatest brain sex of my life. We never actually dating, and I wasn’t even wildly attracted to him (outside the brain situation). But we had that indescribable mind connection where every conversation is like weird fore play – a quick rhythm of jokes, challenges, witty insults and flirts – …

A few weeks ago I wrote about the concept of maybe-people – those people you’ve always kept in the back of your mind as potential, eventual mates. It’s clearly a very thought-provoking conversation issue – one you might want to bring up with friends over beers, say. You’d talk about what it really means to be a maybe person. How many you have floating around …

More than one person has told me that courting season is upon us. Apparently it started somewhere around November and lasts until roughly March depending on Groundhog Day and, I assume, the economy. I’m still fuzzy on the details, but from what these people have described, courting season is that winter phenomenon where all people decide they want to be in a relationship, or something …

By popular demand, here is the Laundro-Matt story in its entirety. My dry cleaner offered to set me upHere’s what happened with my dry cleaner offering to set me upAn Open Letter to Matt, my future boyfriendThe Matt Log: week Four, still no MattMatt-tics. It’s like tactics but I’ve replaced the “tact” with “Matt”I now know the identity of MattThis is the Matt post I …

On Wednesday night I went to the dentist. Since graduation from my parent’s insurance I haven’t had dental because all small communication companies ironically view it as an option to have a healthy mouth. Now at job number three I have secured dental insurance so I can finally go find out that I have seven cavities and inoperable gum disease. This is my uneducated assumption …

Time to put this blog this work. Read through to the end. This one involves audience participation. ———————————————- I’ve been tossing the idea of offering “Hello My Name Is” tags at bars for awhile now. It would work like this: Upon entering the bar and showing your ID you’d be given a Hello My Name Is tag to fill out (recommended, not required — the …

I feel compelled to address what is, apparently, a very significant issue. First, some background. Embedded within this blog is a site meter. It tracks how many people visit per day, what pages they view, and how they found the blog to begin with. The # of people and where they’re located is fun to know (holla back Yemen!!). But the root of the issue …

My friend Erica is kicking it into high gear in ’09 — making it to the gym, eating healthy, yadda yadda. Unfortunately she – like the 99.9% of Americans who drink and have access to pizza, Chinese food, or in my case Sam’s Falafel (extra hummus) – has a bad drunk-eating habit. To makes matters worse, she lives in an epicenter of drunk eating. Within …

Right before the holiday I found myself torn over the details surrounding some too-be-scheduled drinks….with a guy (in case you’re new to this blog). The date was of the blind variety, though in my opinion there’s no longer such thing as a blind date on account of the Internet and expert stalkers like my friend John. For the purposes of this discussion – I knew-ish …