LOL Link Love

09.24.2009

Bringing you a little laughter link love this afternoon: 1. The Los Angeles Times features a couple of interesting iphone apps to help you date and mate. The Girlfriend Keeper generates text messages to send to your SO, allowing you to specify the relationship level: strangers, casual dating, heating up, serious or married. I would [...]

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The Sweetness of Surrender (His)

09.23.2009

I love Jason Mraz’s song I’m Yours. Doesn’t every woman? It’s been on Billboard’s Top 100 chart for 74 weeks, a record. It’s the third-best selling digital song of all time, having sold 4.4 million downloads, and it’s still going strong. Why? Surrender. “Well you done done me and you bet I felt it I [...]

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The Cost of Always Holding Out for Something Better

09.21.2009

Brett and Kate McKay write The Art of Manliness, a successful personal development blog that is tailored to men, but contains many excellent, thoughtful articles that I enjoy. Recently, they wrote about a general condition of restlessness and anxiousness in our society, a sort of general malaise. They define it as feeling like there’s this great [...]

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10 Ways to Hold His Interest Forever

09.16.2009

“When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even though his hands got arthritis too. That’s love.” Rebecca – age 8 Congrats, you’ve reeled in the big fish! He’s hot, he’s available, and he is definitely very interested. You’ve [...]

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Time Wasting Tidbits

09.14.2009

Some tidbits for you today! 1. Another site in the Wasting Time genre: AwkwardBoners.com. Might not be safe for work. Looking at this site was one of the only times I’ve been glad I don’t have a penis. 2. If you’re looking to waste even more time, Wired magazine announces: Racy, late-night text messages sent by [...]

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Do Pretty Girls Have it Harder?

09.11.2009

If you want to be happy for the rest of your life Never make a pretty woman your wife So from my personal point of view Get an ugly girl to marry you Jimmy Soul, 1970 Do beautiful women have a harder time finding real love? I bet Jennifer Aniston thinks so. The woman in [...]

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50 Nuggets of Knucklehead Wisdom

09.09.2009

Guys are knuckleheads. I say that with the greatest possible affection. There are some ways in which no guy ever grows up, and while that can be maddening, sometimes it is just so damned charming! Glimpsing the 10 year-old boy that a man once was feels like a sneak peek into his vulnerability. And signs [...]

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Julie Metz’ Perfection is Just That

09.08.2009

Last Friday, I grabbed a book from my bedside pile and headed off to the Cape for one final summer weekend. It was called Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal by Julie Metz, and it totally blew me away. Seriously, this is one of the best books I have read in a very, very [...]

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Why Women are Hottest in Countries With Too Few Dudes

09.04.2009

Recently, the economics blog Marginal Revolution ran a piece called  A Theory For Why Latvian Women are Beautiful, after a colleague returned from Latvia astounded by the beauty of the women there. This would hardly surprise Latvian women, 500 of whom marched in a Blonde Weekend parade last May to cheer people up during the [...]

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Gripping, Gratifying Glee

09.03.2009

The best TV critic in the history of the world is Matthew Gilbert of the Boston Globe. No matter where you live you should read his stuff at boston.com if you want to know what’s worth watching. If Matthew Gilbert says it’s crap, it’s crap. If he says it’s awesome, it’s awesome. And his tastes [...]

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