Monday Medicine
1. I love Indexed. Jessica Hagy is brilliant and funny. You must subscribe to this – I do and I get so excited when it shows up in my Google reader! Here are a couple of my faves, but there are waaaayyyy more where these came from, so head on over there. Ouch [...]
Awesome Beach Reads
“Summer afternoon, summer afternoon… the two most beautiful words in the English language.” Henry James I’ve read some really good books lately, and I thought I’d share them with you. Full discoslure: I’m a sucker for women’s contemporary fiction, anything from chick lit to great writing by brainy women. There are lots of male authors [...]
How to Stimulate Demand in a Relationship Recession
The worldwide luxury goods market, once thought immune to the ebbs and flows of economic fluctuations, is likely to enter a recession in 2009, according to Bain & Company’s Luxury Goods Worldwide Market Study. Francesco Trapani, CEO of Bulgari, insists that he will not risk the company’s image for opulence and exclusivity by slashing prices. [...]
Are You Too Smart to Date?
“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words, but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?” Winnie the Pooh As the author of The Tao of Dating: The Thinking Man’s Enlightened Guide to Success with Women, Dr. Alex Benzer is primarily known as a guy who helps [...]
Are Emo Guys the Antidote to Frat Poison?
When it comes to perpetrating the hookup culture, one needs only to look to America’s frats to get a close-up of the perps. If it’s wearing a double-popped collar, it’s probably looking for a hookup and little else. He’s a frat god, frat star, frat-tastic! He may be busted, he may be wearing a layer [...]
Bitchslap That Dude to Make Him Heel
“Pay my respects to grace and virtue Send my condolences to good Give my regards to soul and romance They always did the best they could And so long to devotion You taught me everything I know Wave goodbye, wish me well You’ve gotta let me go” Brandon Flowers, The Killers, Human Yeah, baby, [...]
Humour Me
Yesterday, in writing about a hilarious blog written by Welsh Girl, I stated that no one does self-deprecating humor like the Brits. Today I’m more convinced than ever, thanks to my English friend Annabel, who called something equally amusing to my attention: the personal ads in the London Review of Books. They are so outrageously [...]
Move Over St. Valentine, Rabbis Are the Real Romantic Experts
This morning I checked my inbox knowing that my Google Alerts would have coughed up numerous articles about romance, just in time for the imminent, dreaded, Holiday That Must Not Be Named. Sifting through the trite and the cute, I found four separate articles describing recent college speed dating events. Huh? I thought speed dating [...]
Are Women Cut Out to Be Friends With Benefits?
“You’re the best listener that I’ve ever met You’re my best friend Best friend with benefits” Alanis Morissette, Head Over Feet As someone who writes about contemporary relationships and the hookup culture, I hear a lot about Friends With Benefits Relationships (FWBR), mostly from women. Mostly they don’t seem to work too well, in [...]
5 Indispensable Paranormal Tools for Managing Relationships
The other day I was asked, “If you could possess one superpower, what would you choose?” I always think of that as a guy sorta thing. I’m not interested in scaling walls or having X-ray vision. When I was a kid, more than anything I wanted to be like Samantha on Bewitched. I realize that’s [...]
