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Archive for July, 2009

Learning from Your Parents – a Poll (but first a poem)

This Be The Verse They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were [...]

Sex Myths(?) aka Late Afternoon Ramblings

I’m always curious about articles that claim to be debunking commonly held myths.  My first question is always, ‘how many people actually believe these myths’?  Anyway, that’s me and how my mind works.  Always questioning. Today there was an article in YourTango called Top Myths Men (and Women) Have About Sex.  The premise was that [...]

Quick Dating Update

There are no second dates on the horizon.  None.  I’m not going to see the heavy drinker again.  Or the recently divorced guy who just moved to the city (Mr. Red Flag).  Or Mr. Early Next Week. I was supposed to have a couple of other first dates over the weekend but there were scheduling [...]

Beauty and the Beast

I was reading this post in Lemondrop called Men Agree on What’s Attractive, Women Don’t (don’t ask me why, I skim through all kinds of nonsense in an average day).  It seems that there’s lots of consensus among men about what they find attractive but not so much among women. OK. I’ll buy that. Anyway, [...]

The Dow is Down, Wanna Go Steady?

Yesterday morning my dear Twitter buddy @Willingthrall alerted me to an article from YahooNews called, Downturn dating: Hearts flutter as markets stutter. I always find pieces like this amusing.  They’re such a mixture of fact and BS.  There are some hard facts behind the title.  Our crappy economy has created record profits for the online [...]