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Online Dating Story #169: The A-Hole From Bridesmaids

July 12, 2012

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I pulled my back out on my date with the A-Hole from Bridesmaids. You know, the Jon Hamm character? A perfect storm of vanity and self-consciousness converged on a bench, when I tried to make my bare legs (100 percent humidity had me in shorts) look their best. I alternated between crossing them (bad for [...]

Abortion Parties and Rape Jokes. Yes, I Just Wrote That Thanks To HBO’S Girls

April 25, 2012

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I can’t believe I’m disagreeing with Miri, because I don’t think we’ve ever disagreed, but HBO’s Girls, to me, is funny. As in LOL fucking laugh out loud uncomfortable disgustingly funny. Granted, I’m more with the gyno at the end who said “You couldn’t pay me enough to be 24 again.”–Lena Dunham shows the nasty [...]

Internet Dating Gone Wrong Part 3: Green Singles

November 9, 2011

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Green Singles is a wild, wild west dating site. Green Singles, true to the obvious hint in the name, is  filled with groovy men and women looking to connect over a shared love of the environment and everything gentle and peaceful. Sounded like the place for me. I fancied myself evolved to the point of [...]

Internet Dating Gone Wrong Part 2: JDate

October 28, 2011

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In Internet Dating Gone Wrong Part 1, I had Chinese food and “intimacy.” Now, I’m hooking up with Jews from New Hampshire via JDate. First, a story. We’re in Israel. We’re in the Old City. There are teenagers (Israeli soldiers) with assault riffles slung over their shoulders and cell phones pressed to their ears and cigarettes [...]