Isn’t It Romantic?

Photo by didbygraham.
Girls complaining about how the hook-up culture has ruined romance are the new “nice”-guys-complaining-about-how-nice-guys-always-finish-last-and-never-get-laid.* Apparently they’re nostalgic for some golden era of history where gentlemen took girls to the malt shop and never got fresh at the drive-in movies. These girls have romcom-fueled daydreams of perfect dates where the man wears a suit, [...]

The Domino Effect

(Photo by tracyhunter.)
None of my close friends are married yet. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how grateful I am for that. My parents didn’t get married until they were almost 30 and neither, I think, did most of my friends’ parents. I don’t come from the kind of town where people get married [...]

Should You Date Your Coworkers?

Photo by malias.
Some of my vices: sleeping all day, milk stout, good cheese, pop music, anything deep-fried. Oh, and dating people I work with. The last three guys I’ve dated have all been coworkers. Of course, I worked in restaurants and bars, where you have lots of friendly, attractive 20something-year-olds surrounded by copious amounts of [...]

Left & Leaving

One of the most important–and most difficult–skills you will ever have to master is how to let someone go without completely losing your shit. It could be a death, it could be a relationship ending, it could be a friend you’ve grown apart from; they’re all echoes of the same form. You have to face [...]

Things I Used to Do

Remember when people used to use myspace?
I read through too many http://whitelotuswhiterussian.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=121of my old myspace blogs last night. The two or three years when myspace was big corresponded roughly with the two or three years of my life where:
1) I was the drunkest,
2) I had a borderline obscene amount of personal drama, and
3) I was [...]