Car-less Educand gets so many replies to her personals ads from women in Providence, she's forced to add a line to her online profile that she's only looking for potential mates in Boston:
... What is it? Is it all a weird coincidence? Is Providence the new Noho? What? ...
Single Girl in the City reports on a girlfriend who got dumped via instant message:
... Over. A 7-month relationship ended in less than 7 sentences. Over IM of all things. ...
If you're ramming the rear of your ex-boyfriend's car all the way up and down Blue Hill Avenue and he finally has enough and turns into a local police station, it's bad enough for you to follow him in and start yelling at him. It's even worse to then go outside and start vandalizing his car in the police parking lot with a sharp object. Just sayin', is all.
Also in the report: Guy starts to mug woman at downtown ATM, claiming he needs the money for baby formula, but then says he just can't do it and runs away.
Amy reads a Cosmo article on getting to a hottie at a bar through his wingman and then goes through what would actually happen if you tried that - and it's not pretty.
Johnny Sapphire gets on a plane tomorrow:
... He lives very far away now, almost two years later, an unfortunate byproduct of having been born there and wanting to die there. He has asked me to live with him. ...
Not going would go against my instinct, I say. Not loving him is impossible, and not wanting him is unthinkable. It's a choice, but it's one I made a long time ago. It has just taken some time to get used to the decision.
Blogorelli critiques Oscar fashions, with her eye particularly drawn to the jeweled brooches worn by several men:
... "Man brooches...MAAAaaaAn BROooOcheS!" In my personal favorite trend of the night, many gentleman wore jeweled brooches on their suits. I was into it ... it will be my new favorite thing to scream on the street in 2010, when Boston males actually catch up to fashion-forward trends and stop wearing khackis with pleats.
More Oscar notes:
On Vermillion Dreams, Calla applauds the state Board of Pharmacy for requiring Bay State Wal-Marts to stock the pills. But she wonders:
We'll just see how long it takes to get around to the issue of the pharmacists denying to fill perscriptions for it.
Be of Be Be Re finds it sad that the Museum of Fine Arts has resorted to things like tapa-and-cosmos singles nights to draw in the younger crowd. Setting aside the issue of whether lower admission prices might work just as well, she writes:
... Give me the old Free Wednesday Nights in the East-Asian wing where a girl could get picked up without pretense by a scruffy guy clutching one from Mishima's oeuvre interrupting her reverie over wood grain patterns in block prints to ask if she was into knot-tying. ...
Alyssa Boehm reports from Day 4 of her husband's cold:
... Deeps: I'm going to be dead tomorrow.
Me: No you're not.
Deeps: This isn't a cold. It's some kind of crazy disease. Like…. See, there is something wrong. The cat won't even look at me.
Me: You hate the cat. That's why she won't look at you.
Deeps: I have the Asian Cat flu. The cat is trying to kill me.
Me: I don't think that's it.
Deeps: Oh God, you're in on it together. ...
Blogorelli is sponsoring the Life Cycle of a Relationship (10 Steps) competition: Come up with a 10-song playlist that follows that theme - using songs available for public sharing:
... I and a few impartials will listen to the mixes, pick the top three, and award the spectacular and completely hypothetical blue ribbon on Monday, February 20, 2006. The prize is a $10 iTunes gift card to the winner, and a $5 iTunes gift cards to the second and third finishers. ...
Pazzo Books is hosting literary speed dating on Thursday:
... Each participant will bring their favorite books and pile them spine out in front of them at the table. Like many speed dating events, you're not allowed to talk about your job, the weather or where you live. Unlike other events, you'll actually have something to talk about. Does the person across from you read books that you like? Books you find interesting? Books you'd like to know more about? Does one or more of your favorite books match? Or do they read books you think are hideous? ...
Goose will now think twice before saying something the next time his wife misplaces her T pass.
thepapadog has one more opportunity to find out the sex of his baby, should he?
...What if it's a girl? Shouldn't I have had at least one boy before her to watch and protect her...
...next week we will be going in for another ultrasound and this time I do have permission to find out the sex if I want to... A part of me wants to know and a part of me doesn't. It's a dilemma that I haven't quite figured out yet. So if anybody out there has actually found my blog, please feel free to give your opinion. You have until 8am December 6th to let me know your thoughts. We'll talk soon.....
Jenny continues to try to educate the male species:
When the girl walks up to a bar and asks the bartender "What do you have for white wines?", do not order her a glass of rum mixed with sugar. She will not like it. Or drink it. ...
Earlier:
How not to pick up a girl.
Have you ever overheard a conversation that just makes you want to shake one of the people by the shoulders and make them snap out of it? Amy overhears a conversation like that this morning on the T.
Moxie and her boyfriend escort a female friend, seven months past her divorce, to the MFA's First Friday singles thing:
... It was really loud and crowded. The shark tanky behavior of the men didn't make T feel attractive, it just made her sad. Lunchboy stepped up and tried to take her on a scouting mission, but they ended up retreating to the America's Cup exhibit because T loves boats and the boats made her happier than the men upstairs. ...
Jay has some suggestions for you, such as:
Your screen name defines you. If you define yourself by what you like to watch other people do, THIS IS WHY YOU ARE STILL SINGLE. (This means you, BoSox ladies.) ... If you can’t come up with 100 words without complaining about having to come up with 100 words, you are either dull-witted or dull. THIS IS ALSO WHY YOU ARE STILL SINGLE. ...
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