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Adventures in Online Dating, Episode 4: The Tale of the 400-Pound Catfish
I guess it was bound to happen at some point: I've been catfished, y'all. (Catfish, as defined by Urban DictionaryBut never fear, not in the traditional sense of a total stranger making up a persona that I could fall in love with. Rather, this was an extremely idiotic attempt by a man I barely know to try to turn his wife -- my friend -- against me ( Read more... ) -
Adventures in Online Dating, Episode 3: First Match-Made Date
First Match-Made Date! Hey, I went on my first date this weekend. And I didn't get murdered, maimed, or manhandled, so that's a plus. This guy (I'll just call him D, but get your mind out of the gutter) had messaged me a few days after I joined, and 1) he actually read my profile and commented appropriately, and 2) appeared to have a sense of humor ( Read more... ) -
Adventures in Online Dating, Episode 2: A Way with Words
It's not even been a week into this experience, and I still feel like I'm "behind." But then again, I also think that maybe I'm treating this too much like an assignment. I don't have to go read the profile of every single guy who likes/favorites/winks/whatevers at me. It's not like I'm being graded on this or will get a performance evaluation at ( Read more... ) -
Adventures in Online Dating, Episode 1: The Lulz Begins
You wouldn't believe how many times people have suggested I try online dating. Well, if you're a single woman over the age of 22, then yeah, you probably actually would believe it, because the entire world thinks it's a travesty if you're not hitched to a man and spawning by the time you're in your mid-20s. Over the years I've gone from "NO WAY" to ( Read more... ) -
WUT.
Whoa, two years, huh ( Read more... ) -
Dad.
A MEMORY.
“Here,” I said.
I held up the DVD case I’d plucked from the shelf. I can’t remember what I’d picked out, but it was something respected, no doubt. Highly reviewed, well-known actors, an action movie or highbrow comedy. Intolerable Cruelty, or Master & Commander, or The Italian Job, maybe.
He nodded, ( Read more... ) -
Rush Limbaugh is a sad, fat fucking pile of dog shit who apparently needed some ratings this week.
Or, "How Allison got her outrage back."
Rush Limbaugh doesn't think Michelle Obama is fit to fight obesity.This man makes me want to throw up. And I am flabbergasted that he is flat-out making things up -- he says Obama is "demanding that everyone basically eat cardboard and tofu -- no calories, no fat, no nothing, gotta stop obesity ( Read more... ) -
Mellowed out.
I feel like I'm getting too old to be properly outraged anymore. Is it that I'm already losing that quintessential fighting spark of my 20's, that constant need to point out and rectify all the indignities of the world ( Read more... ) -
The Stand Redux
So the Hollywood Powers That Be are making Stephen King's The Stand into a feature film. Holy crap, what?
I think I've said here a million times that The Stand is my favorite book. Still is. I re-read it this summer because I forced encouraged Jimmy to read it (Wow. I am sensing a pattern here.). And though some of the references are dated, the ( Read more... )
