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Archive for June, 2009

The whole planet was dancing this weekend.  One humongous, gyrating mass of human beings grooving together with Billie Jean, with Dirty Diana, with Ben.  Fifty of the most triumphant and simultaneously excruciating years one human being can spend on this earth, ended in an instant on June 25th.  Our beloved Michael Jackson is gone.  We [...]

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Cosmopolitan has a secret to share.  Men are like exotic animals.  Primitive, wild and astonishingly trainable.  No longer must women put up with males who treat relationships like antelope carcasses and the world like a cave.  The key is to handle them like the beasts they are.  
In an article entitled “Six Ways to Train Your [...]

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Not so long ago, the most resolute act you could carry out in order to assert your commitment to ending a bad relationship was to throw the guy out and change the locks.  If you were really brazen, you could toss his clothes into the mulberry bush beneath your window.  The truly disturbed might sleep [...]

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“Do you love him?”  My Spanish friend asked. 
I was in Madrid, talking to my friend about a man I’d gone out with a couple times and was crushing on. 
“Love him?”  I answered.  “I barely know him.”
“Madre mia,” my friend said.  “I’ve been in love with a woman for years and I’ve never even spoken to [...]

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