Archive for the ‘relationships’ Category

The Only Solution To This Knee Injury Is a Crippling, Abusive, Co-Dependent Relationship

Very bad news this week from the glorious world of seeing eight different doctors before getting a diagnosis. My knee injury from six weeks ago has now been identified as an ACL tear, by a real doctor rather than my original health insurance that I like to call WebMD.com. Since I like to think that [...]

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I Suck At Dating In L.A. For The Same Reason That Finches on Each Galapagos Island Have Different Beaks

After three years of living in Los Angeles, it’s become obvious that all the genetic dispositions and traits I adapted to thrive in New York’s dating scene are completely useless when dating in Los Angeles. As an east coast sarcastic Jew, I was clearly bred with the ability to pass on my DNA in environments [...]

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CBS Should Advertise Tiger Woods’ Masters Return Like a Maury Povich Episode

Throughout the NCAA tournament, I have been barraged by the same advertisements to the point where I can rip my shirt off to reveal Bags Fly Free better than the Southwest guys. The ads that infuriate me the most, however, are the teasers for the Masters on CBS. They are frustrating not because of their [...]

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I Lose Fights With My Girlfriend For The Same Reason Unprepared Armies Lose Wars in New Terrain

Most military setbacks throughout history are caused by the favored Army being more prepared for the previous war than the one they are currently losing. We have become fully adapted for the terrain and tactics of one enemy, then enter a new landscape and demands and we are caught off guard. This is exactly how [...]

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Angry Girls Are Like Mandarin Because The Inflection Gives the Same Words Different Meanings

People knock Mandarin for being a tricky language because the emphasis on a certain syllable can make a word’s meaning be either “I love you,” or, “Your mother’s a whore” (although I don’t know what the Chinese is for, “I love your whore mother”). It’s a tonal language with a lot of sounds and vocal [...]

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Why I Pity The Older Girls I Date

It should definitely be noted that people other than myself express pity for the girls I date, but that’s more personality-driven, I think. And also I need to mention that by “older,” I just mean older than me. I’m not hanging out at bingo parlors to snag myself a taut sixty-two-year-old, even though there would [...]

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