So the other night, as I’m pull my head out of a Bronte novel and find myself wandering around the house in my underpants listening to David Gray and eating peanut butter from a spoon, it occurs to me I *might* be mopey Read More »Men Deserve PMS too!
My friend has just gotten started on internet dating. So far she’s gotten way more hits than she expected (YAY!), but the emails she’s been getting are clearly indicative of the fact men have forgotten how to pitch woo (Boo…).
Now, the pitching of woo is a different thing from the hurling of sheep or whatever it is they do on facebook these days. Woo (our deep late night patio discourse has determined) is something beyond dating, it actually precedes dating, it is the taking the effort to get to know a girl, convince her of your honourable intentions, sell her on the idea of dating before you even date.Read More »Day 90 – whatever happened to the pitching of woo?
Brian ducks down to get through the small door, steps into the court. Mike is already warming up, lazily bouncing the ball off various walls.
“Hey, how’d the date go?”
“Alright… I guess.”
“Yeah. What’d you do?” Mike lines up to serve, really launches it.
Brian dives for the corner, sneakers squeaking, thwacks it high in return. It bounces off the back wall. “Point. …coffee.”
“Dude! Coffee? That’ll kill ya right from the start.”Read More »Day 89 – Smart Girls, Pretty Girls
So, I’ve been watching a lot of movies in my downtime. Too dreary outside, and brain still too fried to read much. It helps if you watch movies that aren’t too mentally challenging, hence Bull Durham. Though I put the French subtitles on to see if I couldn’t osmose a second language – I think I’ll get very good at swearing if nothing else (in case I ever run out of English words).
Right, so Bull Durham isn’t just a movie about sex and baseball, and a bit of Walt Whitman thrown in, it is very profound insight into the emotional lives of menRead More »Day 44 – relationship insights from Bull Durham