Tag Archives: Relationships
Let the wrong one in
If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one who’s nonthreatening to your pathetic self-worth and low self-esteem: “Hot or Not? Why Women Shouldn’t Pick Attractive Husbands“
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Contempt of Course
Blah, blah, relationships, divorce, statistics, blah, predict, and then: “Actually, some people have tried to measure these things — one psychiatrist, made famous in Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, claims to be able to predict divorce based on whether couples show contempt for each other.” … Continue reading
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Google Buzz and the Creative Class
Not too long ago I had this great conversation re Richard Florida w/ a friend more interested in Geography than I. I’m a strong “creative class” aficionado, committed to staying in the cities — and social life — that inspires. … Continue reading
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Together in the Same Direction
Check out Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe. They’ll never replace Joan Didion in my heart, but there’s something about that grow-together, learn-together that tugs my heartstrings in such a satisfying way. Patti’s book about her relationship w/ Mapplethorpe isn’t brand new. … Continue reading
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Feminism and Inverse Evolution
To anyone who didn’t grow up in a comically-traditional household (did your Italian parents spank you w/ a wooden spoon?), word on the street is that men want a chase, while women need possession. Also, ladies? No one will buy … Continue reading
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Michelangelo Phenomenon
What makes a relationship work is when both partners enjoy each other in the present and — equally important — each partner’s idealized mate mirrors the other’s ideal vision of him- or herself. The Michelangelo Phenomenon adheres pretty closely to … Continue reading
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Do I Look Like Mrs. Obama?
GOOD LORD, Obamas, I’m trying to hate you and your not-proud-of-America-til-2008 ways. Please stop making adorable, dynamic, loving faces at one another so I can properly distance myself from you! Yes, kids: I have a crush on the Obamas.
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude
I’ve made no secret I’m a sucker for a good “solid relationship” story.* Nor have I been shy about how I love art. Which means I can’t believe I didn’t realize Christo and Jeanne-Claude were married! Conceptually, logistically, and creatively, … Continue reading
Happiness v. Resignation
This article (from Jezebel), suggesting that for a lasting marriage, women should pick men who are at least five years older, and have less education for some reason makes me wonder why marital bliss is always measured by duration. Is it … Continue reading
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Redefining “Depreciation”
Isn’t it bizarre that Mad Men, that seemingly-misogynistic, impeccably-conceived AMC series, is written by women, while Sex and the City, home of kitschy, “girl power” Platonic archetypes, was the single-girl fantasy for gay best friends? I’ve mentioned before that I’m … Continue reading
On Boys and Girls
Does the hilarious recording below remind you more of this post or this one? Dimitri the Stud Is an insecure Dimitri merely trying to throw his target off balance so that she might fall into his arms, or is this … Continue reading
Dominick Dunne
In my Insurance Law class this evening the professor began the class with an exercise wherein we all recalled current events and then searched for ways the events related to insurance. So many celebrities died this summer! Perhaps they just … Continue reading
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