by Christine Dinh
We all know the phrase “We can still be friends, right?” ranks up there as one of the worst phrases one person can say to another person. (Don’t even get me started on that. We were never friends to begin with before whatever the heck we were happened, ass.)
In addition to pseudo-romantical relations, we’ve all at one point in our lives used the word “friend” as a loaded weapon. In junior high, my sister and I would trade our friendship for requests with my younger cousin. If he wanted to be friends, he would have to go downstairs and grab us a snack pack.
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by Jules Bleach
Over the years I have built up this Ideal. A checklist of features that have inevitably turned me into a picky pretentious asshole, but with good intentions. Like Weird Science, I wish i could take Tina Fey’s chin & glasses, Zooey Deschanel’s smile, Sara Silverman’s mannerisms & Penelope Cruz’s….everything, and turn them into some kind of super girl. Those features have become less important in their practicality eg – those people that are strictly a boobs or butt man, and more about a feeling that’s invoked in my heart by the mathematics of angles, and more overly the colour palette and contrast. As it stands you could probably personify my lust into the form of #RGBYYY00021.
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by Star Padilla
There have been some crazy stories that come from reconnecting with people from our pasts via Facebook, MySpace, PlentyofFish, etc. I understand the allure, especially when it’s someone who we were crushing on or possibly even involved intimately with in our high school and college lives. It’s definitely interesting to see how these peoples lives turned out, what road they took and where they have ended up today.
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by Christine Dinh
Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face. – Kim Pine, Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
It’s hard to hold back your inner Julie Powers or Regina George, sometimes. Life is full of difficult people. Some you can avoid. But then there are those you can’t, like bosses, coworkers, clients, friends, family members, your girlfriend’s evil exes, etc. We all can’t tell an aircraft of passengers to go fuck themselves before making a grand exit down the emergency slide with two bottles of beer in hand or be even bold enough to tell a boss they’re the reason we’re quitting.
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by Bunny McIntosh
Dear Bunny,
I recently IM’d a friend of my girlfriend, just to be nice. I said “hello” and asked her how her weekend was. That was it. Her friend replied “hello,” but was then silent. Shortly after, I endured an hour long lecture from my sobbing girlfriend over the phone about how it made her friend uncomfortable that I would try to contact her at all, and that I needed to understand that her friends would never see me as anything more than their friend’s boyfriend, and that I shouldn’t ever try to reach out to them.
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by Christine Dinh
You’ve already heard me bemoan that dating is hard to do. But you know what’s even harder? Finding the time to go on the first date. [..]
by Bunny McIntosh
Questions this week! Here we go, from you, the viewer… [..]
