A friend of mine went on a date with a former work colleague this week. She was excited to finally explore her crush. The evening was enhanced by some specialty cocktails (the guy is typical Brooklyn and owns a bitters company). It started off well and ended with him insisting that she take one of [...]

There’s a hotel in Manhattan where all the wankers can take their mistresses, or prostitutes. Surprisingly, it’s called Le Parker Meridien. How luxurious! And you can rent rooms by the hour. How convenient! And it only costs $150 per hour. How affordable!
There’s even an upgrade option for $250. It includes champagne, strawberries, and an adult [...]

Considering its NC-17 rating, Blue Valentine was not as chock full of titillating sex scenes as I had expected. The few moments of lust fail to compensate for the film’s heart-wrenching story. Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling are flawless as two lost souls who fall deeply in love, get married, raise a child, and over time fall [...]

I don’t know about you, but New Year’s Eve usually makes me really depressed. That is, unless you’re madly in love with the man/woman of your dreams and that person is the one kissing you at midnight.
In 2011 I hope to:
1. Get a prestigious job.
2. Get my novel published, or at least get a literary [...]

The Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, made quite the bold/gauche statement this week: “It’s better to be passionate about beautiful girls than gay.” He was defending himself for having had an affair with a 17-year-old erotic dancer. Silvio is 74 years old, and I guess he likes them perky.
The dancer (“Ruby”) claimed that things [...]

My sister entered into a bicoastal relationship, and as soon as there were 3,000 miles between them, her boyfriend became a wack job. He told her she shouldn’t come to visit on Halloween weekend, because he would be busy with grad school and things (“things” being a dress-up party where he paraded as a “man [...]

So now that I have returned to Paris, after four months of being back in the United States, I am appreciating all that the French have to offer. Except for one thing — their obsession with critiquing you on your appearance. It’s a severely gauche cultural trait that they think is totally normal and acceptable.
Yes, [...]

A bunch of Yale guys were pledging a fraternity this week. In the tradition of misogynistic patriarchal institutions, the fraternity wanted its pledges to walk around campus chanting the following words related to rape: “no means yes,” “yes means anal,” and “I fuck dead women.” There was also a whole lot of pro-America hoopla that [...]

In college, it’s not unheard of for athletic teams, fraternities, and groups of friends to share stories about drunken hook-ups, divulging whatever details they can remember, comparing notes, and laughing (somewhat sadistically) over particularly absurd or lewd encounters. A recent graduate from Duke University has taken this type of over-sharing to the next level with [...]

I am usually very good at spotting wankers, but I recently had an encounter with a total wanker disguised as a 100% mimbo-prince composite. I thought he would be the type to write me love letters and take me to picnics in the park, romantic trips to the zoo, etc.
But quite to the contrary — [...]