Lessons learned from Season 4 of MTV's "Friendzone":

• People who have been friends since childhood can't transition into more than that, despite what soft-focus romance novels and black-and-white pictures of children kissing may tell you.
• The more confident you are that your best friend likes you back, the less likely it is that you are right.
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From a classic (2011) n+1 essay on "how we chat now":
And who do we Gchat with, when it counts? Friends, past boyfriends, future boyfriends, other people’s boyfriends... Gchat is for friendship, and affairs. It’s for allowing into the home everyone who isn’t supposed to be there, who’s supposed to be at home in their own bedroom... Might this be a ( Read more... )

I saw two horror movies back to back recently - Contracted and Alyce Kills (both on Netflix).  They're both like Girls episodes gone bloody, which is always interesting to me since we know how much I like the whole women-in-horror thing.  I told a friend who doesn't like horror movies the plot line of The Descent this evening and she came away ( Read more... )

"Relationship questions on this site are littered with the bones of people who believed there was a way to decide how they were going to feel later ( Read more... )

I'm back in DC.  Lugged my overweight (by two pounds! but that made it 52 pounds) suitcase through the metro system, including a mistaken early exit at the Archives station - always forget there's a station between L'Enfant Plaza and Gallery Place.  This is how my roommates greeted me:

• Jordan: hug.
• Aaron: hiding in my room and jumping out when I ( Read more... )

"Is it possible I'm thinking about you too much?" That's a clown question, bro.
-- from here, by antilamentation

One of my (three male) roommates back in DC told me once that I was like Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns.  I have never seen Batman Returns.  But this was just posted in film_stills.

Okay, then.