Archive for May, 2008

cameo: gender stereotypes

May 29, 2008

At 9:45 pm Wednesday, May 28, I was at home watching an online video of the May 17th wedding of Princess Anne’s son Peter Phillips to Autumn Kelly (I love royal weddings, however they turn out in the long run), and Plan C was at home (his) watching the Phillies game.

a dating blogger’s holiday weekend

May 26, 2008

FRIDAY AFTERNOON: my date with Loverville
I met Loverville at last!
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About a year ago we first established email contact and exchanged photographs (I sent her my profile pic, and she sent me one taken while travelling somewhere exotic). Then this past winter we got back in [...]

before seeing ’sex and the city’ (the film)

May 20, 2008

Well, before seeing the rest of it, that is: on the New York Times web site and I suppose lots of other places on the web, you can see so many trailers that you wonder what’s left un-previewed.
In one sequence, Carrie is reading ‘Cinderella’ to a four-year-old girl, and as she closes the [...]

photo of the man who’s good to his cat

May 18, 2008

Here’s a (somewhat edited!) photo of Plan C taken at a baby shower I gave yesterday. (It’s possible to crop without using the cropping function… ;) Notice his crisp stylish conservative clothes. I left visible at bottom right a present wrapped in pink paper (the baby will, they say, most likely be a girl).

an interview with mimi about plan c

May 12, 2008

So Mimi, you’re still together with this wonderful man?
Yup. It’s been three months and two days. We met on February 10th.
Of course, you were also together with Performer for that long….
That’s true. I was.
How can you tell this relationship is better?
Oh god. Given my background — a terrible father, [...]

a cat named mimi

May 8, 2008

Saturday we’re going to dinner at the house of Plan C’s old friends. He said there was something he needed to tell me ahead of time — mild fanfare mixed with anxiety — namely, that their cat was named Mimi.
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love in an election year

May 5, 2008

Forty-four years ago, long before most of my fellow dating-bloggers were born, I was enjoying (most of the time) my first romance.
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When PJ and I met, on December 14, 1963 (yes, yes, the date December 14th has ever since been important to me; I always remember [...]