I Love You, Let’s Meet

the business-love analogy is depressing enough, and then one of the business guys uses the “whites of their eyes” to describe the advantage of speed-investing. As in “don’t shoot til you see the whites of their eyes.” Nice.

one of the intriguing things in this article about lying. That trinity is the very end of the article — therapists’ 2-out-of-3 criteria for truthfulness. Seems that a lot of white lies wouldn’t pass the “necessary” test, so if people followed that there might be a lot more “Yes, you DO look fat” or equivalents thereof. And I’m a big honesty booster, but who needs that? (The trinity does sound good on the surface though.)

Stat I doubt: 24 percent of men and 13 percent of women lie about their age online. Oh Moses, Moses, Moses, you naive thing.

Scary story from Ohio. Herb Vest of True.com will probably try to make hay with this, and Clinton probably has a better plan to protect working daters from this sort of thing than Obama.

I felt pegged by the stuff on this list things white people like that’s not conspicuous consumption. No designer chairs or kids taking French and I listen to more WFMU than NPR, BUT I just saw and liked Be Kind Rewind featuring white people faves Gondry and Mos Def. Dogs, living near water, indie rock, check.

Actually the same blog would work fine if it were called Stuff Yuppies Like (or whatever yuppies are called now).

I didn’t read the whole list, but I could see (prepare for topicality reach) online dating and speed dating being on there — these are obviously less appealing to anyone who’s been racially profiled.

And speaking of, here’s something else white people like: dating other white people!

Thanks for the link to Leticia, who has a lovely store full of gorgeous, affordable things in Boerum Hill, check it out.

saddest bit of very sad Wall St Journal article about lazy, dumb online daters:

After hunting for some copy-and-paste help — including borrowing the line “you will soon learn that I’m a raging egomaniac” — Mr. Picazio says he’s gotten 20 dates.

He had to STEAL that? (I guess you are by definition NOT a raging egomaniac if you figure other people’s words speak for you). And that netted him more responses? Is “raging egomaniac” code for something appealing?

Spinstervillle is looking better.

Last V-day it was my book you had to read; this year it’s Gabriel Cohen’s (the Buddhism-and-divorce book, Storms Can’t Hurt the Sky is the holiday-themed one, but the others rock too), Janice Erlbaum’s, Felicia Sullivan’s, and Judy McGuire’s. I’ve read the first three and they’re great; I was interviewed for Judy’s and I’m pretty sure did not make the cut, as she has some very, very funny stories.

Oh, and there’s no law against buying/reading my book if you haven’t, either. It’s got whatever you need to get you through heart-shaped Hallmark Thursday: tales of romantic bewilderment and bitter disappointment AND ones that end happily ever after.

Happy Valentines Day.

as one of the commenters said, “Schadenfreudastic.” Great details in this one, including that thing much less objectionable guys do all too often: rate other women’s appearance and compliment/appease/flatter you by classifying you higher.

“She’s a pig and I’m way hotter? Charmed I’m sure!”

because that could get him down to 95 percent hair-covered.

I like this guy’s chances online. Let’s face it, cats are much better-looking than people and why? Because fur is prettier than skin. Some open-minded Chinese cat lady will dig a man she can pet.

a fame john, if you pay to seem famous

The deluxe package is they chase you into a tunnel and make your car crash. That would get a lot of ink.

those were the most interesting factoids in this Times story about how people judge their prey on online dating sites. I would have thought being on the site all the time would be worse than rarely being on it.