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Would you date online if it wasn’t anonymous?
A recent article from AdAge called into question whether the anonymous factor in online dating is responsible for limiting a dating site’s network growth. Writer Julie Ruvolo asserts that because users take on an alias rather than their real name,...
Payola: Starring Lindsay Lohan and Co.
On the surface it seems the starlet making her coincidental rounds here in NYC is just that- a coincidence. But a careful examination of the rounds she has actually made and who was there to take the pictures may...
Are Unpaid internships the new Job?
With college graduations just around the corner, you can find most university seniors frantically scrambling around trying to sort out their lives before diplomas are placed in their trembling hands. Feeling the pressure from family, friends, and sometimes even random...
Where have all the nice guys gone? Why you girls are stuck dating players and losers….
Woe to the single woman in search of the single nice guy. What to say, with spring approaching and the hormones itching? That said I couldn't help lifting another facebook dialogue that extols the diabolic nature of meeting nice...
A Woman’s guide on how you guys should ‘pick’ us up…
First thing’s first: Be Cool, Man. Any woman worth your time can smell a ‘pick up’ scheme coming a mile away. Even if you are her type physically, you can blow your chances by being overly skeezy and obvious....
Peasants need not apply- Welcome to the Snob Mob.
Kids the teardrops are backed up all the way to the back of my spleen and there's only person I hold responsible for this- Oliver Estreich- the apparent new commissar of tragic posh, society, diamond platinum tear drops and...
Ladies why are you really posting all those Facebook images?
How we feel about ourselves is so often a function of how others feel about us or how they perceive us. With social media tools, especially Facebook, one can essentially spend the day micro managing their public relations image...
Why I’m Quitting Charlie Sheen.
Like the drugs he’s taken, Charlie Sheen is an intoxicant himself. His interviews, filled with bragging, rambling non sequiturs, are already synonymous with ‘crazy talk’. We know he’s bad for us, but damn if he’s not a magnetic distraction.
And why...
Isn’t it time you went to St Barts too?
A magical setting, fabulous beaches, fine food, and high style make St. Barts the perfect escape.
Shaped like a soprano sax, St. Barts covers only 9-1/2 square miles, yet is internationally known among island connoisseurs as the prized jewel of...
A Bohemian’s nightmare- looking for a place to live.
Let's just say- I have been in shell shock all week and I probably will be for a while to come. For anyone who's ever has ever had to look for a place to live (with a very limited...
The pitfalls of all your social status updates….
Updated your status lately?
What isn’t shared online today? Family photos, marital status, sexual preference, and geographic location. A ripe cornucopia of intimate details, ripe for the picking by the hands of friends and creepers alike, (nearly) worldwide! Who among...
In defense of the mid 20 year old male.
It's been a good fifteen years since I have been a mid 20's male and yet I can still sympathize with his lot, which isn't really saying much, because deep down I have a lot of scorn for most...
Andrew Jacono, The Diabolical Journey of an Uber Plastic Surgeon: Facing Trauma.
I’m sitting in a dark room, my teeth clenched as a young woman on a screen in front of me recants the time her face was obliterated by a boyfriend who went ballistic. The camera zooms in and the...
Fallout from AOL and Huff Po: Is There Life After Professional Journalism?
A particularly snarky sense of desperation and existential angst has gripped the news industry since the announcement of the AOL/Huff Po merger, catalyzing some of the only frank criticism of what is still apparently a multimillion dollar industry (provided you intend...
The Melting Middle Class: Why you are super rich or barely hanging by a thread.
In a poll conducted in 2007, CBS asked nearly 1,000 people to define their socioeconomic status. Of those polled, only two percent said they were upper class, and only seven percent defined themselves as “lower class.” This means that over 90...
