Techno-Romance
As I write this, the battle sounds of Terran Marines ambushing the Zerg trickle in from the next room — my boyfriend is hard at work vying for galactic dominance in the newly released StarCraft II. As a museum–going history nerd who can go days without turning on my TV or PC, it is minor [...]
I’m looking for casual sex. At least according to my OKCupid profile. Also according to the profile, I am 5’4 (1.63 m), Gemini and it’s fun to think about, graduated from college/university, and Artistic / Musical / Writer. All those other attributes are true, so when it says I’m looking for casual sex, that also [...]
After months of encouragement from my friends, I joined JDate in 2009. After almost a year on the site, this is my story: 10 Things I Hate About JDate
6 years. 5 websites. 50+ dates. 0 lasting loves. Starting at age 13, I began to explore the wonder of group dates, after-school homework sessions, sports events, school dances, music competitions and the plethora of other non-date options available to teens with little to no ‘fun money’. There were boys, and there were lots of [...]
Why doesn’t she get it?! Ughhhhhhhhh. As you’ve probably realized by now, Becky and I have some pretty great moms. We wouldn’t be who we are (read: awesome and self-congratulatory) without them. And more importantly, we wouldn’t know who to chat up on OkCupid. So imagine our confusion when we realized that even our hip [...]
Koko needed a man. A real man. Well, ok, not so much a real man as a real gorilla. And it wasn’t so much that she needed one as the scientists who worked with her needed one. And they didn’t so much need one as want one, mostly because they wanted more gorillas. Maybe they [...]
Hey! Yeah, you. Mr. and Mrs. I’m Too Busy And Popular To Waste My Time Online Dating Like Those Losers From The WTF?! Online Dating Series. Think you’re too cool? Think again. Answer these questions for me, please: *Do you have a Facebook account? *Have you ever ‘liked’ or commented on someone’s Facebook status? *Do [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC8vxTfQxkU&feature=fvsr WTF?! Some idiot (it might have been me) clued my mother in to the marvelous WTF?! JDate Guest Blog from yesterday. I thought she would enjoy it! I thought she would appreciate that I appreciate that she’s not one of those moms who meddles in private affairs like my f*cked up love life. But boy oh [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eXDRgEL2AA How far would you go? For Federer? For really good sushi? For love? Happening this weekend at a movie theater near you – Drew Barrymore and Justin Long (a real life it-seems-to-be-complicated couple) take on the anxieties of miles-apart love in GOING THE DISTANCE. With Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day, and Christina Applegate along for [...]
And the WTF?! online dating series continues! I’ve extended its reach over to The Huffington Post, since it seems safe to say that at least a few of their single readers (or most of them) are probably online dating as well. We at WTF?! have been openly celebrating online dating and all its quirks, successes [...]
I felt like I was packing for Mars. Suiting up for OKCupid, as it were, by inputting my personal stats (“White / 5’4” / Gemini and its fun to think about”) and uploading the best picture of myself I could find. Choosing from a drop-down menu of relationship choices (“I’m looking for new friends, long-term [...]
Becky and I love to play expert (okay fine, especially me) – even though we’re fully aware that it’s impossible for anyone to truly call themselves a bona fide expert in a post-dating world with no rules or regulations, where it’s every man/woman/relationship/app for themselves. But someone had to take charge and start figuring out [...]





