9:05 - Not-date shows up five minutes late and kisses me on both cheeks. French cultural tendencies make differentiating between a date and a not-date infinitely more confusing. Not-date asks me what I want to do. I say “eat.” I mean “bone.” He’s the teaching assistant on my study-abroad program. Boning would be far sexier and more illicit than eating. He asks where. I point to the nearest restaurant.
Our most morbid dating poll yet: what do you want to do before you die? Momento mori. Check it out.
The next edition in our Dateline series: Here’s an observation: when someone’s from Utah, it’s way harder to tell if they’re being ironic. Involves rock climbing and sexual puritanism. Funny.
We go to Montreal to talk about sex with an acrobat, a massage therapist, a guy with a “girlfriend wife,” and more.
“Modern party-dance is simply writhing to suggestive music. It is ridiculous, silly to watch and excruciatingly embarrassing to perform. It is ridiculous, and yet absolutely everyone does it, so that it is the person who does not want to do the ridiculous thing who feels out of place and uncomfortable and self-conscious.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Broom of the System
Hey guys, we just launched a new featury columny thing. It’s called Dateline, and you could be a part of it.
Dateline is simple: it tells the story of a date using the timeline format, like a live blog or a series of Tweets. Or just really any story told linearly, event by event, with a little timestamp next to each happening.
Here’s the first one, it’s about Jagermeister, Sleigh Bells, and street tacos, and it’s hilarious.
10:31 - While waiting for tacos, date begins loudly making fun of people’s clothing as they walk past us. I am equally smitten and frightened — some of these people are larger than I am.
Bear in mind, with this guy, it’s all relative.
A writer in a cocktail dress faces a pickup artist in a leisure suit, in an all-night battle royal.
My dress was bright red, I was wearing an obscene amount of eyeliner, and I was surrounded by thumping music and flashing lights.
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