May 2011
8 posts
We've Moved!
After a lovely run with Tumblr, we decided to move to a self-hosted site. Visit us here:
http://www.singleforareason.com
Obese Man Baby
Okay so…this is awkward. And really creepy. Apparently there are not only grown men who act “like babies”, there are grown men who openly prefer to live like babies (e.g. sleep in cribs, suck on pacifiers and wear diapers) in the comfort of their own homes.
In this National Geographic clip, you will meet Stanley. He is a 29 year old man who likes to “play or...
1992 Gayle + Oprah read love letters
We love Gayle and Oprah’s friendship- and we REALLY love this flashback of them to a circa 1992 something big-hair moment when they reviewed old high school love letters from their past. Gayle’s is from an old boyfriend and Oprah’s is well, just watch and see. This is a hilariously old-school clip that reminds all of us never to take ourselves or our love notions too...
A Little Chocolate and Gambling, Anyone?
An article in today’s health section of the Wall Street Journal attempts to separate fact from myth with regards to numerous sexual health studies conducted in past years.
We were intrigued by the title of the article, ‘The Joy of Researching the Health Benefits of Sex’, then slightly caught offguard by the bizarre choice of graphics which accompany the piece (awkward),...
Bums Party Too
I was at a warehouse party and, since I have a thing for punks, was very excited when I spotted a completely punk style guy carrying a dog. So cute! I went up to him and we started chatting. I asked him why he was bringing his dog to a warehouse party at 2am and he said, “Niko has separation anxiety”. Okay. We chatted for like ten mins at which point it was clear he wasn’t...
April 2011
47 posts
January Jones is Pregnant!
One of the few headlines that could tear us away from the royal wedding mediastorm this morning was the news that January Jones is preggers!
As a single 33-year-old woman, Jones caputured our hearts as the beautiful and tormented Betty Draper on Mad Men and showed millions of blondes that we CAN pull off bright red lipstick.
Here’s to you Ms...
Douche of the Week: Albert Haynesworth of the...
Despite the fact that we are sports fans, Haynesworth was not on our radar until earlier this week. And now that he is, we have many things to say.
For those who don’t know, Redskins defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth has been indicted on a charge of misdemeanor sexual abuse in connection with a February incident with a female waitress in Washington, D.C. The alleged...
Bald as a Baby's Bottom
I was heading home with a guy I had met a weekend before at a party, where he had seemed charming, confident, and quirky. I was even more excited that he had actually called, like he said he would! But my elation was short lived.
When we got to his room, I suggested we jam, because we both play guitar and sing. His set-list started off with an acoustic...
WatchWe love The Daily Show, and we particularly love when their news correspondents go seemingly undetected into interviews and produce segments of pure comedic gold. Recently, Daily Show news correspondent John Oliver has been covering the upcoming UK nuptials in a series he calls, “Katedown to the Royal Willding.” His latest installment, which aired last night in the US, was truly...
Sobriety
Sometimes we singles get caught up in the moment and imagine a suitor to be better than they actually are. We want to love and nurture the men that come into our lives, even if they have rather glaring problems. Enter: hot Swedish photographer.
Despite the fact that I knew this guy had a reputation of partying, drugging, etc. I was...
Home is Where the Heart (and that lady who washes...
I had gone on a couple of dates with this guy, and we seemed to hit it off. Then he got “busy” with work for quite a long time, which made me think he was just not interested in me anymore.
A little bit of time passes, and he actually suggests meeting up on Thursday if he finishes work early, or Saturday. When Thursday gets swallowed up by...
Cats or Dogs?
I had hooked up with this significantly older man a couple of times and was somewhat interested in him. The second time we hooked up we took the opportunity to go out to brunch together and get to know one another in the light of day. From my experience, this is often when things go…awry. During the course of the meal he said a fair number of weird things about his...
A More Perfect Union
R. Luke Dubois is an artist and curious human who sought to create a US census based on the words people use to describe themselves in dating profiles. We first came upon Dubois’ work in an article from a local New Jersey news website that poked fun at some of the words that appeared for Jersey towns. When we looked up Dubois and began examining the maps, the national data was fascinating!
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Donkey Dick/ Horse Pat
Scene: Lower East Side rockers bar, the one where Lady Gaga’s boyfriend is the bartender (read: Bros/ Wallstreeters are not allowed)
I’m sitting at the bar with a couple of friends. Above the bar there is a sign on the wall that reads: “Donkey Shot- tequila and a corona for $7.”
Suddenly, a group of drunk bros who are completely out of place at this bar come up behind us...
Douche Della Settimana (Douche of the Week):...
Berlusconi has been on our radar for years as an aged, entitled and bloated party boy recklessly tossing aside duties to the Italian people for shadowy business relationships, corruption and blatant sex addictions (don’t worry, we’ll get to the bunga bunga parties). He’s also known for making ridiculous statements captured by the media. In 2008, for example, he complimented...
A New, Heinous Take on White Tees
Just when we thought white t-shirts were a pretty safe article of clothing, Gilt posted these beauties for sale last week. Not only are these t-shirts heinous, they are also completely non-utilitarian, cost $69 a pop and by the end of the auction had SOLD OUT! Sorry if you wanted to obtain one, gents, you’re going to have to turn to Ebay or a Halloween story. Can we get Jerry Seinfeld in...
Warning: Verbal Masturbation Causes Phlegm
Scene: Manhattan bar.
I’m visiting a fellow alum who happens to be a successful banker. We go out with some of her colleagues, and at the bar a 40-something year old man starts talking to my friends and I. Of course I continue to talk to him as he seems fairly depressed that the rest of the women in our group immediately left once he opened his mouth.
Anyway, he talks all about himself: his...
3rd Date Dilemma
So I went on two dates with a guy, and the first two had gone reasonably well so I agreed to a third.
At the end of the date, the guy asked me back to his place for ’after-dinner drinks.’ I accepted and we headed back to his house to cozy up on the couch. He decided that at this point, it would probably be good to tell me he had a girlfriend, who he had been with for over a year....
Cougars and MILFs, Oh my!
The male obsession with older women has existed forever. However, sometime around 1999 a new term made its grand entry into the vocabularies of young American males, which made it not only acceptable to be into older women, it made it cool. Thanks to American Pie, a new word came to embody the hot mom, and that word was MILF (Mom I’d Like to F*ck). Before long, pubescent...
Slightly Out of Range, A Flash in the Pan
I created an online dating profile back in January and said I was interested in men ages 27-35. One of the first normal-seeming guys to hit me up listed his age as 36…slightly out of range, but I thought “Why not?” We went out a few times and had really good chemistry, even though there were things about him that made me hold back a little bit from seeing him as a...
Sunshine> The Law
Overheard in New York:
“I mean, it’s Springtime. People have better things to do than go to their stupid court-ordered therapists.”
Word. Happy Friday!
A(n)nals of Online Dating: And by "enjoying" I... →
annalsofonlinedating:
hi nice profile,… very very sexy! I like you’re look and style. I’m actually “enjoying” your pics right now! i’m on skype now if you like to see that, or joining in.. buzz me. [redacted, but it includes the word “bone” -ed]. ciao Alex
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+8 for a…
Face Shirt
This man created fabric of his OWN FACE, then made a shirt which he apparently wears out in public.
Nothing like covering your overweight belly with a short-sleeved button-up covered in photos of your own face that could also double as Rosie O’Donell! And I thought Hawaiian shirts were bad.
S to the EXY, dude.
(Via Reddit)
Splenda Thief
Scene: Couple enters a subway car, sits down and complains about their 40- minute commute home. Girl begins reading a book while the guy reaches into his bag to grab his. Girl spots something in her boyfriend’s bag of which she does not approve…
Girl: Did you steal Splenda packets from work AGAIN?!
Guy: No!…..these are from Au Bon Pain.
Girl huffs,...
Do you think I'm pretty? It wasn't clear from your...
E-mail received on a dating website:
Dogs > Boyfriends
After a girl had been dating her boyfriend for a few months, she felt him becoming withdrawn and he wasn’t paying her alot of attention.
Aiming to get to the bottom of the situation, said girl confronted her boyfriend about his ambivalence towards her.
He responded to her, completely seriously and stonefaced:
“If you want someone to dote on you, then you should get...
A Heartfelt Thank You
We wanted to take a moment to thank all of our readers who have made the past few months so amazing for the creators of this blog.
So far, we have had over 10,500 visits from in people 73 countries around the world, numbers that we marvel at as they grow every day.
More importantly, the feedback we’ve received from our readers who say the blog makes them laugh makes us so very...
Men Who Can Cook
If there was one thing that could make us hang up our single girl heels, it’s a charming man who can cook. Hot damn! Lucky for us, this trend is on the rise.
According to The Food Channel, the amount of time men spend in the kitchen has tripled since 1970. Based on this fact, and the emergence of hit shows like Top Chef and others, the cooking...
Nothing Says Love like a Crunchwrap Supreme
Background: A guy and girl have been hooking up for a few months and live in the same dorm at college. He is rather awkward and getting him to ask her to come home with him is like pulling teeth. One night, he tried a technique to bed her I like to call the Fourth Meal Method.
Guy: Hey, where are you?
Girl: At a bar, coming back to campus soon though. Where are you?
...
The Hit and Run
There was this guy that had liked me for a while and we had made out a few times and then he moved away. I knew he had recently come back into the city, and one night he called me and asked if he could come over.
We had a a few beers and he paintstakingly taught me the art of opening a beer bottle with my lighter. I then decided to have sex with this gentleman, and as we were in the middle of the...
Man Jewelry
It all began with puka shell necklaces in middle school and now it seems everywhere you turn there is a gold chain necklace peeking out from underneath a guys shirt, subtly pinching on his chest hair and causing a strange, reviled feeling in the pit of your stomach that is the physical manifestation of your brain asking “Why is that man wearing a necklace?”
We have had numerous...
No idea why this guy is single. →
annalsofonlinedating:
From the “You should message me if…” section of this dude’s profile:
If you’re reasonably tall (5’6-6’, no more than that because, while I don’t mind being eye to eye with you, I won’t ever be looking up to you), you’re passionate and intelligent so as to be good company, sexually liberated, and…
Tell Me About Your Goals :)
This message was received by two young ladies within 24-hours of each other on Match.com. If you’re going to have a cookie-cutter e-mail you send out to many women, at least make it better than this. Come on dude!
And what is a chat engine?
Medical Photo: Male (NSFW)
Dear lady doctor, if all I had in my head about male genitalia was based on this medical photo in your office, I would never have relations with a man, and probably continue thinking male genitalia looked like small woodland creatures until the day I died.
Douche of the Week: Sham WOW
Oh, Vince. Vince, Vince, Vince. We always wondered when you would reveal the true inner creep lurking behind your wincing one-eyed exterior. Fortunately for us, that story has broken today.
Meet Vince Shlomi. You may recognize him as the television pitchman behind ShamWow and the Slap Chop- or as a character from a nightmare you’ve had, either one. Shlomi is the high-energy promoter behind...
Bro Sites
Over the past few years, a new generation of Bros has banded together and taken to the internet to discuss how “bro” and “frat” they are by comparing stories and trying to one-up one another with bro-iness.
Some of our favorites are TFM (Total Frat Move), MLIB (My Life is Bro), and Brobible.com, all of which offer great reading material if you make yourself...
What We're Reading | I Don't Care About Your Band
Julie Klausner is a comedy writer, blogger, and as of February 2010, published author of a hilarious dating-centric book entitled, “I Don’t Care About Your Band”. Based in New York City, it appears that Julie has experienced many of the same dating nightmares we have- something we knew just by reading the subtitle: What I Learned From Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers,...
