I’ll be honest: the cultural phenomenon that is Girls has more or less passed me by.1 However, I will absorb the occasional moment from the show through sheer cultural osmosis – usually when it stirs up another controversy that ends up plastered all over the blogs that I steal from mine for topics read. So while I may be…
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Ask Dr. NerdLove: Time To Say Goodbye
Doc, I need some help. A few months ago I took a trip a few hours down the road where I met another guy who is now causing problems. While I was there, he contacted me on a gay social app and got my attention rather quickly. I met up with him and he was…
How to Find the Girl of Your Dreams
A question for you. How many times have you been frustrated with the people you’ve been dating? Seriously. How many times have you been this close to giving up on dating entirely because of bad relationships and worse dates? The toxic exes, the Ones That Got Away, the dates where there’s been no chemistry, the date you…
Learn From This: The Great Gatsby
I’ve been meaning to do a Learn From This for The Great Gatsby for a while now. I’m an unabashed Baz Luhrmann fan, and there really wasn’t a director I could think of who was better suited stylistically to match the opulence, excesses, vacuousness and conspicuous consumption of the Hamptons in the Jazz Age. While…
Ask Dr. NerdLove: Never Gonna Get It
Doc, I met one of my best friends in elementary school– he used to be my worst enemy, actually, in that I-will-hate-you-forever kind of way. However, during middle school, we started becoming more friends than enemies, and now we’re both in high school and we have a solid friendship. (We initially bonded over arguments about…
Michael Douglas And The Fine Art of Going Down
Pardon me while go on a rant here. Assuming that you aren’t avoiding the Internet for fear of finding out what happened last night on Game of Thrones1 then you may have seen the latest Hollywood gossip headline du jour spreading like herpes around a frat house: “Michael Douglas Claims Oral Sex Caused His Throat…
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