NOT KEEPING SCORE

I’m hung over,

watching his mouth
; the only sounds
it makes

replicate the adults in Charlie Brown.
Whanh,
whanh,
whanh.
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Date, Interrupted
Enter: spontaneous date with old friend from Petaluma. (I feel like I’ve cheated on Craigslist…
…i’m so sorry.)
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Two writers meet.
One posted an ad.
One answered.
One’s jaded; one’s inspired.
20 minutes is too short for coffee.
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This is your “first time,” you’ve “never tried online dating,” you’re “not this desperate.” Get over it: eat your soup.
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To Mr. Breakfast Date: you keep telling me how ugly the girls you date are. But you’re pretty ugly, too.
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I’m thinking about recreating this wonderful ad which I posted earlier as being one of the most beautiful ads shot locally in San Francisco. Instead of using mini super-balls, however, we’d use those gigantic yoga balls–and more like 20 or 30, instead of 250,000.
You know, just for the hell of it.
I proposition anyone interested to […]

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“Rescued me” from date #7. (If dating were a television show, he’d be the spin-off–but cancelled after one season.)
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Walking to work through Chinatown this morning felt like death–eras, or people, no matter. All of the shops with closed doors, gated, and the streets hollow; piles of organics devoid of flies; whispers of a country I’ve never been to; St. Mary’s Cathedral–in her quiet struggle for rebirth–evoked sentiment of a past I imagined I […]

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Oh, God. Mr. McSweeney’s-worshipping, iPod-programming, nervous-energy-man: Like Raymond Carver said– Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
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Over Phó? we do the math: Dental school + band member in high-school + ran track = you’re a geek. (That’s hot.)
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Dear Readers,
Perhaps this is as good a time as any to clarify a few things. I’ve had some concerns / questions / interest in further understanding the selection criteria and […]

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