Letters to the Editor
marco polo
Published Letters: 76
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Marriage Minded?
[Read the article: Why can't I find a relationship that will last?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You might try to meet some nice older men who aren't drooling after the very very young. Perhaps the LW should consider eHarmony.com? Don't they screen out the good-time-Charlies and match you up with guys who really do want to get married (I've heard of two marriages that happened this way)? Maybe try this route and give the guys you meet a chance. (Unless of course they 'lack charisma' and don't 'make you laugh', and then you are back to square one.) I dunno, I myself dated for almost 25 years, had some long relationships, only one really serious one, and finally met someone and got married. Charisma? No. Makes me laugh? Occasionally. There are more important things, having the same values, the same goals, the same mindset, building a good life, raising a child. Sounds unexciting, blah blah blah, but really, it makes for a sound relationship and it CAN happen! I wish you good luck, don't give up, LW, love n' marriage can happen at any age.
What was the quote about marriage, that those who are single want in, and those who are hitched want out?
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Thank God for These Shows....
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...otherwise the only option is Z-list celebs trying to perform circus acts (really!), fat people running obstacle courses and falling in the mud (haw haw haw! (snort) haw haw!), or ... I dunno what else is on! I have never seen such hours of swill put up for the taking on the TV in the summer! (This is where those box sets of complete seasons of ____ you got for Christmas might come in handy. "Carnivale", anyone?) Thank God for "Dirty Jobs" and "Man vs. Wild", and the Discovery Channel marathons of the same. I would rather watch "The Verminators" catching rats and squashing roaches any day than, say, watch Denise Richards driving aimlessly around in a gas guzzler. Give me a fan, a freezer mug full of lemonade, and I am content to remain near-motionless in a heat stupor from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. watching real men do manly things.
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Salon, Take Down the Filth from Akingu88
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...how do you all decide what's to be published here, anyway? Do you actually even have any criteria, or just pick and choose the nasty ones at random? (I sent in an ill-thought-out post once which wasn't even put up at all, to my relief and shame.) What's the matter with you moderators?
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"...interesting and talented young men....
[Read the article: Obama's best veep choice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]....have TURNED GAY in droves?"
What. The. F***?
I think your big fat Brazilian crush has warped your brain.
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Loved it, loved it, loved it - this should have been MUCH longer
[Read the article: Bad Dad Gift Guide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There are SO many bad dads out there. (Why yes, I had a dud of a dad myself, why do you ask?) This was just hilarious and those who don't get it - screw you.
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Agree with Sally the Werewolf and Moraliste
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You two perfectly encapsulated my wandering thoughts. Thank you! I really don't understand what we, the viewing public, are supposed to 'get' out of these faked reality shows. Watching this bimbo driving around in a big SUV? Why? Are we supposed to admire things (cars, furnishings, clothes) that we common slobs can only aspire to? Don't. Get. It. BORING!
Speaking of things I don't get - Doktor Krankheit's blatherings - what the hell was he talking about??? Not asking for an explanation, just....huh?
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Not surprised
[Read the article: So you think they can break-dance?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some years ago we got an International Channel on our cable lineup (which has since been snatched away along with National Geographic channel and now you have to pay through the nose to see them). Not only did we enjoy Bollywood musicals, but a Korean version of MTV, as when MTV showed actual music videos. Different individuals and groups performed in Korean versions, doing moody, syrupy angst-filled ballads, boy-band dancin', and gangsta rap, all in Korean. It was vastly entertaining to watch. The difference was, of course, all the Korean kids were just as cute as buttons, in fact, some were downright pretty, even when acting all violent and bad n' stuff. (Made the American versions look even more vomitous than they were.)
Miss that channel, I do. I'll just bet the Korean dance crews now could really kick the Americans asses (and of course look much better while doing it). Hey, I'm shallow - sue me!
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Me, too!
[Read the article: My coming-out mix tape]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm uninteresting - a straight middle aged woman now, but back in the day I too loved the gayest of the gayest songs and performers. David Bowie was a GOD. Boy George? A lesser god, but still... The Eurythmics, Tears for Fears...you name it, I loved them all. (I also never read a bodice ripper and I despised beefy icons of the masculine in every form.) Even today I will drive to the grocery store at night for cat food and listen to West Side Girls by the Pet Shop Boys and feel...all funny. Who can say for sure if it was the time period, when dormant queerness was beginning to stir, or if it was the perfomers themselves to embody those feelings?
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Observations by this woman:
[Read the article: Women and their "girl crushes"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...since junior high, probably before that, I have observed the boys and men in my life experiencing man-crushes, and anyone, any 100% hetero chest thumper out there, who denies such a thing, is full of it. Viggo Mortensen's name keeps cropping up for a REASON. Mike Rowe, Johnny Depp, varied and sundry singers and authors - all the intense focus of the man-crush. (Often, however, the focus is some alpha male who stoops to befriend an un-alpha male, and then all the woman hears for an eternity is "Joe Blow says this, Joe Blow says that, Joe Blow drinks Michelob, so lets get some, Joe Blow went to Williamsburg, I think we should go too, Joe Blow is buying a Cadillac, maybe we should get one, Joe Blow painted his living room purple, Joe Blow put a picnic table in his yard....sometimes Joe Blow's wife or girlfriend will get into the act, but the point is, Joe Blow can do. no. wrong.)