Week of 01/01/2006 - Dating Wrapups
Modern Love this week:
Christ, how low can we go here? Now we're using Modern Love to pitch books that have been out for years! And what about the idea that the NYTimes is putting their former columnists back up on the pulpit, in some roundabout self-promo scheme? Oi.
Anyway... the title of the essay is Paradise Lost (Domestic Division), which means you should expect a humdinger of a tale about someone's life being sheared apart. Simply put, the author was abandoned by her husband of 40 years, and she had to struggle in the aftermath. It was an experience filled with irony because of the book she had written years earlier expounding the virtues of domestic servitude, which is the interesting twist. The insufferable part, though, is that Ms. Hekker is so bitter with her experiences that she cannot find the good in her prior work. Instead, we're treated to a glorious bitchfest that dedicates only 6-7 sentences to the happy ending, as if it weren't so happy after all. She is obsessed with the misery of her bastard husband leaving her, and she speaks very little of what her family and her community did to help her through her trying times and lead her to independence. She does us all a disservice. She should turn that frown... upside down!
In Meet Market, things have a little more zip this week. Jennifer chose Aaron, and both found great chemistry on their little blind date. Jennifer's not as enthusiastic about the future as Aaron seems, and the writeups from both participants were very, very bland, but I'm thinking these two have a chance at future romance. A win for the Meet Market authors! (who, on my last check, now count more than just Laura and Tom, and it's just too much for me to keep track anymore.)
Next week, we have Josh choosing among three lovely ladies... ummm, seriously, where did they get this guy from? Did they just find someone living in a cabin in the woods or something? Scraggly beard, scruffy hair, puffy eyes, plaid shirt... is it safe to say that this guy is probably not from Manhattan? And here's the best part... he's a "financial analyst". There's no joke in the world that can properly illustrate the contrast between that statement and his picture. Well, maybe it's a bad picture? Maybe he's the only financial analyst on Wall St. with a beard? (and who does "stand-up comedy" on the side, too)
Our ladies? All recycled. Deepa, once again, looks vaguely boring and perhaps a bit scary. (I love it when women joke about drama and bad dates so that people can relate to them... and, instead, they look like they're one bad breakup away from boiling someone's pet rabbit. Comedy!) Lilian, once again, isn't going to put up but might put out. Denise, on the other hand, may have had her profile changed a bit from the last time; in any case, she does not come off as unattractive but she fails to be a convincing date. Naturally, Lilian is my choice here.
Next week, Lilian finds that her date is also in finance... and suddenly finds herself at some West Village bistro with the Man in the Mountains. Should be fun!
"...more than a quarter-century ago I wrote an Op-Ed article for The New York Times on the satisfaction of being a full-time housewife in the new age of the liberated woman. ... The column morphed into a book titled "Ever Since Adam and Eve," followed by a national tour..."
Christ, how low can we go here? Now we're using Modern Love to pitch books that have been out for years! And what about the idea that the NYTimes is putting their former columnists back up on the pulpit, in some roundabout self-promo scheme? Oi.
Anyway... the title of the essay is Paradise Lost (Domestic Division), which means you should expect a humdinger of a tale about someone's life being sheared apart. Simply put, the author was abandoned by her husband of 40 years, and she had to struggle in the aftermath. It was an experience filled with irony because of the book she had written years earlier expounding the virtues of domestic servitude, which is the interesting twist. The insufferable part, though, is that Ms. Hekker is so bitter with her experiences that she cannot find the good in her prior work. Instead, we're treated to a glorious bitchfest that dedicates only 6-7 sentences to the happy ending, as if it weren't so happy after all. She is obsessed with the misery of her bastard husband leaving her, and she speaks very little of what her family and her community did to help her through her trying times and lead her to independence. She does us all a disservice. She should turn that frown... upside down!
In Meet Market, things have a little more zip this week. Jennifer chose Aaron, and both found great chemistry on their little blind date. Jennifer's not as enthusiastic about the future as Aaron seems, and the writeups from both participants were very, very bland, but I'm thinking these two have a chance at future romance. A win for the Meet Market authors! (who, on my last check, now count more than just Laura and Tom, and it's just too much for me to keep track anymore.)
Next week, we have Josh choosing among three lovely ladies... ummm, seriously, where did they get this guy from? Did they just find someone living in a cabin in the woods or something? Scraggly beard, scruffy hair, puffy eyes, plaid shirt... is it safe to say that this guy is probably not from Manhattan? And here's the best part... he's a "financial analyst". There's no joke in the world that can properly illustrate the contrast between that statement and his picture. Well, maybe it's a bad picture? Maybe he's the only financial analyst on Wall St. with a beard? (and who does "stand-up comedy" on the side, too)
Our ladies? All recycled. Deepa, once again, looks vaguely boring and perhaps a bit scary. (I love it when women joke about drama and bad dates so that people can relate to them... and, instead, they look like they're one bad breakup away from boiling someone's pet rabbit. Comedy!) Lilian, once again, isn't going to put up but might put out. Denise, on the other hand, may have had her profile changed a bit from the last time; in any case, she does not come off as unattractive but she fails to be a convincing date. Naturally, Lilian is my choice here.
Next week, Lilian finds that her date is also in finance... and suddenly finds herself at some West Village bistro with the Man in the Mountains. Should be fun!
posted by Brian Van at
1:18 PM
1 Comments:
I didn't know you were a modern love connoisseur. I'm looking to send them some stuff soon. maybe i'll run it by you ...
literally run by you with papers in my hand.
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T.A.N., at 2:51 PM
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