Dear Clusterflock
I appreciate you guys.
dear clusterflock
Spike Lee.
Dear Clusterflock
When did you realize what you wanted to do?
dear clusterflock
What color socks should I be wearing?
dear clusterflock
Seeing Mike Tyson take a punch to the face — my grandfather was visiting and we were watching the bout together — pause, stand (gloves down), look the guy in the face, bring his glove to his own, tell the guy to do it again, let the guy do it again, go through the pantomime one more time, then knock the guy out with a single punch.
The game Michael Jordan scored what — 42 points? — sick with something that made it almost impossible to stand, draining shot after shot, buoyed by Scottie Pippen to keep him from collapsing at the end of the game.
Emmitt Smith running for 175 yards against the Giants after dislocating his shoulder in the first half.
The 1980 Lake Placid hockey match.
Dear Clusterflock:
Which sporting events had the greatest impact on you?
dear clusterflock
3D.
Dear Clusterflock
What is the opposite of militia?
dear clusterflock
What do you recommend?
dear clusterflock
Do not chase fame.
dear clusterflock
How do you fold a fitted sheet?
Stupid
It may very well be the most terrifyingly destructive force in existence.
What are your thoughts?
dear clusterflock
Favorite Daily Show correspondent.
dear clusterflock
REM.
dear clusterflock
Favorite preserves / jelly / jam.
dear clusterflock
Where do you live?
dear clusterflock
Do you pull your socks all the way up?
hypothetically,
say a guy were thinking about moving down to Austin, TX: what should he expect to find and what would the job market look like, what kind of industries are big there?
Dear Clusterflock
Something to think about over the week-end:
What are your thoughts on a re-design around here?
dear clusterflock
I’m Roger Teeter.
Dear Clusterflock: Fusterclock
Should we have a fusterclock counting down the days to clusterflockstock?
Proportions and entitlement
For the last six months or so, I’ve had this guilty pleasure. It’s a blog called, Why There Are No Girls in San Francisco.* Here’s an example of the content:
SF females (a scattering of honeys from Serbia and Turkey aside) don’t aim for sexy in their dress or carriage. They aim for anti-Florida. They are reserved, borderline haughty in demeanor and fashion themselves in one of three looks: the always vogue “I run Iron-Mans” guy-girl look, the cluttered Hipster, or the famous and very popular “SF black”, where you cover up every square inch of your body but are still fabulous because the fabric is black and black is daring and sexy, right? Not right. Boobs are sexy. Legs are sexy. Black is just a color. Black is what Batman wears so he can be stealthy. When Bruce Wayne wants to impress the ladies he wears a tank top.
Today I read a story in the New York Times about the shortage of men on college campuses, and how it’s affecting more than just the admissions offices:
“Women do not want to get left out in the cold, so they are competing for men on men’s terms. This results in more casual hook-up encounters that do not end up leading to more serious romantic relationships. Since college women say they generally want ’something more’ than just a casual hook-up, women end up losing out.”
W. Keith Campbell, a psychology professor at the University of Georgia, which is 57 percent female, put it this way: “When men have the social power, they create a man’s ideal of relationships,” he said. Translation: more partners, more sex.
The pseudonymous author of WTANGISF probably attended one of these disproportionately female universities and now strugges with the reality of living in a disproportionately male city, but I wonder if both situations are just a symptom of Love in the Time of Darwinism:
Women can take a Chinese-menu approach to gender roles. They can be all “Let me pay for the movie tickets” on Friday night and “A single rose? That’s it?” on Valentine’s Day. This isn’t equality, say the male-contents; it’s a ratification of female privilege and, worse, caprice. “Women seemingly have decided that they want it all (and deserve it, too),” Kevin from Ann Arbor writes. “They want to compete equally, and have the privileges of their mother’s generation. They want the executive position, AND the ability to stay home with children and come back into the workplace at or beyond the position at which they left. They want the bad boy and the metrosexual.”
What’s your take? How do you navigate the modern labyrinth of gender roles better known as sex, dating, and marriage?
* I should mention that I am a girl. And I live in San Francisco.
dear clusterflock
White Stripes.
dear clusterflock
Super Bowl.
Dear clusterflock
Two questions, separated by your ability to answer each:
1. Do you have a beard? Why or why not?
2. Are beards sexually attractive? Why or why not?
Welcoming party
My first night in Paris. Across the street from my hotel for the week. True to almost all my urban travels, I imagine most of my cash will be spent at concerts — not restaurants, or tours for tourists, or even museum entrance fees (despite my intention to visit several).
When you’re alone away from home, where does your money go?