The Dating Game Dec 14, 2006
Yet if you spend a few hours--preferably billable ones--surfing through Internet personals or reading a day's worth of my e-mail at "Savage Love," my syndicated sex-advice column, you ll find at least two condemnations of game-playing for every endorsement of long walks on the beach. But game playing, like hypocrisy, is one of those things people only think they re against. (Forbes)
Fantasy ends as tragedy in cyberspace Dec 7, 2006
Thursday, December 7, 2006. I found her on the Internet. (Buffalo News)
Birders hoping falcons call Watterson home Oct 20, 2006
Mittens", it won't be because a box was built for him on top of Watterson Towers. It'll be because that's what peregrine falcons do. There's a peregrine falcon roosting in a similarly-built box on top of Associate Bank tower in Peoria, and I've yet to witness the bird swooping down and making off with any toddlers. Now get back to sniffing Rush's behind. By the way, has he picked out wife #4 yet on the Internet personals? "Must love Oxycontin" is probably his tagline, I imagine. I assume he'll... (The Pantagraph newspaper)
On the Internet, sexy Melissa could be a Crook Oct 16, 2006
Melissa was really Michael Crook, a 28-year-old Liverpool, N.Y., man who posted an Internet personals ad last month posing as a young woman seeking a casual encounter "no strings attached.". Murphy e-mailed 19-year-old Melissa that's Crook his photograph and phone number. (Las Vegas Sun)
Interview Pitts Douglas Mar 14, 2006
The mag does accept another measurement he offers and notes that "overall [for Internet personals], he's a pretty honest, bland dude. Like his art." Bleckner laughs off the ribbing, telling us "For them, that's high praise!" Putnam and Perigee are teaming up to publish former Daily Newsman Wendell Jamieson's book, "Father Knows Less," about his quest for expert answers to his young son Dean's questions about the world. With Jo Piazza and Chris Rovzar. (New York Daily News)
Grow Old Along With Me Feb 8, 2006
In the intervening years since my husband's death, I have fought loneliness in a number of ways: singles' clubs, newspaper personals, blind dates, and Internet personals. Although I can say that I met some very interesting men by these methods, I truly began to resign myself to being alone the rest of my life. (Suite101.com)
