What is true love? Where and how do you find it? What the heck do you do with it? San Francisco writer Joshua Nossiter looks for the answers so you don't have to.
The well brought-up are taught to avoid discussing religion and politics at dinner, while sex is never to be mentioned under any circumstances. But the following rules allow anyone to navigate the shoals of debate on these topics...
So there you all are, sitting around the table eating and drinking and chatting peaceably, when suddenly the B.D.G. opens his or her always outsized mouth:"Y'all's couch. Can I set a match to it...
Every outdoor flip-flopped footMust inevitably collect soot.And since when have filthy feetBeen thought a delightful treat? Gardening clogs in garish plasticInduce in wearers a shuffle spasticPerambulation strangely restrictedThat is entirely self-inflicted. Walking in either...
Even the most devoted couple needs the occasional break from the connubial state and its many equivalents. For all but same sex couples, the guys' or gals' night out is the traditional vehicle for sanctioned extra-relational adventure. Not...
Dear Josh,I am a thirty-two year old who has dated a lot of guys. Now I'm really into this whole social networking thing on Facebook and MySpace and LinkedIn and Twitter and Bebo and Friendster and hi5...
Dear Josh,I am a twenty-six year old professional living in San Francisco. My boyfriend and I pooled our resources to lease a really cool SOMA loft. We weren't living together before, and we spent so much time...
Single and sick of it? Get a dog. Mutt or pure bred, large economy or single serving sized, the only relevant factor is appeal. If the dumb chum is cute, more than your share of attention is guaranteed. Ladies of...
Of course it's possible to make a meal entirely out of vegetables. Add pasta, rice, potatoes, or a hearty eggplant parmigiana, and a stick-to-the-ribs dinner need have no recourse to the animal kingdom at all, except...
It wasn't W.C. Fields who said: "Any man who hates babies and dogs can't be all bad." According to The Quote Verifier by Ralph Keyes, Leo Rosten said it about W.C. Fields. But if...
It feels like a hoary cliché, surely one of the hoariest of all time about male and female relations: men are from Mars and women are from Venus. And yet the line derives from the title of a book...