Thursday, June 21, 2007
The Singles File: Public displays of sex mean it must be summer - Seattle P-I
... Ask any Washington State Patrol officer and they'll tell you Interstate 90 is not the place to have sex -- at least not if you're having it while barreling down the highway in a sport utility vehicle. But the naked Seattle couple pulled over last week in flagrante dedrunko weren't the only ones to get caught, um, coupling in an unusual location.
Two weeks earlier, in the unfortunately named town of Punta Gorda (i.e. "fat end"), Fla., another naked duo was spotted having sex at the top of a 100-foot-tall construction crane ...
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Looks like e-mail and voice mail rejection services are on the rise, with more and more companies offering singles the chance to avoid those nasty F2F (i.e. fact-to-face) confrontations by dumping their dates digitally.
BreakingUpIsEasyToDo.com offers two voice mail options: a Breakup Butler, who delivers a gentle letdown in an elegant British accent ("My feelings have changed and I'm no longer capable of giving you what you want and deserve") and the self-explanatory Breakup Bitch, who delivers her thrall-busting message amid a tirade of insults such as "I'd rather suffer a paper cut to the eyeball than spend one more day with you."
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Sophie Calle, a French artist known for her unconventional work, turned her private rejection into a public display -- literally -- by asking 107 women to analyze and interpret the "I feel like sleeping with other women, it's over" e-mail she got from her boyfriend, using their responses to create an art installation titled "Take Care of Yourself" (the writer's parting words).
Included within the show are a gigantic blowup of the guy's note with all his diction and grammar errors blue-penciled by a copy editor, an analysis of his personality by a forensic psychiatrist ("a true, twisted manipulator ... to be avoided categorically"), and a critique of the ex-boyfriend's manners by a famous etiquette consultant who specializes in savoir-vivre (her conclusion: He has none).
The rejection letter was translated into Latin, Braille, Morse code, bar code and shorthand, and transformed into everything from a fairy tale to an opera to a crossword puzzle. ...
... Ask any Washington State Patrol officer and they'll tell you Interstate 90 is not the place to have sex -- at least not if you're having it while barreling down the highway in a sport utility vehicle. But the naked Seattle couple pulled over last week in flagrante dedrunko weren't the only ones to get caught, um, coupling in an unusual location.
Two weeks earlier, in the unfortunately named town of Punta Gorda (i.e. "fat end"), Fla., another naked duo was spotted having sex at the top of a 100-foot-tall construction crane ...
...
Looks like e-mail and voice mail rejection services are on the rise, with more and more companies offering singles the chance to avoid those nasty F2F (i.e. fact-to-face) confrontations by dumping their dates digitally.
BreakingUpIsEasyToDo.com offers two voice mail options: a Breakup Butler, who delivers a gentle letdown in an elegant British accent ("My feelings have changed and I'm no longer capable of giving you what you want and deserve") and the self-explanatory Breakup Bitch, who delivers her thrall-busting message amid a tirade of insults such as "I'd rather suffer a paper cut to the eyeball than spend one more day with you."
...
Sophie Calle, a French artist known for her unconventional work, turned her private rejection into a public display -- literally -- by asking 107 women to analyze and interpret the "I feel like sleeping with other women, it's over" e-mail she got from her boyfriend, using their responses to create an art installation titled "Take Care of Yourself" (the writer's parting words).
Included within the show are a gigantic blowup of the guy's note with all his diction and grammar errors blue-penciled by a copy editor, an analysis of his personality by a forensic psychiatrist ("a true, twisted manipulator ... to be avoided categorically"), and a critique of the ex-boyfriend's manners by a famous etiquette consultant who specializes in savoir-vivre (her conclusion: He has none).
The rejection letter was translated into Latin, Braille, Morse code, bar code and shorthand, and transformed into everything from a fairy tale to an opera to a crossword puzzle. ...
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