Date Machine: Women at 30, or the Scent of the Medicine Cabinet

re: Date Machine: Women at 30, or the Scent of the Medicine Cabinet

kittycarryall — Mon, 11 May 2009 04:00:57 GMT

Do you not know what Google is, either? Maybe you are in the wrong line of work.

re: Date Machine: Women at 30, or the Scent of the Medicine Cabinet

amboabe — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:03:06 GMT

Mel: I don't know who Benjamin Braddock is.

re: Date Machine: Women at 30, or the Scent of the Medicine Cabinet

Mel — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:21:32 GMT

Seven years is hardly a Dcember/May dynamic. You seem quite adept at painting yourself as Benjamin Braddock but your Mrs Robinson you portray as almost grandmotherly with her knotted calves and callused feet.

I'd have saved such descriptives for a fictive work, instead of a blog. It would have been the sensitive, ie grown-up, thing to do.

re: Date Machine: Women at 30, or the Scent of the Medicine Cabinet

Anastasia — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:18:41 GMT

amboabe: dude, dont trick us into reading an article about your mommy issues by using a catchy title.. life's not so black and white.. you come across as a recovering christian byproduct of freud.. get a grip, embrace life for what it's worth.. smell that shit

re: Date Machine: Women at 30, or the Scent of the Medicine Cabinet

amboabe — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:17:44 GMT

HP: Nah she didn't use Listerine. I don't like minty breath, I prefer the musk to the chemical clean.

Anyway, I don't really think of any of this as grim. It's just absurd to me. All the ridiculous parts where the rhetoric about what life is supposed to be like fails to describe the reality. My last post is going to be pretty uncomfortable to write, but I can't vouch for the grimness factor. It'll come with a pretty black and white picture, maybe two. But I'm ahead of myself now...

re: Date Machine: Women at 30, or the Scent of the Medicine Cabinet

casualencounters.com/blog/ — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:13:46 GMT

I find it interesting that around 26 or so your mind stops aging, but your body doesn't. I've met so many people in their 30s, 40s, 50s who complain about this. They feel that their 26-year-old minds are trapped inside a decaying body, that they're judged entirely on how they physically appear and not on who they are.

I just tell them to stfu and get over it, but who knows. Maybe there's a point in there somewhere that I'm just unwilling to make or even acknowledge. Maybe the robots will save us.

re: Date Machine: Women at 30, or the Scent of the Medicine Cabinet

amboabe — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:10:16 GMT

mg: Well, I really liked her. We had really great chemistry, but in hindsight it was more personal than physical. It's hard for me to tell in the beginnings sometimes. So it was a conflict, I really liked someone but the longer we were together the less attracted I was to her physically. It was probably more about chemistry than anything, but it had a physical manifestation...

re: Date Machine: Women at 30, or the Scent of the Medicine Cabinet

HP Lovecraft — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:17:35 GMT

"Her neck always smelled of perfume, but there was a twinge of the medicine cabinet underneath."

Was it Listerine? I once dated a woman who was obsessive about oral hygiene, always rinsing before bed. It was awful. Give me garlic-and-onion breath any day.

There's a touch of the grim in this essay, of the sort that others have complained about but I find delightful. Really, if you want to go out of here with a bang, you should play that angle up, maybe as a bit of self-parody. I, for one, would enjoy it.

re: Date Machine: Women at 30, or the Scent of the Medicine Cabinet

mg — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:57:20 GMT

Why did you even bother dating her when you were thinking those ungenerous things about her? I'd be horrified if there were a man thinking of me that way but continuing to see me anyway. I almost always really like your posts, but I think that's a messed up thing to do to someone.

re: Date Machine: Women at 30, or the Scent of the Medicine Cabinet

amboabe — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:34:21 GMT

Mixer: can't argue with that...

re: Date Machine: Women at 30, or the Scent of the Medicine Cabinet

mixer — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:45:46 GMT

I am a guy in my late twenties and a I date women in their late thirties all the time. I am not aware of a generation gap though. Maybe it's because I am too busy having great sex with women that know what they are doing. You seem immature though and hung up on your mother so maybe that is why you found it weird.

re: Date Machine: Women at 30, or the Scent of the Medicine Cabinet

loobetchka — Wed, 06 May 2009 04:57:04 GMT

Hahaha...