Monthly archive July, 2005

Bill1852 has a "very middle-aged body topped with a fat balding head," which may be true but seems almost cruelly over-descriptive.Emiss2004, on the other hand, is not only not "a spiritual student from Sweden," she is, according to someone who dated her, "actually an escort who will con you out of your cash for her 'tuition.' " The world of online dating and Internet personal ads has never been known as a bastion of honesty. It's more a place where voluptuous is considered a fair synonym for obese, and where that pesky wife and kids somehow never make it into the Read More →

The women here - these daters - look familiar. You know the type. Trim, breezy, frank, supremely at ease making confessions to cameras. They're recognizable anywhere now: reality-show Jens and Amys, spirited representatives of that plucky work force that dutifully fills the girls' slots on offerings from "Blind Date" to "The Apprentice" to "Beauty and the Geek." Oh, but not quite. With cutie graphics, a catchy name and a setup that maximizes the chances that characters will have sex, "Hooking Up" sure looks like reality Frappuccino. But it's Read More →