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Django Reinhardt with the Hot Club, Netherlands, 1937
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Unless they can somehow convince their current partner that really, talking about one’s relationship in public is only for cads and showoffs…
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It’s an attention grab that leaves a bad-touch feeling and a permalink in its wake.
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Pulp - Little Girl (With Blue Eyes)
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1. Yeah, we did it. I was drunk. 2. He texted me non-stop for two weeks. I responded to nothing. 3. I finally told him to back off with a lie about getting serious with friend. 4. He texted me again after that. I did not respond.
— That’s What She Said - ew. Oh, god. I can think of far too many women who could have this same story (the getting drunk, the text barrage) and that’s only from what he told me of the twentyish fucks, most of them one-time-only, that he’s had in the last year and a half. It’s not the quantity that’s the issue; there will be no slutbaiting here. It’s the way he went about it, from what I hear: the sitting at home waiting for a girl to write a post, the immediate IM in response, the text if she doesn’t respond to that. All those nights I thought he was actually on a sweet date, maybe getting to know someone new I might even like to meet? He was just as likely at home, refreshing his Newsfeed, waiting for one of the roster of women he monitored to respond to this request for a drink. All that said, Sarah was really fantastic to meet, and for all that this medium accelerated emotional catharsis blah blah blah today, having it connect me to pretty much the exact right woman to have a drink with tonight made the predictable hand-wringing over “Internet oversharing!” almost irrelevant. Everyone else — why not go start a groupblog at dontfucknickdouglasagain.tumblr.com? That seems easier.
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The Who, I Can See For Miles (unknown French TV, 1968, and check the amazing kids dancing, and the misplaced negative — can’t — in the subtitle)
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Oh, gosh, no. That's it. It can't be that, can it?
She’s the Jessica Roy of aspiring San Franciscan web sex.
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While I'm disappointed
I’d argue it has little to do with character. It’s slinking away from the public eye that got him this attention in the first place when he knows he’s wrong. The problem with his behavior in relationships is that he acted much of it out in public — a sort of a public, his over-reliance on his online life to buoy an ego. And actually, all of us are at fault for that.in the way two women have chosen to portray me (much more Melissa’s account of our sixth breakup than Chaya’s story, as I loved Melissa and we hurt each other deeply) I’ll let them speak for themselves. For my part, I won’t be dealing with this in public. We’ve seen what that can lead to: book deals.Whatever may be said about Nick, this response indicates true character. Good for you.