new york craigslist > fairfield > missed connections
Danbury appliance installers - m4m - 35 (Danbury/Brookfield)
Date: 2008-04-29, 1:24PM EDTYou guys are the hottest things I ever saw in my kitchen–especially the boss. If you or your brother (or both) want a quick, discreet stress release during the daytime just get in touch.
36, male, straight, lawyer, recently divorced, financial district.
DAY ONE
7:25 a.m.: Check morning e-mails on BlackBerry. They include a message from a regular swingers party that my ex-wife and I used to frequent. She apparently still goes, but now with my former best man/best friend, whom I discovered she was sleeping with six months ago, leading to my divorce after two and a half years of marriage. We all thought he was closeted. Guess not. (…)
DAY TWO
3:18 p.m.: I am thinking about how, despite the clusterf*ck that was my marriage, my reward is the exquisite pleasure of first kisses and, to quote Chris Rock, “new p*ssy”. Seriously, what is better?
11:11 p.m.: Friend and I head to a bar with a U2 cover band. We meet two women. One of them tells us that they would be happy to hit another bar after the show, but only if they can’t get the drummer and bass player to go home with them. C*ckblocked by a cover band! Impressed by their candor.
12:15 a.m.: Band ends its set. Friend and I plot to follow bandmates into bathroom and offer to trade the girls for beer.
12:27 a.m.: In the men’s room the drummer tells me he is married but wants to see the girls before he agrees.
12:30 a.m.: He sees the girls and says no deal.
12:35 a.m.: As we leave, I whisper “he’s married” to the girl chatting with the drummer. Being cheated on has made me reasonably honorable.
new york craigslist > brooklyn > missed connections
n local train saturday night - m4m - 24 (manhattan to brooklyn)
Date: 2008-04-28, 12:16AM EDTyou were on your computer for a little bit, then you fell asleep. i thought you were damn cute, and snapped a picture before i got off. let me know if this finds you.
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new york craigslist > brooklyn > missed connections
ponytail rican kid w sidekick ID, Sun nite 8:15, J & F train - m4m - 24 (J & F trains bk 2 manhtn)
Date: 2008-04-27, 11:31PM EDTyo son! we was bustin up about dat crackhead beeyotch askin 4 money on the J train. u was spittin mad game n i was feelin it. why didnt u get off at 2nd ave w me? u def need 2 hit me back on this. get at ur braided homie! lets hang
yo this was sun nite at 8:15
To figure out how we pick mates, scientists have measured every shape and angle of the human face, studied the symmetry of dancers, crafted formulas from the measurements of Playboy models, and had both men and women rank attractiveness based on smelling armpit sweat.
After all this and more, the rules of attraction for the human species are still not clearly understood. How it all factors into true love is even more mysterious.
But a short list of scientific rules for the game of love is emerging. Some are as clearly defined as the prominent, feminine eyes of a supermodel or the desirable hips of a well-built man. Other rules work at the subconscious level, motivating us to action for evolutionary reasons that are tucked inside clouds of infatuation.
In the end, lasting love depends at least as much on behavior as biology. But the first moves are made before you’re even born.
Starting at conception, the human body develops by neatly splitting cells. If every division were to go perfectly, the result would be a baby whose left and right sides are mirror images. But nature doesn’t work that way. Genetic mutations and environmental pressures skew symmetry, and the results have lifelong implications.
Good symmetry shows that an individual has the genetic goods to survive development, is healthy, and is a good and fertile choice for mating.
“It makes sense to use symmetry variation in mate choice,” said evolutionary biologist Randy Thornhill of the University of New Mexico. “If you choose a perfectly symmetrical partner and reproduce with them, your offspring will have a better chance of being symmetric and able to deal with perturbations.” (…)
The structure of a person’s face also gives insight to fertility.
Estrogen caps bone growth in a woman’s lower face and chin, making them relatively small and short, as well as the brow, allowing for her eyes to appear prominent, Thornhill explained. Men’s faces are shaped by testosterone, which helps develop a larger lower face and jaw and a prominent brow.
Men and women possessing these traits are seen as attractive, Thornhill said, because they advertise reproductive health. (…)
Research reported last month found women both smell and look more attractive to men at certain times of the month.
And symmetrical men smell better.
Borrowing sweaty undershirts from a variety of men, Thornhill offered the shirts to the noses of women, asking for their impressions of the scents. Hands down, the women found the scent of a symmetrical man to be more attractive and desirable, especially if the woman was menstruating.
photo { Guido Argentini }
medford
Free Poison Oak starts
Date: 2008-03-08, 9:59PM PSTFree if you remove, must take all. Nice variety of vining, brushy and low-lying ground cover plants. These are drought resistant and turn beautiful colors in the fall.
Have pesky neighbors that cut through your yard? These plants leave unwanted guests with more than a warm-fuzzy feeling. Get these planted now before its too dry to replant.
Not responsible for death, injury or costly medical bills, remove at your own risk. Planting these in someone else’s yard is the equivalent of chemical warfare and violates the Geneva convention and violators should be prepared to face the ramifications..
illustration { Ken Keirns }
Faulty male introspection may explain why men so often misinterpret women’s indirect messages to stop or slow down the escalation of sexual intimacy, according to new research by UC Davis communication professor Michael Motley.
“When she says ‘It’s getting late,’ he may hear ‘So let’s skip the preliminaries,’” Motley says. “The problem is that he is interpreting what she said by trying to imagine what he would mean — and the only reason he can imagine saying ‘It’s getting late’ while making out is to mean ‘Let’s speed things up.’”
Motley calls it the “introspection” explanation: “Males’ inferred meanings for women’s indirect sexual resistance messages are more similar to the meanings males would have intended by those same messages than to the meanings women intend.”
Previous research has found that up to 85 percent of college women have had at least one experience in which a man attempts to escalate physical intimacy beyond the point that she has said “stop,” experiences they usually regard as unpleasant.
Motley’s research during the past decade suggests miscommunication is a significant reason for the problem in many cases. (The research does not address rape or other situations in which a man indeed understands “no” but ignores it.)
new york craigslist > brooklyn > missed connections
metro north broken ticket machine - w4w - 22 (tarrytown to nyc)
Date: 2008-04-21, 2:32AM EDTHi…u were adorable short hair nose ring and determination…the ticket machine was broken and u used your nice voice to convince the ticket collector to not charge u full price…I had my hair in a ponytail wearing a black and blue blazer with my friend. I shouldve asked for your number…
Mindy
For the women of the mid-19th century, a fine hotel was a perilous place to be. Not only did respectable gentlewomen run the risk of consorting with prostitutes (a popular book of etiquette advised female travelers to keep a safe distance from any broad with “a meretricious expression of eye”), but extended time away from the joys of cooking and cleaning might ruin them for life. One defender of home and hearth described the lady hotel dweller this way: “Idle and lazy, and dyspeptic from the want of exercise, she becomes such a mere puppet and machine that she loses all sense of individual responsibility.”
Even if she managed to avoid the whores and dyspepsia, she ran great risk of seduction, possibly by a traveling salesman. And if she contrived to keep her virginity intact, there was always luggage to lose. The detective Allan Pinkerton declared that there was “no more prevalent or more popular branch of dishonesty” than the robbery of inns.
Did hotels really merit such expansive social anxieties? In Hotel: An American History (Yale University Press), the University of New Mexico historian A.K. Sandoval-Strausz responds with an emphatic yes. Hotels, he argues, were “a significant episode in the modern idea of a pluralistic, cosmopolitan society,” and conservatives invested in the status quo were right to fear them.
photo { Square America }
new york craigslist > manhattan > missed connections
You helped me to move in some stuff - m4m - 25 (Roosevelt Island)
Date: 2008-04-14, 8:29AM EDTI was picking up a sofa from you.
You are super hot.
photo { Hiroki Tanabe, architect }
{ Antonioni’s L’Eclisse, 1962 | previously }
Actress Serena Kozakura’s conviction for willful destruction of property has been overturned by the Tokyo High Court because her large breasts revealed flaws in the testimony against her.
Reconstruction during an appeal hearing of the 38-year-old actress’s alleged crime of breaking down the door in a man’s apartment showed her breasts prevented her from climbing through a door as the man testified she had done, casting doubt on his reliability.
Kozakura was charged with having kicked down the door of a man’s apartment after she had been kicked out following an argument with another woman there in November 2006. In July last year, the Tokyo District Court found her guilty of willful destruction of property, but she appealed against the conviction.
During the appeal hearing, the court heard testimony from the man and a witness who both said Kozakura had kicked a hole in the door, through which she wriggled through to re-enter the apartment.
The hole in the door was a rectangular shape 72 centimeters long by 22 centimeters wide. But Kozakura has a 101-centimeter bust and her breasts alone extend out 29 centimeters from her chest bone.
The appeal hearing conducted a reconstruction of the alleged crime and found that it would have been extremely difficult for Kozakura to squeeze through the hole in the door as witnesses testified she had. Further doubt was cast on the validity of the man’s testimony because the clothes she had been wearing at the time of the incident were not damaged as they would have been had she gone through the hole, nor did her feet show any signs of marks that would have occurred had she kicked the door.
“I lost work after being charged, but justice prevailed in the end,” she said at a news conference she held in Tokyo after the conviction was overturned. “I was always worried about being a bit fat, but this time I was glad.”
Kozakura got her break working as a presenter on a TV sales program before becoming a pin-up model and actress.
{ Mainichi }
