One of my co-editors at Matador, Carlo Alcos, took a particular disliking to a piece I wrote a couple of months ago called, Dating in 2010: Is it All Four-Man Plans and Online Shenanigans? Well, maybe dislike is a strong word, but it certainly triggered him. So we decided to hash-it-out, mano a mano, in the classy, mature way – on a blog for everyone to see.

Wow, I almost felt yesterday as if I was going to be swallowed up like a building in that humongous sinkhole in Guatemala. Every time I looked to the top of my computer screen, my Alexa toolbar shouted at me about death and destruction: “Porn actor goes on rampage at video production office”, “UK taxi driver kills 12, wounds 25 in England” or “Holloway suspect sought in Peru killing.” Holy mother of the universe, what the HELL IS GOING ON?

Dating. Ugh, even typing the word makes me squirm. Now, I’m hardly interested in being the Carrie Bradshaw of holistic dating. So don’t worry, this will probably be the only post you’ll see on this topic from me. And yet it’s such an endless topic of intrigue to most everyone I know, coupled or single, looking or content, that I feel compelled to write about it once.