First of all, Ray, PLEASE make friends with TinyURL<http://www.tinyurl.com/>. Please, think of the children, bawling at all the 404 errors!
I didn't think of it as a "Married vs. Singles" kind of thing the way Hanna did, but I had the same basic reaction. I thought the author sounded a lot like Elle at the beginning of Legally Blonde -- hel-LO, shallow! -- with "friends" that would abandon her if she wore the wrong shoes. Yes, that's hyperbole, I'm sure she's perfectly nice and caring in real life, but that's not how she came across as the author of this article. -Max On 6/18/07, Ray Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
from Friday's Weekend section... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2007/06/14/AR2007061400319.html This is the lede. I am friends with the subject, so I am biased. If you read these first few paragraphs, would you be inclined to read the rest? What would your opinion of Dave be? -------------------------------------------- Dave Connolly needed friends. Which is a tricky predicament. Tricky and kind of banal. And -- let's be honest -- a little sad. By the time you're out there in the world, haven't there been enough opportunities -- in the sandbox and eighth-grade math class and the varsity tennis team and between dorm rooms and cubicle clusters -- to pick up a few good friends? Obviously. Unless, you know, there weren't. Or there were. There were all those opportunities, and buddies were met and made and then, somehow, lost. Binding ties came unbound. Maybe there was a marriage. A baby. A transfer, a taxing project, an illness, a changing lifestyle, diverging hobbies, a new neighborhood, a gradual maturing, a big dramatic fight over a guy you were both interested in. Maybe your new medical sales job has you sleeping in Reston and creeping along Interstate 66, shaking hands with lots of doctors and nurses and not really getting to know anyone. Maybe you're Dave Connolly, 29, athletic and outgoing and fun and successful, and everything was great and your social calendar was booming until one day it just wasn't. Banal. A little sad. And common enough for this town to support a whole host of organizations designed to help people reach out and meet someone. Probably lots of someones. Probably in similar predicaments. ------------------------------------------------ Do these photos change or affirm your image of Dave? http://picasaweb.google.com/telecomic/BillyGoatTrail050606/photo#50616 66529504285106 http://picasaweb.google.com/telecomic/BillyGoatTrail050606/photo#50616 67349843038706 http://picasaweb.google.com/telecomic/WhiteoakCanyonTrail/photo#506981 9857564963250 http://picasaweb.google.com/telecomic/WhiteoakCanyonTrail/photo#506982 3362258276962 http://picasaweb.google.com/telecomic/WhiteoakCanyonTrail/photo#506982 4994345849554 http://picasaweb.google.com/telecomic/WhiteoakCanyonTrail/photo#506982 5174734476002 http://picasaweb.google.com/telecomic/WhiteoakCanyonTrail/photo#5 069829242068505634 Yahoo! Groups Links
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