Daily Archives: February 6, 2012

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Woody Harrelson Demonstrates How Not to Use Social Media

Woody Harrelson[‘s PR person] provoked the anger of Redditors on Friday while attempting to promote Harrelson’s latest movie, Rampart. While Reddit AMAs (Ask Me Anything) have been well-received in the past coming from celebrities, Harrelson[‘s PR rep] clearly didn’t do his research.

Things quickly turned sour when participants realized that whoever was behind Harrelson’s account had no intention of answering any questions that didn’t concern Rampart and quickly disappeared. The highlight (or lowlight)? Redditor AndyRooney asked if Harrelson remembered crashing his prom party in LA and “taking the virginity of a girl named Roseanna. You didn’t call her afterward. She cried a lot.” The Harrelson account replied with, “First of off, its not true, and second off, I don’t want to answer questions about that. Lets focus on the film people,” an instruction sure to please internet commenters everywhere. Continue reading →

Letters to Tyler Clementi

A warning—this post is on a difficult subject to discuss. Not only am I unable to tell the full story and incapable of being impartial or unsentimental, but I may still very well fail to do the Clementi family justice. If it weren’t for my own siblings, I wouldn’t have made the attempt.

In this week’s New Yorker, Ian Parker reexamines the ongoing case of Tyler Clementi, a household name for the worst reasons a parent (or frankly, a student) could imagine.

Using Tyler’s own words and interviews with witnesses and family, Parker creates an incomplete but valuable portrait of a reserved, thoughtful teenager who had just come out to his family when he started his freshman year at Rutgers University. Continue reading →

Studies Say Online Dating Sites Don’t Have a “Special Sauce” in Determining Compatibility

Researchers have determined that online dating has gone mainstream now more than ever. Which from what we can gather means that every single person you know has an online dating profile. No longer does computer dating have a scurrilous stigma attached that was once thought to be a place where only weirdos, drunkards, fetishists, and the otherwise fetid, noxious humans dwelled in hopes of mating with, becoming wedded to, or, at worst, adding other singletons to their collections. Yipes! (Not including Craigslist(lost)) Those freaks are nuts. No, now, online dating can boast that more than 25 million users around the world have taken the plunge and signed up with a dating site.

But what are they really selling? Is it really unmatched compatibility? Continue reading →