I don't know, I really, really like talking politics on dates (and in general).  And it's not to proselytize, I just like having opinions about things that I can talk about with people and I'm attracted to women who can do the same.  I think debates are fun, which is unfortunate, because I think most people see them…

@avclub-230e46d19fe78a6c8dc715659a7188d7:disqus No, but now I'm totally sad, thanks for that.

I've never seen long distance as anything but potential for failure.  I have known people who made it work (although granted, those people were only as distant as Champagne-Urbana is from Chicago and would do daily phone calls and such), but I've always thought breaking up in one fell swoop as a response to bad…

I'm really of the mind that pop culture preferences are a bad basis to eliminate dates.  It's nice to see movies together and have those sorts of things to talk about, but rejecting possible love interests over not being hip to whatever it is you're hip to is basically taking a person's ability to challenge you,…

Hoo boy

The real tragedy is that earlier this very year when I told that story to some friends, they explained that to me.  It's a realization that I could have used nine years ago but doesn't do me a ton of good now beyond qualifying just how badly I screwed that one up.

Once, I went on a date with a punk rocker girl to a Queers concert, where I realized I was too old for moshing, too old the band, and sort of too old for her (we were the same age).  It was a lousy date, but it felt good to actually be the one who was alienated by the other person's tastes rather than the one with the…

I saw that movie during my freshmen year of college at a dorm party when a buddy of mine realized that both me and another guy had never seen it.  We were all pretty drunk and at first were really fist-pumpingly excited to see it, and I think we all fell asleep on the couch by an hour in.  I know this is supposed to…

Someone register the account "435 lbs Kevin Smith fan"

Oh god, that brought back memories of when I was 15 and was seeing a movie on a sort of date (in that a friend of mine who I wanted to date was accompanying her friend that she wanted to set me up with on a no-expectations hang out/movie theater outting that I brought one of my male friends to) to see The Hulk. …

I had basically the coolest tastes of any 6th grader I knew.

Number 4 is where I really got on board.

God, do I wish

When I was fairly well into a relationship, I saw Pan's Labyrinth with my girlfriend, with each of us having only a vague inkling about what the movie was about.  She, however, had an emotionally abusive relationship with her father, and saw an awful lot of him in the fascist colonel who hates his step daughter.  She…

Aw, who am I kidding, Ministry still rules.

I went to Catholic school that had both girls and boys and now I post on the AV Club forums, do the math.

I remember A.I. starting out really solid and getting unendurable by the end.  The Ministry cameo was pretty awesome to me, but I was way more into Ministry in 6th grade than I am now, so there's that.

No, she actively and strongly disliked The Beatles.  We were both in our very early twenties at the time, too.  Nirvana is a band that's so dear to me that I realize I'm the farthest thing from objective about them and accept when people disagree with me about them, but The Beatles are so archetypical it just doesn't…

Uncomfortable, polite disagreements are insanely effective at destroying otherwise pleasant dates.  I once made an offhand joke about how "global warming is at least good for something" during an unseasonably warm February date (which had been going better than good up to that point and was with a girl I was actually…

I'm not bragging when I say this because I truly believe pop culture preferences are a terrible way to evaluate potential significant others, but I once broke up with a girl for not liking the Beatles or Nirvana.  Disliking just Nirvana is something I could have looked past but both The Beatles AND Nirvana?  How do…