Seal Proudly Rides Humpback Whale
While in America humans talked shit about other humans, down in Australia a seal proudly rode a humpback whale. According to the BBC, animal experts say that witnessing such a partnership is rare. According to the seal and the humpback whale, love is love.
Notes for a Film on Black Joy
D’Angelo’s “Untitled” is on BET, your forehead pressed against the screen trying to look down, praying there’s a few more inches of TV. you don’t know what drives you to press your skin to the screen filled with his skin but you let yourself be driven, be hungry, be whatever this is when no one is around. you don’t…
Love Removed From France as Officials Clear Locks from Paris Bridge
L’amour est mort. Monday morning authorities began clearing Paris’s Pont des Arts bridge of hundreds of thousands of “love-locks” placed there by couples looking to demonstrate their eternal connection in the form of heavy padlocks clinging for dear life to a manmade structure.
Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!
According to Mitt Romney’s decisively grim Twitter bio, he is simply “Former Governor of Massachusetts”—no more, no less. But it’s time to stop dwelling on the past. Because today, Mitt Romney has found love in former World Champion boxer Evander Holyfield—and that love is the sweetest victory of all.
An Open Letter to My White Grandfather
I’ve started this letter five times and deleted it five times. Even though we’ve never met I’ve known you all my life. I learned you existed from a letter addressed to someone else. A few months ago, my mom told me you wanted to meet me along with my wife and son. I was surprised. I hear we have some things in common.…
Is Your Flip Phone the Only Thing Stopping You From Getting Laid?
"How can I get girls' phone numbers and not feel like a loser when I have a flip phone?" asks a male user of the internet advice site Quora.com.
Man Claims His "ISIS" Lip Tattoo Lost Him His Job at Home Depot
In a misguided ode to a girlfriend, Kirk Soccorso tattooed his beloved's name on the inside of his lower lip. Her name is Isis. They have since broken up. When he showed the tattoo to his co-workers at a Long Island Home Depot discussing the extremist militant group beheading people in Syria, he was reportedly fired.
The Unauthorized Biography of a Black Cop
We’re celebrating the Fourth of July at my cousin’s McMansion in Lake Mary, Florida, a short stroll across a golf course to the Sanford line. I’m surrounded by kinfolk I haven’t seen since the last funeral. We’re sipping sweet wine, Baileys, and beer. We’re telling the stories we always tell, and stories I’ve never…
No Love for "Looking For A Girlfriend" Guy, Just Sex With 118 Women
New Yorkers who frequent Lower Manhattan have undoubtably seen Dan Perino's face plastered on one of his thousands of "looking for a girlfriend" fliers. Since he started posting the ads for companionship last summer, he's been flooded with phone calls—more than 8,000, he tells news.com.au. He also claims to have…
The Real Thing
Davis and I met at a book party. I was bored, aimlessly drinking. I came with an editor in the hopes of meeting other well-connected, writerly people. As I approached the cocktail table our eyes met on something vast and turbulent between us. I knew then, as if the future folded out in panels before my eyes, that this…
Researchers using simulations have determined that when deciding who to mate with, it is better from an evolutionary perspective to "mate with the first, potentially inferior, companion" than to "wait for Mr. or Ms. Perfect to come around." So get out there and mate, idiots.
Cheaters' Late Night Office Bone Entertains Pub Across the Street
Two employees of Christchurch, New Zealand insurance company Marsh, Ltd., engaged in an affair and in the throes of passion, started having sex in their office last Friday night. They apparently thought the building's tinted windows prevented others from seeing inside their well-lit sexscape. They were wrong.
"10 Reasons You Shouldn't Date a Mexican Man"
"10 Reasons You Shouldn't Date a Mexican Man," by Trisha Velarmino, published today on ThoughtCatalog.com.
The Only Tinder Opening Line You Need

A few years ago, a college friend described to me his experience on Tinder. The service was already popular by then, but it hadn't yet become synonymous with sleazy come-ons and predatory male speech patterns. This friend—a plucky yuppie with a positive outlook and the face of an old baby—was finishing a graduate…
Cannibal Cop Is Looking For Love From Someone "A Little Kinky ;)"
Gilberto "Cannibal Cop" Valle beat his conviction for conspiring to kidnap, rape, kill, and eat women last summer—and he's ready to get back into the dating scene. The New York Post found his apparent Match.com profile, in which the former NYPD officer seeks the loving companionship of a woman who is "non-judgmental"…

