What I want to know is, isn't the audience of The O.C. predominantly female?

I know a lot of men who watch it, but I strongly suspect most of them are the sort who jumped at the chance to purchase the Chris Carmack cover issue of Out this month...

Lee, did you see the LATimes sushi story? They mention The Hump.

t eta nebbermind. x-post.

Maybe Kiriko next?

And it's right near krav! Not that it's relevant. It's just a thing.

Didn't we have the baby yellowtail the first time we Humped?

the Chris Carmack cover issue of Out this month...

Ooh.

Can I just say I'm such a loser because I saw ita's tag, Lee's question and I said, "Seth".

Sigh.

My tag is surprisingly Seth free, but it got a gasp out loud so it's a good one.

Charles/Camilla wedding

What's funny is that NPR reported on the story this morning, and described them as "Prince Charles and his partner Camilla Parker-Bowles." I realized as I heard it how rarely I hear that these days, "partner" used in the romantic sense.

The whole debate over marriage has thrust that word aside, hasn't it? (My company's health plan stopped covering the partners in unmarried couples a few months after marriage became legal for all.) Although I sometimes see short pieces in the paper about people (gay or straight) with no intention of marrying, I can't recall that they're called partners any more. (As a data point, my mother used to use "partner", but finally married my stepdad, basically, to cement a few financial details in the event of his death.)

Woof, suddenly I am remembering "longtime companion," which I heard actually used in conversation only years after the movie of the same name.

I realized as I heard it how rarely I hear that these days, "partner" used in the romantic sense.

Huh. I have the hardest time hearing it in non romantic senses. But I guess that's another difference between a gay girl and a straight one.

I realized as I heard it how rarely I hear that these days, "partner" used in the romantic sense.

I still think of it as only romantic, applying to same-sex couples when you're kinda dancing around the meat of the issue. If a man introduced me to his female partner, I'd look at them funny, and eventually think business. But if a guy introduced to his male partner it would take me forever to unimagine the knocking of boots.

I have a "oh, we messed up" e-mail to send out today. I'm so very terribly not looking forward to it.

Huh. When I hear "partner", my first thought is that it means "I'm gay and he's my boyfriend". I'm always surprised when it turns out to be "business partner".

Ooh.

Have you seen it? He's wet.

funny xposts...

I had a former colleague who introduced spoke about her partner a lot. Imagine my abashed surprise when I realized she was talking about her male fiancee.