Bah, lovebug!
If you’re one of those jerks or jerkettes who awoke this morning to a blissful, dizzying euphoria, good for you. If you want to read happy Valentine’s Day stories, Betty Crocker has put together two...
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Happy Singles Awareness Day everyone! Not all of us can be lucky enough to spend it flirting with our Facebook fiancées who live across the pond (I know. I’m so lucky!), but we can all be lucky enough...
View ArticleA Romantic Trip to a Sewage Treatment Plant, Just in Time for Valentine’s Day
Flowers are so mom-and-dad. Artisanal chocolates will get you by, but next week no one other than you is going to remember they were made from hand-harvested Mayan cocoa beans and cost $100 a pound....
View ArticleExpand Your Horizons on Valentine’s Day
Looking for something original to do on Valentine’s Day? Skip the flowers and chocolate. You can always buy those on Discount Flowers and Chocolates Day (February 15th). Instead, try something that...
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Share it with your loved ones. We have a bunch of great posts for you today. Thanks to all of our contributing writers. And to Dogs, who edited them all even though I said I would do it when I got...
View ArticleQOTD: How Do You Celebrate Valentine’s Day?
This Friday is Valentine’s Day, a holiday combining pagan festival with the honoring of Catholic martyrs, including a young priest condemned to death for officiating illegal marriages under Claudius...
View ArticleFive Unusual Love Songs
When we think of love songs, we have a canon that we fall back on, don’t we? Elton John’s “Your Song,” for example. Or if your situation is a little more dire, “Someone Saved My Life Tonight.” Let’s...
View ArticlePhoto Phriday: Valentine’s Day
Red is the color of love, passion, vitality and strength. It also represents heat, fire and anger, but we won’t get into those today, except maybe the heat bit… Show us a picture of something red in...
View ArticleValentine’s Day Candy Review: Russell Stover Heart-Shaped Assortment
Perhaps there are Valentine’s Day candies that are more predictably tasty: for example, the Reese’s Peanut Butter Heart, whose pliant chocolate and dense, salty interior excite your taste buds just as...
View ArticleHow to Have a Successful Friends With Benefits Relationship
Here are my tips for you on how to have a successful “friends with benefits” relationship. Remember, it’s really about the f***ing: Try not to forget that. While some friends with benefits...
View ArticleUm… Presidential Valentine’s Day Weekend Holiday Open Thread?
Jeez, get a room will ya. "Love’s Old Sweet Song" (CC BY 2.0) by linda yvonne
View ArticleValentine’s Day Open Thread
This open thread is brought to you by romantic ingenues and the late, great Debbie Reynolds. “Singin’ in the Rain” is an American classic – one of those films that justifies the existence of Hollywood...
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much hearts wow so valentines "Love from Dumbo" (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by Lazy_Artist
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