Not down with Hallmark

[rethcir.livejournal.com]

Anyone aware of any local special events or goings on for the singles among us on V-Day?

Comments

[ron_newman]

V for Vendetta? Isn't November 5 a long way off?

[ifotismeni]

why would you want to do something as a single person on valentines day? how could that possibly be fun?
yes, let's all gather in one place and gripe. i can't wait.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

You could throw bricks at people being lovey-dovey in the street.

[ifotismeni]

i'd rather not.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Fine, fine, if you want a non-violent alternative, you could make a mixtape of anti-love songs and drive slow through the Square, blasting it. I recommend "That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate", "Song For the Dumped", and "Take Your Love and Shove It." That last is sung by Joe Pesci.

[ifotismeni]

i can't be the only person who's single who isn't bothered by valentines day.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Heh, you might actually be. I remember really hating it, because the basic thrust was "Ha-ha! You suck because you're single!"

[ifotismeni]

*shrug*

[rethcir.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're not. Without getting too Patrick Bateman about this, there's lots of pros and cons to both.

[pushupstairs.livejournal.com]

you could just go about your life as if there were nothing particularly special about the day. I've often not even noticed that Valentine's Day occured.

[ifotismeni]

which is my point.

[rethcir.livejournal.com]

Certainly a valid option, but me, I'm approaching this more from the perspective of "excuse to party and/or have a good time", mainly because I have friday off.

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

I could understand if it was on a weekend night, since you'd want to do something (and your friends who are in relationships will likely want the time to themselves).

But otherwise, I also wonder about the issue with being single on VD. I think it's a more annoying "holiday" when in a relationship :)

[jamiesquared.livejournal.com]

I got this email from Kings:

Thursday night-Kings Valentines "Singles" Party
Starts at 9pm!
DJ- Dancing- Special Drinks
FREE KARAOKE in the lounge
FREE Bowling & Pool for Ladies

Stop Light Party
Wear- GREEN if your single
Wear- YELLOW if your unsure
Wear- RED if your taken
21+

[spatch]

(unsure?!)

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Attached but available, maybe?

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Wow, I can see this being a LITTLE awkward if a couple shows up in red and yellow.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Heh. :)

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

LOL, oh god, the possibilities for hilarity are endless.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't be Valentine's Day without bitterness, heartbreak, and spite sex.

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

Spite sex, lol. My friends and I generally refer to that as "hate-f**king."

... and for some reason, I decided the f-word needed to be censored.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

I've never gotten that concept, to be honest. >SHRUG< Maybe it's my ego, my sexual prowess is too awesome to share with people I hate. :-)

[pushupstairs.livejournal.com]

We used to have stoplight parties in college. They always ended up having 98% of the guys wearing green, 98% of the girls wearing red, and the 2% of girls (i.e. one girl) wearing green being very conspicuously hit on by the aforementioned green-shirted guys.

[rethcir.livejournal.com]

Kings, is that the bowling by Fenway (AKA Jillians)? Or am I totally off base here.

[jamiesquared.livejournal.com]

Its the bowling alley next door to the Summer Shack. Its pretty fun :)

[ron_newman]

no, Kings is on Dalton Street across from the Sheraton Boston hotel, in the former Cheri movie theatre.

[lbmango.livejournal.com]

FREE KARAOKE??? do people really PAY to do karaoke???

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

http://media.www.suffolkjournal.net/media/storage/paper632/news/2008/02/13/Arts/National.Singles.Night.Suggestions-3206580.shtml

MAGNETIC FIELDS are playing at the Somerville Theater! How the hell did I miss that? Shiiiiiit. Good thing I've got awesome plans even without that!

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

So bitter singles can listen to bitter love songs?

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Hey, this disgustingly happy and multi-attached person would like to listen to them. :P They aren't all bitter songs, either. Some of the stuff on 69 Love Songs is downright sweet.

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

yes yes I know, but I was more interested in making the comment than making a more accurate one :)

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

Sold out a long time ago :(

[duffless2323.livejournal.com]

Since you brought it up, I often wonder what happened to "singles bars". I remember hearing about them growing up as a child of the late 70s/80s, places like the Regal Beagle - do singles bars still exist?

I know some bars are "meat markets" but that doesn't seem the same.

[cityofbeige.livejournal.com]

I think single bars and meat markets are the same thing. I guess they had better PR in the 70s/80s.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

I've heard Daisy Buchanan's bandied about as a singles bar. Honestly, I went there once, and when the entire bar started singing along to "That Lovin' Feelin'" I finished my drink and split.

[whitefire.livejournal.com]

Fortunately for you, Valentine's Day overlaps Tearful Masturbation Day.

[livingadream.livejournal.com]

my second favorite holiday of the year!

woooo

[masslibrulgirl.livejournal.com]

The Center for New Words is having an event called Women Reading What They Love (http://www.centerfornewwords.org/events/2008/01/women_we_love_reading_what_the.php) at the Central Square library:

Could there be a better way to spend Valentine’s Day than with women you love?

Join CNW as we celebrate the holiday with E.J. Graff (scholar, journalist, and activist), Amy Hoffman (author and editor of Women’s Review of Books), Marina Wolf Ahmad (Founder & Director of Big Moves), Esther Cervantes (journalist and South End Press collective member) and more fabulous local sheroes TBA as they share their favorite poems, stories, essays, selections of prose, or anything that they love!

[ron_newman]

Re:Design
A play based on the correspondence between Charles Darwin and Harvard botanist, Asa Gray

Thursday, February 14 at 7:00pm
Free and open to the public; no registration required, but seating is first come, first serve
MIT Museum at 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

A theatrical production written by Craig Baxter and produced by the Darwin Correspondence Project at Cambridge University in Great Britain. This one act play is based on Darwin's correspondence with his close friend Asa Gray, an American botanist at Harvard. The Atlantic Ocean between them, Darwin and Gray worked to reconcile orthodox Christian beliefs with Darwin's emerging theory of evolution by natural selection. We enter their minds and worlds as — in their own words — they debate the great issues of science and religion, war, and slavery, but also share news of personal tragedies and triumphs, holidays and gardening. The play raises crucial questions about the implications of Darwin's theory of evolution for religious ideas of creation and design. Each performance will be followed by a discussion moderated by MIT Museum Director John Durant.