Bobo’s obsession with chain restaurants took a disturbing turn this morning:
Since April 2007, New York magazine has posted online sex diaries. People send in personal accounts of their nighttime quests and conquests. Some of the diaries are unusual and sad. There’s a laid-off banker who drinks herself into oblivion and wakes up in the beds of unfamiliar men. There’s an African-American securities trader who flies around the country on weekends to meet with couples seeking interracial sex. (He meets one Midwestern couple at a T.G.I. Friday’s.)
Scruffy McSnufflepuss
This is good news for McCain!
cleek
does this prove we’re a center-right nation, that we need to stay in Iraq a few more years, or that Obama is not actually the 2nd Coming ?
which BoBo theme is up today ?
slag
What did we do to deserve this, DougJ?
dmsilev
David Brooks writing about dating and sex is even worse than either Maureen Dowd or Ross Douthat on the same subject.
I did not think that was possible.
-dms
aimai
Oh, so Bobo is the guy who *reads* the Penthouse Forum Letters…and believes them?
aimai
Lola
I still want to know which Republican senator felt Bobo up, and why he thinks it is okay to hide that from us.
aimai
Cleek, FTW, btw.
aimai
MikeJ
Was Douchehat’s story about chunky Reese Witherspoon in the New Yorker?
Leelee for Obama
Sweet Jeebus-is this FINALLY the shark Bobo is gonna jump? Talk about a whimper , after talking about a bang (or two). With all the crap that’s going on, this is worth writing? I can’t believe Suzlberger let them print it! Maybe, just saying, maybe, if a relationship lasted as long as a Prius, or cost about the same, or made someone feel as good as doing something environmentally important might, people would be doing otherwise. Contingency-that’s what keeps you from plunging into a relationship that will likely break your heart.
Of course, the dangerous sexual behavior is not something to cheer on, but really-WTF?
Senyordave
Made the mistake of linking and reading most of the column. I think I have to take a shower now, and I’m hoping that it hasn’t that it has turned permanently turned me off of sex.
Paris
“which BoBo theme is up today ?”
The real house wives of exurbia?
Mr Furious
I hope the salad bar
hadhas asneezevomit guard.Better.
Tonybrown74
Oh, gawd!
You’re going to make me read this article, aren’t you?
r€nato
@Lola: srsly
reading online sex diaries = intriguing
reading Bobo writing about online sex diaries = revolting
DanF
Wow. Bobo discovers that people really like having sex and they will use technology as a way to find sex. Conclusion: This will destroy us all. Genius I tells ya. Genius …
GReynoldsCT00
@DanF:
and no guidelines to keep people on the straight and narrow until it’s time for a permanent relationship…
El Cid
This of course is the fault of the Democratic Congressional victories since taking over in January of 2007 and for pulling the country off its happier, healthier right wing path. Clearly.
MikeJ
Dear NYT,
I attend a large midwestern university. I never believed any of the stories in your right wing editorials, until one day I took a cab ride that got more interesting than usual…
Tonybrown74
Great! Now that I read that ultimate turd, I have to comment on it …
What is with these lame-ass “columnists” who fetishize the whole 1950’s Leave-It-To-Beaver meme??
Trust me when I say, that everyone who was dating then, was screwing each other silly. The only person who was talking about delaying sex was your girlfriend (if you even had one), because she never really wanted to fvck you! And can you blame here. How bloody lame were you?
The only difference between then and now, is that people are more honest. People realize that (straight) women love dick as much as (gay) men, and they have now all lost their collective shit!
Violet
Ugh. Bobo writing about sex? I definitely need a shower after that. The unclean just jumps off the screen. Yuck.
From his ridiculous column:
“People once lived within a pattern of being” ? WTF?
r€nato
@DanF: No, what will destroy us all are animatronic sexbots. Did you see that episode of “Futurama” where Fry gets a Marilyn Monrobot as an adolescent? I rest my case.
Tonybrown74
And by “they” I mean these stupid columnists …
JenJen
Snort!!
Thanks for taking my mind of the increasingly annoying Arianna Huffington, who was just on MSNBC basically declaring the Obama Presidency a failed one. Or at least I think that’s what she said. She could’ve used a translator. :-)
Violet
Did he just find out that one of his kids was having a three-way in the poolhouse with the cabana boy and the nanny?
David
The very last thing I want to hear about is David Brooks’ pretend-thoughts on other people’s sex lives. He doesn’t discuss anything honestly.
Blue Raven
And comparing a man who apparently enjoys being a sex object to swingers to the woman who drinks herself into strange beds is one of the saddest bits of mislogic he’s come up with in a while. Choosing who you have sex with while sober ain’t the same, Magee.
DanF
@r€nato:
As soon as I get an animatronic sex robot, I am soooo leaving my family. Life just doesn’t get any more emotionally fulfilling than banging a hot robot. Sorry kids.
Unless, of course, my wife is willing to join in. Hmmmmm ….
Leelee for Obama
@JenJen: I try not to listen to Arianna anymore-my pundits are dwindling, oh noes! What is it that prevents people I’d like to like from understanding that changing a nation of 300,000,00+ is a difficult and long-term effort. Would I like everything done now, YES! Did I expect it-only when I was euphoric. When my feet hit the ground, I knew we were in for a long haul. And that was before the Opposition went off their meds.
r€nato
@Leelee for Obama: exactly.
Christmas hasn’t even arrived, but Arianna didn’t get her stable of ponies yet so she’s going to throw a tantrum. How quickly some people forget the 8 years of W and the Brain.
JenJen
@Leelee for Obama: Bingo. And really well-said, LeeLee.
Leelee for Obama
@r€nato: Yeah, and what gets me is she can afford her own ponies, whether or not things get fixed.
How does one get edit back? Is there some sort of ritual? I missed a zero on the last post, and it makes me crazy that I can’t fix it!!! Shallow, I know.
aimai
“Pattern of Being” = Fearful, Peasant, Religiosity. People used to *know their place* and *fear their god* and *protect their pee pees*. Bobo is becoming Peggy Noonan. He saw something nasty in the salad bar, the peasants are revolting, and he is now afraid to go out and eat. Is nothing sacred?
aimai
Leelee for Obama
@JenJen: Thanks, jenjen. I seem to be getting my mojo back somewhat!
beltane
@Violet: Has Bobo been taking writing lessons from Sarah Palin? I read that excerpt twice and it still makes no sense. If he really has nothing to write about, he ought to go minimalist and submit a blank column.
Scott H
@Mr Furious: thanks, now I have to clean my keyboard
MysticalChick
@Leelee for Obama – HELL to the yes! What a mess this man and his staff have to clean up all the while the idiots on the right are continuing to fling poo against the walls and floors.
Damn, Bush and his cabal were teh fail on every single front and they get a pass. I hate the idiots in this country sometimes who just don’t get it.
GRRR.
Off to read about people who have sex lives instead of just pretending to have one (like me).
Violet
@beltane:
Agreed. He doesn’t make any sense. It’s not English. It seems he’s trying to articulate some feelings, but the logic isn’t there, so he’s just linking words and hoping no one notices.
Do editors check columns by opinion people, or are they free to blather whatever they like?
MNPundit
Interesting.
Gawker had an article bemoaning how bad the sex diaries have gotten. That is, they have become instead of an escape, a dark depressing extension of our current troubles.
Citizen_X
I vote that the community binds Bobo hand and foot and tosses him into the pattern of being. For the sake of tradition, y’know.
jenniebee
Sorry, didn’t catch Bobo’s latest on how today’s rash of casual sex is so today and new and different, was too busy re-reading Fanny Hill…
jrg
Shorter bobo: “Tommy tutone’s hit “Jenny” (867-5309) was the beginning of the end of morality in western civilization. Now it’s worse because we have cell phones, which are the #1 cause of deviant sexual behavior. Now where’s my paycheck?”
Joel
There’s also one case of a prominent editorialist for the New York Times who has orgies with wild animals in a Burger King bathroom.
GregB
Is there a story about a lonely New York times reporter who whacks off into his sock while watching old re-reruns of Ronald Reagan films?
-G
Bobby Thomson
Khan!!!!!!!!!
Bobby Thomson
FYWP
Leelee for Obama
@Joel: That would go viral, and make a lotta, lotta, lotta, ducats!
Chad N Freude
@jenniebee: But Fanny Hill didn’t have a cellphone.
Zandar
“So, you guys want the Jack Daniel’s ribs or the Blackened me?” he said, putting down the TGI Friday’s menu.
RedKitten
Ugh — there is nothing worse than a conservative scold’s prurient interest in other people’s sex lives. It’s very icky.
Sour Kraut
Visiting your Secret Argentinian Mistress : “Hiking the Appalachian Trail”
orgies with wild animals in a Burger King bathroom. : “Doing The Humpty Dance”
tigrismus
Jesus, there’s pornographic CAVE ART but this guy thinks everyone was sexless until the recent past? Dude, just because YOU weren’t having sex doesn’t mean others weren’t getting their 50’s freak on.
Leelee for Obama
@tigrismus: I think Bobo is my age so he might have been doing something, but I doubt he was old enough to get a freak on. His problem is, he thinks his Mom and Dad NEVER thought about sex-most people do, until they grow up. We may not like to picture it, but we know they did bit more than thinks. I rest my case.
Brachiator
@Citizen_X:
I saw that episode of Star Trek. It was pretty good. Better than anything Bobo ever wrote.
loretta
What’s this idiotic non-sequitur supposed to be, a shot at feminism? He’s such a misogyinist prick.
Snarki, child of Loki
Bobo’s let modern libertinism infect him, otherwise he’d know that the descent into modern depravity started with “going steady”. After that, it was straight to interspecies jello orgies, with no looking back.
But why is Bobo suddenly making his voyeuristic online obsessions public?
My bet is that the hot animal twitters between Bobo, Chunky Rick Santorum, and Mark Foley got out of control.
Gozer
David Brooks wasn’t even fucking born in the 50s. He’s not even in his 50s.
Why the fuck is he pining for the days of Wally and the Beav?
drillfork
@r€nato: @r€nato:
Actually, Frye had the Lucy Liu. The Monroe bot appeared in the Reefer Madness-type education vid that warned people not to diddle with robots.
Err, I mean I haven’t seen it…
asiangrrlMN
Congrats, DougJ. You did what I thought was impossible–you made me lose all interest in sex. Thank you very much for that. No, really. I mean it.
Excuse me. I have to find my copy of Asian erotica in order to put myself back in the proper frame of mind.
asiangrrlMN
Great. Reading the quotes from you guys makes me even madder at this pretentious shithead. He’s longing for a facade that wasn’t healthy in the first damn place. Motherfucking Happy Days? That’s his reference for idealistic dating guidelines? I hate to even consider what my life would have looked like had I lived in ‘Murika in the 50s.
Anne Laurie
@Blue Raven:
Well, how is BoBo supposed to know that? Everyone he’s ever had sex with was either drunk, getting paid for it, or planning to use the encounter as a bargaining chip later. It’s his “pattern of being”!
Steeplejack
@asiangrrlMN:
And Happy Days wasn’t even the ’50s! It was hack producer Garry Marshall’s cynical, cartoonish ’70s pastiche of every ’50s cliché (accurate or not). And it was a blatant attempt to cash in on the popularity of the movie American Graffiti.
Yes, this is definitely what you should base your hard-hitting social commentary on. Mencken would be proud.
Mark S.
Of course, Brook’s sex life makes for some creepy reading, as well:
I don’t think that ever happened on Happy Days, even in the post-shark episodes.
Shell
Sounds like he’s been watching too many -50’s hygiene films like ‘You, Your Body and You!”
licensed to kill time
I guess perusing online sex diaries is BoBo’s version of Friedman grilling cabdrivers for Deep Insights.
Steve M.
Cue the Amazing Rhythm Aces….
MFA
Well, TGI Fridays is the place to get a “loaded potato.”
bjacques
Sayyid Qutb and I blame the Hesitation Waltz.
Baby, it’s cold outside…
Arclite
Bobo writes,
Really? Is there data to back that up? Or is this just his general dew-eyed romanticizing of “the good old days.”
sparky
you know what else we had in the 1950s? a 90% top tax rate. i blame lowered tax rates.