modern-love

Who Has Taylor Swift Dated: A Brief History of All The Men in the Universe

Caity Weaver · 12/05/12 06:09PM

The White House is buzzing this week over the news that super countrystar Taylor Swift has recently begun hooking up with Harry Styles, a member of One Direction and her 39th boyfriend this year. We're having a hard time keeping track of every man in the universe, so we've assembled here the definitive Rolodex of Taylor Swift's past loves.

Caity Weaver · 11/13/12 12:45PM

Did you know Janeane Garofalo has been married for 20 years? She didn't either. The marriage was dissolved yesterday.

Blake Lively's Wedding: A Personal Response

Caity Weaver · 09/21/12 04:30PM

Like it has so many of you, Blake Lively's wedding to Canada's sweetheart Guy That Canada Wrought Ryan Reynolds has affected me personally in innumerable ways.

Hitting on Younger Women Is Not a Crime

Hamilton Nolan · 05/29/12 10:43AM

Oh that John Edwards, that guy, always combing his hair and having babies out of wedlock while his wife is dying of cancer, that jerk. What is his latest outrageous action, that he did, so that we can all get mad at him, once again, the pretty boy? Let's see, here it is, right in the foldy newspaper with all the pictures:

Ukrainin' Men: How American Men Are Using the Russian Facebook to Find Brides

Adrian Chen · 05/15/12 02:00PM

A few weeks ago, I created a profile and logged onto VKontakte, the most popular Russian-language social network. I entered some personal information, uploaded an especially flattering picture of myself, then used the search function to find all single women between 25 and 35 in Ukraine who were online at the moment — around 7:30 p.m. Ukraine time. There were more than 10,000 available, all sorted by a rating system which seemed to be directly proportional to the amount of pictures a woman had posted of herself in a string bikini, and how good she looked in said bikini.

Live-Tweeting a Marriage Proposal is Not the Great Romantic Gesture You Think It Is

Caity Weaver · 04/17/12 06:55PM

Last Friday, a Canadian man live-tweeted his proposal of marriage to his girlfriend. The story went slightly viral as it unfolded—more than 700 response tweets came in bearing the hashtag #MikeProposes over the course of Mike Duerksen's 12 hour tweet session—and has since exploded in a major way as the Internet has, in typical self-fellating fashion, clamored to read more stories about itself.

Your iPhone May Soon Suggest Creepy Dates

Ryan Tate · 06/16/11 03:36PM

It turns out there's a reason your iPhone has been stalking you: It might use your private data to hook you up with nearby iPhone owners. And you thought your mom was an awkward matchmaker.

Stephenie Meyer Will Never Stop Bothering Us

Richard Lawson · 05/03/11 04:08PM

Ugh, another year, another movie from the mind of Stephenie Meyer. Also today: Lots of TV pickup news, including Nathan Lane's return to the small screen. Plus, Anna Faris!