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Well, that's about to change after you get a load of these unconventional love letters from famous artists throughout history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & Maria Anna Thekla\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-109434 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Croce_MozartFamilyPortrait-1020x757.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Croce_MozartFamilyPortrait-1020x757.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Croce_MozartFamilyPortrait-160x119.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Croce_MozartFamilyPortrait-800x594.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Croce_MozartFamilyPortrait-768x570.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Croce_MozartFamilyPortrait-1200x891.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Croce_MozartFamilyPortrait-1920x1425.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Croce_MozartFamilyPortrait.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cbr>\nWolfgang Amadeus Mozart might have been a genius at writing music, but he was less skilled in the art of writing love letters. 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I wish you goodnight, my dear, but first sh*t in your bed and make it burst.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White people in the 1700s say the darndest things.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">James Joyce & Nora Barnacle\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-109441 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Cj00u2fUoAAmir9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Cj00u2fUoAAmir9.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Cj00u2fUoAAmir9-160x103.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">While we're on the topic of, um, digestion, James Joyce wrote at length about his obsession with his wife's farts in this 1909 letter:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\"My sweet little whorish Nora... \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">You had an arse full of farts that night, darling... big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole... I think I would know Nora’s fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also. \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Goodnight, my little farting Nora, my dirty little f*ckbird!\"\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know. That was a lot to take in. And that's just the half of it. 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While this theory is debatable, some historians believe that Herman Melville (\u003cem>Moby-Dick)\u003c/em> had a non-platonic thing for Nathaniel Hawthorne (\u003cem>The Scarlet Letter)\u003c/em>. Don't believe it? Read for yourself:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Your heart beat in my ribs and mine in yours... Whence come you, Hawthorne? By what right do you drink from my flagon of life? And when I put it to my lips—lo, they are yours and not mine.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the words of Paris Hilton: that's hot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As is Melville. Will you look at that photo of him? Who knew?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's another one for good measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-109437\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/melville_herman_WD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/melville_herman_WD.jpg 830w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/melville_herman_WD-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/melville_herman_WD-800x568.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/melville_herman_WD-768x545.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yowza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I digress...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to a third party, Melville continued (allegedly) crushing: \u003cem>\"Hawthorne has dropped \u003c/em>germinous\u003cem> seeds into my soul. He expands and deepens down, the more I contemplate him; and further and further, shoots his strong New England roots in the hot soil of my Southern soul.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I repeat: HE SHOT HIS ROOTS INTO THE HOT SOIL OF HIS SOUL!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-109446\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/fans-self.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"324\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My high school English teacher will be happy to know that I am finally considering reading \u003cem>Moby-Dick\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-109435\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/maxresdefault-1-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/maxresdefault-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/maxresdefault-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/maxresdefault-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/maxresdefault-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/maxresdefault-1-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/maxresdefault-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this love letter to Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo finds a way to make armpits romantic, and also does enough to convince me that their sex tape would have been lit:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"Nothing compares to your hands, nothing like the green-gold of your eyes. My body is filled with you for days and days. You are the mirror of the night. The violent flash of lightning. The dampness of the earth. The hollow of your armpits is my shelter. My fingers touch your blood. All my joy is to feel life spring from your flower-fountain that mine keeps to fill all the paths of my nerves which are yours.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, some of us are out here settling for a \"U up?\" text at two in the morning. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cspan class=\"irc_su\" dir=\"ltr\">Vita Sackville West & Virginia Woolf\u003c/span>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-109432\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Vita-Sackville-West-and-Virginia-Woolf-1288x724-1020x573.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Vita-Sackville-West-and-Virginia-Woolf-1288x724-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Vita-Sackville-West-and-Virginia-Woolf-1288x724-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Vita-Sackville-West-and-Virginia-Woolf-1288x724-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Vita-Sackville-West-and-Virginia-Woolf-1288x724-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Vita-Sackville-West-and-Virginia-Woolf-1288x724-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Vita-Sackville-West-and-Virginia-Woolf-1288x724.jpg 1288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During a hot and heavy extramarital affair, Vita Sackville-West (not related to the Kardashian-Wests) sent Virginia Woolf a letter to share just how enamored she was feeling: \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia... I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way... So this letter is really just a squeal of pain. It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any more by giving myself away like this — But oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that... You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defenses. And I don’t really resent it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How do you reply to a powerful letter like that? Well, if you're Virginia Woolf, by writing PG-13 erotic fiction featuring woodland creatures!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I have missed you. I do miss you. I shall miss you. And if you don’t believe it, you’re a long-eared owl and ass…. Open the top button of your jersey and you will see, nestling inside, a lively squirrel with the most inquisitive habits, but a dear creature all the same—\"\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-109447 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/kirsten-wiig-squirrel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"206\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>John Keats & Fanny Brawne\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-109436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/1200px-John_Keats_by_William_Hilton-1020x1203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/1200px-John_Keats_by_William_Hilton-1020x1203.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/1200px-John_Keats_by_William_Hilton-160x189.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/1200px-John_Keats_by_William_Hilton-800x943.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/1200px-John_Keats_by_William_Hilton-768x906.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/1200px-John_Keats_by_William_Hilton-1018x1200.jpg 1018w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/1200px-John_Keats_by_William_Hilton.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">John Keats literally fell in love with the girl next door, his neighbor Fanny Brawne. They never married because he was too poor (plus, he died at the age of 25), but that didn't stop him from sending her letters like this one:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">‘My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you – I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again – my Life seems to stop there – I see no further. You have absorb’d me…I would be martyr’d for my Religion – Love is my religion – I could die for that – I could die for you…’\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who knew John Keats was the Prince of the early 1800s?! Makes you wonder what weird symbol he would have transitioned to later in life. Maybe the outline of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn\">Grecian urn\u003c/a>? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-109440\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/elizabeth-taylor-affair-with-richard-burton-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/elizabeth-taylor-affair-with-richard-burton-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/elizabeth-taylor-affair-with-richard-burton-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/elizabeth-taylor-affair-with-richard-burton-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/elizabeth-taylor-affair-with-richard-burton-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/elizabeth-taylor-affair-with-richard-burton.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor got divorced in 1974, but that didn't stop the love, as this letter from him to her attests:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"...All I care about—honest to God—is that you are happy and I don't much care who you'll find happiness with. I mean, as long as he's a friendly bloke and treats you nice and kind. If he doesn't, I'll come at him with a hammer and clinker. God's eye may be on the sparrow but my eye will always be on you. Never forget your strange virtues. Never forget that underneath that veneer of raucous language is a remarkable and puritanical LADY… Try and look after yourself. Much love.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something about Burton threatening to mutilate someone with a hammer and clinker is oddly touching. If his letter made you root for them to get back together, I have some good news for you. They did! I also have some bad news for you. Their second marriage only lasted a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">Zelda & F. Scott Fitzgerald\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109445\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/0_9hAF3chrzbBoBbxp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/0_9hAF3chrzbBoBbxp.jpg 970w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/0_9hAF3chrzbBoBbxp-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/0_9hAF3chrzbBoBbxp-800x449.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/0_9hAF3chrzbBoBbxp-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Love letters usually focus on positive feelings, but Zelda Fitzgerald wasn't a usual kind of person. This note to F. Scott has just as much misanthropy as anything else:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"How inanimate I am when you're gone—I can't even hate these damnable people—Nobody's got a right to live but us—and they're dirtying up our world and I can't hate them because I want you so.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing says \"I love you\" quite like \"I hope everyone else dies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was inspired by an episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">The Cooler\u003c/a>, KQED’s weekly pop culture podcast. Give it a listen!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/thecooler/2018/02/Valentine2018.mp3\" title=\"Dear Valentine, May I (VERB) Your (NOUN)?\" program=\"The Cooler\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/valentine-crushes-1200x675.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When you think of love letters from history, Shakespeare's plumed quill and words like \"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?\" probably come to mind. What about odes to armpits and farts? Not so much? Well, that's about to change after you get a load of these unconventional love letters from famous artists throughout history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & Maria Anna Thekla\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-109434 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Croce_MozartFamilyPortrait-1020x757.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Croce_MozartFamilyPortrait-1020x757.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Croce_MozartFamilyPortrait-160x119.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Croce_MozartFamilyPortrait-800x594.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Croce_MozartFamilyPortrait-768x570.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Croce_MozartFamilyPortrait-1200x891.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Croce_MozartFamilyPortrait-1920x1425.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Croce_MozartFamilyPortrait.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cbr>\nWolfgang Amadeus Mozart might have been a genius at writing music, but he was less skilled in the art of writing love letters. An uncomfortable amount of his flirty missives were addressed to his cousin, Maria Anna Thekla. As if that wasn't bad enough, many of them involved poop. Yes, you read that correctly. Poop!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Exhibit A:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>“I now wish you goodnight. Sh*t in your bed with all your might, sleep with peace on your mind and try to kiss your own behind.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Exhibit B:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>\"Come for a bit or else I’ll sh*t.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where is he getting this random fascination with dung from? Turns out the apple doesn't fall far from the tree; his own mother wrote things like this to his father: \u003cem>\"Keep well, my love. Into your mouth your arse you’ll shove. I wish you goodnight, my dear, but first sh*t in your bed and make it burst.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White people in the 1700s say the darndest things.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">James Joyce & Nora Barnacle\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-109441 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Cj00u2fUoAAmir9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Cj00u2fUoAAmir9.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Cj00u2fUoAAmir9-160x103.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">While we're on the topic of, um, digestion, James Joyce wrote at length about his obsession with his wife's farts in this 1909 letter:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\"My sweet little whorish Nora... \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">You had an arse full of farts that night, darling... big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole... I think I would know Nora’s fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also. \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Goodnight, my little farting Nora, my dirty little f*ckbird!\"\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know. That was a lot to take in. And that's just the half of it. The NSFW version is even crazier. \u003ca href=\"https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02/02/james-joyces-love-letters-dirty-little-fuckbird/\">Read if you dare\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">Herman Melville & Nathaniel Hawthorne\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-109444\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/mel-and-nat-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/mel-and-nat-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/mel-and-nat-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/mel-and-nat-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/mel-and-nat-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/mel-and-nat-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/mel-and-nat.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now onto something that thankfully has nothing to do with intestinal output. While this theory is debatable, some historians believe that Herman Melville (\u003cem>Moby-Dick)\u003c/em> had a non-platonic thing for Nathaniel Hawthorne (\u003cem>The Scarlet Letter)\u003c/em>. Don't believe it? Read for yourself:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Your heart beat in my ribs and mine in yours... Whence come you, Hawthorne? By what right do you drink from my flagon of life? And when I put it to my lips—lo, they are yours and not mine.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the words of Paris Hilton: that's hot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As is Melville. Will you look at that photo of him? Who knew?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's another one for good measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-109437\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/melville_herman_WD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/melville_herman_WD.jpg 830w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/melville_herman_WD-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/melville_herman_WD-800x568.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/melville_herman_WD-768x545.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yowza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I digress...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to a third party, Melville continued (allegedly) crushing: \u003cem>\"Hawthorne has dropped \u003c/em>germinous\u003cem> seeds into my soul. He expands and deepens down, the more I contemplate him; and further and further, shoots his strong New England roots in the hot soil of my Southern soul.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I repeat: HE SHOT HIS ROOTS INTO THE HOT SOIL OF HIS SOUL!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-109446\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/fans-self.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"324\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My high school English teacher will be happy to know that I am finally considering reading \u003cem>Moby-Dick\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-109435\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/maxresdefault-1-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/maxresdefault-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/maxresdefault-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/maxresdefault-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/maxresdefault-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/maxresdefault-1-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/maxresdefault-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this love letter to Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo finds a way to make armpits romantic, and also does enough to convince me that their sex tape would have been lit:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"Nothing compares to your hands, nothing like the green-gold of your eyes. My body is filled with you for days and days. You are the mirror of the night. The violent flash of lightning. The dampness of the earth. The hollow of your armpits is my shelter. My fingers touch your blood. All my joy is to feel life spring from your flower-fountain that mine keeps to fill all the paths of my nerves which are yours.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, some of us are out here settling for a \"U up?\" text at two in the morning. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cspan class=\"irc_su\" dir=\"ltr\">Vita Sackville West & Virginia Woolf\u003c/span>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-109432\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Vita-Sackville-West-and-Virginia-Woolf-1288x724-1020x573.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Vita-Sackville-West-and-Virginia-Woolf-1288x724-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Vita-Sackville-West-and-Virginia-Woolf-1288x724-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Vita-Sackville-West-and-Virginia-Woolf-1288x724-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Vita-Sackville-West-and-Virginia-Woolf-1288x724-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Vita-Sackville-West-and-Virginia-Woolf-1288x724-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Vita-Sackville-West-and-Virginia-Woolf-1288x724.jpg 1288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During a hot and heavy extramarital affair, Vita Sackville-West (not related to the Kardashian-Wests) sent Virginia Woolf a letter to share just how enamored she was feeling: \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia... I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way... So this letter is really just a squeal of pain. It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any more by giving myself away like this — But oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that... You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defenses. And I don’t really resent it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How do you reply to a powerful letter like that? Well, if you're Virginia Woolf, by writing PG-13 erotic fiction featuring woodland creatures!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I have missed you. I do miss you. I shall miss you. And if you don’t believe it, you’re a long-eared owl and ass…. Open the top button of your jersey and you will see, nestling inside, a lively squirrel with the most inquisitive habits, but a dear creature all the same—\"\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-109447 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/kirsten-wiig-squirrel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"206\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>John Keats & Fanny Brawne\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-109436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/1200px-John_Keats_by_William_Hilton-1020x1203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/1200px-John_Keats_by_William_Hilton-1020x1203.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/1200px-John_Keats_by_William_Hilton-160x189.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/1200px-John_Keats_by_William_Hilton-800x943.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/1200px-John_Keats_by_William_Hilton-768x906.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/1200px-John_Keats_by_William_Hilton-1018x1200.jpg 1018w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/1200px-John_Keats_by_William_Hilton.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">John Keats literally fell in love with the girl next door, his neighbor Fanny Brawne. They never married because he was too poor (plus, he died at the age of 25), but that didn't stop him from sending her letters like this one:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">‘My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you – I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again – my Life seems to stop there – I see no further. You have absorb’d me…I would be martyr’d for my Religion – Love is my religion – I could die for that – I could die for you…’\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who knew John Keats was the Prince of the early 1800s?! Makes you wonder what weird symbol he would have transitioned to later in life. Maybe the outline of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn\">Grecian urn\u003c/a>? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-109440\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/elizabeth-taylor-affair-with-richard-burton-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/elizabeth-taylor-affair-with-richard-burton-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/elizabeth-taylor-affair-with-richard-burton-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/elizabeth-taylor-affair-with-richard-burton-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/elizabeth-taylor-affair-with-richard-burton-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/elizabeth-taylor-affair-with-richard-burton.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor got divorced in 1974, but that didn't stop the love, as this letter from him to her attests:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"...All I care about—honest to God—is that you are happy and I don't much care who you'll find happiness with. I mean, as long as he's a friendly bloke and treats you nice and kind. If he doesn't, I'll come at him with a hammer and clinker. God's eye may be on the sparrow but my eye will always be on you. Never forget your strange virtues. Never forget that underneath that veneer of raucous language is a remarkable and puritanical LADY… Try and look after yourself. Much love.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something about Burton threatening to mutilate someone with a hammer and clinker is oddly touching. If his letter made you root for them to get back together, I have some good news for you. They did! I also have some bad news for you. Their second marriage only lasted a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">Zelda & F. 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Scott has just as much misanthropy as anything else:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"How inanimate I am when you're gone—I can't even hate these damnable people—Nobody's got a right to live but us—and they're dirtying up our world and I can't hate them because I want you so.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing says \"I love you\" quite like \"I hope everyone else dies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was inspired by an episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">The Cooler\u003c/a>, KQED’s weekly pop culture podcast. Give it a listen!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>So you don't have a boo. No biggie. Sure, it's fun to hold hands and have someone buy you an eclair for no reason and all that jazz. Loving someone else is super. But there's another form of love that predates loving someone else: the love you have for yourself a.k.a. The Greatest Love of All!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Valentine's Day, let's not be so terribly obvious and transform into Bridget Jones. There's really no reason you need to cry while eating chocolate and singing Celine Dion ballads in your underwear. You're cute and fun, and you should get out there and do cute and fun things! Here are a few ideas of ways to spend your Valentine's Day:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1. TREAT YO' SELF\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ug3vCqbd1rungpko1_500.gif\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You work hard and you deserve nice things. Forget about waiting around for someone to buy you something you've always wanted and treat yo' self! Some good ideas: sweaters, fragrances, massages, mimosas. You get the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>2. CALL ALL THE SINGLE LADIES (all the single ladies)\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcoez1NsMW1rdhbryo1_500.gif\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes it might seem like you're the only person not living in Boo Land (favorite activities for residents include forgetting about their friends and saying annoying things like \"you'll have this someday, too!\"). But there are plenty of friends who are flying solo just like you. So call your favorite friends from this group and be each other's Valentines. Make a three-course meal for each other. Or hit up a karaoke joint and sing love songs to each other. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2013/01/25/karaoke-survival-guide-10-commandments/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just make sure to follow the rules.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>3. GO SMELL A ROSE OR SOMETHING\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109399\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/beyonce-smell-rose.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"317\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are always 101 things to do at any given moment in this town, so surely there is something for you out there (our very own \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/program/the-do-list\">The Do List\u003c/a>\u003c/em> can help you find something). Some evergreen ideas:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Go see a movie that passes \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test\">the Bechdel test\u003c/a>!\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Go smell a flower at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbg.org/\">SF Botanical Garden\u003c/a> or the \u003ca href=\"https://conservatoryofflowers.org/\">Conservatory of Flowers\u003c/a>!\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Go find inspiration at the \u003ca href=\"https://deyoung.famsf.org/\">DeYoung\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/\">SFMOMA\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ybca.org/\">YBCA\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://legionofhonor.famsf.org/\">Legion of Honor\u003c/a> or a cute little art gallery!\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Go make eyes at cute penguins and an albino alligator at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.calacademy.org/\">California Academy of Sciences\u003c/a>!\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Or just hang out in front of the Painted Ladies while singing the \u003cem>Full House\u003c/em> theme song to yourself. (Yes, I have done this, and no, I do not care that people thought I was weird.)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>4. HOLLYWOOD CRUSH MARATHON\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 333px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/12/no-boo-no-problem-a-singles-guide-to-valentines-day/6331185462_244649c8d2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1197\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-1197 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/6331185462_244649c8d2.jpg\" alt=\"Flickr | poldberg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/poldberg/6331185462/\">poldberg\u003c/a>, via Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you don't feel like going out, why not watch a marathon starring your number one crush?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you like boys, I suggest this Ryan Gosling triple feature:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>Drive\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Lars and the Real Girl\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Half Nelson\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cdel>\u003cem>Blue Valentine\u003c/em>\u003c/del> (tonight is not the night for this)\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cdel>The Notebook\u003c/del> \u003c/em>(or this)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you like girls, I suggest this Winona Ryder triple feature:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>Beetlejuice\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Heathers\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Reality Bites\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>5. OPEN YOUR THIRD EYE\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/02/12/no-boo-no-problem-a-singles-guide-to-valentines-day-2014/kitten_headstand/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11077\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11077\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/kitten_headstand.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: That Cute Site\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/kitten_headstand.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/kitten_headstand-400x264.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.thatcutesite.com/kitten-doing-morning-exercises.html\">That Cute Site\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Our society tends to stigmatize spending time by yourself. Loners are weird and wear trench coats and talk to themselves, right? Wrong. The ability to be alone without feeling lonely is something we should all strive for and the surest way to get there is by practicing yoga. Tune into your body, breathe and relax a little. If this really doesn't sound like fun, find comfort in the 96.7% probability that your bendy teacher will be a babe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>6. SAN FRANCISCO IS YOUR LIFE PARTNER\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://lisacongdon.com/blog/2012/07/san-francisco-i-love-you/\">\u003cimg class=\" \" src=\"http://lisacongdon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/sfiloveyou_lowres1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://lisacongdon.com/\">Lisa Congdon\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Significant others come and go and often take your favorite records with them. But San Francisco is always there for you. Spend some time in a place in the city you love or maybe have never gotten around to visiting. And take a bottle of red, while you're at it (that's not weird, it's \u003cem>classy)\u003c/em>. I suggest biking to the Sutro Baths or climbing Bernal or losing yourself in \u003ca href=\"http://mntsutro.com/\">the little-known cloud forest on Mount Sutro\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>7. AWAKEN YOUR INNER CHILD\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11074\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 402px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/02/12/no-boo-no-problem-a-singles-guide-to-valentines-day-2014/attachment/163920399/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11074\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11074 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/163920399-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Getty\" width=\"402\" height=\"402\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Getty\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No one appreciates it when you bottle up your emotions and eventually turn into an insufferable jerk for no reason, so take out some of that aggression in a healthy way by attending the \u003ca href=\"http://sf.funcheap.com/pillow-fight-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">annual V-Day Pillow Fight\u003c/a>! It'll be like slumber parties from your past, only you can stay up as late as you want and you probably won't pee the bed this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>8. EXPRESS YOURSELF\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109396\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/to-me-you-are-perfect-kiera-love-actually.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"213\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, Valentine's Day is a commercial invention, but it does serve as a reminder to tell those important to us that we appreciate and love them. Just 'cause you don't have arm candy this year doesn't mean you shouldn't send cute notes to friends, family members and that cutie who serves you tea every morning. Everyone loves mail so you can't go wrong. Try making a habit of expressing your adoration for the people that matter not just on Valentine's Day, but year round. Kumbaya.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>So you don't have a boo. No biggie. Sure, it's fun to hold hands and have someone buy you an eclair for no reason and all that jazz. Loving someone else is super. But there's another form of love that predates loving someone else: the love you have for yourself a.k.a. The Greatest Love of All!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Valentine's Day, let's not be so terribly obvious and transform into Bridget Jones. There's really no reason you need to cry while eating chocolate and singing Celine Dion ballads in your underwear. You're cute and fun, and you should get out there and do cute and fun things! Here are a few ideas of ways to spend your Valentine's Day:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>1. TREAT YO' SELF\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ug3vCqbd1rungpko1_500.gif\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You work hard and you deserve nice things. Forget about waiting around for someone to buy you something you've always wanted and treat yo' self! Some good ideas: sweaters, fragrances, massages, mimosas. You get the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>2. CALL ALL THE SINGLE LADIES (all the single ladies)\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcoez1NsMW1rdhbryo1_500.gif\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes it might seem like you're the only person not living in Boo Land (favorite activities for residents include forgetting about their friends and saying annoying things like \"you'll have this someday, too!\"). But there are plenty of friends who are flying solo just like you. So call your favorite friends from this group and be each other's Valentines. Make a three-course meal for each other. Or hit up a karaoke joint and sing love songs to each other. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2013/01/25/karaoke-survival-guide-10-commandments/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just make sure to follow the rules.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>3. GO SMELL A ROSE OR SOMETHING\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109399\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/beyonce-smell-rose.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"317\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are always 101 things to do at any given moment in this town, so surely there is something for you out there (our very own \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/program/the-do-list\">The Do List\u003c/a>\u003c/em> can help you find something). Some evergreen ideas:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Go see a movie that passes \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test\">the Bechdel test\u003c/a>!\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Go smell a flower at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbg.org/\">SF Botanical Garden\u003c/a> or the \u003ca href=\"https://conservatoryofflowers.org/\">Conservatory of Flowers\u003c/a>!\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Go find inspiration at the \u003ca href=\"https://deyoung.famsf.org/\">DeYoung\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/\">SFMOMA\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ybca.org/\">YBCA\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://legionofhonor.famsf.org/\">Legion of Honor\u003c/a> or a cute little art gallery!\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Go make eyes at cute penguins and an albino alligator at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.calacademy.org/\">California Academy of Sciences\u003c/a>!\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Or just hang out in front of the Painted Ladies while singing the \u003cem>Full House\u003c/em> theme song to yourself. (Yes, I have done this, and no, I do not care that people thought I was weird.)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>4. HOLLYWOOD CRUSH MARATHON\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 333px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/12/no-boo-no-problem-a-singles-guide-to-valentines-day/6331185462_244649c8d2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1197\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-1197 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/6331185462_244649c8d2.jpg\" alt=\"Flickr | poldberg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/poldberg/6331185462/\">poldberg\u003c/a>, via Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you don't feel like going out, why not watch a marathon starring your number one crush?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you like boys, I suggest this Ryan Gosling triple feature:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>Drive\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Lars and the Real Girl\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Half Nelson\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cdel>\u003cem>Blue Valentine\u003c/em>\u003c/del> (tonight is not the night for this)\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cdel>The Notebook\u003c/del> \u003c/em>(or this)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you like girls, I suggest this Winona Ryder triple feature:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>Beetlejuice\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Heathers\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Reality Bites\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>5. OPEN YOUR THIRD EYE\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/02/12/no-boo-no-problem-a-singles-guide-to-valentines-day-2014/kitten_headstand/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11077\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11077\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/kitten_headstand.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: That Cute Site\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/kitten_headstand.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/kitten_headstand-400x264.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.thatcutesite.com/kitten-doing-morning-exercises.html\">That Cute Site\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Our society tends to stigmatize spending time by yourself. Loners are weird and wear trench coats and talk to themselves, right? Wrong. The ability to be alone without feeling lonely is something we should all strive for and the surest way to get there is by practicing yoga. Tune into your body, breathe and relax a little. If this really doesn't sound like fun, find comfort in the 96.7% probability that your bendy teacher will be a babe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>6. 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I suggest biking to the Sutro Baths or climbing Bernal or losing yourself in \u003ca href=\"http://mntsutro.com/\">the little-known cloud forest on Mount Sutro\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>7. 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It'll be like slumber parties from your past, only you can stay up as late as you want and you probably won't pee the bed this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>8. EXPRESS YOURSELF\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109396\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/to-me-you-are-perfect-kiera-love-actually.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"213\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, Valentine's Day is a commercial invention, but it does serve as a reminder to tell those important to us that we appreciate and love them. Just 'cause you don't have arm candy this year doesn't mean you shouldn't send cute notes to friends, family members and that cutie who serves you tea every morning. Everyone loves mail so you can't go wrong. Try making a habit of expressing your adoration for the people that matter not just on Valentine's Day, but year round. 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"content": "\u003cp>For those of you still seething about how things went down with your most recent ex, Valentine’s Day can feel like a slap in the face. A day when all the fury you felt from being ghosted, cheated on or argued with comes screaming back to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How do you deal with this? Well, you could throw on some Lizzo, take the high road and move on with your life. \u003cem>Or\u003c/em>, you could get some closure by sending vindictive gifts to the ex. Behold all the messy options, organized in order of increasing vindictiveness. Yay!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Cake-Shaming\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 579px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109361\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-12-at-2.42.47-PM.png\" alt=\"trollcakes.com\" width=\"579\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-12-at-2.42.47-PM.png 579w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-12-at-2.42.47-PM-160x117.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">trollcakes.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If your ex has ever said anything awful to you online, not only will \u003ca href=\"http://www.trollcakes.com/\">TrollCakes.com\u003c/a> put that phrase on a cake and send it right back to that meanie, the “bakery and detective agency” will also include a copy of the original comment inside the box to remind ex bae what they did. Previous examples include “U LOOK LIKE A RAW CLAM,” “YOU DONKEY WITCH” and (aaaaw) “WOULDN'T SMASH.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Anti-Valentines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109364\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109364\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/anti-v-cards-800x371.jpg\" alt=\"Cards available on Etsy from: Subversive Cards (left), Mad Old Cat Lady (center), Betty Turbo (right).\" width=\"800\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/anti-v-cards-800x371.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/anti-v-cards-160x74.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/anti-v-cards-768x356.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/anti-v-cards-1020x473.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/anti-v-cards-1200x557.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/anti-v-cards-1920x891.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cards available on Etsy from: Subversive Cards (left), Mad Old Cat Lady (center), Betty Turbo (right).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the mere cost of a Forever stamp, you too can send a rose-hued message of hate to your ex. May the bridges you burn light the way, oh spiteful one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> Rude Ribbons\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109376\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/award-ribbons-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"Etsy/Boldfaced\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/award-ribbons-800x495.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/award-ribbons-160x99.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/award-ribbons-768x475.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/award-ribbons-1020x631.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/award-ribbons-1200x743.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/award-ribbons-1920x1188.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Etsy/Boldfaced\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>February is awards season, but America still doesn’t have Relationship Razzies. Thankfully, a company named \u003ca href=\"https://www.etsy.com/shop/Boldfaced/items\">Boldfaced\u003c/a> has stepped up to fill that void with rude ribbons, which are specifically designed to let your former special someone know they are a terrible human being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Dead Roses \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/annie-spratt-592601-unsplash-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Unsplash/Annie Spratt\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/annie-spratt-592601-unsplash-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/annie-spratt-592601-unsplash-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/annie-spratt-592601-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/annie-spratt-592601-unsplash-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/annie-spratt-592601-unsplash-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/annie-spratt-592601-unsplash-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unsplash/Annie Spratt\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nothing says “Our love has withered and died and it’s all your fault” like sending an ex rotting flowers. For those concerned that the dead roses might turn into a potpourri-making opportunity, there’s also an option to \u003ca href=\"http://thepayback.com/getrevenge.html\">send flowerless thorny stems\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Name a Cockroach\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-109351 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/bz-roach-email-certificate-800x487.jpg\" alt='Give the gift that says \"Congratulations! This is what you look like to me now!\"' width=\"800\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/bz-roach-email-certificate-800x487.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/bz-roach-email-certificate-160x97.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/bz-roach-email-certificate-768x467.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/bz-roach-email-certificate.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Give the gift that says \"Congratulations! This is what you look like to me now!\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Remarkably, the Bronx Zoo is trying to dress up its “\u003ca href=\"https://bronxzoo.com/roach\">Name a Roach\u003c/a>” gift as a romantic thing. “After the chocolates have been eaten and the flowers wilt, roaches remain thriving and triumphant,” it says. “Give the gift that’s eternal and Name a Roach for Valentine’s Day.” But it’s only a matter of time before someone names a roach after their ex and sends them the digital certificate, forcing them to live with the knowledge that somewhere out there is a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach with their name on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Name a Roach... Then Feed it to a Meerkat \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109356\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109356\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/51946512_10156994972932622_2674024480753319936_o-800x626.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook/El Paso Zoo\" width=\"800\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/51946512_10156994972932622_2674024480753319936_o-800x626.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/51946512_10156994972932622_2674024480753319936_o-160x125.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/51946512_10156994972932622_2674024480753319936_o-768x601.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/51946512_10156994972932622_2674024480753319936_o-1020x799.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/51946512_10156994972932622_2674024480753319936_o-1200x940.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/51946512_10156994972932622_2674024480753319936_o.jpg 1378w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook/El Paso Zoo\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>El Paso Zoo has taken the Name A Roach idea to its logical conclusion by then feeding the insect to a hungry meerkat. The Zoo’s idea has been so popular, their Facebook page now features page after page of named cockroaches like the one above. If you look closely at the top right-hand corner, Chuck D appears to have been targeted. (No word yet on whether Flavor Flav is also in the bunch...)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Dead Fish\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-109354\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/anigif_enhanced-buzz-25426-1377690856-0.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">For $19.99 plus free shipping, \u003ca href=\"http://thepayback.com/getrevenge.html\">The Payback\u003c/a> will send your ex a “Dead Smelly Fish.” Not quite as bad as hiding one behind their couch, but this will do in a pinch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Poop\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109359 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/1927058_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/1927058_1.jpg 630w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/1927058_1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/1927058_1-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/1927058_1-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/1927058_1-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/1927058_1-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/1927058_1-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/1927058_1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incredibly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.poopsenders.com/\">PoopSenders.com\u003c/a> is a real website. Offering a variety of excrement—specifically “cow dung, elephant crap, gorilla poop” or a “combo pack”—PoopSenders promises anonymity, “no paper trail” and the option to pay cash so your little revenge spree won’t even show up on bank statements. Inside every package, just to be especially irritating, is a little card letting the recipient know that PoopSenders will never reveal who sent the “gift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Haunted Objects\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109374\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/clown-evp-800x743.jpg\" alt=\"ebay/easternctparanormal\" width=\"800\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/clown-evp-800x743.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/clown-evp-160x149.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/clown-evp-768x713.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/clown-evp-1020x947.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/clown-evp-1200x1114.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/clown-evp-1920x1782.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">eBay/easternctparanormal\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Believe it or not, eBay has a host of purportedly haunted items for sale, ranging from furniture to jewelry. This clown’s current owner (a paranormal investigator, naturally) even went to the trouble of including a photo of the doll with an EVP meter, so buyers can be safe in the knowledge that “this doll is demonic in nature and will cause paranormal activity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Shocking Wristbands\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109360\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109360\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/maxresdefault-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Pavlok.com\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/maxresdefault-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/maxresdefault-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/maxresdefault-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/maxresdefault-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pavlok.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://buy.pavlok.com/products/pavlok-pro?_ga=2.62426026.74666558.1550010206-803792564.1550010206\">Pavlok Wristbands\u003c/a> are designed to give the wearer an electric shock every time they do the thing they’re not supposed to be doing. The wristbands are programmed to zap the wearer out of bad habits, like smoking or not exercising enough. But they can also be controlled remotely by someone else, via an app, which means someone could conceivably send an ex 350 volts any damn time they felt like it. The trick would be getting them to put it on in the first place, but it \u003cem>does\u003c/em> look like a Fitbit. Just saying...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, jk. All of these gifts are fun to think about, but we don’t advise actually trying any of them for real. Except maybe the cake. Because there’s no such thing as bad cake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! Good luck out there.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For those of you still seething about how things went down with your most recent ex, Valentine’s Day can feel like a slap in the face. A day when all the fury you felt from being ghosted, cheated on or argued with comes screaming back to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How do you deal with this? Well, you could throw on some Lizzo, take the high road and move on with your life. \u003cem>Or\u003c/em>, you could get some closure by sending vindictive gifts to the ex. Behold all the messy options, organized in order of increasing vindictiveness. Yay!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Cake-Shaming\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 579px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109361\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-12-at-2.42.47-PM.png\" alt=\"trollcakes.com\" width=\"579\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-12-at-2.42.47-PM.png 579w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-12-at-2.42.47-PM-160x117.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">trollcakes.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If your ex has ever said anything awful to you online, not only will \u003ca href=\"http://www.trollcakes.com/\">TrollCakes.com\u003c/a> put that phrase on a cake and send it right back to that meanie, the “bakery and detective agency” will also include a copy of the original comment inside the box to remind ex bae what they did. Previous examples include “U LOOK LIKE A RAW CLAM,” “YOU DONKEY WITCH” and (aaaaw) “WOULDN'T SMASH.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Anti-Valentines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109364\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109364\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/anti-v-cards-800x371.jpg\" alt=\"Cards available on Etsy from: Subversive Cards (left), Mad Old Cat Lady (center), Betty Turbo (right).\" width=\"800\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/anti-v-cards-800x371.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/anti-v-cards-160x74.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/anti-v-cards-768x356.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/anti-v-cards-1020x473.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/anti-v-cards-1200x557.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/anti-v-cards-1920x891.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cards available on Etsy from: Subversive Cards (left), Mad Old Cat Lady (center), Betty Turbo (right).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the mere cost of a Forever stamp, you too can send a rose-hued message of hate to your ex. May the bridges you burn light the way, oh spiteful one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> Rude Ribbons\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109376\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/award-ribbons-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"Etsy/Boldfaced\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/award-ribbons-800x495.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/award-ribbons-160x99.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/award-ribbons-768x475.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/award-ribbons-1020x631.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/award-ribbons-1200x743.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/award-ribbons-1920x1188.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Etsy/Boldfaced\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>February is awards season, but America still doesn’t have Relationship Razzies. Thankfully, a company named \u003ca href=\"https://www.etsy.com/shop/Boldfaced/items\">Boldfaced\u003c/a> has stepped up to fill that void with rude ribbons, which are specifically designed to let your former special someone know they are a terrible human being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Dead Roses \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/annie-spratt-592601-unsplash-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Unsplash/Annie Spratt\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/annie-spratt-592601-unsplash-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/annie-spratt-592601-unsplash-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/annie-spratt-592601-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/annie-spratt-592601-unsplash-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/annie-spratt-592601-unsplash-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/annie-spratt-592601-unsplash-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unsplash/Annie Spratt\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nothing says “Our love has withered and died and it’s all your fault” like sending an ex rotting flowers. For those concerned that the dead roses might turn into a potpourri-making opportunity, there’s also an option to \u003ca href=\"http://thepayback.com/getrevenge.html\">send flowerless thorny stems\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Name a Cockroach\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-109351 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/bz-roach-email-certificate-800x487.jpg\" alt='Give the gift that says \"Congratulations! This is what you look like to me now!\"' width=\"800\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/bz-roach-email-certificate-800x487.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/bz-roach-email-certificate-160x97.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/bz-roach-email-certificate-768x467.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/bz-roach-email-certificate.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Give the gift that says \"Congratulations! This is what you look like to me now!\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Remarkably, the Bronx Zoo is trying to dress up its “\u003ca href=\"https://bronxzoo.com/roach\">Name a Roach\u003c/a>” gift as a romantic thing. “After the chocolates have been eaten and the flowers wilt, roaches remain thriving and triumphant,” it says. “Give the gift that’s eternal and Name a Roach for Valentine’s Day.” But it’s only a matter of time before someone names a roach after their ex and sends them the digital certificate, forcing them to live with the knowledge that somewhere out there is a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach with their name on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Name a Roach... Then Feed it to a Meerkat \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109356\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109356\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/51946512_10156994972932622_2674024480753319936_o-800x626.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook/El Paso Zoo\" width=\"800\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/51946512_10156994972932622_2674024480753319936_o-800x626.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/51946512_10156994972932622_2674024480753319936_o-160x125.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/51946512_10156994972932622_2674024480753319936_o-768x601.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/51946512_10156994972932622_2674024480753319936_o-1020x799.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/51946512_10156994972932622_2674024480753319936_o-1200x940.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/51946512_10156994972932622_2674024480753319936_o.jpg 1378w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook/El Paso Zoo\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>El Paso Zoo has taken the Name A Roach idea to its logical conclusion by then feeding the insect to a hungry meerkat. The Zoo’s idea has been so popular, their Facebook page now features page after page of named cockroaches like the one above. If you look closely at the top right-hand corner, Chuck D appears to have been targeted. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was inspired by an episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">The Cooler\u003c/a>, KQED’s weekly pop culture podcast. Give it a listen!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/thecooler/2016/10/Brangelina.mp3\" title=\"R.I.P. Brangelina: Why Do We Care So Much about Celebrity Breakups?\" program=\"The Cooler\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/celebrity-breakups.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether you're attached or single this Valentine's Day, just be glad you're not getting a love note from Evelyn Waugh, the author of \u003cem>Brideshead Revisited \u003c/em>and the only man to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/02/25/oops-male-crashes-times-list-of-most-read-female-writers/\">(mistakenly) end up on\u003c/a> \u003cem>Time Magazine\u003c/em>’s list of most-read female writers. He had a way with words, but using them to be romantic -- or even decent -- didn't seem to be one of his talents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take this 1945 letter he wrote to his wife, Laura, for instance:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-13-at-1.36.40-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-13-at-1.36.40-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-02-13 at 1.36.40 PM\" width=\"532\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-13-at-1.36.40-PM.png 532w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-13-at-1.36.40-PM-160x75.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-13-at-1.36.40-PM-240x112.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-13-at-1.36.40-PM-375x175.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-13-at-1.36.40-PM-520x242.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It starts off promisingly enough with a cute nickname -- sweet whiskers! -- but quickly devolves into documenting just how very boring and disappointing he thinks his wife is. The letter ends with a condescending catchphrase perfectly suited for a reality TV villain. 'Do grasp that'? Do grasp this drink in your face, Evelyn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not knowing much about Waugh, I did some research: Was he just having a bad day, or was he kind of an a-hole?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From what I found, it's the latter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli> Waugh was referred to as \"the nastiest-tempered man in England.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He believed that \u003c/span>class divisions and\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> inequalities were \u003c/span>natural.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">anti-Semitism was considered by some to be his \"most persistent nastiness.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>He named one of his characters \"Black Bitch.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>He didn't mind fascism.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When he converted to Catholicism, someone asked him, \"How can you be a Christian when you are such an a-hole?” Waugh didn't deny it: \"Just think how much worse an a-hole I would be if I were not a Christian.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In a piece called \"The Misguided PC Attacks on 'Black Mischief,'\" a writer tries -- and fails -- to defend Waugh's bigotry: \"Waugh ridicules women, Jews, fascists, Arabs, the French, upper class white colonials, as well as indigenous populations, therefore showing himself to hold intense disdain for humanity. Rather than racist, Waugh is anti-human and pro-God.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, in summary, Evelyn Waugh was the worst. This Valentine's Day, be thankful you're not dating him. And if any of the above reminds you of your boo, dump him/her immediately. You can do so much better, sweet whiskers.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>(Note: This post made its debut \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/12/no-boo-no-problem-a-singles-guide-to-valentines-day/\">four years ago today\u003c/a>! This is an updated version with brand new events so you don't end up showing up to that Icona Pop concert expecting an encore 1,460 days later.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you don't have a boo. No biggie. Sure, it's fun to hold hands and have someone buy you an eclair for no reason and all that jazz. Loving someone else is super. But there's another form of love that predates loving someone else: the love you have for yourself a.k.a. The Greatest Love of All! So this Valentine's Day, let's not be so terribly obvious and transform into Bridget Jones. There's really no reason you need to cry while eating chocolate and singing Celine Dion ballads in your underwear. You're cute and fun, and you should get out there and do cute and fun things! Here are a few ideas of ways to spend your Valentine's Day:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>1. TREAT YO' SELF\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ug3vCqbd1rungpko1_500.gif\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You work hard and you deserve nice things. Forget about waiting around for someone to buy you something you've always wanted and treat yo' self! Some good ideas: sweaters, fragrances, massages, mimosas. You get the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>2. CALL ALL THE SINGLE LADIES (all the single ladies)\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcoez1NsMW1rdhbryo1_500.gif\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes it might seem like you're the only person not living in Boo Land (favorite activities for residents include forgetting about their friends and saying annoying things like \"you'll have this someday, too!\"). But there are plenty of friends who are flying solo just like you. So call your favorite friends from this group and be each other's Valentines. Make a three course meal for each other. Or hit up a karaoke joint and sing love songs to each other. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2013/01/25/karaoke-survival-guide-10-commandments/\" target=\"_blank\">Just make sure to follow the rules.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>3. GO TO AN EVENT, EXHIBIT, OR SHOW\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrZHPOeOxQQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are always 101 things to do at any given moment in this town, so surely there is something for you out there. Here are some friendly suggestions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Event:\u003c/span> If you have something to get off your chest, why not belt it out with a bunch of nostalgic randos? The Roxie Theater is hosting an \u003ca href=\"http://www.roxie.com/ai1ec_event/sf-indie-fest-power-ballad-sing-long/\" target=\"_blank\">'80s Power Ballad Sing-a-long\u003c/a> featured Journey, Bon Jovi, Guns N' Roses, and all those other bands your older sister teased her bangs to back in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Exhibit\u003c/span>: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbotanicalgarden.org/garden/magnificent-magnolias-2017.html\">\u003cem>Magnificent Magnolias\u003c/em>\u003c/a> at the SF Botanical Gardens. They're blooming just in time for your hot date with yourself!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Concert:\u003c/span> Spend the holiday by getting bad and boujee with \u003ca href=\"http://www.thewarfieldtheatre.com/events/detail/331254\">Migos at the Warfield\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>4. HOLLYWOOD CRUSH MARATHON\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 333px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/12/no-boo-no-problem-a-singles-guide-to-valentines-day/6331185462_244649c8d2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1197\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-1197 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/6331185462_244649c8d2.jpg\" alt=\"Flickr | poldberg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/poldberg/6331185462/\">poldberg\u003c/a>, via Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you don't feel like going out, why not watch a marathon starring your number one crush?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you like boys, I suggest this Ryan Gosling triple feature:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Drive\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Lars and the Real Girl\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Half Nelson\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cdel>\u003cem>Blue Valentine\u003c/em>\u003c/del> (tonight is not the night for this)\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cdel>The Notebook\u003c/del> \u003c/em>(or this)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you like girls, I suggest this Winona Ryder triple feature:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Beetlejuice\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Heathers\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Reality Bites\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>5. OPEN YOUR THIRD EYE\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/02/12/no-boo-no-problem-a-singles-guide-to-valentines-day-2014/kitten_headstand/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11077\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11077\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/kitten_headstand.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: That Cute Site\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/kitten_headstand.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/kitten_headstand-400x264.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.thatcutesite.com/kitten-doing-morning-exercises.html\">That Cute Site\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Our society tends to stigmatize spending time by yourself. Loners are weird and wear trench coats and talk to themselves, right? Wrong. The ability to be alone without feeling lonely is something we should all strive for and the surest way to get there is by practicing yoga. Tune into your body, breathe and relax a little. If this really doesn't sound like fun, find comfort in the 96.7% probability that your bendy teacher will be a babe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>6. SAN FRANCISCO IS YOUR LIFE PARTNER\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://lisacongdon.com/blog/2012/07/san-francisco-i-love-you/\">\u003cimg class=\" \" src=\"http://lisacongdon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/sfiloveyou_lowres1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://lisacongdon.com/\">Lisa Congdon\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Significant others come and go and often take your favorite records with them. But San Francisco is always there for you. Spend some time in a place in the city you love or maybe have never gotten around to visiting. And take a bottle of red, while you're at it (that's not weird, it's \u003cem>classy)\u003c/em>. I suggest biking to the Sutro Baths or climbing Bernal or losing yourself in \u003ca href=\"http://mntsutro.com/\">the little-known cloud forest on Mount Sutro\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>7. 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Kumbaya.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The Roxie Theater is hosting an \u003ca href=\"http://www.roxie.com/ai1ec_event/sf-indie-fest-power-ballad-sing-long/\" target=\"_blank\">'80s Power Ballad Sing-a-long\u003c/a> featured Journey, Bon Jovi, Guns N' Roses, and all those other bands your older sister teased her bangs to back in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Exhibit\u003c/span>: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbotanicalgarden.org/garden/magnificent-magnolias-2017.html\">\u003cem>Magnificent Magnolias\u003c/em>\u003c/a> at the SF Botanical Gardens. They're blooming just in time for your hot date with yourself!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Concert:\u003c/span> Spend the holiday by getting bad and boujee with \u003ca href=\"http://www.thewarfieldtheatre.com/events/detail/331254\">Migos at the Warfield\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>4. HOLLYWOOD CRUSH MARATHON\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 333px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/12/no-boo-no-problem-a-singles-guide-to-valentines-day/6331185462_244649c8d2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1197\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-1197 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/6331185462_244649c8d2.jpg\" alt=\"Flickr | poldberg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/poldberg/6331185462/\">poldberg\u003c/a>, via Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you don't feel like going out, why not watch a marathon starring your number one crush?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you like boys, I suggest this Ryan Gosling triple feature:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Drive\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Lars and the Real Girl\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Half Nelson\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cdel>\u003cem>Blue Valentine\u003c/em>\u003c/del> (tonight is not the night for this)\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cdel>The Notebook\u003c/del> \u003c/em>(or this)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you like girls, I suggest this Winona Ryder triple feature:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Beetlejuice\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Heathers\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Reality Bites\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>5. OPEN YOUR THIRD EYE\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/02/12/no-boo-no-problem-a-singles-guide-to-valentines-day-2014/kitten_headstand/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11077\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11077\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/kitten_headstand.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: That Cute Site\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/kitten_headstand.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/kitten_headstand-400x264.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.thatcutesite.com/kitten-doing-morning-exercises.html\">That Cute Site\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Our society tends to stigmatize spending time by yourself. Loners are weird and wear trench coats and talk to themselves, right? Wrong. The ability to be alone without feeling lonely is something we should all strive for and the surest way to get there is by practicing yoga. Tune into your body, breathe and relax a little. If this really doesn't sound like fun, find comfort in the 96.7% probability that your bendy teacher will be a babe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>6. 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I suggest biking to the Sutro Baths or climbing Bernal or losing yourself in \u003ca href=\"http://mntsutro.com/\">the little-known cloud forest on Mount Sutro\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>7. 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It'll be like slumber parties from your past, only you can stay up as late as you want and you probably won't pee the bed this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>8. EXPRESS YOURSELF\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://youvegotmail.warnerbros.com/img/ygmlogo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"178\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Warner Bros.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, Valentine's Day is a commercial invention, but it does serve as a reminder to tell those important to us that we appreciate and love them. Just 'cause you don't have arm candy this year doesn't mean you shouldn't send cute notes to friends, family members and that cutie who serves you tea every morning. Everyone loves mail so you can't go wrong. And try making a habit of expressing your adoration for the people that matter not just on Valentine's Day, but year round. 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"content": "\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/valentines-day/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Valentine's Day \u003c/a>rolls around, it's inevitable that you'll hear someone exclaim, \"It's just a holiday created by Hallmark!\" Sure, card and chocolate companies have come to define the holiday, but are they truly responsible for all the canoodling that goes on every February 14th? Short answer: nope! Here are some historical facts you might not know about Valentine's Day:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are many origin stories floating around and no one is really sure which one, if any, are true. But one of the most popular legends is that, back in third century Rome, Emperor Claudius II outlawed marriage because he believed single men made better soldiers than those who were pining for lovers back home. Despite the decree, a man named Valentine performed secret marriages and was jailed for doing so. While awaiting his execution, some say he wrote a love letter—arguably the first valentine—to his crush (who may or may not have been the jailer's daughter). He allegedly signed his note \"from your Valentine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now we have a figurehead for the holiday, but why February 14th? Some say that this goes back to an ancient Roman fertility festival called Lupercalia, which was celebrated from February 13th to the 15th. The event involved wine, nudity and slapping women with strips of goat hide drenched in sacrificial blood. Yes, you read that right. Ancient people do the darnedest things. Anyway, the women allegedly welcomed this because being marked in this way was thought to make them more fertile. The female festival goers would also put their names in an urn for the town's single men to choose from. The matches would then, um, \"get to know\" each other for the rest of the festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/1329233306972_268177.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20472\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-20472 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/1329233306972_268177-400x280.png\" alt=\"1329233306972_268177\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/1329233306972_268177-400x280.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/1329233306972_268177.png 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>The Christian church didn't exactly love all this naked blood-soaked hide slapping, so, in the fifth century, Pope Gelasius outlawed Lupercalia and made up a new family friendlier event to take its place: a day in honor of St. Valentine on February 14th, the day he was martyred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secret weddings and the weird blood slaps are sort of romantic, but the love aspect associated with the holiday was turned way up in the Middle Ages. During that time period, people in England and France were said to associate February 14th with the beginning of birds' mating season. This belief is reflected in Chaucer's \"Parliament of the Foules\": \"\u003ci>For this was sent on Seynt Valentyne’s day w\u003c/i>\u003ci>han every foul cometh ther to choose his mate.\u003c/i>\" This avian focus led to the superstition that a woman could tell what kind of man she would marry by the type of bird she spotted on Valentine's Day. A blackbird signified a priest, a bluebird meant a funny dude, a dove equaled a kind man, a goldfinch meant a super rich one and a woodpecker signified no man at all!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_109337']This loaded bird-watching wasn't the only weird superstition women took part in around the holiday. Medieval women would eat bizarre foods to bring on dreams of their future husbands. They also believed these dreams would come, if they pinned sage to their pillows or placed a slice of wedding cake underneath them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In France, there was a custom called \"une loterie d'amour,\" which translates to \"drawing for love\" and involved single people hollering at each other from windows across a street. They would eventually pair up, but, if the man didn't particularly like the woman he ended up with, he would ditch her for someone else. The women left behind would then make a bonfire and burn pictures of the ungrateful men, while cursing them. The French government eventually banned the custom because, if history has taught us anything, there's nothing scarier to men in power than single women who have opinions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1800s, the first box of chocolates was invented by Richard Cadbury, heir to the Cadbury chocolate fortune, who gave chocolates arranged in a heart-shaped box to his lover. Interestingly, physicians around this time often prescribed chocolate to calm patients' pining for lost love. You never have to feel bad about devouring a whole King Size Kit Kat bar again; it's medicine!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/loverboy.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20469\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-20469 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/loverboy-400x555.jpeg\" alt=\"loverboy\" width=\"400\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/loverboy-400x555.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/loverboy.jpeg 706w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>Passing around handmade cards and small tokens as symbols of affection became popular in the 1700s. A century later, Esther A. Howland, also known as \"Mother of the Valentine,\" began selling the first mass-produced valentines in America. Around this time, a new trend called \u003ca href=\"http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/happy-valentines-day-i-hate-you/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vinegar Valentines\u003c/a> became popular. They were rude cards sent anonymously to either spurn advances or just to stick it to someone you didn't like. The YouTube comments of yore, if you will. It wasn't until 1913 that Hallmark got in on the action. Fast forward to present day, and over 1 billion cards are sent every Valentine's Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So there you have it: the bizarre historical twists and turns that have led us to this point. Next time you hear someone say Hallmark created Valentine's Day, enjoy the look on their face as you tell them all about how naked dudes used to run around with bloody lamb skin whips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was inspired by an episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">The Cooler\u003c/a>, KQED’s weekly pop culture podcast. 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"content": "\u003cp>In 1862, Emily Dickinson \u003ca href=\"http://www.emilydickinson.it/l0261-0280.html\">wrote\u003c/a>, \"The heart wants what it wants, or else it does not care,\" and we've gone about proving this inscrutable wisdom true ever since. Each of us is a patchwork; who we think we are and what we think we want is often much more complicated than we can understand or admit. \u003cem>The heart wants what it wants\u003c/em>, we joke to navigate the contradictory and inexplicable within us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">[contextly_sidebar id=\"JzL01nkapxZQaYJhJPSBTN9QA3NNKCTr\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">In no small way, our popular culture is how we learn to fall in love. It's not just the impressionable age when we see John Cusack holding a boombox aloft, or Jordan Catalano moving in slow-mo to Buffalo Tom. Throughout our adult lives we are met, again and again, with images and evidence of what love is or might be.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is romance more accurately captured by images of \u003ca href=\"http://jezebel.com/how-kelsey-out-crazied-all-other-bachelor-contestants-1683456565\">girls on \u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> hyperventilating on the floor\u003c/a> in a bid to win true love or by husband and wife rockstars making out with each other in their\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epm_tGrsQXs&list=PL7F749D5B3A2B54B9&index=1\"> music videos\u003c/a>? Is it even possible to fully examine romance in all of its myriad forms, the sad, sexy and sublime? The long-term and the fleeting. The depressing and the awesome. How do we admit that our love lives are wild, knotted up, unknowable things? And once we've admitted it, how do we go about depicting or explaining the mystery?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15071\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/02/tumblr_nike7w9zui1qabyxlo1_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_nike7w9zui1qabyxlo1_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"207\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much has been made of the recent vampire film, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120329/girl-walks-home-alone-night-review\">A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> and deservedly so.\u003cem> \u003c/em>Nothing in recent memory has illustrated the heart's desires with such style, or with such a killer soundtrack. This is the love story of a feminist skateboarding vampire known as The Girl, and a sweet James Dean-esque boy named Arash, who dresses up like Dracula, but is not a vampire himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Don't worry, I won't hurt you,\" he says when they bump into each other at night on the street, and the audience I was watching with all chuckled nervously at his obliviousness. When discussing the fact that they don't know each other at all yet, Arash asks The Girl to name the last song she listened to. And who among us has not determined our one true love based on their record collection? The strength of the movie is that each moment offers layers of what it means to connect with one another. The silence, the danger, the intimate spaces are all keenly felt. The Girl and Arash must weigh the risks, the consequences, both of being themselves and of choosing each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15070 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/02/giphy.gif\" alt=\"giphy\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is something of a shared sensibility between \u003cem>A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Buffalo '66\u003c/em>, Vincent Gallo's 1998 film about an ex-con and a ballerina falling love. Both movies have urban landscapes, which serve as desolate backdrops for the flawed lovers who exist there. Prolonged vignettes, often of dancing or singing or silence or staring, create evocative spaces. And it's in these quiet spaces where we can concentrate on what it means to fall in love and why we even do. We are allowed to fully feel the mystery for awhile, if not to be granted any sort of lasting clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/fashion/modern-love-to-fall-in-love-with-anyone-do-this.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fmodern-love&_r=0\">Modern Love column\u003c/a> detailed the psychological study by Dr. Aron, which examined whether or not intimacy can be \"accelerated\" by people asking each other \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/fashion/no-37-big-wedding-or-small.html\">a series of 36 questions\u003c/a>. These questions culminate in four minutes of looking into each other's eyes, something that happens a lot in \u003cem>A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night\u003c/em>. Falling in love has long been considered to be part soul mate destiny, part statistical happenstance. In Dr. Aron's questions and their seemingly magical ability to draw two people together, both fate and pragmatism co-mingle. Partly we want to know each other's fears, and partly we want to sit and watch them flit across each other's faces. Love might be simply creating the space in which to truly see the other person. So much of \u003cem>A Girl...\u003c/em> is about this act of looking, what is hidden and revealed within it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our vampire girl and non-vampire boy discuss what they do and don't know about each other late at night beside an oil refinery, where he later gifts her a pair of stolen earrings and pierces her ears so she can wear them. They've both done bad things, they admit. But perhaps love is possible, anyway. Dr. Aron's study suggests that a shared sense of vulnerability plays a role in creating intimacy. Arash's vulnerability is of course that he might be eaten alive at any moment, but The Girl's is that she might be discovered for who she really is. 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When Keith moved to San Francisco, he was happy to discover that KQED’s studio wasn’t far from his new place, so he was eager to give back to the station by volunteering. He soon rose to the position of volunteer supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My reasons for volunteering were perhaps a bit more selfish; I loved the programming, of course, but I was also underemployed at the time, new to the area and hoping to meet someone special. It seemed silly to keep putting things like “must love NPR, Ira Glass, \u003cem>Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me\u003c/em>” in my online dating profile when I could just go to the source: the KQED studio, where I was bound to meet kindred spirits! I was strategic about it; I figured that singles might be more likely to volunteer on Friday nights, so I picked that time for my first shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith was hard to miss. Standing on the sidelines, arms crossed, waiting to assist the neophytes, he was six feet tall, bearded, with long, curly blond hair, clad in a black t-shirt, black kilt (which I had initially thought was a skirt -- hey, it’s San Francisco) and patent leather stomper boots. He was intriguing, sure, but not what I’d call the public radio type, and definitely not my type. But he was always quick to answer our questions, and was both professional and friendly, asking me about the knitting I was doing between phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, I’d be demure and flirty, but I had already dismissed him as an oddball, so I thought I’d just let it all hang out. “Yeah, I’m knitting this blanket so I can stay warm while I’m watching TV with my three cats,” I said, almost hoping he would dismiss me as a Crazy Cat Lady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But without missing a beat, Keith said, “Oh, my cats like to keep me warm by sleeping up here with me” -- and he gestured toward his chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hmm, I thought. Nice. Smart. Likes public radio. Has cats. In the plural. And isn’t ashamed to admit it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11098\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 387px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/02/13/how-i-fell-in-love-while-volunteering-at-kqed/scifrichemistry_custom-88bec5d2f5464c62e270293ca8af2a1ce46157bf-s40-c85/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11098\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11098 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/02/scifrichemistry_custom-88bec5d2f5464c62e270293ca8af2a1ce46157bf-s40-c85-1024x877.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Katie Burk/NPR\" width=\"387\" height=\"331\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Katie Burk/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the end of the shift, cheered and emboldened by my positive volunteering experience, I stood up and asked whether anyone might be able to give me a ride to the BART station. Keith was the first one to offer. I remember thinking, “Great, now I have to ride with the weird guy.” I was more than a little bit nervous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was fine. His car radio was tuned to KQED (ah, so he practices what he preaches, I noted). He mentioned that he had signed up to give blood early on Sunday morning, which he regretted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I said, “Well, I guess it’s a good way to make money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, I don’t do it for money,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hmm, I thought. Nice, smart, volunteers for public radio, has cats, donates blood. We parted ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I volunteered at KQED a few more times, but Keith didn’t show up again until a few weeks later. He looked tired and sounded hoarse; he was recovering from the flu. Somehow that made him more attractive. And when I asked him a procedural question, I noticed, as he leaned over my computer screen to answer, that under all that hair he had the most beautiful pair of blue eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something clicked, and I realized I had to get his number. But time was running out. I couldn’t ask him in front of all the other volunteers. I had to come up with a line. But I lost my nerve. I left without even saying goodbye, furious with myself for being so shy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next few weeks, I signed up for more volunteering sessions, hoping I’d run into him again. But I didn’t. Finally, I decided to bite the bullet and ask the other supervisors about him. Luckily for me, they were women who were easy to approach. I asked one what his story was. Her face lit up. “Oh, Keith’s so nice!” she gushed. “He likes cats. He’s fun to talk to. He really enjoys dancing. And he’s single!” she said, her eyes sparkling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bingo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I came up with what I thought was a witty, playful little pretext (“I have a question of vital importance regarding the future of public radio, and that is the following: would you like to go out for coffee with me some time?”), and had one of the other supervisors forward my email to him. He wrote back right away: “I would love to.” (He used the word “love!” I noted with glee.) We arranged a coffee date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, he was late, even though I had picked a spot close to where he lived. And he still had eye makeup on from dancing the night before, and he looked disheveled and annoyed. And it turned out that he didn’t even drink coffee. What kind of a guy is this? my judgmental self wondered. Would be just another date that ended up going nowhere?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we actually had a lot to talk about, and really hit it off. Coffee turned into an entire afternoon. And then, a few days afterwards, Keith told me he’d actually been somewhat nervous when he’d gotten my email, since he had assumed I had a complaint to make about some transgression on his part. He told me he’d said to his friends the night before, “Tomorrow I’m either going out on a date, or I’ve gotten in trouble for something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was almost a year ago. Since then, we’ve discovered that we both love traveling, old buildings, classical music, fine dining, and more. But our favorite thing might just be staying in, curled up on the couch with the cats, my knitting and his video games, listening to \u003cem>This American Life\u003c/em> or watching \u003cem>Antiques Road Show\u003c/em> on KQED. And I don’t think either of us thinks the other is so weird anymore. But even if that were the case, it would all be fine too.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Tension can be so many things: a striving, an unrest, a balance, an uncertainty, an opposition, a hostility, a sense of suspense or intrigue. It manifests itself in physics, music, geology, and electrical voltage. And, most importantly, in \u003ca href=\"http://flavorwire.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/margot.jpg\">romance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1346\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-1346 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/vronsky.gif\" alt=\"Oh, Vronsky\" width=\"500\" height=\"211\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oh, Vronsky...\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tension can be sustained, broken, and reinvented every which way. It can exist between friends, lovers, enemies, exes and established couples. The interpretations, incarnations and outcomes of sexual tension are infinite, but no matter what else, tension heightens in certain key moments and those riveting spaces have been captured with breathtaking skill by literature, film, television and music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the spirit of this weird and singular day about love that often translates into the cutesy, depressing or reactionary, let’s instead revel in a small sampling of romantic and sexual tension; a sensation as unquantifiable as it is evocative, and one I’m sure we can all appreciate in both its fictional and real-life forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Disclaimer: these are simply SOME examples, and sadly not even remotely close to a full survey, \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">1. Maybe you're in love with \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgtAhGOLC-Y\">your best friend’s widow\u003c/a> (and there's just a bit of ambiguity over whether or not you had anything to do with him dying).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 570px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.magpictures.com/presskit.aspx?id=d79c0aa4-2c14-48c0-9555-eea2bd03c5c0\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-930\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-930 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/NightCatchesUs1.jpg\" alt=\"Night Catches Us\" width=\"570\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/NightCatchesUs1.jpg 570w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/NightCatchesUs1-400x301.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Night Catches Us\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">2. Maybe you are a \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selkie\">selkie\u003c/a> who falls in love with a hot fisherman (this sucks cause you have to choose between Colin Farrell and the sea).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 655px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.setcelebs.com/ondine.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-970\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-970 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/ondine-03-1024x540.jpg\" alt=\"Ondine\" width=\"655\" height=\"346\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ondine\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">3. Maybe you're an emotionally stunted, violent hipster who just got out of prison and you kidnap a sweet-faced tap dancer. You have to decide if you're going to bring her hot chocolate and snuggle with her, or kill the football player who lost the game you bet on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 614px\">\u003ca href=\"http://peoplewhocurtsey.blogspot.com/2010/03/buffalo-66.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-951\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-951 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/buffalo66-08.jpg\" alt=\"Buffalo '66\" width=\"614\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/buffalo66-08.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/buffalo66-08-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/buffalo66-08-800x450.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buffalo '66\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">4. Maybe you have a huge crush on the dyslexic hottie who will only secretly make-out with you in the boiler room but then he holds your hand in the hall (cue: Buffalo Tom).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQAAQeNnC-E&w=500\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">5. Maybe you've always loved your newly paralyzed best friend’s girlfriend and you're finally kissing her by the side of the road, as demonstrated by my favorite football player, \u003ca href=\"http://drinkingwithtimriggins.tumblr.com/\">Tim Riggins\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld80xXoigLk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6. Maybe you're an ex-pat aspiring journalist who comes to realize your \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJFFy3soy9Y\">hot new paramour\u003c/a> is a wanted man and kind of a jerk. Should you betray him or fund an escape plan? \u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 599px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.andsoitbeginsfilms.com/2012/06/cutting-edge-magic-of-movie-editing.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1246\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-1246 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/Breathless.jpg\" alt=\"Breathless\" width=\"599\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/Breathless.jpg 666w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/Breathless-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Breathless\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>7. Maybe you \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077405/\">enter into a sham marriage\u003c/a> while pretending to be brother and sister with your boyfriend but then sort of fall in love with your pretend husband. Spoiler alert: if you try to do this there will be locust swarms and crop fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 504px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.feelguide.com/2011/05/29/the-backstory-of-the-principle-photography-for-terrence-malicks-1978-epic-days-of-heaven/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-949\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-949 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/days-of-heaven-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Days of Heaven\" width=\"504\" height=\"284\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Days of Heaven\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>8. \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrYQTgV1lr4\">Maybe you're a U.S. Marshal\u003c/a> chasing after a hot bank robber and your predicaments include getting stuck in a car trunk with him and meeting him for a cocktail when you should be arresting him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 397px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.thefancarpet.com/ActorGalleryPicture.aspx?mga_id=21659&a_id=1705\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1240\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-1240 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/out-of-sight.jpg\" alt=\"Out of Sight\" width=\"397\" height=\"615\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Out of Sight\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>9. Maybe you're any character in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0939182/\">Wong Kar Wai\u003c/a> movie, stuck inside his dreamy cinematography, leaning your head sadly on someone's shoulder, smoking cigarettes in the dark, and probably shooting people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>**My favorite is \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAagldnjT0o\">Fallen Angels\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, but \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnFjSHQFVkA\">In The Mood For Love\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAH-0GKvIrM\">Chungking Express\u003c/a>\u003c/em> (with lines such as, \"At the high point of our intimacy, we were just 0.01 cm from each other...\"), and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Dh6Jdc18c\">Happy Together\u003c/a>\u003c/em> all nail the slow smolder and violence of people who can’t or shouldn’t be together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>**Keep your eyes out for his \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/moviesnow/la-et-mn-wong-kar-wai-grandmaster-opens-berlin-fest-bought-by-weinstein-20130207,0,5123372.story\">new one\u003c/a> too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_953\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 630px\">\u003ca href=\"http://sensesofcinema.com/2010/cteq/in-the-mood-for-love/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-953\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-953 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/In-the-Mood-for-Love.jpg\" alt=\"In The Mood For Love\" width=\"630\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/In-the-Mood-for-Love.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/In-the-Mood-for-Love-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In The Mood For Love\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 655px\">\u003ca href=\"http://worldsbestfilms.blogspot.com/2011/12/top-ranked-films-of-wong-kar-wai.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-954\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-954 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/FallenAngels0-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Fallen Angels\" width=\"655\" height=\"369\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fallen Angels\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 655px\">\u003ca href=\"http://seul-le-cinema.blogspot.com/2011_05_01_archive.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-955\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-955 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/happytogether1.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Together\" width=\"655\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/happytogether1.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/happytogether1-400x215.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/happytogether1-800x431.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy Together\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>10. Maybe you're Bonnie and Clyde (or channeling them through song). Serge Gainsbourg and Brigette Bardot utilize some of \u003ca href=\"http://allpoetry.com/poem/8564129-The_Trails_End-by-Bonnie_Parker\">Bonnie’s poetry\u003c/a> (Serge has a habit of singing \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Fa4lOQfbA\">hot duets\u003c/a> with his various ladies) while Beyonce and Jay Z getting into a phone booth together. I love when he asks, \"Ready, B?\" Whew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LINbG3eJtu8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>11. Maybe you're a group of teenage boys spying on \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ6cvgIGfH4\">the dreamy sisters\u003c/a> across the street who appear to be killing themselves one by one and you speak in the first person plural all the time, saying things such as, \"...we pretended we hadn't been looking for them at all, that we didn't know they existed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 340px\">\u003ca href=\"http://hernoseinabook.blogspot.com/2012/02/review-virgin-suicides.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1360\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-1360 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/virgin_suicides.jpg\" alt=\"The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides \" width=\"340\" height=\"509\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>12. Maybe you interrupt Christian Slater’s pirate radio broadcast to \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwkOJvRjSKk&list=PL1E24235DEAFDF4C9\">take your shirt off in the yard\u003c/a> and taunt him with the sophistication and restraint of someone far beyond high school age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 615px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.thefancarpet.com/ActorGalleryPicture.aspx?mga_id=51173&a_id=2473\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-960\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-960 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/Pump_Up_the_Volume_301_Medium.png\" alt=\"Pump Up the Volume\" width=\"615\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/Pump_Up_the_Volume_301_Medium.png 615w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/Pump_Up_the_Volume_301_Medium-400x264.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pump Up the Volume\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>13. Maybe you just graduated from college and you have this grumpy but hot guy friend who gives you \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgB4n-1-_BY\">pep talks\u003c/a> about life that end in making out, is \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdsaucLvRb4\">passive-aggressively unhappy when you go on dates with other boys\u003c/a>, and comes back to you with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FLLYpUnuwQ\">planet of regret\u003c/a> after acting like a douche.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.cinemovies.fr/film/generation-90_e64114/photos/1/m273296\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1035\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-1035 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/ethan-winona.jpg\" alt=\"Reality Bites\" width=\"640\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/ethan-winona.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/ethan-winona-400x269.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reality Bites\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>14. Maybe you threaten to \u003ca href=\"http://www.wuthering-heights.co.uk/\">haunt each other\u003c/a> from beyond the grave, run around on the moors, die from being cold and pissed off, exact brutal revenge on everyone who isn’t each other, and say things such as, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvsdsj7GBno\">\"I could no more forget you than myself.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 576px\">\u003ca href=\"http://dailytrojan.com/2012/10/16/latest-heights-tries-reaching-for-new-spin/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-964\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-964 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/WH_Still1_web.jpg\" alt=\"Wuthering Heights\" width=\"576\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/WH_Still1_web.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/WH_Still1_web-400x373.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/WH_Still1_web-800x746.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wuthering Heights\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>15. Maybe you're \u003ca href=\"http://feministryangosling.tumblr.com/\">Ryan Gosling\u003c/a> and you really know how to drive a getaway car, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgNt_oJnZpA\">kiss in the elevator\u003c/a>, and perform a variety of dreamy, sun-speckled, slow-motion activities while that \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DSVDcw6iW8\">Real Hero song\u003c/a> is playing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 574px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.impassionedcinema.com/Movie_Reviews-detail/drive-review/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-961\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-961 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/drive_movie_10-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"Drive\" width=\"574\" height=\"380\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drive\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>16. Maybe you're two musical icons who get together to sing \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSpsc67Zm-I\">'Interlude'\u003c/a>, one of the best, most sweeping duets of all time, or you're \u003ca href=\"http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/the-kills-blood-pressures\">the sexiest non-couple on earth\u003c/a>, or you're \u003ca href=\"http://seattlest.com/2011/06/09/married_music_wildbirds_and_peacedr.php\">the cutest and most fashionable husband-wife duo\u003c/a>, whose weird song 'My Heart' has you singing, \"I'm lost without your rhythm,\" as your hottie husband plays the drums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvsR_vVJXSM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>17. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Tension can be so many things: a striving, an unrest, a balance, an uncertainty, an opposition, a hostility, a sense of suspense or intrigue. It manifests itself in physics, music, geology, and electrical voltage. And, most importantly, in \u003ca href=\"http://flavorwire.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/margot.jpg\">romance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1346\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-1346 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/vronsky.gif\" alt=\"Oh, Vronsky\" width=\"500\" height=\"211\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oh, Vronsky...\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tension can be sustained, broken, and reinvented every which way. It can exist between friends, lovers, enemies, exes and established couples. The interpretations, incarnations and outcomes of sexual tension are infinite, but no matter what else, tension heightens in certain key moments and those riveting spaces have been captured with breathtaking skill by literature, film, television and music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the spirit of this weird and singular day about love that often translates into the cutesy, depressing or reactionary, let’s instead revel in a small sampling of romantic and sexual tension; a sensation as unquantifiable as it is evocative, and one I’m sure we can all appreciate in both its fictional and real-life forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Disclaimer: these are simply SOME examples, and sadly not even remotely close to a full survey, \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">1. Maybe you're in love with \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgtAhGOLC-Y\">your best friend’s widow\u003c/a> (and there's just a bit of ambiguity over whether or not you had anything to do with him dying).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 570px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.magpictures.com/presskit.aspx?id=d79c0aa4-2c14-48c0-9555-eea2bd03c5c0\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-930\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-930 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/NightCatchesUs1.jpg\" alt=\"Night Catches Us\" width=\"570\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/NightCatchesUs1.jpg 570w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/NightCatchesUs1-400x301.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Night Catches Us\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">2. Maybe you are a \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selkie\">selkie\u003c/a> who falls in love with a hot fisherman (this sucks cause you have to choose between Colin Farrell and the sea).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 655px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.setcelebs.com/ondine.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-970\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-970 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/ondine-03-1024x540.jpg\" alt=\"Ondine\" width=\"655\" height=\"346\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ondine\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">3. Maybe you're an emotionally stunted, violent hipster who just got out of prison and you kidnap a sweet-faced tap dancer. You have to decide if you're going to bring her hot chocolate and snuggle with her, or kill the football player who lost the game you bet on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 614px\">\u003ca href=\"http://peoplewhocurtsey.blogspot.com/2010/03/buffalo-66.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-951\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-951 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/buffalo66-08.jpg\" alt=\"Buffalo '66\" width=\"614\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/buffalo66-08.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/buffalo66-08-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/buffalo66-08-800x450.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buffalo '66\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">4. Maybe you have a huge crush on the dyslexic hottie who will only secretly make-out with you in the boiler room but then he holds your hand in the hall (cue: Buffalo Tom).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Should you betray him or fund an escape plan? \u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 599px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.andsoitbeginsfilms.com/2012/06/cutting-edge-magic-of-movie-editing.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1246\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-1246 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/Breathless.jpg\" alt=\"Breathless\" width=\"599\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/Breathless.jpg 666w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/Breathless-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Breathless\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>7. Maybe you \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077405/\">enter into a sham marriage\u003c/a> while pretending to be brother and sister with your boyfriend but then sort of fall in love with your pretend husband. Spoiler alert: if you try to do this there will be locust swarms and crop fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 504px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.feelguide.com/2011/05/29/the-backstory-of-the-principle-photography-for-terrence-malicks-1978-epic-days-of-heaven/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-949\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-949 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/days-of-heaven-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Days of Heaven\" width=\"504\" height=\"284\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Days of Heaven\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>8. \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrYQTgV1lr4\">Maybe you're a U.S. Marshal\u003c/a> chasing after a hot bank robber and your predicaments include getting stuck in a car trunk with him and meeting him for a cocktail when you should be arresting him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 397px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.thefancarpet.com/ActorGalleryPicture.aspx?mga_id=21659&a_id=1705\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1240\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-1240 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/out-of-sight.jpg\" alt=\"Out of Sight\" width=\"397\" height=\"615\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Out of Sight\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>9. Maybe you're any character in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0939182/\">Wong Kar Wai\u003c/a> movie, stuck inside his dreamy cinematography, leaning your head sadly on someone's shoulder, smoking cigarettes in the dark, and probably shooting people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>**My favorite is \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAagldnjT0o\">Fallen Angels\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, but \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnFjSHQFVkA\">In The Mood For Love\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAH-0GKvIrM\">Chungking Express\u003c/a>\u003c/em> (with lines such as, \"At the high point of our intimacy, we were just 0.01 cm from each other...\"), and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Dh6Jdc18c\">Happy Together\u003c/a>\u003c/em> all nail the slow smolder and violence of people who can’t or shouldn’t be together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>**Keep your eyes out for his \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/moviesnow/la-et-mn-wong-kar-wai-grandmaster-opens-berlin-fest-bought-by-weinstein-20130207,0,5123372.story\">new one\u003c/a> too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_953\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 630px\">\u003ca href=\"http://sensesofcinema.com/2010/cteq/in-the-mood-for-love/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-953\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-953 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/In-the-Mood-for-Love.jpg\" alt=\"In The Mood For Love\" width=\"630\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/In-the-Mood-for-Love.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/In-the-Mood-for-Love-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In The Mood For Love\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 655px\">\u003ca href=\"http://worldsbestfilms.blogspot.com/2011/12/top-ranked-films-of-wong-kar-wai.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-954\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-954 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/FallenAngels0-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Fallen Angels\" width=\"655\" height=\"369\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fallen Angels\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 655px\">\u003ca href=\"http://seul-le-cinema.blogspot.com/2011_05_01_archive.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-955\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-955 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/happytogether1.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Together\" width=\"655\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/happytogether1.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/happytogether1-400x215.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/happytogether1-800x431.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy Together\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>10. Maybe you're Bonnie and Clyde (or channeling them through song). Serge Gainsbourg and Brigette Bardot utilize some of \u003ca href=\"http://allpoetry.com/poem/8564129-The_Trails_End-by-Bonnie_Parker\">Bonnie’s poetry\u003c/a> (Serge has a habit of singing \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Fa4lOQfbA\">hot duets\u003c/a> with his various ladies) while Beyonce and Jay Z getting into a phone booth together. I love when he asks, \"Ready, B?\" Whew.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/LINbG3eJtu8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/LINbG3eJtu8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>11. Maybe you're a group of teenage boys spying on \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ6cvgIGfH4\">the dreamy sisters\u003c/a> across the street who appear to be killing themselves one by one and you speak in the first person plural all the time, saying things such as, \"...we pretended we hadn't been looking for them at all, that we didn't know they existed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 340px\">\u003ca href=\"http://hernoseinabook.blogspot.com/2012/02/review-virgin-suicides.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1360\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-1360 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/virgin_suicides.jpg\" alt=\"The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides \" width=\"340\" height=\"509\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>12. Maybe you interrupt Christian Slater’s pirate radio broadcast to \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwkOJvRjSKk&list=PL1E24235DEAFDF4C9\">take your shirt off in the yard\u003c/a> and taunt him with the sophistication and restraint of someone far beyond high school age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 615px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.thefancarpet.com/ActorGalleryPicture.aspx?mga_id=51173&a_id=2473\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-960\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-960 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/Pump_Up_the_Volume_301_Medium.png\" alt=\"Pump Up the Volume\" width=\"615\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/Pump_Up_the_Volume_301_Medium.png 615w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/Pump_Up_the_Volume_301_Medium-400x264.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pump Up the Volume\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>13. Maybe you just graduated from college and you have this grumpy but hot guy friend who gives you \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgB4n-1-_BY\">pep talks\u003c/a> about life that end in making out, is \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdsaucLvRb4\">passive-aggressively unhappy when you go on dates with other boys\u003c/a>, and comes back to you with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FLLYpUnuwQ\">planet of regret\u003c/a> after acting like a douche.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.cinemovies.fr/film/generation-90_e64114/photos/1/m273296\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1035\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-1035 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/ethan-winona.jpg\" alt=\"Reality Bites\" width=\"640\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/ethan-winona.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/ethan-winona-400x269.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reality Bites\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>14. Maybe you threaten to \u003ca href=\"http://www.wuthering-heights.co.uk/\">haunt each other\u003c/a> from beyond the grave, run around on the moors, die from being cold and pissed off, exact brutal revenge on everyone who isn’t each other, and say things such as, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvsdsj7GBno\">\"I could no more forget you than myself.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 576px\">\u003ca href=\"http://dailytrojan.com/2012/10/16/latest-heights-tries-reaching-for-new-spin/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-964\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-964 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/WH_Still1_web.jpg\" alt=\"Wuthering Heights\" width=\"576\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/WH_Still1_web.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/WH_Still1_web-400x373.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/WH_Still1_web-800x746.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wuthering Heights\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>15. Maybe you're \u003ca href=\"http://feministryangosling.tumblr.com/\">Ryan Gosling\u003c/a> and you really know how to drive a getaway car, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgNt_oJnZpA\">kiss in the elevator\u003c/a>, and perform a variety of dreamy, sun-speckled, slow-motion activities while that \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DSVDcw6iW8\">Real Hero song\u003c/a> is playing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 574px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.impassionedcinema.com/Movie_Reviews-detail/drive-review/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-961\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-961 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/drive_movie_10-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"Drive\" width=\"574\" height=\"380\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drive\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>16. Maybe you're two musical icons who get together to sing \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSpsc67Zm-I\">'Interlude'\u003c/a>, one of the best, most sweeping duets of all time, or you're \u003ca href=\"http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/the-kills-blood-pressures\">the sexiest non-couple on earth\u003c/a>, or you're \u003ca href=\"http://seattlest.com/2011/06/09/married_music_wildbirds_and_peacedr.php\">the cutest and most fashionable husband-wife duo\u003c/a>, whose weird song 'My Heart' has you singing, \"I'm lost without your rhythm,\" as your hottie husband plays the drums.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/MvsR_vVJXSM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/MvsR_vVJXSM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>17. Maybe you spend a week analyzing and researching sexual tension in pop culture and you think it would be fun to make a Spotify playlist called The Fisherman + The Selkie comprised solely of duets and/or bands whose members are or once were couples and listen to it over and over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/user/1213029062/playlist/2ws65NWJd9uiR2iv6I2yWc\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "Do Not Try This At Home: The 7 Least Romantic Cinematic Gestures",
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"content": "\u003cp>I don’t count myself among the cynics. I promise you, I love a good romance. There’s something delightfully indulgent in letting yourself be swept up in a love story. I love that Tom Hanks knows that Meg Ryan’s favorite flower is the daisy in \u003cem>You’ve Got Mail\u003c/em>. That he reads \u003cem>Pride and Prejudice\u003c/em> in order to impress her. I get a little choked up when Joel Barish simply tells Clementine “Okay,” after she lists the reasons why their relationship won’t work. My heart flips when Harold Crick presents a bouquet of flours to his baker sweetheart Ana. But those love stories are not the ones that usually get attention. Those aren't \"classic\" romantic plots. Maybe there’s something broken and warped in my soul, but these more famous interactions never got to me. So since February is upon us and it is Valentine’s Day, let’s take a moment to reassess these iconic “romantic gestures” for what they really are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/14/do-not-try-this-at-home-the-7-least-romantic-cinematic-gestures/notmantic/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1091\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1091\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/notmantic-e1360651910797.jpg\" alt=\"notmantic\" width=\"630\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/notmantic-e1360651910797.jpg 630w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/notmantic-e1360651910797-400x264.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Love Actually: \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>I actually have a lot of affection for this sappy and divisive British romance. But this particular plot line? Buddy, your \u003cem>best friend \u003c/em>is right upstairs and this? This is his wife. I know many think this little cue card display is the sweetest thing. That he's not asking anything of her, just closure. Me? I think it's selfish. You have a crush on your best friend's girl? Listen to The Cars. Write in your journal about it. Do not, I repeat, do not collage about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/14/do-not-try-this-at-home-the-7-least-romantic-cinematic-gestures/zad_borda/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1129\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/zad_borda.jpg\" alt=\"zad_borda\" width=\"685\" height=\"385\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Overboard: \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>The ending to this '80s classic movie is pure romantic indulgence. Two attractive actors (who are in love in real life!), fling themselves off their respective sea crafts and swim towards each other, so swept away are they by their need to be together. But let's take a step back and remember that while Goldie Hawn's pampered princess character had amnesia, Kurt Russell, in some sort of '80s homage to \u003cem>Taming Of The Shrew\u003c/em>, duped her into thinking she was married to him. He \u003cem>revenge duped \u003c/em>a brain damaged woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/14/do-not-try-this-at-home-the-7-least-romantic-cinematic-gestures/titanic3d/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1098\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1098\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/titanic3d.jpg\" alt=\"titanic3d\" width=\"602\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/titanic3d.jpg 602w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/titanic3d-400x219.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Titanic: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Alright, alright, the whole movie is a ridiculous spectacle. To apply logic would be folly. But, just for laughs, let's remember that Jack had gotten Rose to safety. That she was \u003cem>on \u003c/em>a lifeboat. And she jumped back on the sinking ship to what? TO WHAT? To drag him down, that's what. And don't even get me started on what happens once they get in the water. You know what’s romantic, Rose? Rolling your shapely bum over a bit so your heroic lover can share that raft/door/ornamental headboard with you. Oh did it capsize on your first try? TRY AGAIN. No dice? Then maybe you should consider taking turns in the freezing water. I’m just saying, surviving is more romantic than dying, no matter what Shakespeare wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/14/do-not-try-this-at-home-the-7-least-romantic-cinematic-gestures/a3vpeqaccaaa0lk/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1105\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1105\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/A3vPEqaCcAAa0Lk.jpg\" alt=\"A3vPEqaCcAAa0Lk\" width=\"550\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/A3vPEqaCcAAa0Lk.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/A3vPEqaCcAAa0Lk-400x329.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Grease:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>Correct me if I'm wrong here: the take home message of \u003cem>Grease\u003c/em> is\u003cem> \u003c/em>\"change everything about yourself and shimmy into some Lycra and you, too, might get your man!\" Without a doubt, Olivia Newton-John looks lovely in Lycra. I got chills, etc. But the gesture here? It's pretty ugly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/14/do-not-try-this-at-home-the-7-least-romantic-cinematic-gestures/531643_1283486353920_full/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1122\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1122\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/531643_1283486353920_full.jpg\" alt=\"531643_1283486353920_full\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/531643_1283486353920_full.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/531643_1283486353920_full-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/531643_1283486353920_full-800x450.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Beauty And The\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>\u003cem> Beast\u003c/em>:\u003c/strong> Any bookish young lady who grew up with this Disney tale probably swooned a little when The Beast presented Belle with a library. Rolling ladders! Plush armchairs! But all the leather bound classics in the world can't hide the fact that the reason he gives her a library is to make the fact of her \u003cem>imprisonment \u003c/em>more palatable. Yes yes, he nearly let your father rot and die in a dank cell, but, ooooo, the complete works of Proust!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/14/do-not-try-this-at-home-the-7-least-romantic-cinematic-gestures/lloyd-dobler/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1097\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/lloyd-dobler.jpg\" alt=\"lloyd-dobler\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Say Anything: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>When this particular love scene pops up on “Most Romantic Movie Moments” lists, and it always does, the author inevitably includes the written equivalent of a nervous laugh. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>I don’t count myself among the cynics. I promise you, I love a good romance. There’s something delightfully indulgent in letting yourself be swept up in a love story. I love that Tom Hanks knows that Meg Ryan’s favorite flower is the daisy in \u003cem>You’ve Got Mail\u003c/em>. That he reads \u003cem>Pride and Prejudice\u003c/em> in order to impress her. I get a little choked up when Joel Barish simply tells Clementine “Okay,” after she lists the reasons why their relationship won’t work. My heart flips when Harold Crick presents a bouquet of flours to his baker sweetheart Ana. But those love stories are not the ones that usually get attention. Those aren't \"classic\" romantic plots. Maybe there’s something broken and warped in my soul, but these more famous interactions never got to me. So since February is upon us and it is Valentine’s Day, let’s take a moment to reassess these iconic “romantic gestures” for what they really are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/14/do-not-try-this-at-home-the-7-least-romantic-cinematic-gestures/notmantic/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1091\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1091\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/notmantic-e1360651910797.jpg\" alt=\"notmantic\" width=\"630\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/notmantic-e1360651910797.jpg 630w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/notmantic-e1360651910797-400x264.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Love Actually: \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>I actually have a lot of affection for this sappy and divisive British romance. But this particular plot line? Buddy, your \u003cem>best friend \u003c/em>is right upstairs and this? This is his wife. I know many think this little cue card display is the sweetest thing. That he's not asking anything of her, just closure. Me? I think it's selfish. You have a crush on your best friend's girl? Listen to The Cars. Write in your journal about it. Do not, I repeat, do not collage about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/14/do-not-try-this-at-home-the-7-least-romantic-cinematic-gestures/zad_borda/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1129\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/zad_borda.jpg\" alt=\"zad_borda\" width=\"685\" height=\"385\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Overboard: \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>The ending to this '80s classic movie is pure romantic indulgence. Two attractive actors (who are in love in real life!), fling themselves off their respective sea crafts and swim towards each other, so swept away are they by their need to be together. But let's take a step back and remember that while Goldie Hawn's pampered princess character had amnesia, Kurt Russell, in some sort of '80s homage to \u003cem>Taming Of The Shrew\u003c/em>, duped her into thinking she was married to him. He \u003cem>revenge duped \u003c/em>a brain damaged woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/14/do-not-try-this-at-home-the-7-least-romantic-cinematic-gestures/titanic3d/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1098\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1098\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/titanic3d.jpg\" alt=\"titanic3d\" width=\"602\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/titanic3d.jpg 602w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/titanic3d-400x219.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Titanic: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Alright, alright, the whole movie is a ridiculous spectacle. To apply logic would be folly. But, just for laughs, let's remember that Jack had gotten Rose to safety. That she was \u003cem>on \u003c/em>a lifeboat. And she jumped back on the sinking ship to what? TO WHAT? To drag him down, that's what. And don't even get me started on what happens once they get in the water. You know what’s romantic, Rose? Rolling your shapely bum over a bit so your heroic lover can share that raft/door/ornamental headboard with you. Oh did it capsize on your first try? TRY AGAIN. No dice? Then maybe you should consider taking turns in the freezing water. I’m just saying, surviving is more romantic than dying, no matter what Shakespeare wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/14/do-not-try-this-at-home-the-7-least-romantic-cinematic-gestures/a3vpeqaccaaa0lk/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1105\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1105\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/A3vPEqaCcAAa0Lk.jpg\" alt=\"A3vPEqaCcAAa0Lk\" width=\"550\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/A3vPEqaCcAAa0Lk.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/A3vPEqaCcAAa0Lk-400x329.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Grease:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>Correct me if I'm wrong here: the take home message of \u003cem>Grease\u003c/em> is\u003cem> \u003c/em>\"change everything about yourself and shimmy into some Lycra and you, too, might get your man!\" Without a doubt, Olivia Newton-John looks lovely in Lycra. I got chills, etc. But the gesture here? It's pretty ugly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/14/do-not-try-this-at-home-the-7-least-romantic-cinematic-gestures/531643_1283486353920_full/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1122\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1122\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/531643_1283486353920_full.jpg\" alt=\"531643_1283486353920_full\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/531643_1283486353920_full.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/531643_1283486353920_full-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/531643_1283486353920_full-800x450.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Beauty And The\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>\u003cem> Beast\u003c/em>:\u003c/strong> Any bookish young lady who grew up with this Disney tale probably swooned a little when The Beast presented Belle with a library. Rolling ladders! Plush armchairs! But all the leather bound classics in the world can't hide the fact that the reason he gives her a library is to make the fact of her \u003cem>imprisonment \u003c/em>more palatable. Yes yes, he nearly let your father rot and die in a dank cell, but, ooooo, the complete works of Proust!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/14/do-not-try-this-at-home-the-7-least-romantic-cinematic-gestures/lloyd-dobler/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1097\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/lloyd-dobler.jpg\" alt=\"lloyd-dobler\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Say Anything: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>When this particular love scene pops up on “Most Romantic Movie Moments” lists, and it always does, the author inevitably includes the written equivalent of a nervous laugh. Usually it goes something like this, “My god, this is SO romantic. I mean, ha, it would be SUPER creepy, if it weren’t, like, SO ROMANTIC.” Yeah, no, folks: it’s super creepy. I love Lloyd Dobler. If I were Diane Court I would count myself awfully lucky to snare him. But if you break up with someone and they end up outside your window…at night…playing the song you lost your virginity to? I’m sorry, that’s just one shimmy up the drainpipe away from Edward Cullen mouth breathing in the corner while you sleep. Once again, I love Lloyd Dobler, I’m awfully glad he got the girl, but this business is over the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/14/do-not-try-this-at-home-the-7-least-romantic-cinematic-gestures/edward-and-bella-together-forever/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1099\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/Edward-and-Bella-together-forever.jpg\" alt=\"Edward-and-Bella--together-forever\" width=\"759\" height=\"524\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Twilight: \u003c/em>Any Time Of The D*mn Day\u003cem>:\u003c/em> \u003c/strong>Speaking of which, on the one hand this whole thing appalls me, on the other hand, these two simpletons deserve each other. Have at it simpletons.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>You're single, and it's Valentine's Day. All Things Considered, you're feeling a little blue. You want to have a driveway moment with someone. Not just Car Talk, but an evening that ends with you sharing tomorrow's Morning Edition over breakfast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you turn on the radio for solace. You hear this, and it makes things seem just a little bit better...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/79225024\" params=\"color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe you could use an NPR dating site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's an idea that's been discussed by public media folks on occasion. What if there was a site where you could meet others interested in \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/world/\">foreign affairs\u003c/a>, the genius of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/02/13/171116703/keplers-genius-letting-nature-have-the-last-word\">Kepler\u003c/a> and Ira Glass's \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/480/animal-sacrifice\">dog\u003c/a>? A few stations - including St. Louis Public Radio and WNYC - have organized dating events for listeners. Perhaps it's time to try matching public radio fans online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Valentine's Day KQED asked its Facebook and Twitter followers if they thought NPR should start a dating site. KQED's Aarti Shahani also interviewed public media executives and online dating experts about the idea for a story you can find\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/14/should-public-radio-start-an-online-dating-site/\"> here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combined, the story and the comments received via social media make a pretty compelling case for a site that would allow This American Life listeners to find love with Terry Gross groupies. Here are five reasons why NPR should start a dating site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. There are a lot of people who share an interest in public radio.\u003c/strong> About 26.8 million Americans listened to NPR newscasts every week in 2011, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/03/nprs-audience-shrunk-a-hair-in-2011-pushing-public-radio-further-toward-a-digital-future/\">Pew Research Center\u003c/a>. And they're not all run-of-the-mill librarians. Some of them are sexy librarians. Some of them are sexy pop stars and actors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-1370\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/clooney620.jpg\" alt=\"George Clooney hearts NPR.\" width=\"620\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/clooney620.jpg 620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/clooney620-400x354.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Clooney hearts NPR.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-1369\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/jtnpr.jpg\" alt=\"Justin Timberlake, photo via NPR.org\" width=\"620\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/jtnpr.jpg 620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/jtnpr-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Timberlake, photo via NPR.org\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>OK, so J.T. is \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/06/jessica-biel-justin-timberlake-marriage-elle_n_2250224.html\">off the market\u003c/a>. Still, there are other \u003ca href=\"http://pinterest.com/ianhillmedia/sexy-men-support-npr/\">sexy men\u003c/a> and women who like NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a pretty big group and there's got to be several million who are single,\" NPR President and CEO Gary Knell told Shahani. \"They're hungry for a connection and a community of people who, like them, want to engage in and are curious about the world, which is really complicated, and can be really lonely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Lonely listeners have something in common they can talk about: NPR.\u003c/strong> This NPR fan noted that public radio can be a great conversation starter on dates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/79228187\" params=\"color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not convinced? The next time you're out with a fellow public radio fan, try beginning the conversation with the questions posed by real NPR headlines like \"is the Internet making us stupid?\" and \"did North Korea test a 'miniature' nuclear bomb?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're not sure that the person you're dating is a bona fide public radio aficionado, you can just ask them to identify the name of the NPR staffers who have been name-checked on \u003ca href=\"http://nprfreshair.tumblr.com/post/36890814522/in-the-opening-scene-of-parks-and-recreation-last\">\u003cem>Parks and Recreation\u003c/em>.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. As the conversation continues, NPR listeners might find they have a lot in common.\u003c/strong> Listener Katherine Lee says she thinks many NPR listeners might share the same worldview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/79226058\" params=\"color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/about/aboutnpr/audience.html\">Audience studies\u003c/a> seem to back her up. In general, NPR listeners are described as middle-aged college graduates whose households earn nearly twice the income of average American households. According to stats reported by \u003ca href=\"http://www.onthemedia.org/2006/sep/01/the-listeners-of-national-public-radio/transcript/\">On the Media\u003c/a> in 2006, NPR listeners are likely to...\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Be liberal\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Be curious\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Drink soy milk\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Drink French wine\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Own a Volvo\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. If you hook up at the end of the date, you might help create a race of super-beings.\u003c/strong> That's what NPR's Chicago station WBEZ hopes will happen. They launched an ad campaign recently that \u003ca href=\"http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/npr-station-urges-listeners-have-sex-and-make-more-listeners-147082\">made waves\u003c/a> by asking listeners to \"go make babies\" with other \"interesting people.\" Those \"interesting people\" would hypothetically be future NPR listeners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-1386 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/DoIt.jpg\" alt=\"DoIt\" width=\"484\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/DoIt.jpg 484w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/DoIt-400x240.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listener Alex Soros called these \"interesting\" babies an \"uber race.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/79229701\" params=\"color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. 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