a perfect poster boy if your goal is never to have to worry about actually selling any posters

The cover story in this week's Madison alternative newspaper is titled "Couples Town: For Singles, Things are Tough All Over." The thesis of the story is basically what you'd expect from the title, especially as applied to thirtysomethingish singles. I was talking to someone yesterday who told me that they had a conversation about the merits of the article. As part of a counterargument that there are indeed attractive single men in their thirties in Madison, I was apparently named as an example. Um, wow. Let's be honest: you know someone is really grasping at straws when they invoke me in as an example of either "attractive" or "living in Madison," much less for both simultaneously. It's like somebody saying a city has good restaurants and then, when pressed, offering up as an example an Appleby's thirty miles away.