Tell Me About It…Stud

By Guest Blogger Angela

Ladies, I think we’ve all been on dates where the man does nothing but talk. From appetizer through dessert, it’s all about him. By the time dinner is finished, you know everything about him. Or if not everything, certainly more than you expected to know. It turns out that there is an evolutionary reason for this.¹


In Sex, Time and Power, Leonard Shalin posits that men fall in love with their eyes and women fall in love with their ears. This certainly helps explain why so many men direct their conversation at a woman’s breasts-they don’t initially care what she has to say, only how she looks. Interestingly enough, women tend to be more impressed with what a man has to say than how he looks. Conversation was the original sexual lubricant, with humans communicating with each other “more often, and over a longer period of time, before they have consensual sex than any other animal.” ²

In any given day, a man will speak approximately 2000 words and a woman 7000. During the courtship stage of a relationship, this ratio changes-hence the chatty first date. “Speech is an integral aspect of courting and a key component to successful mating. Ultimately, a man must be skilled in the art of wooing if he hopes to pass along his genes³.” So when he doesn’t pause to ask you questions it doesn’t necessarily mean he’s self-absorbed. It may indicate that he’s interested.

1. When in doubt, always blame evolution.
2. Sex, Time and Power page 201.
3. Ibid.

Where Are They Now? Special Edition: Guest Blogger, Mr. Anonymous.

Mr. Anonymous, pictured here at Justin Kahn's 84th birthday bash, was once the corner stone of the lower fourth quadrant of Cleveland Heights guest bloggers. During the height of his popularity he had achieved a near mythical Machiavellian connection to readers becoming a figure both loved and feared. His jaunty red bow tie caused many a woman to swoon with adoration while his heavy drinking problem sent many a man on a course of irreversible liver damage.


Then suddenly, and some say tragically, in December of 2006 he vanished never again to grace the pages of COI. What happened to this controversial figure that so inflamed the hearts of readers for 3 or 4 weeks in the fall of 2006?

We hired the crack investigative team from Commies with Credit Cards to investigate and after several months of binge drinking, angry sex, and lucid dream states we have found an answer.

Celebrity Bear Boxing


Like many bears on the downside of the celebrity circuit, the fall of fame came hard to Mr. Anonymous. His last match broadcast payperview RCTV (Robot Chicken TV) against the infamous heavy weight contender, Paddington "The Mauler" Bear, left him with a broken spine and some lost stuffing. His physical therapist remains confident for a full recovery with the hopes that someday this once star can rise again to the admiration and loathing of bloggers everywhere (in the lower section of the fourth quadrant of the Cleveland Heights area.)