Here's a passage from a note that Glenn Reynolds posted recently that's been rattling around my head for a while now. Glenn identified the author as a female reader named Madhu Dahiya:
Instead, the president would give a stern talking to those men, and women (and you know who you are), WHO NEVER CALL YOU BACK. I mean, you want to move the numbers towards the Republicans in the single, over thirty over educated female-type bracket? Well, there you go. There's an issue that should poll just nicely, thank you very much.
Glenn followed up her note by writing that he was glad he wasn't single anymore, and he ought to be.
Get much past 30 in the romantic game, and chances are you've got some siginificant baggage. The real question is can you fit it all into a carry-on?
As it turns out, I've really only come across one piece of popular culture that put single life in your 30's into proper perspective, and that was Cupid*, predictably cancelled by ABC after only 14 episodes (isn't it always that way?).
As briefly as it was with us, it did manage to come in handy over one Xmas vacation when my mother was questioning me rather closely about my personal life, and the lack of any immediate prospects for me to help make her a grandmother. Luckily for me, Cupid was just coming on, and I asked her to watch.
"Think of it like an hour with the Discovery Channel?" I told her.
Needless to say, my Mom, who was married at 19, started to understand things a little better (not completely, as we are talking about a television show).
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*And it came complete with a kick-ass theme song. Click here to listen (be sure to scroll down). For more on Cupid creator Rob Thomas, click here.
That is a good song, but a MUCH better choice would have been Sam Cooke’s “Cupid” (or if you couldn’t get the rights, The Spinners’ cover version.)
Of course, I tend to believe that they should pass a law that if you use a song name as a title for a movie or TV show, you should have to include the song at some point.