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Black Friday has come and gone, and we are now officially in the Christmas season here at the Missed Connections. This week, we're getting in the spirit with MCs from Christmas tree lots and holiday parties that we can only hope are not super-spreader events. The holidays are always a fraught time, but the specter of disease is making this year's...

Thanksgiving is coming, and everyone is traveling. Plague or no plague, we're all gonna go see grandma this Thanksgiving, because this might be the last time we get to see her (especially if we give her COVID while we're there). This isn't really a viable long-term strategy, but then, neither are Missed Connections, and that doesn't stop us from...

Somehow, after the kind of month we've had so far -- not to mention the year we've had so far -- we're all still here for another week's Missed Connections. And if you read this week, you might be amazed to think that a plague is still loose on the streets, that social media is a constant garbage fire of disinformation and inflammatory lies. I...

The election has been called but I still can't quite shake that lingering feeling of panic near the edge of my consciousness. If you know where I'm coming from on that, maybe you too are ready for a cleansing dip in the raw escapism of this week's Missed Connections. Well, as if it knows what you need, this week kicks off with multiple doses of...

Welcome to Missed Connections for the week after Halloween, where normally we'd expect a ton of notes for people in cute costumes who were spotted in bars. But there's a pandemic afoot, so that kind of thing is bound to be a little thin on the ground this year. And let's be real -- we're all a lot more likely to be worried about casting our votes...