Forty Days of Dating's Masochistic Creators Sign With CAA

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Anonymous

08/15/13 03:08PM

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Best friends-cum-naked yoga partners (sorry, spoiler alert), Jessica Walsh and Timothy Goodman, have signed with CAA after their illustration heavy blog, Forty Days of Dating, went viral.

Walsh and Goodman are NYC-based graphic designers who started a 40 day experiment exploring the worst parts of dating: seeing each other every day, going to a couples therapist once a week, and filling out daily surveys chronicling their ups and downs.

The schaudenfreude went viral, and now with just 5 days left to blog about where the tumultuous relationship ends up (the experiment ended back in April, posts have been going up daily this summer), the pair have taken on a team of agents at CAA to broker the inevitable book/TV/Forty Days and Forty Nights movie sequel deal.

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[Image via Forty Days of Dating]

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mmmpie Anonymous 08/15/13 06:52PM

Is it just me, or did this whole project reek of entitled millennial navel-gazing? (and I say this as a borderline millennial)

It sounded so emotionally-vacuous and depressing and hey-this-is-the-shitty-way-that-people-date-in-this-day-and-age-so-let's-just-see-if-we-too-can-stand-each-other-enough-to-settle that I was never interested in following it from the start. That, and it screamed of soulless Internet famewhoring. Which may, in fact, be the same thing as entitle millennial navel-gazing ;)

Official Witch of Los Angeles mmmpie 08/15/13 10:19PM

It's Lena Dunham-esque self-aggrandizing — and as someone who's supposedly in the target audience for GIRLS and shit like this blog, I hope this kind of ego-stroking isn't what my peer group is remembered for. I tried reading this when it started going viral, and gave up after about five minutes; couldn't stand the design, couldn't stand the pompous writing even more.

Not all of us 20/30 somethings spend day and night trying to remind the world we are special, artistic snowflakes.

mmmpie Official Witch of Los Angeles 08/15/13 10:32PM

See, I actually like Girls, because it helps me feel a little validated for my professional floatiness and uncertain employment status, but this 40 Days project is people I can't relate to doing something I not only can't relate to, but also think is a waste of time and energy. Is this supposed to be a "creative" portfolio booster for these folk??

PS LA Kat Lady, since you are in LA, I have to ask: have you joined the Jezebel LA Facebook group? https://www.facebook.com/groups/Jezebel… We're trying to plan a meetup next Thursday!