Noble Efforts

An extensive chronicle of a brutal and heart-rending year-long break up. Part 16: The final stretch! Twin Cities rampage; the better option; falling hard for Gillian; finishing the novel; Just Rewards Tour 2011; VILLIAN.; the final hideous clue; the new "fuck you"; the permanent ache and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

An extensive chronicle of a brutal and heart-rending year-long break up. Part 15: Latest creative endeavors; the worst sleepover ever; late-night search for a missing girl; the greatest drug trip; the final showdown; the most difficult conversation we'll ever have and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

An extensive chronicle of a brutal and heart-rending year-long break up. Part 14: An important phone call with Uncle Dale about good emotions and bad investments; dating webcam girls; ambivalence & instability; the laws of resentment; human miscalculation; seeking worth in yourself and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

An extensive chronicle of a brutal and heart-rending year-long break up. Part 13: Rumble in St. Louis; Eli saves a life; various troubles with a Frenchie's enormous suitcase; Kell's big reveal; Justin's bigger epiphany; a shocking announcement; an obsessive inquisition and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

An extensive chronicle of a brutal and heart-rending year-long break up. Part 12: A bleak winter; stressturbation; Chicago CouchSurfing gossip; strained relations; suicidal revelries; Typhoid Granger; retroactive repairs and payments; sparring with staffing agents; a private tasting; the mighty ingrate; art party politics; Voelker's wisdom and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

An extensive chronicle of a brutal and heart-rending year-long break up. Part 11: Making peace with Nicole; the salad dressing incident; the soft knock; a desperate concession; the angriest correspondence; bottoming out; crying jags and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

An extensive chronicle of a brutal and heart-rending year-long break up. Part 10: Getting over someone with the help of someone you love; the SMS plea; belated valentines; a little bit of closure; two scenarios, same likely outcome; the truth finally surfaces; a denial, a separation, a walkout; the final push; the first shove and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

An extensive chronicle of a brutal and heart-rending year-long break up. Part 9: The paradox of a perfect pairing; smooth heads and fetish sites; new year's catatonia; (secret) affair with an Englishman; the wrong Nic(h)ole; Kell co-opts a life; a panick attack; a promise and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

An extensive chronicle of a brutal and heart-rending year-long break up. Part 8: Pining for Kell; Nicole's 29th birthday; a hostile phone conversation; self-inflicted whiplash; bruised and adrift on the road back to Chicago and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

An extensive chronicle of a brutal and heart-rending year-long break up. Part 7: Packing for a trip out West; a VICTORIOUS art party; the ugliest SMS; a planned dinner leads to unnecessary drama; the return of Captain Boyshorts; an agreeable relationship scenario; the downside of self-abuse; discussing family matters with an Italian mother; a terrible act of gluttony and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

An extensive chronicle of a brutal and heart-rending year-long break up. Part 6: The worst assumptions; the needling effect; perfect analogies for our relationships; ethics and self-discovery; equal vs. fair; The Well-Digger Syndrome; a stupid plan of seduction in subzero temperatures and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

An extensive chronicle of a brutal and heart-rending year-long break up. Part 5: Tedious negotiations for the lamest Halloween ever; the back porch farewell; protecting your dubious reputation and and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

An extensive chronicle of a brutal and heart-rending year-long break up. Part 4: Fucking & fighting in Minneapolis; applying logic to commitment; THE ULTIMATUM; an angry departure; the downside of keeping your principles; a first argument with Nicole and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

An extensive chronicle of a brutal and heart-rending year-long break up. Part 3: Nicole's jealous streak; getting dumped without explanation; belated truths; unfair associations; getting at the root of the problem and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

An extensive chronicle of a brutal and heart-rending year-long break up. Part 2: A crazy weekend of threesomes; meeting Nicole; past heartbreaks (and fallouts); a shocking revelation; the burden of foresight; the sincere opportunist and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

An extensive chronicle of a brutal and heart-rending year-long break up. Part 1: A very special guest; analyzing Justin's ideal relationship(s); the high price of commitment; abuses of friendship; summer break ups; debaucherous art parties; an impossible feat of overnight delivery and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

What We Did with Our Summer Vacation - 2010 Edition! The worst Frenchies; the best secret tryst; the Legend of Captain Boyshorts; the trouble with friends who think this is just a fling; being honest and breaking up; the downside of novelty and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

The trouble with tourists in Lanquin; rejection in Atitlan; The One Tour! in KELL Salvador; the lovelorn taxi driver of Somoto; surfing Cerro Negro; lake bathing on Omotepe; scouting Monkey Island; the ultimate farewell in Managua; an ill-timed homecoming and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

Hitching a ride to Tlaxcala; high school days in Atotoniclo; a long-awaited reunion (and payback) in Veracruz; getting adopted in Villahermosa; abandonment issues on the border; misadventures with The Mouse in Belize; digging for clues in Uaxactun; marching to oblivion on the way to Yaxha; a night at the deadliest campground and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

Justin's perfect long-term fling; "Tomas's" recent spate of (disgustingly) VICTORIOUS weekends; further commitments and peculiar compromises; Justin's inherent flaw as a person (and how to fix it); the ups and downs of the latest road trip out West; how to truly get over an ex; The Gospel on the Book of Man and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

A series of bizarre, unsettling and completely inappropriate phone calls left on Justin's voicemail on the night of January 21, 2010.

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The end of the 161-hour work week; why Bob would make a GREAT rich guy; further negative references and the dreaded warning box; pre- and post-Turkey Day dramas; a most decadent holiday office party and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

Inappropriate office etiquette; bizarre men's room neuroses; follow-up on Bob's first negative reference; hosting preferences and surfer privileges; the most aggravating first date EVER(!) and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

Ramos Lives! A week of freak accidents; the pros and cons of living life to the fullest; full slate of CS events; Bob's first negative reference vs. the best reference to date; Kyle's crazy school schedule; transition boyfriends and relationship games; sleepsexing and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

Maya donates (some good-lookin') eggs and other alternative avenues of scoring quick cash; Sofi Minx & Naked Girls Reading; recent spats with potential dates; fighting assumption (and majority opinion); cutting your losses; hints of a spark; Malakov Tango; lack of prime candidates and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

Henry moves! Adventures with U-Haul; alleyway commuting; pirates of Palmer Square; roomate rifts; USA #1 (re: All Things No. 2); packing and drinking; hunting your couchsurfers; hosting withdrawals and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

Season 19 Recap: The aftermath of Veronica, Kit, Penny and Tilda; the perfect motivator; fantasies of violence; the downside of honesty; a year of compounding heartbreak; learning to accept (a lack of) closure; life summaries and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

The solution to Bob's problems; desperate and willing to settle; a season of epiphanies; living with loneliness; passion as a liability; the reality of perception; the right time to discuss dealbreakers; recent upsets on the dating scene; godawful acquaintances; the worst thing you could say during sex and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

The continued misadventures of Madison Rosbar! Hitting the crazy chick jackpot (in public!); more reasons why NOT to answer text messages; new plans for "next times"; bizarre DUI charges; a summer of sobriety and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

The Swede|Scot Invasion begins! Cultural mythbusting; swimming the Atlantic; fighting in Frankfurt; rainy day riots in Stockholm; long-awaited reunions in Edinburgh; Air India incidents and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

The (perceived) threat of the ex; bedroom dealbreakers; Kit's betrayal; Penny's confession; Tilda's rejection; booty call faux pas; WORST. NIGHT. EVER!; reestablishing control; the big 5-0 and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

The year of lying; surviving Fresno; getting cockblocked by an Irishman; improper usage of frozen Bonamassas; potential Myspace fuck buddies; belated sexual awakening; negotiating an open marriage; BFN double teams and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

Kyle locks down a girlfriend; all or nothing on the first date; Dubilina Jawbreaker; desperate isolation; precarious emotional bonding; The Nicaragua Referendum; the importance of preserving friendship; picking your battles; respecting yourself enough to walk away and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

Vigilante lovin'; Penny brings on the heartbreak; one last shot at pursuing Samantha; slight vindication for Bob Dubilina and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

Bob's life as public knowledge; the prime directive of BFN; big backlash to The Big Come Down; Penny's rejection; Kit bails again; the dilemma of the Waiting Game; little distractions that make up a life; love insurance and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

The 10-year reunion commences! High school memories with Bob Dubilina; falling in love with Las Vegas; Symon the Cyst; aggravated food poisoning in Eureka; scandalous Windy City flings and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

Rodent infestation at the Berkley Manor; EJS Doctrine; the surprise reaction; overcoming (perceived) awkwardness; Big Red's first heartbreak; Bekah seeks closure; counseling couchsurfers and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

Triple love high; true disciple of the gut feeling; the ultimate favor; LADD; the importance of the first fight; awkward finish to a threesome; Frankengirlfriend; playing it cool; a desperate need for trust; unexpected residual baggage; a retraction of friendship; the best assurance and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

Kyle's in pain Bob's first panic attack; the shock of an ex's sudden marriage; dating to forget; the real danger of Puerto Vallarta; stories about Kyle's family; the trouble with Erin; an introspective on Brucie "Mad Dog" Mittman and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

Morbid premonitions; destiny and legacy; final rounds of the great mismatch of 2009; the love grenade; Kit's first Chicago winter weekend; guilty pleasures; the fat girl who wouldn't leave and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

Epic hosting marathon; adventures with Jamie Vulva; Lisa's inner freak; unrequited love and the lingering feeling of loss; what happens when your reputation precedes you; a favor no one should owe and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

The campaign begins: Dubilina|Ramos 2020! Presidential duties; ambiguous slogans; new policies; political gains; impending domestic troubles; the miracle weekend in Denver; Kyle's ulcer; spectacular New Year's celebrations; accidental matchmaking; tweetup rumbles and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

Last chance to ditch this year's baggage; Bob's last (and ugliest) fight with Veronica; definitions of a toxic relationship; brutal aftermath; weekend getaway; a reevaluation of standards and practices; saving graces; constant craving; the need to adapt and evolve and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

Ramos takes over hosting dutings! Welcoming the in-studio audience; in love with Jenn's cooking; reviews of Kyle's new play; how drama inspires a better performance; future destinations; Esoteric Allusions; the epic self-medicated Saturday night rumble; rockstar crushes; wonders of the 9th grade music collection and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

How to con a nation of convicts; Lisa's allergy; the legend of "Long Con" Dubilina; a history of gay roommates; the anti-platonic cuddle buddy; Kyle's penis has issues; the greatest con of all; Turkey Day in the suburbs; preemptive make-out sessions; the faulty wingman; the five steps of addiction; a torrent of charm and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

The soundtrack of our lives; Anna Malakov; Master Berkley's master plan; better ways to get wasted; Bob's first East Coast JAP; Bob's ideal dating scenario; Mantrap!; DP Twin Theory; V-Day babies; Kyle's addiction; the pick-up puppy; the wrecking ball; a lack of imagination in the bedroom; rejection and fear of intimacy; roundabout apologies and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

Seeking donations; free facials (not that, pervert!); Kyle's unique stigmata; winning the relationship; monster bush and how to address it; the ultimate seduction technique; issues with the Dutch; litmus test for the perfect girl; Lana's birthday hangover; anonymous online hostility and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

Post-election commentary; Dubilina|Ramos 2020!; Frenchie vs. CIFF; booty call fake-out; experience trumps all; presumed perverse; a misguided perception of Bob's lifestyle; The Well-Digger Syndrome; messy analogies; the trials of Jiminy Cricket; a long overdue apology and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

Maya's new surname; pandering for a positive reference; the big STD scare; the only way to have safe sex; Kyle's stressful summer; Bob's ideal woman; Kyle's crazy new conquest; conquest on all national monuments; rejecting new suitors; no-win situations and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net

The morally sound slut; crossing borders as a means of escape; the international carpool; a long weekend of rest; a city of gorgeous women; power plays and character bashing; The Hannah Ultimatum; discovering paradise with an adventurous pen pal; odd bedfellows and a big buzzkill; the war on sleep and so much more! For more information, go to: http://www.NobleEfforts.net