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Feb
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 There’s a quote in today’s Temple News that I am one hundred percent convinced was said by Dwight Schrute from The Office.
If you would direct your attention to this article about online dating:
Sophomore Nathan Walsh has nothing but contempt for online dating. The mechanical engineering major finds the concept to be “entirely too flawed to function in our society.”
“The system of online dating appears innocent and good-natured. However, it is quite a danger to those involved,” Walsh said. “In my experience, I have known marriages [that] have failed because the relationship began as an online confrontation.”
Now that’s a quote to give the school newspaper! I guess at Temple they accept anonymous, anecdotal evidence in class.
Daters aren’t feeling the virtual love [Temple News]
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dmac | 8:09 AM | 0 Comments
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Oct
29
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The current issue of Phillymag features the region’s top single men and women posing for gorgeous photographs and has a bunch of articles about why these people are our top bachelors and bachelorettes.
Ha, ha, just kidding, it features a bunch of random people who appear to have been chosen due to their ability to make the photoshoot. Jamison Uhler gets bonus points since he was a Daily News Sexy Single last year.
But nothing is better than the hobby of one Hilary Regan, a “sustainable marketing consultant for Domani Developers.”
Know what’s a more fun hobby than keeping casinos off the waterfront? Gambling.
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dmac | 12:13 PM | 2 Comments
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Feb
7
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Erin O’Hearn’s weekly “Right Now On The Net” feature has showcased Brad Maule’s work on Phillyskyline and, last night, it showcased… online dating! This whole segment is worth is just to see the awkward interaction between Jim Gardner and O’Hearn at the end.
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dmac | 2:57 PM | 0 Comments
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Apr
30
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If you remember way… actually, wait, there’s no way you’re going to remember. So way back when this blog wasn’t even a month old (and was even worse than it is now), September 2005, Metro entertainment editor Dorothy Robinson interviewed Neil Strauss, who wrote The Game.
I sorta called bullshit on it at the time, because it used terms like “sarge” to talk about picking up women. Later, I actually read his book — I had a free copy, I swear — and apparently all these things were true. Strauss figured out how to get any woman he wanted and was dating the guitarist from Hole or something by the end of the book. (Who knew?)
Naturally, suddenly — and by “suddenly,” I mean “a year and a half ago” — “pick-up artists” are the hottest rage around, and so today the Inquirer’s Faye Flam writes about the new book by The Game’s sidekick character, Mystery, with the definitely non-sexist title of The Mystery Method: The Foolproof Way To Get Any Woman You Want Into Bed. (Or maybe The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed, as an Inquirer photo shows. Apparently this book is so amazing it has two different titles.)
Students pay $2,150 for a three-day seminar taught by one of Mystery’s disciples, which is way more expensive than Match.com. Apparently, getting a girl includes such tips as having good body language, telling girls they suck (in a friendly way) and coming up with some sort of stupid story to tell a girl so she immediately takes your pants off. Or, y’know, something like that.
Flam talks about research — this is the Inquirer, after all — on similar subjects by scientists, including one who says playing hard to get activates dopamine circuits — also activated by, say, cocaine — in the brain on the person who’s been rejected. Wow! I didn’t know I was a cokehead!
But this article is only the beginning (I hope).
This story got even more interesting when I met Mystery himself. Maybe I’ll write about that in my next column. I’d give it about 50-50 odds.
Oh, playing hard to get, eh, Flam? Just write the damn article before I overdose.
Carnal Knowledge | Play hard to get, single guys [Inquirer]
Sept. 29, 2005: Also, “sarge” means “to pick up women.” I call bullshit.
Archives: Faye Flam
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dmac | 12:30 PM | 0 Comments
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Apr
17
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Last year, two 76ers caused quite a stir when they didn’t show up for Fan Appreciation Night. Well, they did show up, but Allen Iverson and Chris Webber just chilled in the locker room and didn’t come out and apologize to the fans for how bad the 76ers were last season.
Of course, this year, the 76ers don’t have Webber or Iverson any more and they have done even worse than last season — but just barely — but didn’t do poorly enough to, y’know, get a good draft pick.
Even though the 76ers will finish 29th out of 30 NBA teams in attendance this season, tonight is Fan Appreciation Night again and the 76ers have pulled out all the stops. In short, they’re acting like I do after a failed relationship: Begging and pleading.
In addition to the many prizes to be won, each fan entering the arena will receive a “golden ticket” entitling him or her to a free ticket to a selected Sixers home game in November or December, which [76ers Marketing VP Steve] Yaros said would be in the lower bowl, a $65 value. [...]
Yaros praised the players’ participation in Fan Appreciation Night activities, with taped pieces for the opening pregame performance, in which some are dressed like the Blues Brothers, and personal thank-you messages during time-outs. The players also will award season-ticket holders with jerseys and autographed sneakers.
Before the game, the Sixers’ dancers, the Junior Dance Team and the Broad St. Beefcakes, will perform together to “I Need You.” They will return to the court in the third quarter to dance with the song “We Go Together” from the musical Grease.
And, much like my failed relationships, I wonder how this is going to turn out. Trust me from experience, guys, you need to move on.
Sixers to put fan back in fan night [Inquirer]
April 19, 2006: Sixers Don’t Show Up For 81st Time This Season; Fans Finally Notice
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dmac | 2:33 PM | 0 Comments
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Jan
26
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Today is Friday, which not only means checking out of work early and browsing blogs more often than usual but also the weekly Steve & Mia sex-and-dating advice column in the Daily News. (Yeah, I bet you didn’t see that coming next, did you? Ahh, the lazy lead that has nothing to do with the rest of the writing. Where would I be without you?)
In today’s S&M (ho, ho) a man writes in asking the two sex columnists to help him set up a date with a woman who wrote in a few weeks ago.
Q: I was just reading your recent column in which you got an e-mail from a 31-year-old single woman who said she was shy and wanted to know where to go besides bars. Well, I am a 34-year-old single male. Do you guys ever play matchmaker? Could you ask this girl if she has the courage to go on a blind date, or at least talk to someone through e-mail? If so, please get back to me and I will let you know any info you or she may need.
Steve: Steve and Mia don’t play matchmaker because the odds don’t work for us. Most relationships fail, and we’d prefer not to be blamed.
Mia: I second that. Find your own dates. Oh, and all those prisoners and ex-cons out there? Please stop sending me your photos.
Well, I’ll give the Daily News one thing: If you’re going to have an advice column, you might as well make it a mean advice column. “Find your own dates, you ugly SOB!”
Steve and Mia | Her reunion fling spiced up bedroom [Daily News]
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dmac | 3:08 PM | 0 Comments
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May
30
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 NBC 10 recently looked at a question that, surely, many parents must be worried about: When is a good time for your child to start dating?
The gist of the story is that if you don’t do something right this instant, your child will die. One parent says kids shouldn’t date until after high school. More teenage girls get pregnant at four in the afternoon than any other time. Et cetera.
But the key quotation comes from family counseling expert Lynne Marie Boykin, about when a child should start dating:
“Some kids are hot at 12, and some are nerds and just not ready until they are 16, 17. They’re just not ready for dating.”
Gee, I’m sure that makes the nerds feel much better, Lynne.
Is Your Child Ready To Start Dating? [NBC 10]
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dmac | 3:03 PM | 50 Comments
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Jan
30
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• Guess what, single gal? Guys you meet on Craigslist might be 32 and living with their parents in New Jersey! Okay, I guess you might’ve already known that. [Apartment 2024]
• Alas. The Padres signed Mike Piazza to a one-year, $2 million deal to be their catcher. Although the Phillies missed out him, Padres fans are ecstatic about the possibility for the sexiest locker room ever. [Gaslamp Ball via Deadspin]
• An added bonus to Philadelphians getting oil from Hugo Chavez: It possibly pisses off Pat Robertson. [Badminton Stamps]
• The city has signed the Wireless Philadelphia contract, and Northeast Philly is going to be the guinea pig to make sure the system will work. The whole city is supposed to be done by 2007. So get ready to use your wireless laptop on the city’s system in about 2010. [Philly Future]
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dmac | 4:00 PM | 0 Comments
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