Posted in Dating, Game, The Big City Life on Jul 19th, 2007
First dates should almost always be simple affairs over drinks or tea. No dinners, no nights out on the town, no extravagant expenditures. You want to keep expectations at bay and create a comfortable zone of unzipped-lipped, nimble-tongued, playful jive. The two of you are reading each other like schematics to the bank vault and external logistics only … Read more
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in eight fab steps. Identify your target demographic. 2. Dress the part. 3. Frequent your designated list of certified hip venues. Do not commit social hara-kari by showing up to the same place twice in one week. 4. Take pics of yourself having fun in certified hip venues. Hold camera steady at arm’s length or … Read more
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Posted in Game, The Big City Life on Jul 13th, 2007
The next time you hear a guy talk about the favorable female to male ratio in DC, show them this: wingmans anonymous meeting From a quick head count it looks like the men outnumber the women 3 to 1 in this picture. I’d say this scene is representative of the majority of DC singles bars on any … Read more
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Posted in Girls, The Big City Life on Jul 11th, 2007
Player or Poseur gave me many minutes of quality entertainment, so in homage to that theme here’s something similar I call Girlfriend or Fling. Examine the photo and figure out by superficial judgement alone if the girl(s) featured would make girlfriend material or good time material. Does she look like the type of girl you could trust to … Read more
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Posted in Culture, The Big City Life on Jun 26th, 2007
The Washington City Paper has an article about DC’s eligible bachelors — the guys who catcall women on the street. Of course, it’s not the catcalling (or the flirting or the leering or whatever) that’s the problem; it’s who’s doing it. If [insert favorite male actor/rockstar] were to Ay, Mami! women in the bar or … Read more
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Posted in Culture, Game, The Big City Life on Jun 18th, 2007
…for straight men. It’s not usually what guys think of when they’re choosing happy hunting grounds, but the gay bar has many advantages going for it that the typical hetero bar does not. The key is to limit your forays to the dainty side to informally gay bars. These are the establishments that don’t attempt to skirt … Read more
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