Ren & Stimpy

So I'm cleaning my kitchen and I stumble upon my Ren & Stimpy shirt... decide to wear it to Salsa event today at the Queen Bee. I've seen lots of college kids there, so I figure they'll get it. However, tonight there's a live band, and it's not college kids. It's a bunch of serious Salsa people. And, I have an image of Ren affectionately holding Stimpy prominately displayed across my chest... when I run into a former dance teacher (older guy). He was thinking "what a poor shmuck" as I asked his step daughter to dance. As the dance ended, she said "you've really learned a lot" which is another way of saying "you knew nothing the last time."

Talking to Girls

Probably best to mix it up with: (a) some non-work-related stuff like jewlery and the environment around you and that she does for fun and (b) the "what do you do" question - which probably can come later in the interaction.

Lessons from Pussycat Dolls

After researching the (social/dating) game, I notice how hiphop songs are often stories relating to this field - maybe even insightful or educational. Wait a Minute by the Pussycat Dolls makes good points about the importance of body language for creating attraction (for both men and women). It also describes how attraction typically can't be bought directly with gifts/money - although that may help. Women really want a source of fun, not necessarily money.

Women Desire

Women desire a man who can access any woman - but only chooses one. They require that a man achieve a level of proficiency with picking women up. (Only then do they take interest.) This is like requiring that a house be doused in gasoline and that a match be held but never dropped.

Observation about Purpose of Enthusiasm

ok, so when guys do that thing where they make really obvious, boring, and or exaggerated comments, infused with hyper emotion and inexplicable enthusiasm, it's because most girls respond to that as an ice breaker or emotionally charged entry point of some kind (creating the prospect of further communication later on). i really just though the whole act was retarded, but apparently it is serving a purpose.

Thinking Out Loud

tonight was walking into a seemly vacated room and talking out loud to myself about how it smelt like burnt herbs. some dude addressed me - smoking if i remember correctly. i wonder if he thought i was addressing him. in any case, he seems alright, so it was fortuitous. mainly i'm just intrigued by the idea of walking around thinking out loud and waiting for people to respond. intrigued... but at risk of looking like a mental case, i probably won't try that out much.

Advice to Jaded Romance Movie Characters

(1) Love only lasts like 12-24 months in general:
Enzo Emanuele, Pierluigi Politi, Marika Bianchi, Piercarlo Minoretti, Marco Bertona, Diego Geroldi, Raised plasma nerve growth factor levels associated with early-stage romantic love, Psychoneuroendocrinology, Volume 31, Issue 3, April 2006, Pages 288-294, ISSN 0306-4530, DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2005.09.002.
So don't expect any more.

(2) Humanities professors might be fun to talk to but they typically have affairs with a student, and if not that - possibly become psychotic killers.

(3) Don't send a prostitute to seduce your husband to check his "fidelity." The test is way harder than real life, and you're going to end up with too much info. It's more reasonable to just hire a PI to figure out if he actually is cheating - PI's gladly do this for a living.