Là où sont les menottes

After a glorious dinner at a brilliant French establishment with a charming friend (to whom I said, and I quote “I totally eat healthy when I get home in the evenings, what’s the deal with stagnant poundage”) I went to Whole Foods to pick up apples & blueberries and inevitably left with apples, blueberries and [...]

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Go 9

Name: Mark
Age: 32
Height: 6’
Bar Locale: West Village (note: when navigating the ‘off-the-grid’ sector of town in evening hours provide an ample cushion of time in which to circle aimlessly in a lost and disoriented fashion).
A note on food: Typically these dates are beverage only affairs (see Nugget commentary) however this turned into a meal production.  [...]

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Go 8

Name: Kyle
Age:  31
Height: 5’10 – Disregarded my Nugget avoidance policy due to his initial email, “So how important to you is that 6’ height requirement?  I’m only 5’10 but I suppose I could get myself a pair of platform shoes if that would make a difference.”  Acknowledgement of the problem is noble and bone-throw-worthy.  Also in [...]

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The BYOH (Bring Your Own Hookup) Holiday…or not.

As has been established I am big on male recycling.  The next step in going green a la pene is the extended European vacation with the former hookup.
The perks to planning a vacation with a former flame are guaranteed fun, sun & sex.  The BYOH strategy is glorious in that it eliminates the need to [...]

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The match strikes again

A fortuitous facet of a pretty city as populated as New York is the unlikely probability that you will ever again run into a match.com date gone lame.  This, in addition to ample sized bagels and an ever-expanding frozen yogurt market is a prevalent residential rationale when opting metro over flyover state. 
After a particularly fruitless [...]

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A prelude to my evening: When in doubt, recycle it out

I believe in being green in all facets of life, and in reusing natural resources – e.g. man bits.  This is particularly true in large metropolitan areas such as NYC where the supply of viable man bits is limited.  To work with such confines I am sure to stay buddies with the majority of my [...]

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Go 7

Name: Tom
Programmed in phone as: Tom NYC
Age: 37 (Note. Dating is a numbers game and traditionally should only involve men 5-10 years older than ones self. Howevs, see height below).
Height: 6’5. Each additional inch over 6’ compensates my brief and recent history in Nugget dating.
Origins: Texas. Save a horse, yo.
Bar Locale: The billiards & pool [...]

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