I recently became aware of a book by David Deida entitled The Way of the Superior Man. I've skimmed the book and it seems to be very much the sort of things that I would write if I were to compile abook of advice on male-female interaction. As a longtime student of the seduction community,…
Why Online Dating Is Broken: And How We Can Fix It
I have a saying: pretty is ordinary, beauty is common, and true beauty can only be found in the heart. You see, Jennifer Aniston is pretty, Angelina Jolie is pretty. I'll even say that Sofía Vergara is beautiful. But for a woman to attain true beauty in my eyes, she must have a radiant personality.…
Not that there's anything wrong with that
One afternoon, I had the fortune of seeing my friend over a cup of tea. He's a man who takes fifteen minutes to do his hair every morning. He likes to take good care of his skin and is slightly regimentalabout his Clinique three-step skin care program. He loves shiny shoes and spends an inordinate…
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Tale of Selfishness
First of all, I haven't read Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love, the source material of the film by the same name. Having no exposure to the author's own words, I can't comment very much on her personal journey as all I have to speak on is her narrative as presented by the movie. With that…
The first or the third: my struggle with my novel's narrative
Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Han Ong's Fixer Chao, Martin Amis' Money, Bret Easton Ellis' Less Than Zero, The Fuck-Up by Arthur Nersesian and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. These are all influentialnovels to me, perhaps even models for me to study and aspire to. What do they all have in common? What these novels…
