A Bad Man in a Bad Place

Upgraded to MT-4.01

I like.

I have a WP blog on a different subject, and while they're very different, MT 4.01 is WAY kicking MT 3.35's ass. Anyone have any suggestions for what I should do with this place now that I've got 4.01 installed?

MT-Blogroll no longer works, it seems, so my blogroll went away. Anyone have suggestions on that one?

Back to your regularly scheduled programming shortly. A very intense few days over here that I haven't fully processed and thus haven't been able to write out. Culminating in two friends both saying "you look miserable, what's wrong?" And they were right. Mostly, however, because I'd had some things rather pent up that I'd finally dealt with.

More on that later. For the moment, I am pleased with this upgrade, it makes me happy.

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I just received word from someone at Skyhorse publishing

Your blog is a fantastic read, and among the greatest sex-related blogs on the web.

Which would be fantastic and make me feel fantastic about this blog except...

well...

that was the only line that seemed genuine, and it only seemed genuine because I'm an egotist. Instead, it was an advertisement asking for me to shill for Girl's new book. Now, I feel like I IM'd with her back in the day, mainly because she's on my IM list, but other than that, she and I haven't really been in the same circles.

I remember seeing Belle's book at B&N not long ago. Make me a little unhappy. Envy, mainly. Also the whole "well, the doors are really off the clubhouse now" moment, but then, that's the same thing that happened to the pickup community when "The Game" came out.

I suppose it means that perhaps I've arrived that I've been asked to mention her book? I have no idea. I wonder if the author of the email actually read this blog or just had some spambot slurp the links from, say, NLP or some other site that links to me and put it that way.

So - here's the way it's going to go down. If you're the author of that email, or Girl herself (whom I have nothing against except minor annoyance at the potential spamming) - and you see this message, drop me a comment or an email. If I see either of those things, I'll be happy to link to your book on amazon, read it, and even review it, as the email won't be spam.

I'll be happy to take a review copy, too, rather than just an email.

If I don't hear from either of you, I'll just assume it's spam and suggest you engage the services of a branding and marketing consultant next time before you spam bloggers.

So. Gauntlet. Floor. Collision. Let's see what develops.

To the rest of you - anyone else get the email?

UPDATE: I reread the email and it asked whether I'd like a free sample. I would. This may be genuine yet. Gives some hope to me.

UPDATE 2: I emailed the offeror at Skyhorse and will see what turns back.

UPDATE 3: I heard back - don't mean to get anyone's blood pressure up - see the comments for both Girl and her marketer's response. Human, not bot. I'm going to get a copy of the book and will review it here. To Girl, and everyone else involved - even if it's a mass mail (and from what Lex says it seems to be) I have no problem with a person looking at my site and sending me the same email he sent someone else. For the record - I take no issue whatsoever with Girl or Erikk, and certainly hope I haven't raised anyone's blood pressure with this post. All's fair in love and book sales.

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Back and exhausted. Haven't slept in five nights. Unfortunately for the blog, all five of the nights were engaged in work rather than play so nothing to report.

I did NOT see The Cuban although we did speak on the phone. I did NOT call Surfette, although I considered it briefly.

So. Once more into the breach lads.

Open question to all of you - the design of this site - any suggestions? I'm considering migrating from MT to WP, any thoughts on that migration?

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I do all of my work on a Macbook core duo - I was kicking myself for getting the macbook instead of the pro because it's so damn slow.

Today I went out and got an extra gig of ram. Now I have two.

That made all the difference, now it doesn't hang between applications. So much better. Quicksilver works. Ecto works. The computer works.

Fantastic.

And in the spirit of this site - what the hell is with the Soho Apple store that the women there are fucking stunning? Every day of the week that I've been there there are stunning women all over. Very strange to me. Not as much at the Fifth Avenue Apple store. Not sure why. Thoughts?

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To all the moms out there that raised us, to the moms raising children on their own, and the moms that we've yet to meet, happy Mothers Day.

I would regale you of stories about hooking up with various mothers today, but I'm celebrating my own mother instead.

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Nothing to report, been out very late lately, but nothing doing on this front.

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The New Yorker came over and took her stuff back just now.

Until now, I think, in my mind, I wasn't sure it was actually over, thought perhaps we were just working things out on our own. Now it seems that we're really through.

Sad.

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Ok, so this new Movable Type rig is going to require a lot of hacking. Yes, I just said that.

More important than that is that there's a lot that should be on my mind but isn't. And i have to deal with that.

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It's been more than two years since I was here. I've upgraded my movable type, and downgraded my life.

I was talking to Chet today about where I'm at. I dated the New Yorker for more than two years. And it didn't work out. Two years and three months later, I'm back on my own again.

I feel like I've stepped backwards in some ways and forward in many others. I'm back here. Don't know what that'll develop into, but it is what it is.

I need some templates and some figuring out of how to use movable type.

And so, freed, I begin to write.

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Not dead, just in a bad place again. Different sort of bad place, and I'm working my way out of it. Can't talk about it much here. Saw Princess for brunch yesterday, which was cool. She's starting to become a bit famous, which makes me happy for her.

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It's been a pleasure writing for you all, but I think it's time to hang up the keyboard and move to another venue. Too much drama, none of it real (or, in the words of lefty bloggers, "Reality Based.") I've actually had incidents where I said "hey, I'll try that weird thing, it'll be good to write about." Which I now feel is not the way to go.

I got out of this site what I set out to get - I got some practice writing, I got a lot of comments, and I got a space to explore and share with you lot. I got ballpark 350 unique people looking at this site every day. That's a whole lot, if you ask me. Considering all I wrote about was running around New York looking for pretty girls to sleep with.

Maybe I'll come back someday. Maybe not. Maybe I'll come back on Tuesday with a revelation saying "Oh god I can't leave you." If you have an RSS reader, you can add this site to it if you want in case I come back.

I doubt it, though.

I'm not looking for an outpouring of support (although after my post about comments bugging me, I got a lot of nice emails, so thanks for those) and I'm not looking to be convinced to blog anymore. As I've said before - when it ceases to be fun, it's time to get out. It's ceased to be fun. I'm getting out.

I will still check the badmanbadplace@gmail.com email address, of course, and I can be reached there for whatever reason. If I start another blog, I'm guessing it won't be a sex blog. Too many other interests. When, during a conversation of weird hobbies, a friend of mine said that my hobby was fucking, I had a moment of aporeia and realized I needed to find other things to do with my life.

There's lots of other great sex blogs out there - I've got a list of them to the right over in my blogroll. Check those out and enjoy them.

I've said all that I wanted to say. Now, I've said enough. Some stories aren't meant to be written. Thanks for reading.
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This week has been strange. I wanted to say that this week has been shit, but it hasn't. It just feels that way.

The fight with The NewYorker? I apologized, and she called me on Wednesday to talk and to say everything is basically fine.

Work is kicking my ass.

And I feel like I'm whining. Probably because I am.

A weird depression settled over me this week. It's been wave after wave of anxiety attack and sadness. Nothing I'm aware of is triggering it in particular. It's been very odd.

On the plus side, I just won $20 on a $5 instant win card.
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I'm tired and super busy these days, and not with anything fun.

So - open thread - talk amongst yourselves.

Topic: quickest time between meeting someone and finding yourself in bed with that person. (Doesn't have to involve sex, but should involve at least making out and heavy petting).

Mine was a little less than four hours - first date was at my apartment, met the girl via Friendster, and we had a few drinks at my kitchen table and then rapidly fell into bed together. Now you. Juicy details of how you seduced/were seduced would be appreciated, best ones will be blockquoted to the frontpage.
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I think I have discovered a secret to making your cum taste better. Maybe it was just a secret to me, maybe it's a mystery for the ages. For the last many months, I've been surprised to hear women tell me that my cum tastes "sweet." Now, I'm not a smoker, but I'm a red meat eater, and that's one of the things that, traditionally at least, causes nasty tasting cum.

The secret, I believe, is in Starbucks.

I've been drinking their Peppermint Mocha for the last few months, and ever since I started, the women in my life have all commented that my cum tastes sweet, and alternatively, minty. How the peppermint gets from my stomach to my cum is a question I leave the organic chemists, I probably don't want to know. Hopefully, it's not simultaneously sterilizing me.

I have no scientific evidence for this. I may just be a sweet-cum factory. It may be something else entirely, but certainly these pieces fit together logically.

So, boys, I suggest you try this for a week and ask your girlfriends and wives about the taste. Ladies, I suggest you surprise your men with them at breakfast.

And of course, report back to me with your results.
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