<![CDATA[Gawker: eric schaeffer]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: eric schaeffer]]> http://gawker.com/tag/eric schaeffer http://gawker.com/tag/eric schaeffer <![CDATA[ Eric Schaeffer is Back and Looking for Tranny Action ]]> SingleProto-douche and I Can't Believe I'm Still Single author Eric Shaeffer is back to annoy us all with his blog. When a reader wrote in, "The reason you can't find a girl is on account of getting fucked in the ass by doms," Schaeffer offered this response: "The joys of giving over are obvious and plentiful to those of us straight guys who dabble. For those of you who don't or wish to judge, you might want to get your facts straight so you don't poison the world with anymore bullshit. We have way to much contaminating us already." Oh, and for those of you that aren't sure just who is and who is not engaging in hot trans-actional funtimes, Schaeffer explains it to you after the jump.

In general, gay men don't want to fuck trannies.

In general, gay men don't want to get fucked by doms wearing strap ons.

In general, gay guys... like to fuck other gay guys.

In general, women, gay or straight, don't want to fuck trannies.

In general, women, gay or straight, don't want to get fucked in the ass by doms wearing strap ons. (Obviously lesbians have a slightly higher proclivity of course but that's mainly in their pussies, not in their asses.)

In general, bi sexual guys like real cocks when they fuck guys and therefore don't go in for doms, some for trannies but less so than good ole regular gay guys.

So that leaves one kind of people who are the NUMBER ONE GROUP INTERESTED in FUCKING OR GETTING FUCKED BY TRANNIES AND GETTING FUCKED IN THE ASS BY DOMS... wait for it... STRAIGHT MEN. [Eric's dumb blog]
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Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:09:17 EDT ian spiegelman http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5020518&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Nightmare Online Dater John Fitzgerald Page Is The Worst Person In The World ]]> Hey, remember that wannabe i-banker douchebag Alexsey Vayner and his insanely braggy resume video? Do you recall Eric Schaeffer, the failed writer/director who hates women and blogs about how he can't believe he's still single? Well, what if they met and married and through some breakthrough in medical science had a baby? He would probably grow up to be something along the lines of Atlanta's John Fitzgerald Page, who in addition to working in corporate finance, being a part-time trainer, and being available for work as a "costumed character" or a "stand-in," also somehow finds the time in his day to be a colossal, mindbogglingly douchey douchebag to girls he meets on Match.com!

We are given to understand (hey, who makes this kind of shit up?) that the following email correspondence took place between John and some lady. "So I winked at this guy on Match. Should have known better considering his screen name was "IvyLeagueAlum." He responds with the following email...

I live in a 31 story high rise condominium, right in the middle of the Buckhead nightlife district. Do you ever come to this area of town to shop/go out/visit/explore?

I went to an Ivy League school - the University of Pennsylvania - for my undergraduate degree in economics and my graduate degree in management (Wharton School of Business). Where did you go to school?

What activities do you currently participate in to stay in shape? I work out 4 times a week at LA Fitness. Do you exercise regularly? I am 6 feet tall, 185 pounds - what about yourself? I am truly sorry if that sounds rude, impolite or even downright crass, but I have been deceived before by inaccurate representations so I prefer someone be upfront and honest on initial contact...

I do mergers & acquisitions (corporate finance) for Limited Brands (Bath & Body Works, Victoria's Secret, etc). Enjoy any of our stores/divisions?

Do you have any other recent pictures you care to share? I have many others if you care to see them.

Regards,

John
[email redacted]

"So," the lady writes, "I in turn send him a polite "No Thanks" thru the Match system which sends him the following email: 'Thanks for writing to me, but unfortunately, we're just not a good match. Good luck in your search! Our Portraits didn't match on: A. Personality'" A spurned and brokenhearted John wrote back, less robotically but no less douchily.
I think you forgot how this works. You hit on me, and therefore have to impress ME and pass MY criteria and standards - not vice versa. 6 pictures of just your head and your inability to answer a simple question lets me know one thing. You are not in shape. I am a trainer on the side, in fact, I am heading to the gym in 26 minutes!

So next time you meet a guy of my caliber, instead of trying to turn it around, just get to the gym! I will even give you one free training session, so you don't blow it with the next 8.9 on Hot or Not, Ivy League grad, Mensa member, can bench/squat/leg press over 1200 lbs., has had lunch with the secretary of defense, has an MBA from the top school in the country, lives in a Buckhead high rise, drives a Beemer convertible, has been in 14 major motion pictures, was in Jezebel's Best dressed, etc. Oh, that is right, there aren't any more of those!


Regards,

John

There ... aren't? Are you absolutely sure? We're still hiding, just in case. ]]>
Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:50:09 EDT Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=309684&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Eric Schaeffer Is In Chicago; New York's Women Breathe Easy ]]> singleEric Schaeffer, the world's worst man, the man who cannot understand why no woman will marry him, the jerkiest jerk in jerk town, is on his book tour to support his opus, "I Can't Believe I'm Still Single"! Our Special Correspondent For Sexy Midwest Trends report things are going poorly: "I just walked through the Barnes and Noble on the first floor of my office building in Chicago (it's the DePaul University book store) and Eric Schaeffer had just finished reading to a group of about ten people next to the revolving doors. I noticed one large-breasted, blonde gal (very fake looking) and a ton of dudes who looked exactly like him. It looked like a really awkward event." Hey, by the way, have you ever looked at his book's page on Amazon?

amazon

HEH.

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Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:15:58 EDT Choire http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=303545&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Total Freak: "Eric Schaeffer Is A Perfectly Normal And Acceptable Date" ]]> singlePublicist Kelly Kreth had long fantasized about boning the author of I Can't Believe I'm Still Single, noted emosogynist perv Eric Schaeffer. So it's really no surprise that, when she finally managed to cram herself into his busy dating schedule, she found him charming. Another thing you should know about Kelly is that her idea of third-date banter is "If you gag and vomit I will force you to lick it up."

Yes, it seems that Kelly and Eric actually had a lot in common!

His particular fascination with excretions spoke to me. Being a woman who is no stranger to poop stories, having published a few of my own on Poopreport.com, I imagined Eric and I someday falling love, showing each other our bowel movements—the most intimate of acts in my estimation. I got butterflies just thinking about it.
So why on earth are these two crazy (really! CRAZY!) kids not settling down in some Jersey bungalow with a basement full of sex toys and scat porn right about now?
While we went out a few more times after that, he was busy and then left on his nationwide book tour for nearly a month and while out of town began filming his documentary. I was busy, too, working, and still into someone else I had dated whom I just couldn't quite forget...Eric and my relationship morphed into more of a friendship and professional one. We settled into infrequent communications referencing less piss and more prose. I know the details may seem murky, but modern relationships seem to be more and more that way these days—watercolors that bleed into each other with no distinct end.
Watercolors! Gah. God, think of what terrible writers Kelly and Eric's children would have been! Anyway, Kelly closes by reminding us that, considering what else is out there for the single ladies of NYC, Eric Schaeffer is a relative catch.
I have gone out with a man who brought his pit bull on a date and proceeded to drink a beer he stole from the Korean deli on the street. I dated a man who told me I had a pole so far up my ass that it was coming out of my throat. I dated a man who tried to pick up a 15-year-old and proudly told me he had fucked his Trinidadian, herpes-ridden bisexual secretary over the copy machine.
Actually, Kelly, we would rather date any of those dudes than Eric Schaeffer. Fuck, we'd rather date the pit bull.

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Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:20:14 EDT Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=301844&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Yoga Classes Are Full Of Sleazy Eric Schaeffers ]]> yoga.jpgThe article in the Times today about "inappropriate yoga guys," as immortalized in one of the funniest YouTube videos we've ever seen (seriously, watch it and see if you don't spit out your coffee when he does that Ujjayi breath), rips off all our blinders and reveals the shocking seamy underbelly of the yoga world. Just kidding, nothing in it will particularly shock any lady who has ever a) taken a yoga class that wasn't women's or prenatal or b) familiarized herself with the work of Gawker bete noire Eric Schaeffer, who prowls gyms looking for spandex-clad ladies at their most vulnerable. But we wonder if even he has pulled some of the heinous stunts described in this article.

Other men are even bolder. Stephanie King, 40, a jewelry designer who practices yoga five times a week in Los Angeles, said she has had cringe-worthy encounters during her 20 years of practice. In one instance, a fellow regular Ms. King had met in passing approached her after a power yoga class and asked if she had enjoyed her practice. She had. Then, apropos of nothing, he asked if she wanted to be his lover.

Ms. King calmly told the man she would think about it. After a particularly intense practice, it can take a moment to regroup and get your social bearings. But once at her car, she called him and said, "I just want to let you know that I'm going to pass on being your lover."

Dude was probably like, Namaste for your honesty.

Between Poses, A Barrage Of Pick Up Lines
[NYT]

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Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:40:01 EDT Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=292713&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Eric Schaeffer's Mindrape '07 Tour To Be A Documentary! ]]> eric.jpg Remember Eric Schaeffer, the eating-disordered emosogynist who can't believe he's still single? You know, the guy we used to think was the most immature scary-deluded narcissist we'd ever encountered before we met Robert Olen Butler? Well, we had him on ignore for a while, which means we missed this SuicideGirls interview a few weeks ago. "I'm on the hunt bad," he tells Erin Broadley, who characterizes his memoir, which is partly about getting blow jobs from hookers, as "a personal and illuminating work that never shies from being up front and honest about looking for romance in a decidedly less and less romantic world." Okay! Anyway, that's not all our Eric has to say for himself.

ES: I'm doing a national book tour that I'm actually going to film and make a documentary out of. Basically like, "Eric Schaeffer: I Can't Believe I'm Still Single from Portland to Portland." I have a friend that's going to get married in Portland, Maine at the end of the month so this documentary is going to be me having dates in almost every city while I'm doing this tour about a book that is about me still being single. EB: Like a self-referential experiment? ES: Exactly. It's about the whole nature of singledom, how people get hooked up, chemistry, whether they're happy and why they're not. I'll end up in Portland, Maine at this wedding where there will be a girl that I've always had a crush on. So that'll be the bookend.
We can unequivocally say that we would rather watch a reality show called "Who Wants To Poke Their Eye Out With A Stick For $10K!" Much rather. So, um, Eric! Any thoughts on why, after a year of actively and abjectly and publicly hinging your entire image on wanting to get married, you're still completely single and not even dating anyone on a regular?
Somehow when you say what everyone else is thinking, people recoil. I wish more people would come out of the woodwork with friends to hook me up with. That's what I don't understand. I get a certain amount of letters from girls saying, "Hey I think you're cool. I definitely want to go out with you." But I thought there'd be more after this book. Maybe people are shy.
Or maybe not every woman is completely insane.

I Can't Believe I'm Still Single: An Interview With Eric Schaeffer [SG]

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Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:30:02 EDT Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=286355&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Eric Schaeffer's "Rape America's Mind" Tour '07! ]]> the myspaceBeginning next week in San Diego, and ending in October in New Haven, literary mastermind, yoga practitioner and extremely tiny and single ball of hatred Eric Schaeffer will be on book tour! As we know from experience, his readings are just something to see. So whether you live in Mendocino or Boise, you too can lose your dignity listening to the misguided pit of sadness that is Eric's hatred of women and self. Also! Eric's MySpace has a question for you! It is: "Have Your Bought The Book Yet?" Actually, no, mine hasn't, honey, but maybe their has?

The Still Single Book Tour [MySpace]

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Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:00:07 EDT Choire http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=280128&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ The Return Of The Bareback Top ]]> Everyone's least favorite yet most intriguing blogger retired in late February. And now he's back! Keep your eyes on the skies, and the Craigslists and the Manhunts. And beware, future rapees of New York.

My return... [Confessions of a Bareback Top]

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Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:13:46 EDT Choire http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=266834&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Our Specialty Is Consumption. Our Subspecialty Is Diptheria. ]]>
  • We took one last look at the Look Book.
  • We overheard the Times' Bill Keller telling his minions to "fake it till you make it."
  • We got a new snotty little sister who's always borrowing our makeup without asking.
  • We watched Rosie and Elisabeth resolve the war in Iraq.
  • We bathed in Tom Ford's musk.
  • We put the whole sorry Peter Braunstein mess behind us.
  • We tried to put the whole sorry Eric Schaeffer mess behind us. Again.
  • But not before we found him a dream date.

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    Fri, 25 May 2007 15:00:45 EDT Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=263665&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Eric Schaeffer Is "Just Friends" With Judith Regan ]]> judith_regan.jpg From Jason Gordon, the Williamsburg-based online marketing specialist who Eric Schaeffer has retained to help promote his book, comes this email:
    Here is an official response, approved by Eric Schaeffer, author of I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M STILL SINGLE: Regarding the Gawker.com post "Did Judith Regan Intercourse With Eric Schaeffer?", the answer is no. Eric Schaeffer appeared on Judith Regan's television show a couple of years ago and almost signed a book deal with her. While he is fond of her and finds her very sexy, he never had anything other than a professional relationship with her. The blowjob came from another publishing house.
    Eric Schaeffer finds Judith Regan "very sexy!" Will wonders never cease?

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    Wed, 23 May 2007 18:08:05 EDT Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=263039&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Did Judith Regan Intercourse With Eric Schaeffer? ]]> ericmatch.jpegSo Eric Schaeffer's making the rounds, promoting his book, and his interview with Nerve is mostly nothing new. "I've been in therapy for years. My spiritual path has been one of self-reflection," and "It's hard to find really smart, funny women who are confident and have a job or an aspiration that's inspiring to me," and "Special-massage girls will give you love because it's just the nature of who they are and what they're doing." But then there's this: "I ended a book deal from a major publisher in New York because the woman who runs the publishing company, when my dick was in her mouth, had her checkbook out and said, "I will buy your book now." Come again? (Or please, please, never come again, but, you know, clarify?)

    We went on a second date, and she said, "I want to have a baby in a year and a half," and I said I don't want to have babies for five years. I risked that deal going away. And so I said, "I guess we can't date." And the book deal went away. Surprise, surprise.
    Ok, deep breaths all around. Eric Schaeffer is famous for lying. This so probably did not happen! But if it did, there's only one lady we can think of who'd be nutty enough to read Eric's book proposal and then want to breed with him. Just sayin'. Whipping Boy [Nerve] ]]>
    Wed, 23 May 2007 12:38:37 EDT Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=262855&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Meeting Eric Schaeffer ]]> single.jpgFor most of his reading at the Chelsea Barnes & Noble last night, I Can't Believe I'm Still Single author Eric Schaeffer was in his charming first-date mode, all bashful grins and 'aw-shucks, little old screenwriter me? Did I mention I dated Molly Ringwald once?' But occasionally, Eric would get to the clause in one of his run-on sentences that contained a zinger. He'd narrow his eyes and shoot a barbed insult at a pathetic divorced fattie whose life had been brightened when he'd viewed her Nerve profile, or he'd diss a dirty whore who'd had the gall to waste Eric's dating time by not being upfront about her oral herpes, and it would hit you: This guy really hates women. It's not a joke. This is a sociopath who preys on the dating desperation of aging New York ladies and then writes delusional screeds about them in order to feel better about himself. This guy is a Peter Braunstein who hasn't snapped... yet. The audience for Eric's reading was full of women. After all, who hates women more than women do?

    The Barnes & Noble was packed, and not everyone there was a friend or relative of Eric's. "I think I only know about half of you!" he exclaimed on arrival. He shuffled up to the lectern, sweaty and red-faced in a plain white t-shirt. "We're just going to hang for five minutes, give some bridge and tunnel people time to get here," he explained, then quasiapologized, "I hate making people wait."

    My fellow audience members took the opportunity to chat while they waited. The largish ladies to my right were discussing a recent outing to DSW, but I was more interested in the couple to my left. For starters, they were a couple. Was this like a date for them, I wondered? "Well, we've been married for a while, but I guess it still counts as a date," said the 30ish man half of the couple, who was very redolent of cigarette smoke. "Actually, Eric's movie Fall was one of our first dates. We've been fans ever since."

    "So do you just like his movies, or have you read his blog?" I asked. The man hadn't, but his wife had: "No, I don't think he's creepy. I think he's just being honest." Unfortunately, the beginning of the reading precluded my getting to know those crazy (really! crazy!) kids any better.

    Highlights of the reading:

    "I like Jewish women. They're smart, attractive, and straightforward."

    A bit about how he thought a rural, overweight woman would be overcome with joy that a "semi-cute, marginally-famous New Yorker" had viewed her Nerve profile.

    A bit about his love of America's Next Top Model (Noooo!) which, he explained, is an outgrowth of men's primordial desire to "bash a woman on the head and drag her back to his cave."

    It is not.

    Eric wanted to make the reading "fun" for us, so he gave us a choice: After he'd read two chapters from his book, one about his fear of herpes and another about his quest to become #1 on Nerve, he asked for a show of hands as to who wanted more stories and who wanted a Q&A. I was the only person who raised my hand for a Q&A, and was thanked by Eric for my honesty. I sneaked out seconds later. I had personally interacted with Eric Schaeffer, and I was going to have to live with that forever.

    Earlier: Eric Schaeffer

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    Tue, 22 May 2007 12:00:30 EDT Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=262492&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Eric Schaeffer's Book Party Is Tonight ]]> Click through for our Kommunity Kalendar. If you've got anything you think our readers might enjoy, or might mock in a way that is advantageous for you or you just want to talk, email josh@gawker.com.

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    Mon, 21 May 2007 17:25:09 EDT Joshua Stein http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=262283&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Eric Schaeffer Skeeves Rebecca Traister in 'Salon' ]]> erictomatoes.jpgEric Schaeffer. Ugh! We almost can't even type the words. We're being serious and real right now: Eric Schaeffer represents the worst in men. He is every dick who's ever mistaken the fact that we were getting paid to serve him cocktails for "ooh, she wants me." He is every predatory asshole who has ever offered us a backrub when we were too young and dumb to understand how drunk we were. And, perhaps most importantly, Eric Schaeffer is the world's best argument for women's-only yoga classes. We were seriously, seriously never going to write about him again, but then Salon's ladyist-beat reporter Rebecca Traister sat down with the man, the myth, the internet-fame radar-blip and asked him about "the Gawker thing." It went sort of like this:

    On how it all began:

    All kids who are 6 are rubbing it somewhere. If you as a parent don't think yours are, you are in abject denial.
    But actual sex with family members is a big leap from rubbing it somewhere.

    You mean actually sticking it in for two seconds and having her run and tell her mother that this isn't a good game anymore?
    Whoa, that's a whole other level...
    We were both 6, so it wasn't like that. We played Mommy and Daddy. We were both kissing. And then it got stuck in and then ... you know, I fucked my little guy friends when I was 6!
    I read that you peed on your guy friends at 6, but did you have sex with them too?
    Yes.
    Were you the top?
    I was both top and bottom. These were friends! We would crawl under the covers and play bat cave and somehow a dick would end up in someone's ass. [Laughter]
    On white women's sexual hangups:
    Women tend to do this thing — white women, not black women. But white women do this thing where they'll clearly be sending all these vibes and then when you approach them they'll look at you like they never fucking heard of you. That's frustrating and makes me feel like an asshole. Because I'm not wrong. They weren't looking at the clock over my head. They were sending vibes.
    On "narcissism":
    A narcissist is a person with an out-of-control ego with an inferiority complex. I'm certainly not the first — only self-regard at the expense of everyone else. I don't know what your experience of me for the last few hours is, but ... do I seem like that? Like I'm just trying to blow smoke up your ass because you're writing an article about me? "Self-absorbed" might be the term, though I don't like it, that I'm more willing to claim.
    Self-absorbed is a lot closer to how I think of a narcissist — someone for whom everything is in some way a reflection of themselves, the kind of person whose every act of kindness is actually a moment at which to think of themselves in a good light.

    I don't think anyone else in the world thinks that's what narcissism is.
    Phew. We've officially gotten the Eric thing out of our system, we think. Related: Mom? We're a lesbian now. Really.

    Eric Schaeffer Wants To Marry You
    [Salon]

    Earlier: Gawker's Coverage of Eric Schaeffer

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    Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:50:00 EST Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=234971&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Match.com: Now Targeting the Lego Demographic ]]> Perhaps this means that Match is now targeting a younger—much younger—demographic. In any case, these new ads can only be good news for our friend Eric Schaeffer.

    Match.com Says Love's for Everybody, Even You
    [Adrants]

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    Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:20:53 EST Doree Shafrir http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=233688&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ The Cool Kid ]]> ericmatch.jpegDaily, we check to see how many people have read our blog. Whether it's growing, ebbing, flowing... It consistently grows a little every week in its readership, which is great. The other day the number suddenly spiked, like, a bazillion percent. Like many thousands of people above the usual number. We imed the tech people at Gawker Media who run the site and asked if maybe the counter was broken. They informed us that no, it was working fine and that maybe we had been posting lately about something that had gotten people really riled up. We weren't really sure what they meant. We turn on the computer; write a few posts about Radar and how Cindy Adams is senile, check our RSS feeds, answer our hatemail, and we're done. You know, the minimal.

    So then we got a couple emails from friends asking us if we were okay about this "Eric Schaeffer thing." We really had no clue why people were reacting so strongly to the "Eric Schaeffer thing" was but we deduced from these emails that posting excerpts from his loony ramblings had created this 10,000 percent increase in our fans. We were so grateful and excited that Eric Schaeffer had made it so easy for us to get so much mileage out of such chip-shot posts. We didn't really have time to put a ton of effort into them, you know, because we only ever have about twenty minutes to work on anything, but honestly, with someone like Eric Schaeffer, a long blockquote of his own writing is a better example of what's wrong with him than any kind of analysis on our part could ever be. Besides, people will still be reading Gawker long after the small, sad, scared failed screenwriters who spew hate because they can't get laid except by their fellow scary Nerve personals users either for lack of talent or gumption, have been forgotten; not that Eric Schaeffer is among this crowd, you know, we're just sayin... So we just went on about our day enjoying the nice feeling that some stranger had performed this mitzvoth on our behalf.

    For a week our website kept climbing and climbing. Amazing letters were pouring in from all the women who have ever been completely skeeved by their dates with Eric Schaeffer. It was amazing. Day after day.

    Thank you Eric Schaeffer. We love you. Man, how great. So we went to Eric's blog today to find out how he felt about our writing about him. Apparently he felt too hurt to contact us personally and had written on his blog to share some of his pain.

    Guys, we were sooooooooooooo disappointed. We know that Eric Schaeffer is trying his hardest to be interesting, funny, smart — he certainly states often enough that he is! — but he is none of those things. He was trying his best to be snarky and mean but he was so banal and sophomoric and uncreative about it it made us embarrassed for him. We mean the biggest reviewers in the world writing for the most important papers in the world have taken their best shots at Gawker over the years, and while misguided and like all hate gossip obvious declarations of their own self hate, at least they were well written. Eric's vindictive rant was just so, seventh grade... but then we realized, he must actually be some kind of seventh grade school paper that a school put up on the internet. So these people writing, and the readers writing in were actually little seventh graders — after all, we've established that Eric is a pedophile! — and then we weren't as disappointed. We mean, we'd hoped that they'd have better taste than to go for Eric, but maybe he offered them some really good candy.

    And then it made sense why Eric had written an incredibly long rant on his blog, deciding it best to express his feelings in that forum, a seventh grade news letter, rather than express whatever feelings they had directly to us, you know, like an adult. He felt more comfortable in their element.

    Although we weren't as disappointed in Eric now that we realized he could purposely misinterpret us and call us out for being homophobic, anti-gay children. That actually concerned us very much.

    What he did make clear by writing a super long rant on his blog was that he is obsessed with us. And since we do want to help him be happy and free, we want to give him the gift of the truth straight from our mouth. We know it will make his day, so kind of like The Make A Wish Foundation granting gifts for emotionally and mentally handicapped kids, we thought we would clear up a few things for Eric, who can't get enough of us.

    To keep it short and sweet. Eric, you doth protest too much. Just too fucking much huh? Like on and on and on and on protesting? Yeah, you really really really think we're anti-gay and sophomoric blah bede blah blah. Couldn't be that your feelings were hurt because we didn't like you, could it? Doh! Na. You just want to help the public to an informed opinion about just how much you weren't into Gawker.

    Eric, we're sorry we don't like you. Really we are. We wish you had the grace and dignity and respect not to lie about your millions of fans worldwide, which, to some extent, you know you did.

    But the most important thing at this juncture is that we forgive you all for all of your transgressions. And as proof, here's our olive branch, Eric. Just so you know we're sincere. We want to give you a really really serious gift in hopes that we can make up and better understand each other and in doing so, we can help make your life happier and freer.

    What we're about to say is the deepest. It won't ever get any deeper. So take a deep breath. Sit down. Prepare. We didn't make it up. People have been offering it up since the beginning of time in different ways but it's always the same message. And we want to share it with you in a language you can understand.

    For those of you who are already down with its premise, or even more so, down with it in your heart, (meaning all our faithful readers) it won't come as any surprise and you'll get chills. It's unavoidable. It's staring into the face of God (whatever that means to you as long as it's a loving and abundant conception. And for you atheists, you're not left out of this party either, not by a long shot, it's the secret to your euphoric experience here in this lifetime even though the earthly experience is the be all and end all for you. The effects are equally as beautiful.)

    It's a motherfucker. It's gonna fuck your shit up big time.

    Ready? Really ready? Here it is.

    We are you.

    OH SHIT!!!! THAT'S RIGHT!! NO WAY!!!!

    We... are... you.

    In every way. All the time. Without fail.

    Anything you think, feel, say about us... is how you think, feel and speak about yourself. I know it's a little confusing so let us break it down and make it reeeeeeeeeeeeally simple.

    If you were to say, something like, oh I don't know, "Gawker is anti-gay" What you're really saying is, "I'm anti-gay."

    If you were to saying something like, "Gawker editors are small, sad, scared writers who spew hate because they can't get a job either for lack of talent or gumption" What you're really saying is "I'm a small, sad, scared writer who spews hate because I can't get a job either for lack of talent or gumption."

    Ahhh yes, now you're catching on... I knew you would. Yeah, it's a bitch isn't it.

    Namaste,

    Gawker

    The Cool Kids [I Can't Believe I'm Still Single]

    Earlier: Eric Schaeffer Gets A Taste of His Own Meds

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    Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:48:00 EST Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=232888&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Eric Schaeffer Gets A Taste of His Own Meds ]]> sandi.jpg Aaaand . . . it gets weirder. While we've being doing our best to avert our eyes from the endless trainwreck spooling out in slow-motion that is Eric Schaeffer's internet-documented life, someone's been doing the opposite. Meet Sandi. She's Eric Schaeffer's stalker.
    I admit it, I'm insane. But after I saw his movie "Fall" in 1997, I was a little obsessed with him. I thought his craziness was kind of charming. And when I read his blog, none of it really surprised me. It all seemed sort of....earnest. I liked that there was actually a guy in New York City looking for a wife. I keep getting guys who want to cheat on their girlfriends with me.
    Ugh, we hate that! We totally see where Sandi was coming from, and we read about her attempts to get closer to Eric with great interest. Unfortunately, though, she failed to meet choosy ol' Eric's stringent criteria. The email he sent to Sandi, rebuffing her advances, is after the jump.

    Hey Sandi, no I wasn't just being nice. I would have been up for chatting or getting a coffee but I'm a recovering alcoholic for many years and the whole drinking thing is a dealbreaker for me. I'm glad you're taking steps to deal with it but if you've been "detoxing" on and off and are still a "light" drinker that sound sketchy to me, like you're still in denial about the role booze plays in your life. I may be wrong. Only you can know for sure, but I would suggest not drinking at all and checking out some AA meetings and see what you think. Namaste, e
    We were thinking about this some more, and we realized that of all the obnoxious, clueless, occasionally genuinely deranged-seeming things we know Eric to have said, done, and blogged about, in our mind, his worst crime remains signing his emails "Namaste." Seriously, there better be a special ring of hell where people who use "Namaste" to close any social interaction (except maybe an actual yoga class, but even that is pushing it) are forced to stand in Utthita Trikonasana until the end of time.

    Earlier:Eric Schaeffer Thinks You're Asking For It

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    Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:45:00 EST Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=232811&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Eric Schaeffer Thinks You're Asking For It ]]> ericnerver.jpg Love is all about making sacrifices. We love you, and that's why we subjected ourselves to a brief skim through an advance copy of Eric Schaeffer's magnum opus, I Can't Believe I'm Still Single. Yes, the book. Yes, Eric Schaeffer has a book. DON'T BUY IT. Seriously, don't! You wouldn't buy, like, a coat made from the skins of Guatemalan infants, would you? Well, buying Eric Schaeffer's book would be sort of like that, ethically, only worse. And besides, since we're excerpting some of the ickiest bits after the jump, you totally won't have to.

    Eric Schaeffer vets a date by feeling her out on the touchy subject of child-rape:

    "So you're saying I'm not allowed to rape that," I said dryly but
    since I'm not the Antichrist, obviously joking.
    "I understand what you're saying. I mean, the hot pants, halter top,
    and makeup do make her look thirty instead of thirteen," April said
    with a breeziness that boded extremely well for our chances,
    like-minded non-PC comic sensibilities being crucial . . . and a lack
    of sexual abuse in her past.
    "But no. You're not allowed to rape that."
    She passed the test . . . Or had she? I needed to be sure, so I
    burrowed softly.
    "I mean, where's her father when she's getting into that outfit?" I
    said with earnest condemnation.
    "Dressing her in it. After he's raped her." She wasn't joking.
    Serious trouble.
    More of Eric Schaeffer's thoughts on rape:
    I mean we're men. We're wired to see a woman, smash her on the head
    with a bone, drag her unconscious body back to our apartment by the
    hair, and fuck her. I think you all should give us a break and, in
    fact, a little credit. We have successfully bucked that arcane
    evolutionary desire and have replaced it with the infinitely more
    civilized hour of ANTM every week. I think we've come a long way baby.
    Wait, he likes ANTM? Did we just sort of sympathize with him for a second? Ugh. We're chalking that one up to, like, Stockholm syndrome.

    Earlier:
    When Eric Schaeffer Thinks About You, He . . . Sorry.

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    Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:30:00 EST Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=232599&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ When Eric Schaeffer Thinks About You, He . . . Sorry. ]]> ericmatch.jpeg Okay, okay, just this one last post about dating-challenged doucheblogger Eric Schaeffer, and then we're quitting, forever. Really. After this, we'll just turn it over to the grassroots groups that have emerged — they have single ladies' best interests and not book publicity in mind, we desperately hope. So herewith, after the jump, is the last "I dated Eric Schaeffer" email you'll get from us. Warning: the words "making love" are involved.

    I can't resist sending in my own "Eric" experience... I went to a uh, "dating event", with a girlfriend (okay, it was speed-dating... I had a boyfriend at the time, but a girl friend of mine pleaded for my support, so I gamely went along). He approached me before the event and said, "I know you... do you know how?" I'd never seen him before in my life, so I said no; do we go to the same gym or something? He then said he'd seen me at a certain downtown meeting (yes, I am 12-stepper too) and always thought I was "hot". He wanted me to leave with him and go have coffee; I explained that I'd promised to stay with my friend & maybe we'd chat after the event was over. Of course, he was first at my little table... we had to fill out a questionnaire & one question was "Why are you here?" with answers ranging from "For a laugh" to "I want to get married and have babies". Guess which answer Eric picked? Yep, marriage. Also, he'd lied about his age to get into this event, which required everyone be less than forty years old.

    Anyway, he was kind of funny and intelligent, so we did end up checking each other's names off the list that told the organizers that they could share our e-mail addresses with any guys we liked. Eric e-mailed me immediately and we went back and forth a few days, doing a little more get to know you type conversation. The two things that made me end the correspondence were: he gave me a few compliments, then demanded I tell him something equally flattering about him because he needed to feel attractive too (I couldn't think of anything to say)... this struck me as very whiny and needy, qualities that I was not looking for in a man. The second thing he said that I found highly objectionable was when I asked him what he did all day (he said he was unemployed at the time)- he gave me a laundry list of activities, including prayer, yoga, meditation, and MAKING LOVE TO HIS HAND. I think that's when I "suddenly" realized I was much, much too busy to date (him) at that time. I was the recipient of several wounded stares when I saw him at meetings after that, but he did back off. I did meet the man who is now my husband shortly after that experience. Eric is still single, which is still a shock. That hand must be tired.

    Earlier: Eric Schaeffer Relapse

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    Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:50:00 EST Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=232280&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Eric Schaeffer Relapse ]]> ericfrontal.jpgOkay, okay, we admit it: we are powerless over our addiction to posting about manorexic, twelve-steppin', misogynistic, internet dating addicted, bad-screenplay-writer Eric Schaeffer. We'll keep trying to stop (maybe a power higher than ourself might return us to sanity?), but in the meantime, we thought we'd share with you the entire text of the best Schaeffer-dater email we've received so far. A taste:
    He, honest-to-god, is unaware of how much bullshit he feeds to everyone and, most sadly, to himself. if he were aware, he would probably freak-out from the calorie content.

    OK - so i choose to remain anonymous because i really have nothing against this guy. in fact, i still think highly of him as a writer and have nothing against him as a person. But, that said, yes, i dated him, yes, he's a Narcissistic (with a capital N - and please correct that spelling if i'm wrong, but he is not worth dictionary.com-ing) NUTJOB and i just think it's hilarious how much play he's gettiing on Gawker.

    i also know how much time he spends surfing the web, probably reading each and every blurb about himself as he masturbates at 2 am while eating non-dairy chocolate. and hating himself for it. so, since i have nothing against him, i would rather he not feel hurt by yet another girl announcing from the cyber-rooftops that he is the nuttiest nutjob i've ever met who lives in the deepest depths of denial that i have ever visited (all of which i will testify to in court). he, honest-to-god, is unaware of how much bullshit he feeds to everyone and, most sadly, to himself. if he were aware, he would probably freak-out from the calorie content.

    i have honestly never met a man who is so obsessed with himself, and yet, seems to spend all if his time HATING himself and adoring himself at once. i guess that's all wrapped up in the same nutjob issues that make him the entertaining weirdo he is today. thin line between love and hate, right?

    i was reading your posts about him (a friend forwarded to me, despite the fact that i thought he was out of my life) and this one finally made me cave and write to you:

    "We tried to resist, we really did. But much as we'd like to ignore this in the hopes that it'll go away, we can't help but heap scorn on it (even though that is exactly what it wants). Such is . . . our job. Anyway, meet Eric Schaeffer, a 5'8'' semi-failed screenwriter whose blog is the latest addition to the stable of the Rudius (ugh, we feel like we just said "Voldemort"!) blog empire of sickmaking, unfunny douchebaggery. He's looking for a woman to spend the rest of his life with, but he has some pretty stringent requirements: It's nothing personal. I LOVE everything about women as they get older. Women over 45 are divine. They've dropped all their shit and really sink into their bodies and beings but.... BUT unfortunately, babies are done."

    Guess what his name is among me and my friends? VOLDEMORT. Which kind of makes me think, whoever wrote that, do i know you? He became so insane that we couldn't even say his name, then he became "he who shall not be named", then....well, you get it. He is now referred to as "V" in correspondence among my friends. and he basically said that "i love everything about women as they get older" thing to me verbatim. he recycles: women and words. the more i read about him, the more i realize how many women have had the exact same experience as me. we should start a freakin' support group like his beloved AA. (he's not as crazy about it as they say. he doesn't care if you have a glass of wine around him.)

    Here's the one i haven't read about, though:

    I am different of all these other fabulous gawker ladies in that, yes, i do believe he's a little gay (what 'straight' person isn't? come on, just a LITTLE) and won't admit it (but he does truly love women, i am sure), but, YES, i actually do find him attractive. In fact, i am a sucker for big baby blues on neurotic writer-types. go figure. i'm not proud. and he's 5'8". maybe 5' 71/2" but girls are being mean. let's judge him on what a NUT he is, not on his height, which is not his fault.

    anyway, we met on nerve (a shameful period of my life that is now OVER), it was the same story as the other chicks. soon we were making out (like i said, i find him hot, don't judge me! and he is actually a fantastic kisser). we made out, got to what, first base? that's IT and before i know it he sits me down and says, "OK, now i need to have that talk," i just met this guy. yeah sure, i saw IF LUCY FELL, like 10 years ago with my mom, but WE JUST MET. "would you get an HIV test for me?" by the way, like the other girl said, he wanted a blow-job ASAP. yeah. no thanks. your dick is not the number one priority in my life. he does this to elle, in fact, in IF LUCY FELL.....(the HIV thing).

    we KISSED. yeah we made out the first day we met (stop judging, gawker, we just made out. it was like high school and it was fun.) next thing i know he is planning the possibility of sex, babies, marriage and hey, if all MIGHT happen, then this chick better get tested. Thing is, he is extremely intelligent (all the most dangerous are) and he knows that he puts all his stresses and fears into HIV and being a hypochondriac. so it created this silly drama for half a hot minute. we had some fun. i realized what a nutball he is and decided that i would happily watch his movies and enjoy him from afar, but would recommend to Bloomberg that he quarantine the city from this guy. looks like from all the people who have had my experience on gawker, maybe we need a PSA warning fathers to keep their under 35 daughters away from him.

    when it was over, he was very very concerned that i still like him and that i have 'good feelings' about knowing him. that man spends all his time doing things that make people not like him, then he gets upset if people don't like him.

    anyway, chalk me up as yet another who can confirm his LOCO-ness, but also chalk me up as one girl out there who is willing to admit that he ain't so bad, he don't mean no harm, and he really is cute in a neurotic-NY-writer kinda way.

    i laughed for days when a friend told me his BLOG was called "I can't believe I'm still single."

    still laughing.

    fuckin' hilarious.

    poor schmuck.

    something poignant about how pathetic he is, no?

    jesus - look at the length of this email. we LOVE talking about this guy! i blame you, Gawker!

    ;o)
    c.

    PS - be fair. if you post this, don't just post the mean stuff, post that at least one person has some nice things to say about him. i'll repeat: polite, hygenic, fiercely intelligent, cute, embraces weirdness, non-judgemental. (you know, add that to all the freakish, narcissistic, gimme-a-break, treats women like baby-factories stuff....)

    Done and done!

    Earlier:
    This Is The Last Eric Schaeffer Post. Seriously.

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    Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:10:00 EST Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=232106&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ This Is the Last Eric Schaeffer Post. Seriously. ]]>

    Many of you have contacted us, curious about Starved, still-single douche par excellence Eric Schaeffer's FX series about his bout with manorexia. We assumed that you were also interested in watching him jerk off using olive oil as lube. That's your warning. You've been warned. Splashguards up!

    Starved Episode Five [YouTube]

    Earlier: More of Eric Schaeffer's Little Peccadildos. Yeah, You Read That Right

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    Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:10:00 EST Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=231714&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ More of Eric Schaeffer's Little Peccadildos. Yeah, You Read That Right. ]]> ericmatch.jpegWe can stop posting about Eric "I Can't Believe I'm Still Single, Even Though Every Other Sentient Life Form On Planet Earth Soooo Can" Schaeffer any time we want. Really. Okay, but before we take a vow of silence about Eric (who is also on the MySpace, in case you missed him on Nerve or Match) forever, we just have to share these latest tips. They're all thematically linked somehow. "How?" you're probably wondering. "I am racking my brain and I can't figure out what they're getting at based on that mysterious headline?!" Well, click on past the jump, little ones. But heed our warning: not safe for . . . just not safe. NOT SAFE.

    I know a girl who actually dated the dude. She says it was the longest three days of her life, that he's gay and won't admit it, and that he told her so many lies to get her into bed that it almost felt like rape afterward.
    Pseudo-raped! By a gay who won't admit it! Ew!
    A woman I know dated Eric for a period of time in 2003. I told her not to do it because I know where he went to college and several friends who attended/alumni said he was responsible foran outbreak of the herp. Also he would not share his food with her during diner-he would tell her to order her own of whatever she wanted to sample. He also told her not to smile at him while they were eating. Details of their relationship ended up in the tv show about eating disorders. He goes to a well known downtown yoga center and just creeps everyone out. You didn't even mention his movie "Fall" where his alleged relationship with elle mcphereson is portrayed-allegedly elle fucked eric with a dildo.
    Hmm . . . won't admit he's gay . . . allegedly likes getting fucked with a dildo . . . we felt the need to go straight to the horse's mouth. Gritting our teeth, we ventured into the belly of the beast. Brace yourself.
    I was about to lose consciousness. Just before I did, she let me breath and whispered softly in my ear "or I'll choke you to death." She gently kissed the side of my lips, the corner of my mouth. Her lips were cool against the heat pounding from my reddened face. Soooo sexy.

    As she strapped the dildo on I was getting more and more excited. She looked amazing. The perfect sex machine. A pussy, a cock, breasts, a gorgeous face and body. Long legs, lean, strong. "You like me don't you" I said, trying to top from the bottom as she finished fastening the buckles securing her cock in place. She cracked a sly grin. She did.

    "No. I don't. And you talk too much." She leaned forward and jammed her dick in my mouth forcefully, choking me again. I could feel it slide down my throat which frightened me but seemed okay for the
    moment. I was deep throating the thick rubber dildo like a porn star. Then I started to gag and tears flooded my eyes as I struggled for air. She took her other hand and covered my nose so all my air was now cut off. I bucked and twisted trying to kick her cock from my throat. Finally, when I was getting a little scared, she pulled it out and smacked my face with it. It was heavy and hard and it hurt much more
    than I thought it would but she knew how much it would hurt. Dense rubber to my check bone. "What do you have to say now? You sucked that cock like a pro, you little faggot slut. Say 'I suck cock like a little faggot slut.'"
    "I suck cock like a little faggot slut."

    Well, that settles it. We don't know about you, but we're never having anything to do with MySpace, Nerve, Match, dating, or sex EVER AGAIN.

    Earlier: Dating Eric Schaeffer: Reports From The Field

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    Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:10:00 EST Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=231581&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Dating Eric Schaeffer: Reports From The Field ]]> ericfrontal.jpgWell, we knew it would happen eventually: our best efforts to never post about Eric Schaeffer again have been thwarted. The reason? We've started getting emails from women who've not only "winked" at Eric on Match and talked dirty with him on Nerve, they've actually met him in person (or they have a "friend" who has met him in person). So, uh, how'd it go?

    eric contacted me on nerve maybe a year ago. had one conversation and realized we belong to the same gym. met up that day at the gym and if you think he is repulsive in person, you can't imagine how much more unattractive he is in person. its not in my nature to tell someone straight to their face that i am absolutely not attracted to them, so i was trying to let him down easy but he kept digging digging digging for reassurance. do i think he's as attractive in person? am i attracted to him? so desperate for acceptance. the cardio date would not be complete without a invitation to fuck him in the 2nd floor bathroom (i declined), followed by a few emails suggesting that if i wasn't interested in him romantically, we should still get together to have sex. even with my history of going for all the wrong kinds of men, i had enough sense to steer clear of that one but only because i am ultimately shallow and he is ugly.
    We appreciate your honesty, tipster! Next!
    He went on a date with a friend of mine (set up through nerve) and then proceeded to spend the entire night first grilling her about when, if they were to fall madly in love and get married (his words), she planned to have children and then explaining to her why her timeline (which she hadn't thought through in nearly enough detail to satisfy him) was totally wrong. She left before dessert. He's the guy all my friends bring up when people start talking about online dating psychos ... also, he is, in fact, shorter than 5'8. And did I mention crazy?
    Not bad, not bad. But this one's our favorite so far.
    As you all probably know by now, Eric Schaeffer is not only a recovering alcoholic but an anorexic (thus his FX show 'Starved'). My friend met him online (unfortunate for her) and agreed to hang out with him one day while he was doing Master Cleanse. He couldn't muster the energy to remove himself from the couch but expected a blowjob anyway.
    We want to Master Cleanse our brain after reading just these, but we're still professionally obligated to ask you to send more.

    Earlier:We Sure Opened Up A Monster Can of Douchebait Re: Eric Schaeffer

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    Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:40:00 EST Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=231498&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ We Sure Opened Up A Monster Can Of Douchebait Re: Eric Schaeffer ]]> ericnerver.jpgWe cringingly directed you yesterday to Rudius blogger Eric Schaeffer's site, where he alternately wonders why he can't find love and makes it glaringly obvious why he can't find love (he's the kind of pompous misogynist who makes Norman Mailer look like Rebecca Traister. Also, he's short). The aftermath in our inbox was brutal: we learned way, way, way more than we ever wanted to know about Schaeffer, including the fact that he has a book, also entitled I Can't Believe I'm Still Single (DON'T BUY IT! Seriously, if one person buys Schaeffer's book because of this, we might have to quit Gawker and go work for NOW to expiate our debt to womankind) coming out this spring from Thunder's Mouth Press. Here's the blurb from, you guessed it, T*cker M*x:
    You almost don't believe what you are reading, but at the same time, you relate to the underlying emotions. And on top of it all, he is really funny.
    After the jump, we dump out the rest of our douchiness-glutted mailbag.

    From a 2001 Observer article (tragically not online:)

    "Look, I've always had beautiful, wonderful, smart, funny women in my life," Mr. Schaeffer said at the diner over a bowl of Greek salad. "I can't understand why someone would look at me and think that I make movies to pick up women. I mean, it's jealousy. It's only a jealous person that would look at anyone and question their motives about why they do art. I make art because I'm an artist. I've never gotten any relationship out of filmmaking. I love beautiful women. I see a beautiful women on the subway and I'll say, 'Hi, my name's Eric,' and I'll say some funny thing. I met one of my girlfriends on a plane. I saw her, I walked over to her, and I said, 'Aquarian.' She goes, 'How did you know that?' I go, 'I can just tell.' Boom. Two-year love affair. My last girlfriend, I saw her in a hallway of an agency I was working at. I said, 'What do you do here?' She said, 'I work here.' I said, 'Hi, my name's Eric. Want to have lunch?'"
    From a lady who had the pleasure of e-meeting Eric on Nerve (he's known there as "blueseat")
    OH MY GOD!!!
    So this Eric Schaeffer douche is actually on Nerve/Salons Personals and in my single, online-dating days we emailed a couple of times. Immediately after making his first introduction he wrote back saying that it sounded like I liked going out and drinking too much (umm... no, not really) and that because he is in AA, he can't really be with someone who... well... drinks. At all.
    Now, I've dated my share of recovering addicts and drunks, but I never had anyone make me feel like a total lush for no reason. I mean, he was seriously judgmental and douchy about the whole thing. So there you have it: if you want the pleasure of dating Mr. Schaeffer you must be:
    1) Young
    2) Completely sober
    3) Under 5'9" (wouldn't you presume)
    4) Possessing of enough patience and kindness to put up with self-important douches.
    Good luck, ladies!
    P.S. I used to screen for short men and I'm pretty sure the dude lies about his height.
    Okay, so, to recap: if you weren't already convinced that Eric Schaeffer is the douchiest douche ever to douche it up, he a) is a close personal friend of T*cker M*x b)is the destitute homeless man's Woody Allen and c)is a sanctimonious recovering alcoholic. THAT IS WHY YOU ARE STILL SINGLE, ERIC. Believe it.

    Earlier: Taking The Douchebait: I Can't Believe I'm Still Single Guy

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    Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:30:00 EST Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=231426&view=rss&microfeed=true