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Dear Abby Deals with Literary Jealousy
What if you're a couple, you're both struggling writers, and one person publishes a novel while the other doesn't? Awkward! (He hasn't even read it.) [Dear Abby]
What if you're a couple, you're both struggling writers, and one person publishes a novel while the other doesn't? Awkward! (He hasn't even read it.) [Dear Abby]
not afraid to be servicey
Ladies, Ask for "Tron's" Happy Ending Massage at Cornelia Spa
Remember that episode of Sex and the City when two women tip Samantha off to a great new male masseuse, who does special things not typically included in your standard massage? (When she finally goes to him, he refuses to "perform" and she gets him in trouble, which enrages the other women—"Who's going to fuck me now?!") Well! Turns out this situation is not an urban myth. Tango, the magazine about relationships, investigates: "'It’s such a well-known thing for guys, and women are finally getting more comfortable asking for it,' said Anna, a self-described 'massage healer' who has worked at several upscale spas and performed happy endings on female customers." Huh. After the jump—the spas in question. More »
critical stalker
Paul Janka's Class Act Does Not Impress Dudes
Sightings and anecdotes of creepy sexual compulsive/sexually aggressive dataholic Paul Janka are way funnier when written by a dude who could easily kick his ass. That's why we're pleased to bring you this very special Janka sighting from Cajun Boy, who spotted him in Madison Square Park, talking loudly into his cell. "You know how you can come in contact with someone, even from afar, and you just know all there is to know about them immediately, like within a matter of seconds?" he asks, before qualifying Janka as a "cheesedick." Why, yes; yes we do. The overheard phrase that caught his attention? "Whenever I'm at home and I have a girl in my bed..." More »
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The cost for early registration for the aforementioned Paul Janka "Rock Solid Game" dating seminar is $1,485, according to a tipster who thought about registering. "P.S.," Paul writes in an email to me, "See you on the 25th at the Gawker [commenter] gathering…."
The cost for early registration for the aforementioned Paul Janka "Rock Solid Game" dating seminar is $1,485, according to a tipster who thought about registering. "P.S.," Paul writes in an email to me, "See you on the 25th at the Gawker [commenter] gathering…."
sex wars
Let's Find a Way to Disrupt Paul Janka's Dating Seminar!
A while back, I signed up for creepy sexual compulsive/sexually aggressive dateaholic Paul Janka's e-mail list, which sends newsletters with tips on how to pick up hot chicks—or, more accurately, confused and lonely women. Now he's planning a dating seminar! It's called "Rock Solid Game" (heh), and it'll be at the Hotel Gansevoort on August 30th and 31st! Click for the e-mail—we have plenty of time to think up ways to make this event unpleasant for Paul. (Ladies, we don't want a group of guys being educated by the likes of him.) More »
sex wars
A Newscaster's Freudian "Sexism" Slip
All sorts of powerful women have dealt with sexism! Some people even make incorrect assumptions about your job title because of it. Next up: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (well, that's what the newscaster meant to call her), will discuss sexism!
trends
Horny A-Gays Under Attack
Every summer, the gays of the culural elite (like John Waters, Atlantic Monthly's Andrew Sullivan, musician Rufus Wainwright) gather on the car-free Fire Island and Provincetown, Mass., to party and play. And yes, sometimes have sex outside, they way all creatures were meant to! Only in recent weeks, they've been getting arrested for that. (Awkward!) As Cherry Grove resident Choire Sicha writes for Radar, "[The Fire Island arrests] are the first known arrests for public sex on the federal land." (Some people think a "circle jerk for freedom" might help matters.) Meanwhile, in Provincetown, an effort to keep public sex under control via citations for "lewd acts" have shot way up, says the Cape Cod Times. More »
Gawker Stalker
Sex Creep Paul Janka Invades Brooklyn
Sexual compulsive Paul Janka was last spotted barely responding to charges he sexually assaulted a woman by pinning down a woman, trying to finger her and shoving his tongue down her throat. Gawker commenters thought he should be brought up on criminal charges. Even before that incident, Janka's reputation was starting to precede him in Manhattan, and now a tipster has spotted the New York Casanova in a whole other borough, his game working disturbingly well: More »
douchebags
The Man Behind the Worst Dating Events in NYC
Jeremy Abelson's dating events for Pocketchange NYC—such as a cougar-dating night and the infamous Fashion Meets Finance clusterfuck—double as publicity stunts and are always overrun with press. It works pretty well because 80% of us get all outraged by the idiocy of the idea, 10% actually attends the event, and the other 10% is press. Joshua Stein gets to know the hustler in Page Six magazine. Revelations? He calls his redheaded girlfriend "Big Red" and sometimes plays the character of the site's spokesman, a fictional and obnoxious WASP called "Richard Nouveau." More »
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"Petulant" Gays Rejecting Public Sex!
Six years after writer Steve Weinstein first announced the "Return of Public Sex," in the Village Voice's "Pride Issue," the same writer declares "The End of Public Sex" in the Village Voice's Queer Issue. He defends his thesis with this opener: "In a few darkened corners, there were a few guys giving blowjobs and some ass play; overall, however, the scene could have passed for a typical holiday weekend at any East Village gay bar." Hell, that's more action than the straights are getting! But seriously: More »
the second generation
Tomorrow's Douchey Business Leaders Today
"I wouldn't say I have a complete picture of the MBA ranking by female attractiveness," writes somebody calling themselves Markbot, on Business Week's online forum for business schools. However. "Wharton had by far the most attractive women of the schools I visited and Chicago GSB had by far the least attractive women that I visited." User Dabots chimes in, "this can be pretty easily settled by using Facebook." James N., a commenter who probably hasn't been laid since Bush's first term (and that was by accident), adds, "I'd hit up schools in the lower tier. Texas Tech!" Oh, to be free, white, and 21! More »
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Paul Janka Brushes Off Attempted Date Rape Charge
We've made fun of self-styled pickup artist and creepy sexual compulsive Paul Janka countless times: he's slept with 146 (or so) women. He wrote an e-book layguide on how to get girls. He's shopping an Entourage-type TV show to Showtime. However, he's graduated from amusing obnoxiousness to distinctly unfunny sexual assault, according to Emily, a woman who went on a date with him. Paul doesn't even dispute her claim that he grabbed her, pinned her down, tried to fingerfuck her, and shoved his tongue in her mouth. (She only got away after fighting and hitting him with an umbrella.) Her account, and Janka's reply (she was on a date "under false pretenses," he says), after the jump. More »
the internets
MySpace Hotties Prove Themselves Real
If you're a pint-sized MySpace hottie (nice work if you can get it?), it is to be expected that somebody will create a fake profile of you at some point, using your name and photo. Nobody is quite sure why; this is simply a custom of the Internet. So Brad Troemel made a video montage of cam girls reciting their MySpace ID numbers to testify their real-ness. (That's something they have to do anyway to prove their identity to the MySpace community managers.) The combined effect of the video is eerie and probably arousing. More »
trends
Nerdy Girls Are Socially Acceptable, OK?
How could the Observer have missed this trend piece? Newsweek introduces us to Nerd Girls. It's a nerd trend: the Observer already covered hot male nerds "of steel," and Benjamin Nugent just published American Nerd: Story of My People. But girls have been overlooked thus far. (Well, sort of: there are at least two nerd-themed girl pinup sites.) If you haven't heard, some girls can do math and are smart and cute and totally worth a trend piece! More »
the way we live now
An Epidemic of Smug Marrieds
Everybody has dysfunctional relationships—even those young marrieds who refer to themselves as "we." With that in mind, Gawker alum Doree Shafrir writes in the Observer this week about the power of the question-statement. Example: "Oh, I was just checking to see if you had a ring. But you guys aren't engaged?" Maybe that's for the best? More »
sex wars
Is Hedge Fund Dater a Phony?
Regarding "Prescott Hahn," the "hedge fund manager" ID'd by the Post at the Fashion Meets Finance douche-dating event in a pink shirt—we're not buying that he's managing any hedges. The website for the company he claims to be the "owner" of, Kensington Square Capital Management, is one big 404 error. (We also couldn't find record for it—no Bloomberg profile, no website, not on any list of financial advisory firms.) Update: We hear from a school chum that he's merely a one Tom S., intern, Columbia '10!
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