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• Date Machine: Super Macho Man Slumber Party

  My friend P came to visit for a few days just before Christmas. I pulled out a spare mattress for him, but we still wound up sleeping a few feet away from each other in my one room studio. He arrived on a weeknight and we went out for dinner and then had drinks at a bar with some other friends. We got home close to 2AM and spent another half hour talking in the darkness. I felt a little distracted by the specter of getting up early for work the next day, but it was nice to finally talk to another man outside of the jocular strictures that seem to guide how many men talk to one another. Read More... Posted Dec 29 2008, 05:36 PM by amboabe with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: confessing, Hooksexup, date machine, amboabe, sweaty hands, super macho, holding hands, top gun, man love, slumber party, tom cruise

• Intimacy; or A Trip to the Dentist

  I went to the dentist today. There are few things less pleasant than a rude thirty minutes spent in a dentist's chair having someone scrape at your teeth with a wiry metal instrument. But there is a secret pleasure in going to the dentist; one that I can remember relishing from my earliest visits as a little kid. It's the experience of seeing someone else's face at such close distance, hovering over mine simultanesouly anonymous and unsettlingly intimate. It's hard not to be drawn in by the chance to stare into someone's eyes just a few inches away with little or no understanding of who they are outside of the most basic professional identity. Read More... Posted Aug 29 2008, 01:56 AM by amboabe with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: confessing, comedy, pontifications, ruminations, Root Canal, novocaine, Filling, Dentist, Dentist Chair, Tartar, Dysfunction, Intimacy, Helena Bonham Carter, amboabe

• Crying In Public: My Cubicle

  I don't cry all that easily. I remember being on a date with a girl in high school (we went to see My Life with Michael Keaton and Nichole Kidman) and trying really hard to make myself cry towards the end. I thought somehow it would complete the image of a sensitive guy that I was trying so hard to project. It didn’t work. I cried for an hour straight when that same girl left town a year later, but we've all been hit with that brick in one form or another. And that happened in the privacy of my own bedroom. Read More... Posted Aug 28 2008, 01:09 AM by amboabe with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: confessing, humor, confessions, Hooksexup, relationships, date machine, love, Mona Lisa, Crying, Kanye West, Cubicle, Cesar, Office, Flashing Lights, Crying In Public, Breaking Up, GTA, Grand Theft Auto 4, Working Late, amboabe

• The McCain Date

  Hi there. I should probably introduce myself. But I gather you're not here to go through formalities. Neither am I really.  To wit, some red meat… I just went on a date with a woman who works for the Obama campaign. I decided I was going to vote for McCain about six months ago, after reconciling my disappointment at Biden's dismal ousting from the Democratic primary. This is generally not a good thing to bring up on dates. But tonight I was bored so after half an hour of small talk and wanly inquiring about life canvassing for Obama, I let fly my socio-political heresy. I'm voting for a senile warmonger who believes in corporate greed, cronyism, xenophobia, sexual repression, and the abolition of women's rights. You want to go back to my place? Read More... Posted Aug 26 2008, 11:18 PM by amboabe with | with 17 comment(s) Filed under: confessing, politics, humor, dating, Hooksexup, relationships, date machine, first dates, amboabe

• One small step for man...

  Well here we go again! As some of you may already know, I come to you from way the hell over on the other side of this site, having been a stalwart blogger at the now defunct 'blog-a-log'. To this point I might add that I was the 'last man standing' so to speak, which fills me no end with a great sense of satisfaction. Over these past seven months, I've pontificated, ruminated, and occasionally masturbated - verbally that is - on the topics of relationships, sex and dating. In the process, my views have shifted and swayed but ultimately I feel there's still a lot left to explore. Thus, I've decided to do said exploration right here on - DATE MACHINE!! As it was explained to me by the editor-at-large, this forum will be a companion blog of sorts to the 'Dating Confessions' section, where WE the bloggers will tie in your thoughts/confessions with our own personal experience on the topics at hand, namely - relationships, sex and dating. Sheesh...deja vu! As I'm a man who likes to come prepared, I dutifully checked out the confessions section at length, and was somewhat surprised to discover the sheer amount of eloquence, humor, candor and all out writing chops some of you possess out there. As a writer, this affords me a great opportunity as the source material seems endless as well as being so competently articulated and defined. With this being said, I must say it's with a great deal of excitement that I set forth into this new environment, as I believe it's truly one that could foster a great discourse and hopefully be very entertaining in the process. So let's take these first steps together shall we? Onward, upward and excelcior... Pleased to meet you all. Zeitgeisty.    Posted Aug 26 2008, 04:06 PM by zeitgeisty with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: confessing, politics, comedy, humor, dating, sex, pontification, pompetus of love, Hooksexup, relationships, blog-a-log, date machine, ruminations