Fun with #OkCupid: Last night I had a date with Michael Bolton

Dec 16

OMG last night was hilarious ... last night I had a date with a guy that has a SUPER famous name. BUT because I can't tell you all his actual name since that negates my while privacy thing with dudes - we'll just call him Michael Bolton.

Office Space ... anyone ... anyone ??

Greatest movie EVER!!!!

<tangent> I was actually in a commercial once with Richard Riehle a few years back.

He's literally one of the nicest people on the planet. Super super super cool dude. You can watch the commercial here ...

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So yeah! I have to protect the dude's identity but it is LITERALLY one of the most identifiable names ... ever. So much so when he signed up for Facebook he couldn't actually secure his own name since it is so super duper famous. High-larious.

I'm pretty sure he found me on OKC first, then friended me on Facebook. I'm personally not mad at being friended on Facebook before a date because I run a website, and am transparent and will reach out to ANYONE that ask - but note to nerds, this ain't cool with most chicks.

In FACT I was laughing to @jennhoffman the other day about this guy's name saying this was a first and the COOLEST THING EVER - and she goes OMG he tried friending me but I didn't accept him since I had no idea who he was.

Yeah man, big no no.

We met at a bar in WeHo, and after we grabbed our beers we found a seat in a cozy little nook and started talking.

I very honestly hadn't done any research on this dude, nor could I remember how compatible we were on the OKC algorithm, again I was just excited BECAUSE OF HIS FRIGGEN NAME!! BAHHH!!

We started talking, and he told me about his years spent in real estate.

Pretty cool, I thought.

He then asks what I do - and I look at him a bit surprised.

Wait, you don't know what I do? I ask. I run a website, I say.

I then catch myself ...

You know that I write about dates, right? I talk about nerds, sex, and tech on my website, but I just want to make sure you know what I do in case I choose to write about this date.

Like very literally at that point if he wasn't cool with it - I would have walked out. TOTALLY not even kidding! I don't want to converse with ANNYYONNNNNEEEEEEE if I can't write about them.

OkCupid sex slave ... anyone? anyone?

This website is my art, it is my life - it's my THING! It's my contribution to the world!! If you're asking for a moment of my time sacrificing something that I potentially can't write about - I'm DONE! DONE! DONE! Very matter of fact.

He, however, seemed pretty cool with it.

But it was actually hilarious that he kept asking questions ...

So, wait, you make money from your website? This is what you do for a living?

Yep, I explain - I bartered social media to live for a year traveling around with only $10 to my name, and am a professional adventure haver.

The words at this point were coming out of my mouth, but I realized he wasn't really getting it.

This was also another first. Out of the 103 dates in 9 months - and god only knows how many I've had since, dudes know what they're getting into with me, so I very rarely talk about myself. VERY RARELY. The first dates that I have all start mid sentence. It's GREAT! No bs of ... sooooooo what made you get into what you're doing? And how long do you think you'll do it for ... blah blah blah.

I explained to him that I now travel around to kick it with friends of the site in various cities and he goes, wait, "friends of the site?"

He very literally had no idea that people even read us. I wasn't mad at it, but trying to explain what I do to people is an INCREDIBLY abstract concept to people who don't get the social web space.

We did however talk about his ORM (online reputation management) which for him is AMAZING because he can hide like no other! For reals, his name is THAT famous that when people google he very literally doesn't come up.

I've never been able to google myself, he said.

That. Is. Amazing. I said!! And totally a first.

The date overall was pretty cool, but I just didn't feel any chemistry. He's a nice guy but he didn't get any of my pop culture references.

I don't keep up with those things, he said.

I felt like a New Coke in an old Coke world. And we all know what happened to New Coke ...