Archive for September, 2006

Friday, September 29th, 2006

School of Scoundrels – Nice Guys Graduate Last

Just spotted a new movie which looks like Wedding Crashers meets Hitch and from the director of Old School, responsible for a number of Frat Pack movies. There does seem to be a trend for Hollywood to make more aggresively guy friendly movies in recent years. This one in particular looks really good and hopefully [...]

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

The Myth of Romantic Love

In the film, The Mirror Has Two Faces, Barbra Streisand mentions the emergence of courtly love. In the following audio lecture Alan Watts identifies the same thing and expands on the link between marriage and romantic love and points to the French Troubadours 800 years ago. Here’s some more background on this view:

Sex and the [...]

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

Dating Coach responds to critics in Sunday Times

This is a response I wrote to the Editor of the Metro section of the Sunday Times, in response to readers feedback published here.
Being a dating coach is a part-time interest and my primary occupation is online research. My online dating research project has been widely covered since 2004 in various media ranging from Business [...]

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

Sunday Times readers respond to my feature in the Metro

As you may or may not know I was featured in the Sunday Times Metro section (Gauteng only) on 10 September 2008. This interview was done on the previous Thursday and there was a quick photo shoot in Rosebank, Johannesburg.
Well I just came back from a week in Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown where I attended [...]

Monday, September 18th, 2006

Does famous Single Celebs make trend more acceptable or does it?

I’ve been unmarried (single and dating) for most of my 31 years on this planet so far. And I plan to continue that way into the foreseeable future. Some people may say its because I’m afraid of commitment because my mother and father divorced when I was a toddler and others may say I have [...]

Sunday, September 10th, 2006

My 1st Sunday Times feature!

On Thursday, 7th September I spent the afternoon with Buddy Naidoo, journalist at the Sunday Times, the biggest national Sunday newspaper in South Africa. When he arrived for my interview, I was sitting with Carmel Fisher, Roxanne on eTV’s Backstage.
It seems this interviewed was inspired by the article in the Sunday Independent (part1, part2), a [...]

Saturday, September 9th, 2006

You Need Leykis 101 Before Its Too Late

I’ve adapted this for South Africa…
Leykis 101 is a series of rules developed and promulgated by American radio talk show host, Tom Leykis, designed to teach male listeners how to achieve the most sex within the least amount of time, effort and money. Followers are called “Leykis 101 Students“, and Leykis is “The Professor.” Though [...]

Friday, September 8th, 2006

Have a Heart with John Vlismas & Riaad Moosa

Damn! I booked for this event on Monday, 2 October…and now I realised I have a trip I’m going to be in Cape Town on this date.From the makers of the original Laugh Out Loud stage show comes a new reason to live…HAVE A HEART.
Join comedians John Vlismas, Riaad Moosa and their friends to an [...]

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

Don not Marry (or Date) A Career Woman

Forbes.com published a very controversial story on 22 August by editor Michael Noer that provoked a heated response from both outside and inside our building. Elizabeth Corcoran, a member of our Silicon Valley bureau and principal author of the magazine’s current cover story on robots, sent in this rebuttal.

This article was so controversial the publisher [...]

Monday, September 4th, 2006

Being firm with women – Three Stikes And You're Out

Men often give women a hard time because they are desperate and have the vain hope, the women will give them sex, if not today maybe tomorrow. In fact that wording in itself is a problem because men that think this way put themselves down, while putting women on pedestals. What I mean is that [...]