There have been some new sadomasochists readers here at the chateau lately, so I figured it would be helpful to acclimate them to the chateau’s delights with links to personal and fan favorite posts. (Plus, I forget what I write about five minutes after I write it, so this is a way for me to explore my mental state at various times this past year.)
My very first post on April 9, 2007: Endless Dating
Not one of my best efforts, but being the first I include it as a matter of curiosity.
The very next two posts happened to be two of my best:
How To Win Back An Ex-Girlfriend
Excerpt From The Book Of Alpha
Check out the comments which are chock full of valuable info.
A funny post that got me a date with a cat fancier: LolCat Game
Me being creative: Profiles in Scintillating Conversation
The scripture of this blog summed up in one post: Truth Day
An attempt to calculate the odds of a girl flaking: Flake Odds Point System
A real life pickup story from the underground biography: The Bachelor Party
Judging a woman by her cover (this post caught the eyes of the Wonkette crew): She Eats Her Peas One At A Time
My most viewed post (must be a lot of Dennis Kucinich fans out there): Dennis Kucinich: Alpha Male
My third most viewed post, and one I had to work hard to collect the data for: A Quick And Dirty Dating Guide To Foreign Girls
Dealing with a girl’s last minute resistance.
I give my future kids the lowdown: An Open Letter To My Hypothetical Future Kids
My thoughts on love and underwear parties.
This post generated a lot of anger and self-serving platitudes: From Kitten To Cougar
I enjoy rubbing the ugly side of life into the faces of the pretty lies crowd.
How bitter woman-hating betas are created.
Omegas and betas welcome their sexbot overlords.
Despite claims that it’s the intelligence and imagination two people bring to bed that makes for better sex, it’s the hotness of the woman that really counts.
Pushing a girl away will trigger her attraction for you.
The many ways to answer a girl when she asks you if you think she’s fat.
Second in a series of my popular girlfriend or fling posts.
My experience with something unnatural: Fake Tits
Getting our terms straight: Defining The Alpha Male and The Alpha Female
My second most viewed post, and one that caused a lot of consternation among lawyers. Again, this information required much time spent in the field collecting data. Like Jesus Christ, I suffer to enlighten my readers: What A Girl’s Job Tells You
I channeled Tyler Durden in this post. I must have been tripping.
Need to know what your chances are of landing your dream lover? Then check out my masterpieces and tally up your score: Dating Market Value For Men and For Women
A sad story from my life that contributed to making me the charming devil I am today: Dodged The Same Bullet Twice
My experience with jungle fever.
My anti-lawyer screed. I’m really proud of this post.
The things I will do for a girl if I really like her: Litmus Test
Always date at least two girls at once.
A very in-depth analysis of proper alpha body language.
A woman’s number one asset. Care to guess what it is?
The sweetness of robbing a girl of the satisfaction of dumping you.
A critical component of game is getting compliance from a girl.
A fine list of maxims.
My manifesto against marriage.
Cockblocked by Scientology.
This post on the sex appeal of younger vs older women cause much wailing and gnashing of teeth and probably cost me a few hookups through the blog. But I have to stay true to my art.
A ripping good yarn about my time dating a woman I feared was a tranny.
As a connoisseur of young cooch, these two posts present rules for dealing with dating younger women.
Don’t say I’m not a giver. Here’s my post on game for girls.
A man’s state of mind is the most important thing for determining how much pussy he gets.
I discuss how fat women distort the dating market and create players.
Girls love assholes – news at 11.
Guarantee a healthy relationship with the fear of loss.
This was the number one commented post. Betas are hip.
The perfect woman. (Hint: that cropped pic wasn’t randomly chosen.)
Looking forward, I intend to steer this blog in a fresh direction while staying true to the core mission statement. Change is good.
Glorious natural pelt!
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THIS, you’re proud of? But change is on the horizon? Change IS good. Only dead things don’t change.
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Best wishes on your one-year (although I thought it was longer than that). You say everything I think.
I found your site through a link from Instapundit to an offering I’m surprised you didn’t reference, because I think it still is your best yet: “Hedonic Convergence”.
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Has it been a year already?!?! I remember when you were a poster on DC Bachelor giving Hedonistic Pleasure Seeker(how I miss her inane prattle) the business. Your blog has inspired me to step my game up and has given me sage advice for dealing with the weaker sex. More importantly, your blog introduced David Alexander into my life. I strongly believe that he is the Andy Kaufman for the internet generation. Shine on you crazy diamond!
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Ha. You started your blog just after I started mine. Will never forget discovering your url in my stats counter, clicking on the link, and finding…THIS. Oh the horror, the horror. “What can I possibly have written to bring people from this site to me?” I wondered. Then saw with further horror that you had my blog on your blogroll. Colossal embarrassment. At that time the people linking to me (all 5 of them) were either intellectual types or good Catholics. Started to read. Had to stop. Grossed out. But amused. Couldn’t resist coming back. Took months to leave first comment (I think). Couldn’t resist that either. You made me laugh.
Have to admit I learned something from the experience. Maybe not what you had intended though. More like “how to recognise and arm yourself against players”.
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Clio why do you feel the need to arm yourself against players. The PUA is supposed to be upfront with his intentions so there is no regrets from the girl afterwards. So what is there to arm against? The good emotions a player instills in you?
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here here
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“The PUA is supposed to be upfront with his intentions”.
Perhaps he is upfront, when he knows them. But there are many men who don’t know, but know enough of the player’s art to be quite successful with women.
Anyway, the main thing I’ve learned in reading “Game” theory was to recognise and avoid (I hope) men who overuse the “neg” tactic – you know, showing interest, then retreating, or criticizing. I knew one man who used it on me for a year (we worked together); it was a nightmare though we only went out a couple of times. But if I had been able to identify what he was doing, I might have shortcircuited it much sooner. Anyway, now I feel as if I can see that sort of thing coming sooner.
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new direction? now i’m scared. but i’ll keep an open mind. this blog is the best relationship you’ve ever had, admit it (minus the sex)
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clio,
You described push/pull not negs. A neg is a one time comment that’s a compliment and an insult at the same time. It is used to deflate a woman who’s ego is huge due to circumstances (mostly based on setting, like in a club). It works by drawing attention to something the woman is doing to draw attention to herself while at the same time mocking her for trying to get attention instead of just going at the surface.
“wow, you’re pretty” – generic compliment
“nice nails, are they real?” – neg (example from Mystery)
Nothing insulting, just a bit of teasing that the guy isn’t like the other chumps, realizes that the woman is employing artifice to get male attention and isn’t falling for it.
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All right, Steve J. It seems I still don’t have the jargon right. Thanks for the clarification.
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Your posts have aged well. I sometimes look at stuff I believed a year ago and cringe.
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just out of idle curiosity, why did you have a link to Clio in the first place?
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The body language post is a favorite of mine, I’ve read it several times–it’s more hands-on than usual and contains many things I had never really thought about before.
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A year already? Congrats. You are doing something right when you are pissing people off.
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Get em.
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congrats and thanks for sharing your wisdom.
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Man. That long list is more of a triple-album compilation complete with B-sides and live bootlegs. You might want to pare it down to a top ten. Or twelve. Or twenty-five.
Still, there are quite a few nuggets of unalloyed gold in there. As long as your new direction isn’t “Rail against Hillary Clinton to the extent that we can actually feel the spittle soaking into your keyboard,” I’m looking forward to it.
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I can’t fathom people adding to your already copious self-congratulations. In all honesty, the time I’ve spent here would have been better spent elsewhere.
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No no, Clio is right. Women get all pissed off but the fact of the matter is, this dude is giving lady readers the keys to the kingdom if they just read between the lines. Whether you can call it arming yourself or you call it putting things into perspective. Personally I think “arming yourself” is setting yourself up for a battle… which you will not win b/c they’re better at it than you, honeys, let’s face it. Silly girls, they just have to be The One, and that’s their downfall, plain and simple.
happy one year! It sure felt longer than that.
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One of your favorites and mine: How to win back an ex-girlfriend.
You gave this brilliant advice
“the point is to act like she is just another bud and that nothing she says bothers you. she’ll thank you later for letting her EARN her way into your heart again.”
I guess the dudes in your camp think this is pure genius, but it’s really pure idiocy.
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Congrats. I can’t read that many blogs because of time constraints, but yours is always first on the list along with VK’s. Fine work man.
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“The moment she says something disrespectful you take her gently but firmly by the shoulders, look her directly in the eye and say with calm seriousness, ‘I don’t accept being spoken to that way.’ Keep the eye contact for a few seconds so she knows you’re serious. Then gently let her go.”
And her response will be to either:
A. Laugh in your face for trying to give her the daddy treatment with a line from Mr. Rogers.
B. Spaz out and hit you for grabbing her.
C. Walk out slowly without saying a word because you’re psychotic.
D. Call the police.
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32 Mike
If you were a true “dominant male” otherwise called an “alpha” you would understand exactly what I am conveying here and you would not be visiting this site in the first place, so the fact that you took it that way? No surprise. I could counter all of your objections, but they are too flaccid for me to respond to. Good luck.
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Guess you figured out that sindy and lickety slit are one and the same. I have a slit personality.
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I’ve enjoyed this blog a lot — and believe I was one of the first posters, but I can’t find my old posts.
I hope the new direction isn’t gonna be poiitics. How about erotic fiction stories about women sequestered away in the Great White North obsessed with history? Thick white snow can be very allegorical.
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“If you were a true “dominant male” otherwise called an “alpha” you would understand exactly what I am conveying here and you would not be visiting this site in the first place…”
we’re both here. ad hominem backfired. i hope that was intentional.
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DOBA: Harrumph.
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Clio — What? I was talking about the young Joni Mitchell! Anyway, I think it was worth at least a “ha.” Hehe.
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Ha ha. What does Joni Mitchell have to do with history? Anyway, I’m out of here; I don’t want to be accused of hijacking a thread.
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Clio — Sorry! I meant to say Ian and Sylvia, since they were folk curators of a sort. Mitchell is also a Canadian folkie, and I was thinking of Gordon Lightfoot too.
Why not be David Alexander and hijack the thread? Make it about Canadian music. Have you ever heard Gary and Dave? They had very minor success here in the states. What about Terry Black (“Unless You Care”), from the 1960s? Brian Protheroe (“Pinball”)? And Dave Nicol (“Goodbye Mama”)? All great songs.
There is a cool CD called “Made in Canada” that rounds up all sorts of these obscure artists. Well worth getting, IMO.
Or we can digress about underage girls, sexbots and natural pelts.
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Brian Protheroe is obscure to me, but I think I recognise all the others. I remember them from AM radio days. How about the Bells? The Poppy family/Terry Jacks? (Not at all obscure at one time, he, though an embarrassment.) Other formerly non-obscure Canadians: Bachman Turner Overdrive, with those honking Winnipeg accents. David Clayton-Thomas. Burton Cummings.
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Oh, wow The Bells! Thanks for reminding me of them. They were great! “Stay Awhile” was their biggie, but do you know “Moody Manitoba Morning?” Gorgeous and, um, moody: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvxxS4B8F4g
I’m actually a big Poppy Family, but I had no idea David-Clayton Thomas was from north of the border. The man had pipes, I’ll say that.
I forgot to mention Ian Thoma,s brother of actor, SCTV comedian Dave Thomas. His Neil Young-ish “Painted Lady” was huge in the states in 75: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3HcaQD5mIA
Apparently Lighthouse was from Toronto. I prefer their minor hit, “Pretty Lady” over “One Fine Morning.”
David Alexander will never top this post hijhack!!
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Pipes? Yes. And I think Burton Cummings had a remarkable, if chintzy, talent for writing memorable “hooks”. I know the others you speak of, too! Now, I really must stop this. I can’t say I look back on the 1970s with much nostalgia…
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39 Mike
“we’re both here. ad hominem backfired. i hope that was intentional.”
More mental gibberish? Thanks.
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long live this blog.
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As long as your new direction isn’t “Rail against Hillary Clinton to the extent that we can actually feel the spittle soaking into your keyboard,”
soon hillary will be irrelevant.
there is only one democratic candidate whose nomination would not alienate a huge proportion of black voters, who just happen to constitute the dems’ only reliable monolithic voting bloc. hillary happens to be the other candidate.
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i truthfully love your own posting choice, very charming,
don’t quit and keep penning as it simply that is worth to read it,
looking forward to look over much of your well written articles, regards 🙂
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