Sublime

“Will this be reported to the Hendon Mob?” I ask the man who’s counting out my payout. The Hendon Mob is the website that tracks all poker players’ tournament winnings, and I’m excited at the thought that I will be Hendon-official. It’s a certain badge of honor, in my mind. It means I’ve actually progressed.

Every single man needs a sexually adventurous woman he can count on to distract him from the fact that he is unloved.

Oh my God,” I said to her. “Did you see those two girls fighting outside?” “No,” she said. “What happened?” She was interested. She was talking to me. It was working. “Um, two girls were fighting over this little guy who was half their size. It was pretty brutal. He was just standing there laughing as the police came and arrested the girls.” She gi

can use to advance her script.

“My Prerogative.”

origin in the name of one of Ross Jeffries’s cats, Sargy. An hour after I sent him my phone number, Grimble called. More than Mystery, it was Grimble who would initiate me into what could only be described as a secret society. “Hey, man,” he said, in a conspiratorial hiss. “So what do you think of Mystery’s game?” I gave him my assessment. “Wow, I

impression management,

was a bright guy—and a threat to Ross. Many of the speakers at his seminar were, like himself, Ross’s former students: among them Rick H., Vision, and Orion, an uber-nerd who was famous as the first PUA to sell videotapes of himself approaching girls on the street. This video series, Magical Connections, was considered hard evidence that nerds with

A good book that would help us is Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan. It should be the online behavior bible of the 21st century. We all use media 24/7 but most of us have never truly studied it.