{"id":12142,"date":"2011-11-18T22:42:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T22:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisblogrules.com\/?p=12142"},"modified":"2012-03-20T04:08:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T04:08:30","slug":"hooking-up-the-ultimate-guidebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/hooking-up-the-ultimate-guidebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooking Up: The Ultimate Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"600\" height=\"335\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6BbEf4Y6FbM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hooking up isn&#8217;t a science; it&#8217;s an art. An art that we all&#8211;at one point or another&#8211;have had the desire to perfect. What if there was a guidebook we could read to learn how to perfect this art? Enter Sam Greenspan, creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.11points.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">11Points.com<\/a> and author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1616082127\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=barnland-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1616082127\" target=\"_blank\"><em>11 Points Guide to Hooking Up: Lists and Advice about First Dates, Hotties, Scandals, Pick-ups, Threesomes, and Booty Calls<\/em><\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the book you turn to for handy tips on dating, from pickup lines, to first dates, to how to propose a threesome,&#8221; recommends actor Steve Sterling in the commercial above. The ad was directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/27047423\" target=\"_blank\">Zachary Bowman<\/a> and produced by Will Paoletto over a four day period in September. Shot on a shoe-string budget at a famous Virginia restaurant named Shackleford&#8217;s, this slapstick romp gave the director an opportunity to use whip pans, a technique made famous by Kung Fu movies in the 1970&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The advert also gave John Cappello an opportunity to play a character who gets thrown around a lot. Appropriately, John&#8217;s character is named &#8220;Disco,&#8221; and he&#8217;s a wig-wearing hooligan of the highest order. If you learn anything from this highly entertaining commercial, we hope it&#8217;s that putting on a fake afro and disco suit and attempting to hit on ladies will lead to disastrous results&#8211;in most circumstances anyway. Making odd, sexually suggestive hand motions probably didn&#8217;t help Mr. Disco&#8217;s case much either. We also hope the commercial teaches you to buy a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1616082127\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=barnland-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1616082127\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Greenspan&#8217;s book<\/a>. It does indeed run the gamut as far as dating advice goes. There is, in case you were wondering, a chapter devoted entirely to bar and party pickup strategies that actually work. There&#8217;s also a chapter about how to take awesome nude photos. Told ya it runs the gamut.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;pickup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1616082127\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=barnland-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1616082127\" target=\"_blank\">a copy<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hooking up isn&#8217;t a science; it&#8217;s an art. 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