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With Craigslist becoming ever-increasingly creepy, this smitten young man has gone and purchased his own URL to find the girl he ogled on the subway last night. NYGirlOfMyDreams.com has a simple mission, it's "skinny, tall, not insane" creator would like to meet the the "fancy-braided, rosy-cheeked, journal writing" girl he saw on the the 5 train at 9:30pm last night. And if it doesn't work out, we're sure he has that URL for at least a year, and we expect to see a rotating cast of illustrated girls he's fallen for underground.
Can't wait to see this play out on the big screen, we're thinking John Krasinski and Natalie Portman or Ryan Gosling and Zooey Deschanel as the leads.
Update: According to this lad's Flickr account, he was at the Apes & Androids show on Halloween...so he can't be all that bad.
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$50 says it's for a movie.
I hope she was a trannie.
Goddamn I had hipsters.
"And if it doesn't work out, we're sure he has that URL for at least a year, and we expect to see a rotating cast of illustrated girls he's fallen for underground."
-- Ouch. A bit cynical, eh?
it wasn't the girl of his dreams.
if it was he would have enough moxie to sit down next to her and ask her out.
How perfectly cute and sweet. And affected.
If only he had said hello...
Correction: I "hate" hipsters. Not "had" hipsters. There are no winners in hipster cannibalization.
This might be legit (not a movie)--godaddy says that this domain was registered yesterday to a Patrick Moberg of Nashville, TN (same name as on the drawing).
edEx, that sort of behavior usually results in a sideways glance, a creeped out nervous smile, and a quick change of seat and/or leaving the train immediately.
jibbly, it depends....
As a woman, I've had different kinds of men hit on me in different kinds of ways while I've taken the subway--and it all depends on the man's approach (and on what mood I'm in at the time). In a few cases, I did give the man my phone number because he approached me in a non-creepy way AND I thought he was cute.
So, you never know. Patrick had nothing to lose by sitting down next to her and striking up a conversation. He was just being a coward.
"So, you never know. Patrick had nothing to lose by sitting down next to her and striking up a conversation. He was just being a coward."
Well, yes and no. If this dude was really so struck by the gal then yeah, he should have went for it, damn the torpedoes. But to say he had nothing to lose is wrong. Your responsse was suggestive of exactly the thing that he did have to lose. Suppose she, like you, were in a "non-receptive to the advances of men" mood. That's called losing a heaping helping of dignity in front of a subway car full of onlookers.
What a dork. Here's a clue: TALK TO HER!
That's usually a lot more effective than creating some stupid web site to track down a girl you were standing/sitting right next to just hours earlier.
Blue tights and blue gym shorts are the stuff dreams are made of?
you're right it does, but 'IF' she liked him too, then not so much... chances are bleak for this young man...
So what is a non-creepy way? How cute does cute have to be?
Not that I try to pick up women on the subway, but considering how uncomfortable mere eye contact is for most people on public transportation (sometimes with the same commuter you see every single day) it seems pretty unlikely that a woman could be receptive to unsolicited advances.
Rulebook also makes a good point. What if this really is the girl of your dreams? Do you attempt to talk to her when she may be forever creeped out by you thus you losing any shred of hope for a future together? Or does the small chance that she'll be interested be odds enough to strike up that conversation? There really is no surefire way of acting in this delicate situation.
Ugh, so sick of this cute ironic shyness bullshit. It's not cute being awkward. Be a man already! Real women will appreciate you for it!
One words: War Zone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Zone_(film)
Whoops, two words, obviously.
Gym shorts with tights??? Girl can't dress.
Jammer, thank you!!!
Some folks need to stop over-analyzing everything and just do it. If you keep focusing on everything that could possibly go wrong, you'll never do anything.
Ps. I'm not keen on the blue gym shorts/tights combo, either, but Patrick obviously liked it. Hey, everybody's got their thing.
Gina Gemini is right re tights. Everyone does have their thing, and that's good. I read a Vows item where the guy proposed to his girlfriend by showing her a laminated copy of the ring appraisal...and she LOVED it. If they're not going to pair up with each other, who are they going to pair up with?
Oh, and do non-creepy, cute guys really hit on girls on the train? I've been living in New York for 11 years so, I'm disappointed that this never happened to me.
I've gone out with 2 lads I met on the train. One creepy, one not, but both cute.
The funny thing is I remember thinking at the time, hey at least this dude can't have slept with anyone I know! Guess what, he had. It's a small town here folks.
http://vimeo.com/373021/
the guy WORKS AT VIMEO :) A VERY COOL WEB SITE, AND HE WAS TALKING TO JAKOB ABOUT THE DRAWING HE POSTED ONLINE
Seriously, please deport these hipsters out of NYC by force!
Girls are not really worth this much attention. Believe me, next week he'll meet the girl of his dreams again. I can understand girls doing something like this but not a guy. So she is the girl of your dreams because of the way she looked, get a life. That's why so many relationship go down the crapper fast, because they was based on looks. If I was that girl I would be a little worried about a guy remembering everything I wore, the color of my clothes, even which side I wore the flower in my hair. Hell, I forgot what I wore yesterday. I wouldn't have done something this extreme, a website with a sketch of the subject. Just ride the train again at the same time in which you last seen her and maybe she'll pop up again. Doing all this shows the signs of a weak and desperate guy and not love or anything close to it. This is more closer to being a BOOTY CALL then a guy seeking his dream girl. Some people said it was cute, this is borderline stalking. I had times in which I wanted to talk to a girl I seen once but instead of posting signs on street corners and sketching a mug shot of her I just waited until I seen her again. Don't get what the guy is doing with being cute, sweet, in love, bullshit. And after reading some post from girls saying this is cute, adorable, charming, OMG! Note to girls: get a life, get smarter, get a clue, get help. This guy just seen a piece of ass he wanted on a train, nothing do to with love. A dream girl wouldn't have a real man doing this, but a guy seeking a booty call would.
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming...
I know that girl her name is Gina Leason. She lives in Staten Island. Good luck.
LET THE MYSPACE STALKING BEGIN!
Hasn't anybody seen On The Line (i don't know why i'm admitting that i have, but whatever)
hehe
I think it's the girl who needs the good luck
He's a bit of a spud
http://www.flickr.com/photos/patrickmoberg/399680885/
there's about 100,000 girls that look like that in albany and in williamsburg. i love insecure people that depend upon the world wide web for intimate communication. i bet he asked his prom date via myspace comment. I would say he used AIM, but that's too quick (and painful). everyone is saying hipster, i think he may be EMO.
Ok, but this is is genuinely good-looking and doesn't seem completely stupid or crazy, like a lot of men out there in NYC. I'd date him!
#32: "everyone is saying hipster, i think he may be EMO."
...or he may just be a pussy. which i guess is synonymous with being emo. or least my understanding of it, circa 1992.