Video of the Day: The Subway Cyrano Speaks Up

People are having mixed reactions to Patrick Moberg's simple quest in trying to find the girl of his dreams. It's really working some folks up that he's attempting to track her down through more creative ways than, say, Craigslist. Well, we approve, but we too were left wondering why oh why he didn't just speak up on the subway that fateful day, when she was right there before his very eyes. He explains:


Do you think he'll find her? Maybe we're suckers, but we're rooting for him!

Email This Entry


Comments (31) [rss]

Good Luck with the search. How about buying a full page ad in the Daily News, the Post and the Times?

I tried, but I couldn't make it through the entire video... Painfully pathetic and just boring IMO.

user-pic

I can't help you find this girl, but I do know a good therapist.

Too many "like"s in his vocabulary.
And, what was that he pulled out of his ear with his little finger. Way to impress the girls, Cyrano.

Pray for a gas attack in the Bedford L stop.

It's obvious that Mr. Moberg's "simple quest" is not to find the girl (if there even is one), but is instead to get noticed by some gullible talent scout from MTV Networks looking to fill the role of disaffected hipster/slacker on the next season of the Hills or Real World 47. Good Luck!!

user-pic

yeah he's lame but i bet he'll still get laid for his efforts

It's a pretty cute audition tape for a spot on The Pick Up Artist!

Here's what you have to do Patrick: give up on the girl from the train. Become a filthy rich billionaire. Entrap some young sucker architect with a stunning wife in Las Vegas when you're old and wrinkly. Then make an indecent proposal to work off the young man's debt by sleeping with his wife. It won't work out in the end for you, but that's how I hear how these situations tend to resolve themselves.

Also, stop fidgeting with your hair.

This guy is just looking for attention! Maybe it wants a casting director to call him right about now.

In the words of Elaine Benes, "fake fake fake fake fake fake fake"

In addition, I'm quite sure that he will meet a girl from this. In fact, plenty of girls. He will then proceed to give them the worst sexual experience of their lives, if his fidgeting is any indication of his dexterity with a clitoris.

This is obviously and ad for facebook.

He's cuter than I thought he'd be! Awww... little bear.

This guy is a fraud, its a con of some sort and we're all suckers in his hipster ruse. Wonder how long til he's roaming time square with his schwantz hanging out looking for more attention...

actually, i bet it's an ad for vimeo. those guys are retarded that way.

also, i just wanted to add "ah, fall, when a young man's fancy turns into internet memes"

This is really not a scam, fake, ruse, etc. He's not looking for talent scout. Patrick is a genuinely nice guy who happened to have this simple request get a little more coverage than he expected. Let the romantic be a romantic, and quit trying to knock him down.

That was really sweet. He is very cute. I hope that he finds her.

I hope the girl he meets gives him herpes.

I do wish the guy luck, but I have to agree with comment #3 - I couldn't get through the video.

Some women like self-consciously bashful boys. Some do not. It could work out...

Maybe she's hiding till this all blows over. Or maybe she's waiting for the right media response that has some bucks behind it (which may never come). In any case, can you imagine being that woman and trying to decide whether to come forward or not?

Sweet diversion entertainment in a cynical world.

How did they not play James Blunt's "Beautiful" over this video? That's what this story is. Minus the other guy being on the train with her.

I guess creative people have to put themselves out there. Moberg appears to be a recent transplant to NYC, since he's still using his parents' address to register his domain. Might be a family habit, as his brother also appears to live at home.

Man, some of you are such cynical douchebags.

Hopefully, all this focused rage and attention at his hipsterness will pay off and the girl will see and contact him. Then he'll go out on a date or 12, and sooner or later they'll find out that they absolutely hate each other. But maybe there will be hot sex in the interim.

Then maybe he'll fall in love with her roommate, and they'll have to try to hide their romance, also creating the hot sex scenario. But then she'll be a WASP and he'll be a Jew, and the families will despise each other, and then they'll break up too.

And then! On the way home from the breakup, he'll ride the train and see some other girl of his dreams, this one wearing boxer-briefs over her blue jeans and this whole mad cycle will begin again.

Or at least it would have if he hadn't gotten attacked by a homeless guy who snagged an unsecured chainsaw from the MTA and sawed off his arm. But then, maybe his nurse will be hot, and accepting of his one-armed-ness.

The End

©2007

Oh wait. I guess I'm a cynical douchebag too!

Can we just have him arrested and beaten down by the NYPD somehow! We shouldn't have to tolerate anymore artsy hipster stunts after the TSq naked man! And for all you stupid commenters who support him just STFU!

Why am I not surprised that Jen Carlson approves of this self conscious shy hipster boy nonsense; why am I not surprised that this is garnering so much attention on this site? This is so retarded. They need start serving testosterone shots alongside PBR at Union Pool. What a total pussy.

there's about 100 girls that look exactly like that, up here in Albany. they're in the capitol hipster cult. there's just no PBR fascination, just urine.

Ahhh, cute. But does he have head lice?

Post a comment (Comment Policy)

Tips

Get your daily dose of New York first thing in the morning from our weekday newsletter, now in beta.

About Gothamist

Gothamist is a website about New York. More

Editor: Jen Chung
Publisher: Jake Dobkin

Newsmap

newsmap.jpg

Contribute

Latest Tip:

The Evolution of the Hipster: from 2000 to 2009
[more]

Latest Photo:

Subscribe

Use an RSS reader to stay up to date with the latest news and posts from Gothamist.

All Our RSS

Follow us