Futuristic Words

Congratulations to all the students who completed the workshop in San Francisco this weekend. I have high hopes for all of you. Vercetti and Big Business, I really appreciate the help. You gentlemen make it easy to forget that running workshops is a job because the whole experience is so easy with such ridiculously competent fellow instructors. Starlight, thanks for your hospitality at the tail ends of the weekend. You’re a prince.

I have scheduled a pair of boot camps for December.

New York: 4-6 December
Los Angeles: 11-13 December

If you’re interested, contact Love Systems either through the company website or by calling (310)836-0150.

If you do sign up for either of those boot camps, you will be treated to the sight of a man newly victorious.

“Newly victorious, Future?” you ask.

Yes.

“But why?”

I’m glad you asked. Because this November, I will be participating in National Novel Writing Month, or “NaNoWriMo” as the cool kids have been known to call it. For those of you who haven’t heard of NaNoWriMo, it’s pretty simple: one month, 50,000 words. I’ve toyed with the idea of spending an entire November huddled around a pot of coffee for eight hours a day while ranting about gerunds and fireballs since I first heard about NaNoWriMo in 2007, but this time I’m going to put my money where my dreams and delusions of grandeur are.

I’ve set up a contest with some of my friends to make the entire event a little more interesting. Everyone contributes $300 before NaNoWriMo begins. Everyone participates in NaNoWriMo. Those who get to 50,000 words get their $300 back. If you get to 49,999 words or less, you are assed out $300 bucks this Christmas shopping seasons. Money left behind is split by the participants who can now finally call themselves novelists when they look in the mirror each morning.

If you live in the New York area and would like to join me in this little adventure/competition, leave a comment (because I’m vain and like comments on my blog entries) and contact me at future@lovesystems.com (because you need to know where and when to drop off your $300 as well as to participate in whatever weird support group this thing will probably end up being). To prevent your message from being lost in the shuffle of my daily e-mail deluge, please include the word NANOWRIMO in your subject if you’re going to make 2009 the year you finally wrote your novel, and you’re willing to put a new iPhone/new PS3 on it. We’re putting the money together this week, so time is of the essence.

I can’t repeat enough how amazing our crew at Love Systems is. I just sifted through their various blogs, and I feel like I attended a seminar myself. Thanks so much for the knowledge, guys:

Braddock’s Blog – I remember when Braddock was a ridiculously promising approach coach. He is now a fucking powerhouse font of knowledge, wisdom, and experience. One of the things I am most excited about for the Love Systems Super Conference is the opportunity to run game with him, listen to his seminar, and otherwise learn at his feet. You probably know that if you are here. If you don’t, here’s LS Instructor Braddock on the Tyra Banks show:

Braddock is one of the funniest people I’ve met, up to and including my peers in New York’s stand-up comedy scene. His blog reflects that, but every now and then he drops knowledge that sends me reeling. To wit:

Why Do I Want a Girlfriend and Want to Bang Every Girl That Moves – Why indeed? As Braddock points out, this is not new data if you’ve read The Red Queen or Sperm Wars, but the section he quotes is a testament to Braddock’s ability to isolate useful information and apply it to his pedagogy.

His interview with Mr. M., Part 2 – God. He just nails some points here. I’ll just say I was humbled when I read this.

Bonsai on Why You Want to Learn to Pick Up a Stripper to Improve Your Game – When I was working with Mystery in the early days, I fell victim to the social pressure that dating strippers was cool. They are ridiculously hot and usually, if they’re not sexually blocked because of whatever issues prompted them to jump on the pole, they’re like demigods in bed. The magic stops there. I had three especially drama-filled stripper situations, and I am a bit skittish about getting back on that horse. That said, Bonsai’s article is a wonderful read because whatever else you say about strippers, picking a beautiful stripper up at the strip club is harder than picking up any other girl anywhere.

Keychain – Keychain and I have spent a pretty serious chunk of hours together during the two bootcmaps we’ve worked, and I cannot wait to see him again at the Super Conference. I would teach every boot camp with him if he wasn’t a damned European because our styles are so very, very different. I am Jolt Cola, and he is red wine. He asked me to comment on his recent post, and I thought it was going to about game. He knows me too well. This post is him being righteous and lovely about people in the SUISC who mangle the English language. Funny as that is, I think this is one of the best primers on approaching during the daytime you’ll ever see.

Vercetti’s Assumption Game – We teach about sexually reframing what a girl says, and we talk about sexual or positive misinterpretation, but Vercetti provides some absolutely perfect examples and gives an incredibly thoughtful explanation of the hows and whys. I utterly love hanging out, working with, and teaching next to Vercetti. His blog is jammed to the neck with great information, and as I read it I can see the echoes of what he is writing in his manner in person. He is a wonder at translating his experiences to actionable teaching.

5.0 “I run out of things to say to girls” – This is one of the top three problems guys deal with on boot camps.* I see it every single week. 5.0 here breaks down clearly and usefully how to tackle an issue that nearly every guy who starts to learn this stuff will eventually encounter. I don’t know too many guys learning this stuff who couldn’t stand to read this entry, um, fifty times.

Tenmagnet on Getting a Woman to Leave in the Morning – Christ, Ten, where was this article four years ago when I started understanding how to talk to girls? I had to learn the hard way. Braddock and Sinn have a special memory of Future’s least tactful ways to usher a girl from an apartment. This is much better, and you have less risk of your building being burned down than some of the more bold approaches I’ve taken.

Also, Tenmagnet analyzes a letter for Mystery authorship – This might only be funny if you know Mystery, but I was laughing out loud. It’s always fun to tease the Dungeon Master.

Big Business on Closing at Their Place – BB used to live in one of Manhattan’s armpits, a little smegma deposit called Astoria. If he didn’t want to have his wang hitchhike away, he had to figure out how to manage logistics such that he ended up with the girl at her own place. My current abode is somewhat uninviting, so I have this shit bookmarked. Also, BB is a human laugh riot.

Soul on Insta-Dates – I’ll confess I’ve advocated Insta-Dates during daytime approaches, but I can’t disagree with Soul here. I still say try for the insta-date, but he’s right that it won’t necessarily go anywhere. My schedule in New York demands that I do a bunch of daytime approaches. I’m an expert, but I still have to cede to Soul. I learn every fucking time the guy opens his mouth on the subject.

Starlight on The Playboy Mansion – This damned dirty son of a bitch pulled a Playboy cage dancer out of the Playboy mansion and came to seminar the next day with bruises on his chest. This while Future lost his phone with, say, seventy incredible numbers on it. Yes, some of them found me through Facebook, so it’s not the end of the world, but the entire experience was enough for me to eschew alcohol for the foreseeable future. (I have a great write-up pending, but I fear I won’t be able to do the experience justice.) Starlight is just a stand-up guy** who radiates positivity, well-being, and success. Read the linked post if you want some inkling on how to handle a truly beautiful woman in a socially charged situation.

Savoy – He wrote Magic Bullets. If you’re here, you probably read his blog. I never, ever stop learning from him. Nothing more need be said.

There you have it. Incredible, dynamic, interesting, intelligent men flooding your brain with powerful information on how to handle one of life’s core issues. The best part is yet to come: every single one of these guys will be at the Love Systems Super Conference 8 October through 13 October:

The Super Conference is probably the highlight of the year for most of us LS instructors. We rarely get a chance to BS and socialize and game and learn and teach together. I’m getting excited just typing this, and you should have already clicked away.

Peace be with you.

*—It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what the biggest of the three are, but they are: failure to approach, failure to speak, and failure to escalate. Ironically, these three major issues correspond to taking the first steps on the Love Systems Triad Model (pdf link). Savoy’s a fucking genius.

**—Literally. He’s one of our tallest instructors, the cunt, and if I wasn’t such a huge fan, I’d love to see him get his knees removed. Don’t worry, Savoy, Helicase, and Braddock, I’ll call you cunts in some other post.

I already knew that our old lead instructors were the stuff of legends. Before I returned to Love Systems, I had shared many fond adventures with the rapscallions who were lead instructors when I was with the company before. Since I started working bootcamps again, I have been consistently impressed by the incredible people who currently work for Love Systems. Soul, Keychain, Calabrese, Starlight, Vercetti, 5.0, Biskit, Prestige, and Big Business, it’s always nice to be around people who are kicking the world in half. I salute you.