If you want to give Jeff an endorsement, or you want to publicly try and stick a flag in him, here you go.

Do you hate dating too?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2000

Answers

I don't know Jeff incredibly well, but from what I do know, he is sweet and hilarious and one hell of a karaoke artiste. Ladies, please try the pudding. (by which I mean "The Jeff.")

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2000

I wish I were single, then I could sign up for Jeff. He's cute, he's funny, and I love the way he writes. (No offense to previous single guys intended, swear!)

In fact, I think I now need to develop an untenable crush on Jeff and pine over him for a while. Thanks, Pamie! :)

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2000

ok, that's it pamie. i've had it. you simply must stop teasing those of us who are so damn far away from austin with these "cute single boys" (and others, etc., to follow). i mean, it's bad enough that austin has like 300 days of sunshine a year going for it (i saw that on an a & e special last weekend, forgive me, i've been trying to work it into conversation for a while now) - now you have all these cute single boys you are tormenting us with. what's next?

no. really. what's next? i love reading these, please ignore the above blatherings of my inner fool...

p.s. do you know any "cute single boys" closer to boston? or who might be willing to relocate? i'm just asking...

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2000

You know what I like the anticipation of dating - the maybe, the possibility that perhaps this will be the one, but the actual reality is never quite as good. I haven't found many men (at least here in Seattle *sniff* too far away from Cute Single Boy Jeff) who can keep up an intellectual conversation and still manage to be funny and interesting at the same time. Pamie, gotta agree with Liz on this one... it's just not fair

BTW - For those who don't know, theater guys are the best. They have a spark, something that they are passionate about. Sounds strange, but the real world guys can never quite compare.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2000

You're just very mean, Pamie. Tempting us single gals in far-flung locales with cute, interesting men in Austin isn't very nice.

Especially cute, interesting theatre guys. *sigh* And I've always liked the name Jeff. (Which means we can never date, because I've never seriously dated a guy whose name I liked. Don't know why that is.)

Say, Jeff, how do you feel about (probably) older, Rubenesque (like Camryn Manheim, but shorter and with less ear piercings), intelligent brunettes in Los Angeles? I have my own apartment (don't mind the four cats), own my car outright (which surpasses Pamie's for messiness, though there's no food deitrus lying about) and I make decent money (which I can never hold onto). I even work in the entertainment industry (though on the fringes).

Hey, what guy could pass up an offer like that? (No comments from the peanut gallery.)

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2000

Jeff's got a role in "A Clockwork Orange: The Musical?" Dare I get my hopes up for "Taxi Driver On Ice?"

(To the tune of "Blue Moon")

Hey you
Are you talking to me?
I see nobody else here
You must be talking to me...

I swear, the 21<sup>st century belongs to me.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2000</sup>

I continue to enjoy the Cute Single Boy of the Week feature. Thanks, Pamie.

The question is, if I sent any of these guys the URL to my own journal page, would it cause them to run screaming into the night, or what?

Hmmmm... gotta ponder this one... also still wondering about the Older Woman issue (I'm not that much older, but if the guys my age are dating 21-year-olds, imagine how young the women must be who date 25-year-olds?).

I hate dating. The problem is that I seem to have two choices:

1. Go to bars or place ads and deal with strangers in the typical dating atmosphere, which sucks. I don't make a good impression on strangers, to put it nicely.

2. Become romantically interested in men in the group of people with whom I hang out. This doesn't work because they're seeing me as Just One of the Guys, and then I don't want to ruin the whole group dynamic after the guy rejects me and the situation is tense.

Bleah. Dating. Ack.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2000

No offense to the official cute single boys - because you are, baby, you are - but does Mike live in Austin? Because, you know, I don't spend nearly enough time snorting soda out my nose. Ow. Hurts so good.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2000

HAHHahahaha. Hurts so so good.

Um, yes. Do I have to pay shipping and handling in advance to have Cute Single Boy Jeff shipped up to Victoria, BC?

I ask merely for information. Either that or I could move down there and live under Pamie's shelves with the french fry, providing entertainment for the cats and keeping the place tidy. *wistful*

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2000

Why does Omoshiroi's comment make me feel like Nick Tortelli?

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2000

*laughs heartily @ Taxi Driver on Ice and the song that followed, hehehe*

-- Anonymous, April 12, 2000

As much as I like superscript, someone had to do it.

Oh, and I don't want Jeff. He's not my type, being a guy, and all. =)

the_plan

-- Anonymous, April 12, 2000

Oops. I'm a dolt. Forgive me.

the_plan

-- Anonymous, April 12, 2000

What happens to these cute boys after they rotate off the Pamie calendar?

Has this resulted in any love connections?

-- Anonymous, April 14, 2000

Damn you, Pamie. I just followed the Time Banditos link, got a look at Trejo, and had to dig into your archives to read his Cute Single Guy entry. Damn! What a cutie! Smart and funny, too.

Then I re-read Chris's. Wooo! And I still think Jeff's pretty neato, too. I might just have to move to Austin.

-- Anonymous, April 14, 2000

Of COURSE all the cute single boys are in Texas, and not in upstate New York, where I live now. Why the hell did I ever leave Texas? I'm originally from Dallas, where it's hot and sunny pretty much all the damn time. Of course it's also a horrifying, racially divided, born-again-Christian suburban sprawl that makes me vomit, but it's definitely warm. Austin is a sweet, blissful paradise full of young cute single men, as far as I can tell. My town, Ithaca, NY, is a lovely place with lots of hippies and no sprawl, but for men you can either have a soulless frat boy from Long Island (Lawn-GUY-Land), a white guy with dreadlocks who forces vegetarianism upon you, or a married college professor. At 25 I am now officially too old to date anyone I go to school with at Cornell, except for grad students, who are all married. I'm an art major (I paint) and let me tell you, art students are about the most hostile people on earth. Not me, of course, I'm a saint. (Other) Art students are aggressive, gossipy, backstabbing, squabbling bundles of nerves who hate everyone, and male art students are, well, I shudder to contemplate the ones I know. So, could somebody please send up a shipment of sunshine-fed, contented, artistic, cute single men like Jeff? Perhaps an exchange program could be worked out. Hey guys, Ithaca is beautiful in the summer. Unfortunately it's winter ten months of the year... but you loooove snow, right? Ughhh...

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2000