Tuesday, November 10th, 2009...8:46 am
Come. Join My Cult.
In my never-ending quest for world domination to sell more books to make my readers’ lives even more wonderful, may I suggest you join a How Not To Act Old Meetup. If you’ve never heard of a Meetup, well, that’s all the more reason to hurry on down there because it’s a sign you might be acting old. Meetup.com is a computer dating service for mature singles who want to get together for every kind of reason you might think of besides dating.
So, yeah, you can get together with 16 other people who don’t want to act old and sit around reading sections out loud from the book and practicing them. And then you can each go and start your own meetups with 16 new people, provided, of course, that you all buy copies of the book. And then those 16 people can each go and…
Radical idea, I know. I don’t think it’s ever been done. But I think I may be onto an innovative way to get rich quick.
For now, there’s an existing How Not To Act Old meetup in (where else?) LA, and one pending in (wha’?) Des Moines. Plus that map below, like something in a horror movie, seems to be a living, breathing entity, with new potential meetups sprouting up all the time.
But don’t worry, there’s still a lot of open territory. Act now! First ten callers get a Bernie Madoff bobblehead.
Hi There,
I’m new to the blog but judging from the title I think I get the gist. I just wanted to point out that Meetup is not a dating site. In fact it the first thing that occurred to me upon reading that is that by calling it a dating site you’re drawing attention to the fact that you aren’t really familiar with it. And since it’s a site that many young people use well…you get the idea.
Thanks, Robin. I guess my sentence wasn’t clear — I was trying to say meetup is LIKE a dating site for people who want to get together for reasons OTHER THAN dating. While sharp-witted readers can undoubtedly catch me acting out-of-it and old in a lot of cases, this isn’t one of them.
We really need you to come to Houston and help me explain to my neighbors/customers/friends what is making them look and act old. Our children would appreciate it. Especially when it comes to “social networking” which really scares those of us who thought they were cool because they used a Selectric.