“Clothes make the man; naked have little or no influence on society. ” – Mark Twain I’ll be the first to admit it: once I started wearing clothes that properly, I made a classic nerd mistake: I started to over-correct in the other direction. I started getting a little style obsessed. I started dumping a…
The Basics
Bachelor Pad or Fortress of Solitude?
It’s time to be blunt, nerdlings. Your bachelor pad is going to fuck up any chances you have of getting laid this weekend. Harsh but true. There is nothing quite as well designed to make sex disappear as the man-cave that doubles as a nerd home. When your girl gets through the door and sees…
Fashion For Nerds
Over the years, there’s been an interesting evolution amongst nerds. Growing up in the 80s, the nerd avatar meant tape-wrapped coke-bottle-lens glasses, plaid short-sleeved button-downs , acne, bad hair, pocket-protectors and and high-water poly-blend slacks. In this day and age, those are far more likely to be hipsters. Instead the modern nerd is far more…
The Perfect First Date
So, you’ve emailed that girl from the dating site or you snagged the number of that cute girl at the bookstore, and she wants to go on a date! Oh crap, she wants to go on a date. Shit just got real, son! Um, panicpanicpanic what to do… OK, dinner and a movie! It’s classic! It’s timeless!…
How to Flirt
Flirting is, in my experience, something of a lost art, especially amongst nerds. They simply don’t understand how to flirt. Too many young nerds have hit some sort of mystical, magical combination of bad influences that seems to have convinced them to make all the wrong moves. It seems to be split into the camp…
How To Get Girls Into Comics…
Don… oh screw it, I’ve made this joke too many times. This is one of the most common questions I get that isn’t “Should I tell her I like her?” or “how do I get this girl to like me?” and it deserves its own entry into the Dr. NerdLove canon. It’s one of the…