The Game Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Arttists
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TRIANGULAR GAZING—verb: a technique used directly before attempting to
kiss a woman, in which, while making eye contact, a man takes several short, suggestive glances at her lips. WBAFC—noun [way-below average frustrated chump]: a man who is extremely unsuccessful with women, usually due to awkwardness, nervousness, and lack of experience. WING—noun: a male friend, generally with some pickup knowledge, who assists one in meeting, attracting, or taking home a woman. A wing can help by keep- ing a woman's friends occupied while the pickup artist talks to her, or by talk- ing to the woman directly about the pickup artist's positive traits. Also: wingman. WINGWOMAN—noun: see pivot. WOOD—noun: useless; a waste of paper; generally used to describe a woman's phone number when she gives it to a pickup artist freely but is unlikely to call him back when he phones. YES-LADDER—noun: a persuasion technique in which a person is asked a se- ries of basic questions designed to elicit positive answers, increasing the likeli- hood that the person will also respond in the affirmative to a final, open-ended question. For example: "Are you spontaneous? Are you adventurous? Would you like to play a game called the cube?" ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Where are they now? In the time since this book was written, enough has occurred in Project Hollywood and in the lives of the characters in this book to warrant a sequel. However, a synopsis will have to suffice. My story is done. Let the credits r o l l . . . Thanks to Mystery, who followed through on his plan to move to Las Vegas with his girlfriend, Ania. They live together in an apartment on Las Vegas Boule- vard. He finally found a worthy business partner, Savoy, who has turned his fi- nancial life around. He now runs workshops nearly every weekend. The price is a staggering $2,250, but from what I've seen, everyone leaves happy. His first friend in Las Vegas: David Copperfield, who saw the article on the community in the New York Times, contacted Mystery and now talks to him almost daily. How- ever, Mystery has yet to succeed in talking Ania into a threesome. Thanks to Tyler Durden and Papa, who soon fled Project Hollywood them- selves. After several more PUAs came and went ignominiously from the house, they moved a new age couple into Mystery's room in exchange for the right to use the couple's New York apartment as a base for workshops. Hare Krishna devotees of the new residents dropped by to pay tribute almost daily—offering song, dance, and psychic battles in the Project Hollywood living room. But when Tyler Durden went to Manhattan to run a weekend workshop, the person living in the couple's apartment wouldn't allow him to teach there. In the meantime, according to house residents, a struggle for control of Project Hollywood began. The truth about what happened next may never be known. The new age couple contend that Tyler Durden and Papa skipped out after local authorities tried to deliver a summons charging them with running a commercial business in a residential zone. Tyler Durden and Papa maintain that the Project Holly- wood rent was simply draining too much company income. Either way, a 450 month and a half before the eighteen-month lease was up, Papa, Tyler Durden, and the rest of the pickup artists living in the house suddenly packed a U-Haul van and left. They moved into an apartment complex a block away from Lisa and the mental care facility where I took Mystery. Tyler Durden lives there with his new girlfriend, and Papa continues in his quest for Paris Hilton. He feels he is getting close. The pair continues to run Real Social Dynamics and receive ex- traordinary testimonials from students. Thanks to Project Hollywood, which is now inhabited by an eccentric new age couple and a wonderful cleaning lady. She calls herself the Cleaning Bud- dha, and she lives in my old bedroom. Thanks to Herbal and Katya, who remained together for six months in Austin. Herbal lives with his wallaby, Shaniqua, in the house he owns there, where he is training to beat the 100-meter dash record for a bet and offering a reward to anyone who can successfully master the sleep diet. Katya returned to New Orleans, where she is working as a model and makeup artist. Her brother became a born-again Christian and has not had a symptom of Tourette's in over a year. Thanks to Sickboy and Playboy, who were not able to leave the seduction world behind when they returned to New York. They now run a company to- gether, Cutting Edge Image Consulting, which offers audio programs, work- shops, and e-books in image enhancement and dating. Thanks to Dustin, the king of the naturals, who is still living in Jerusalem, where I was unable to attend his wedding to a Rabbi's daughter. Thanks to Marko, who is now engaged in Belgrade. He tells me that he re- jected the advice of the PUAs and wooed his fiancee over a period of several months with poetry, flowers, and proper dates. They plan to move to Chicago and start a family together. Thanks to Ross Jeffries, who eventually ended his rivalry with Mystery. He dated a nurse briefly and is now back in the field sarging, making, he says, ma- jor breakthroughs in helping guys overcome their fear, shyness, and old habits of thinking. He has been branching out from NLP, and exploring more spiri- tual ideas for personal transformation with a heart awakening instructor and a yoga teacher. Thanks to Courtney Love, who has resolved her court cases and managed to stay out of the tabloids so far. She is happily living in her own house in Los Feliz with her daughter and working on a new album with Billy Corgan and Linda Perry. She says that she wants to play Katya in the movie. Thanks to Formhandle, who has thanklessly and tirelessly kept this com- munity running. His Fast Seduction website remains the clearinghouse for all ACKNOWLEDGMENT 451 matters pickup-related, and his research and website were instrumental in put- ting the glossary together. And to Cliff, the other pillar of the community, who recently brought hundreds of students and several dozen instructors to Mon- treal for his first annual pickup artist convention. Thanks to Sin, who married the woman he liked walking on a leash in At- lanta. I recently had the honor of meeting her; you'd never suspect it. Thanks to Britney Spears, who also got married. Twice. And to Tom Cruise, who recently announced his engagement and wasn't afraid to proclaim his love from the rooftops. Every time I have to make a tough decision, I ask myself: "What would Tom Cruise do?" Then I jump up and down on the couch. Thanks to Dreamweaver, who is now writing screenplays. Shortly before publication of this book, he was diagnosed with brain cancer and brought to the hospital by Maverick. The father of Versity, one of the members of Mystery's Lounge, is a top cancer surgeon, and has offered to help. Dreamweaver, you are one talented, creative person, and our prayers are with you. Thanks to Grimble, who devoted himself full-time to marketing his seduc- tion e-books and audio courses; to Twotimer, who left Los Angeles to attend graduate school; to Vision, who recently became the godfather of Versity's child; and to Sweater, who is in the process of separating from his wife. Thanks to the community itself and to the hundreds of friends I've made over the last two years. May you all find what you're looking for—in love and in life. Some of you may fret that I've given the game away. But don't worry: There will always be a way for a man and a woman to meet and have sex. And whatever that way happens to be, all of you will find it. Thanks to Caroline, Nadia, Maya, Mika, Hea, Carrie, Hillary, Susanna, Jes- sicas I and II, and all the other amazing, unique women who became part of my life. Call me, and I'll explain everything. Thanks to all the rest of the gurus: David DeAngelo, whose mailing list has grown to an estimated 1.1 million names and who is now offering women ad- vice on how to catch and keep men; Rick H., who moved to Romania to pursue his latest business and romantic adventures; Steve P. and Rasputin, who are sharing their techniques in a video series. Thanks also to Swinggcat and David Shade. Thanks to everyone who allowed me to reprint their posts and field re- ports. Juggler, who has put his comedy career on hold to expand his seduction business and complete his e-book, is living with his new girlfriend, a fitness trainer and marathon runner; he still likes Barry Manilow. Extramask, who sep- arated entirely from the community to focus full-time on starting a comedy ca- reer and a weekly live show. Jlaix, who found the bisexual girlfriend that 452 Mystery has always dreamed about and has detailed their adventures in a series of careening field reports that are worthy of their own book. Thanks to Judith Regan, who accused me of attracting her thirteen-year- old daughter on page six of the New York Post, She was joking, I think. And even if she wasn't, I'd forgive her. She supported me in this whole crazy adventure from day one, and has been not only a publisher but also a patron saint. Thanks to the rest of the staff at ReganBooks, particularly my [insert hyper- bolic adjective here] editor Cal Morgan, who was so excited to meet Lisa after ed- iting the book that when he saw her he was too tongue-tied to speak a word. Thanks also to the long-suffering Bernard Chang, Michelle Ishay, Richard Ljoenes, Paul Crichton, Cassie Jones, Kyran Cassidy, and Aliza Fogelson. Thanks to Ira Silverberg, my agent, who keeps trying to get me to write about a highbrow topic. And thanks to Anna Stein and the rest of the staff at Donadio and Olson. Thanks to David Lubliner, Andrew Miano, Craig Emanuel, Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz, Andrea Giannetti, Matt Tolmach, and Amy Pascal for support with the other Project Hollywood. Thanks to Fedward Hyde, my humble correspondent, for research assis- tance, and for sesquipedalian e-mails worthy of a Joyce. Maybe not James Joyce, but at least Dr. Joyce Brothers. (You've been Stylemogged.) Thanks to Lovedrop, who created the original Mystery Method course handout. And thanks to Sue Wood, who patiently transcribed tape after tape, which was no easy feat consider- ing the many hours of hypnosis and house meetings contained therein. Thanks also to Laura Dawn and Daron Murphy for laboring through additional tapes. Thanks to my many self-improvement instructors, among them Joseph Arthur (for voice lessons, infinite wisdom, and an eye-opening Esalen retreat) and Julia Caulder (for teaching me Alexander Technique and letting me watch her sing Wagner at the Los Angeles Opera). Thanks to everyone who read early manuscripts, among them Anya Ma- rina, Maya Kroth, M the G, Paula and Hazel Grace, Marg the mean babysitter, and my brother, Todd, who now has images in his head that he'd rather forget. Finally, yes, Lisa and I are still together. And though I've learned everything there is about attraction, seduction, and courtship in the past two years, I learned nothing about maintaining a healthy relationship. Being together has required a lot more time and work than learning to pick up women ever did, but it has brought me far greater satisfaction and joy. Perhaps that's because it is not a game. Document Outline
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