{"id":3594,"date":"2008-07-29T19:50:43","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T03:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3594"},"modified":"2008-07-29T19:50:43","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T03:50:43","slug":"because-im-luke-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3594","title":{"rendered":"Because I&#8217;m Luke Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend writes:<\/p>\n<div style=\"font: 10pt arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">Hi,I&#8217;m Luke Ford and I just <em>love<\/em> attention&#8230;<em>any<\/em> kind of attention&#8230;from anyone,really&#8230; .the random fair dinkum lost souls who&nbsp;wander into my chatroom to spice up their&nbsp;boring lives..and bitch abt this &#8216;n that,while endlessly commenting on my not so novel anymore&nbsp;beard and green tea jugs that I use as dumbbells&#8230;to the random ladies who get paid to stick needles in me and those who I pay(ok,maybe not in cash, bec I live off Google adsense) to come into the hovel and listen to old 80&#8217;s tunes on youtube&nbsp;which fell off the charts about 25 years ago&#8230;..never to be heard again except here ladies, because I&#8217;m so darn interesting,they never get bored with me&#8230;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font: 10pt arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font: 10pt arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">I mean,lets be real&#8230;I&#8217;m super smart and sexy a la Russell Crowe and such a pretty boy&#8230;..even though my twink days are long gone&#8230;and i&#8217;m flailing&#8230;..<\/div>\n<div style=\"font: 10pt arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font: 10pt arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">Sometimes I just get up and leave in the middle of Kiddish(but not before I pile my plate w cookies&nbsp;and fruit)&nbsp;since I can&#8217;t stand saying goodbye to some of the ppl at my shul because this sort of one-on-one intimacy is just excruciating to me&#8230;.but nevertheless, I stroll,I mean -swagger down Pico blvd with&nbsp;the kind of confidence reserved only to PUA&#8217;s like Neill Strauss who wrote my favorite book &#8216;The Game'(copy,paste link,ofcourse).<\/div>\n<div style=\"font: 10pt arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">(but that doesn&#8217;t mean I want to emulate that stuff,heaven forbid I try to manipulate a woman into bed,that would be immoral&#8230;and I&#8217;m your moral leader!)<\/div>\n<div style=\"font: 10pt arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font: 10pt arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">I&#8217;m utterly&nbsp;fascinated by female journalists,like Danielle Berrin,even though she has a hard time construing sentences&#8230;that make any sense&#8230;where is her editor? I should be her editor&#8230; and her English Lit. professor&#8230;(hot!)and Orit Arfa,well,she&#8217;s hot too&#8230;but she knows nothin&#8217;,nada,niente about what men want&#8230;and they certainly don&#8217;t want to hear a women ramble on about politics!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font: 10pt arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font: 10pt arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">&nbsp;Oh yeah,and I also recently had the attention of a really young lass&#8230;well,praise the good lord I took her name off the title bar of my blog&#8230;I mean&#8230;I am a serious journalist!&nbsp; I have&nbsp; journalistic integrity for crying out loud&#8230;.And I report only on important newsworthy issues&#8230;..like my feelings!&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font: 10pt arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font: 10pt arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">And I still have Holly Randall,daughter of Suze.net.(paste link!&nbsp;)ooops&#8230;delete that,delete,delete&#8230;what if my Rabbi clicks on&nbsp;that &#8230;I mean,I get like 500,0000 hits a day and he might just be one of them and then the rabbi will see me now and&nbsp;what a hassle&#8230;who needs that?&nbsp; So,yeah, there&#8217;s Holly,who buys me lunch and all the other platonic sheilas,who are maybe dissing me&#8230;or maybe not&#8230; because&#8230;I&#8217;m Luke Ford from <a href=\"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">lukeford.net<\/a>!!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend writes: Hi,I&#8217;m Luke Ford and I just love attention&#8230;any kind of attention&#8230;from anyone,really&#8230; .the random fair dinkum lost souls who&nbsp;wander into my chatroom to spice up their&nbsp;boring lives..and bitch abt this &#8216;n that,while endlessly commenting on my not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3594\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[2575,10783,10786,10784,822,10785],"class_list":["post-3594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-fair-dinkum","tag-female-journalists","tag-la-russell","tag-lit-professor","tag-luke-ford","tag-neill-strauss"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}