Meeting Mister Right

I keep telling my lady friends, if you want to meet men, good men, with jobs, a life, and living outside their parents' basement you have to join me for things other than parties and chasing down drinks at bars.

First off, clothing tip for all the ladies: Show off your legs, you cleavage, or your midrift but never all three. If you are looking to find a lasting relationship don't look like a streetwalker. Dress like a porn star if all you want is to be used.

Secondly, To meet quality guys you need proper apparel, locations with men and some idea of what is going on:

1. Comedy Classes. Improv groups, a good sense of humor is golden. But really any self improvement class that does not cry out "this is girlie" is a great place to meet guys.

2. Baseball Diamonds, OH dear god Girls go to a sporting event, and go without your busybody girlfriends who P*$$#block you all the time. Take a baseball cap, sunglasses, and suntan lotion. Buy a thirsty guy a drink and start talking to him. Guys go in pairs so bring a wing girl. Or just go and hunt down a guy who is a third wheel at the ballpark. Tailgating is always a good place to meet guys. Watch out! though they have body guards, good girl friends of his bros won't let a ho's crash their tailgate party. Bring beer, nothing is hotter than a girl sharing brew.

3. Music Clubs, Not bars! Not Dance clubs! No karaoke! Places with live local bands, concerts in the park. Guys don't want to be grinding on your ass after 20 other guys just did the same. Guys don't want to hear you belt out your favorite tune and make our ears bleed. If you are as good as you think you are you would have been discovered before 25. Remember hats, sunglasses, and suntan lotion when outside.

4. Business Conferences, chamber of commerce's, environmental shows, job fairs, acting guild meetings, home & garden shows. Career minded guys can support a good family. Career minded ladies impress them, dress in business attire (that means don't show off your underwear).

5. Blood Drives, can't bet meeting a good guy donating blood. Plus you will find out really fast if he has anything strange if they can't take his blood/plasma. Charitable guys typically have big hearts.

6. Science-Fiction Conventions. Cool guys, good amount of extra cash in their pocket, always happy to have a girlfriend. Unfortunately you will be competing with cool gamer chic's, nerdy girls with banging bodies, models and tailors and other various crafters. You will be surprised at how little you have to offer when Looks are all you have to offer. Cosmo and British scientist have proven girls who play video games have more fulfilling sex. And face it ladies guys who dress in costume are better at role-playing in bed (just learn what a D20 is first). On a side note you can find a Han Solo for the next time you put on your slave girl Leia costume from your college days.

7. Regular-Guy Bars, not a dance club, a bar. A Place guys go to watch sports, play pool, shoot darts, hit a fooseball table. A Guys Bar! Just make sure you find one in your age range. That means a dart club if your over 40, a pool hall over 30, and Dave & Buster's for the 20 crowd.

8. Car Shows. All you need is summer clothes sunglasses and suntan lotion. Go check out cars, both the guys showing off and the guys admiring the rides will be open to lovely intelligent women talking about cars. As with conventions, you will be competing with Indy chic's who know the car scene and models. Bring more than a hot pair of legs if you want to take a good guy home. At least know the difference between domestic muscle and import. Bonus points if you know the difference between Euro and JDM.

9. The Internet. No not dating sites. Social networks, social groups, club organizations, look up clubs and join a few and start talking to people.

10. Annual Events i.e. New Years Parties, Super bowl Parties, St Patrick's, Halloween, etc. Chances are you have this sweet nice guy you know (maybe two) who throw banging parties with people traveling across state lines to attend and you never go (or stick around long). Sure sometimes there is dancing and sometimes not.( If you want to dance, then dance. The more people who just get up and do it the more people who join in.) Most good hosts can mix mean cocktails so give your taste buds a tour of the wide world of liquors. But I digress , that hunky guy with his shirt off has known the host for decades and he is going to get the scoop on you from the host. If you're in with the host your work is halfway done. Just dress for the party, sporting events get jerseys and cheer leading costumes, Halloween is just about anything goes Etc.)

Other thoughts:
Men's clothing stores, want to find a man, go to where they shop for clothes. All guys like meeting lovely ladies who want to help him find stunning well fitting threads. It's almost as valuable as a gay guy shopping for shoes for you girls.
Volunteer, Kind hearts make great lovers.
Educational institutes, Can't beat a man with a college education.
And as Jerry Springer use to say "final thoughts..."
It came to my attention that some woman will scoff at car shows and conventions as a place to meet guys. So let me explain. Guys like this stuff, and the point of this article is to list places to meet good guys. These are good guys, they have been loyal fans of their car or favorite TV show for longer than you have loved your favorite pair of shoes or jeans. These guys are in it for the long haul and that's going to be the same for relationships. The reason you don't value this guys is you fail to realize the amount of effort that people put into these hobbies. For example: the average car guy has done over 10grand of cosmetic car work and much more in performance tuning and upgrades. The Average convention geek has spent hundreds on new costumes every year for two or three conventions (often called con's), often staying in hotel suites for 3-5 days at 200-500 bucks a night, and partying every night like a rock star. That's 15 days of vacation time in New York, Chicago, San Diego, Denver, Tokyo, London just to name a few. That Sci Fi movie or TV show could have been on air for 1 episode, 1 season or 70 years and the fan loves it regardless. The point is, these guys take this type of care and dedication to everything in their lives. Their girlfriend, wife and kids will suffer no less dedication.

Like all dating scenes there are good and bad picks. Good looking guys and sweet guys.

Some Places to avoid:
Dance clubs & Raves, Guys care how your hips move when they want to get laid, the woman they marry have brains between their ears. Try showing off your smarts with heavy base playing.

Weight training rooms are filled with guys who will be more interested in his mirror than you, and most often are gay guys, or 'roid raging abusive pricks. A few reading this right now are thinking about trying to kick my ass for saying so.

Apple store, ipod is awesome but it's a fact apple has 10% of the computer market and 90% of the crazies.

Any bar you frequent, it hasn't worked yet so stop trying.

You or your girlfriends' house parties, you are going to fill your house with your ex's, friends you rejected, and stagnant tired conversations about this week's drama and its going to be the same at her place. Without proper introductions this always bombs, and it turns into a night of one night stands for all.

Green Lantern Pt 2

Saw the 12:01 midnight release of Green Lantern with some friends. It was a stunning film. I highly recommend it. The staff at Cinemark was outstanding, Mr White and Tj, contributed to one of my most memorable movie nights in a long time with fine service and a welcoming attitude. But a review can wait for another time. This blog is all about costuming, and tonight I wanted to show everyone costumes that range from t-shirts to fully sewn and crafted props. So have a look.

Here are some of the fans that joined us for the night. These videos will be edited on the weekend, but as requested I popped them up for the impatient. Enjoy the videos, if your in it or see a friend leave a comment.

Green Lantern Core Greeting.


Latern Core Buttons


Green Lantern Core Oath Recited


Spoilers:Chastising of Fear.


Mike M. Costume

To my RL Friends I will have a video up for you when I wake up lol. It is 6:21 am and I am going to bed.

Historical Societies and costuming?

So this last week I met a few of the ladies and gents from some of the historical societies of Colorado while at Territory Days. For those of you who don't know Territory Days began in 1975 as the "Rampart Range Sertoma Territory Days Parade and Buffalo Barbeque". In 1976 the named was changed to Territory Days to commemorate Old Colorado City as the first capitol of the Colorado Territory in 1861. It is now a three-day street festival.

Check out the link http://www.shopoldcoloradocity.com/content.php?id=97


Anyway some of the most interesting stuff at territory days are all the historical groups, historical societies, civil war reinactment, gunslingers, indians... and ninjas.... samurai...

I am Not kidding. Their are a lot of fun people out there replicating history and it maybe unfair to call replicated, functional items, costumes or props. But the thing is these guys and gals put in a tremendous effort. Something many of us in the costuming world understand. My friends always laugh when I keep saying I want to make functional props or I would like Halloween costumes that don't fall apart (which is why I know build everything myself). But the point I am trying to make is making a functional prop is an art form and all costumers should take a little time and try it out.

So with out further gilding of the lilly, please enjoy some of the fine works I came across at the 2011 Territory Days.

DAY 1 (Sunday)
A few of the very best in show! I even played with photoshop to make some old timey photo effects.

Chics with guns scary....

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Poor Brooke, I tortured here by posing her with just about everyone and everything.

DAY 2 (Monday for me)

I am not sure if they where dressed for the day or visiting, but epic!

Working on the cowboy lean.

Panning for gold with friends.

If you don't see ninja's sneaking up on this samurai you failed the same spot check he did!

Costuming Green Latern Style! PT1

So I am working some masks and costumes for green lantern. But the slick sobs that my friends are, they want to do all the lanterns of the rainbow. We will look like skittles or a gay pride parade at the midnight showing of Green Lantern. So if you don't know anything about comics or Green Lantern its ok.... you might be sane. Anyway, the lanterns are all lit by a power of an emotion. Green is willpower, yellow is fear, red is rage, orange is greed, blue is emotion, purple is love, black is death and white is life.

Something like that anyway. So here I am making costumes in rainbow themes and as I am thinking to myself "How do I get talked into these things?" The girls (who maybe renamed hellspawn deamon glitter bitches from hell (or HDGBfH)) from now one got this bright idea. "Lets not only make shit light up like rings, but what if we add glitter!!!" "OMG! That would be so awesome" On top of it all i got talked into working with GLITTER. OH dear god what did I do to deserve this! So without further complaints take a look at these masks. and some gloves and shirts I got talked into making. (I promise I will add a group photo on friday morning of everyone lite up.

Masks

Oh as a note: Some masks are held on by string, others stick on people with a small adhesive strip. Its epic No strings just pure comic masks.

Mike's Green lantern Gloves and mask (pre Paint)
Anna's Red Lantern shirt

Con 2011-2012 teaser(edited)

Me in Captain Harlock gear (50% done).

Harlock jacket and mantle (Still working on the trim.


Cosmos Dragoon pistol

Gravity Saber
(unpainted)

Commander Shepard Torso (no where near done lol).