It could be me, it could be me, forever...
I had a date last night with a wonderful gentleman. We had dinner at C.I. Chu's Mongolian Grill. Nevermind the fact that I had already gone there with my family this past weekend, but it was good to eat there again, and unlike how it was with my kin, the all-you-can-eat function was put to good use.
Anyway, this gent was an all-around great guy. He's 32, very easy to make conversation with, and really cute. The fact that he also treated for dinner made me wonder if I should've offered up any special thanks for it other than my verbal expression of gratitude (but I'm getting ahead of myself here).
After dinner, we went to Park Place and walked around. Unfortunately, my compulsion to buy got the best of me and I ended up getting the Back To The Future Trilogy and Hackers (the latter for my li'l bro) from Borders.
We had a good time for the most part.
Here's the crux...
The guy, bless his heart, is incredibly left-leaning. Not at all a bad thing, mind you, but his pop culture awareness doesn't go much further than NPR, PBS and the occasional South Park episodes. When we were at the mall, we went to Spencer's and there was a whole bunch of Scarface tchochtkes. While I'm not gonna make a big deal out of him never having seen the movie (cuz honestly, neither have I), to have never HEARD of it nor known what Al Pachino looks like is pretty bad.
Never had it occurred to me that I need in a guy to have an awareness of pop culture. He needn't be a pop WHORE (gods know there's quite enough of gay men out there like that), but at least have an AWARENESS of it. If for nothing else than to poke fun at it with me.
And I know, that's a really fucking petty thing to be ready to write a guy off for. But there's more, read on...
He also wants to start a family and made it pretty clear at the beginning that he's only gonna get involved with someone that wants the same. For myself, I've thought about it, even considered it, but that's a few more years down the road, if at all. Goodness knows I'm in no damn good position to be caring for another person's life when my own is my immutable top priority.
That and I also think he's a bottom. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing (because I can and have topped a few times), but I would like it to be a little more of an even playing field. Granted, he didn't say outright "I'm a big o' nelly bottom," but from our conversations, I could infer it. Concrete evidence is probably best provided in person.
But yes, though I enjoyed it, I don't see it going anywhere, not even to casual sex. Which is completely fine by me, I'm really not looking for that anymore anyway.
Anyway, this gent was an all-around great guy. He's 32, very easy to make conversation with, and really cute. The fact that he also treated for dinner made me wonder if I should've offered up any special thanks for it other than my verbal expression of gratitude (but I'm getting ahead of myself here).
After dinner, we went to Park Place and walked around. Unfortunately, my compulsion to buy got the best of me and I ended up getting the Back To The Future Trilogy and Hackers (the latter for my li'l bro) from Borders.
We had a good time for the most part.
Here's the crux...
The guy, bless his heart, is incredibly left-leaning. Not at all a bad thing, mind you, but his pop culture awareness doesn't go much further than NPR, PBS and the occasional South Park episodes. When we were at the mall, we went to Spencer's and there was a whole bunch of Scarface tchochtkes. While I'm not gonna make a big deal out of him never having seen the movie (cuz honestly, neither have I), to have never HEARD of it nor known what Al Pachino looks like is pretty bad.
Never had it occurred to me that I need in a guy to have an awareness of pop culture. He needn't be a pop WHORE (gods know there's quite enough of gay men out there like that), but at least have an AWARENESS of it. If for nothing else than to poke fun at it with me.
And I know, that's a really fucking petty thing to be ready to write a guy off for. But there's more, read on...
He also wants to start a family and made it pretty clear at the beginning that he's only gonna get involved with someone that wants the same. For myself, I've thought about it, even considered it, but that's a few more years down the road, if at all. Goodness knows I'm in no damn good position to be caring for another person's life when my own is my immutable top priority.
That and I also think he's a bottom. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing (because I can and have topped a few times), but I would like it to be a little more of an even playing field. Granted, he didn't say outright "I'm a big o' nelly bottom," but from our conversations, I could infer it. Concrete evidence is probably best provided in person.
But yes, though I enjoyed it, I don't see it going anywhere, not even to casual sex. Which is completely fine by me, I'm really not looking for that anymore anyway.