Romantic Insight

LA Blogs has a nice little survey regarding dates and love in the City of Angels. Here's my answers:

1. Best place to meet someone new?
In my experience, I haven't really met someone new too many places. More often than not, one meets people through other people, so it depends on what you and your friends like to do. If you and your friends like museums and art, then perhaps the best place to meet someone new is a gallery.

2. Best place to take your first date?
The best experience you can have with a first date is someplace where you can get to know them a little better. Most often, it's a great plan to organize dinner or drinks to talk over, a walk somewhere scenic afterwards with many conversation pieces, and then a great place to have dessert. Living near the beach means there's tons of places like that, but one of my favorites happens to be Laguna.

3. Your worst first date?
Fortunately, there is no story worthy enough to add to this space. Plenty of first dates have turned into horrible incidents further on down the line, but no terrible first dates…

4. Great date on a budget?
If anyone ever travels around Pasadena, the Huntington Library is by far the best place to walk, talk, view works of art, and take numerous pictures. By far one of the best places I've ever been on a date, and terribly romantic during a beautiful Summer day.

5. And a date with no $$ limit?
Right now, I'm thinking incredibly expensive steakhouses, but that's too typical. Nothing beats going all out with flowers, a fancy dinner, an exquisite location, and a fine bottle of champagne, I guess. Although there is something to be said for taking a scenic helicopter ride or even a ride in a hot air balloon.

6. Ever been on a blind date? How did it go?
Never been on a blind date, thank goodness, so nothing to report here.

7. Your most memorable dating experience (good, bad or ugly)?
Trying to take a drunken girl out to meet friends is a bad (very, very bad) idea. I blame myself for not recognizing the amazing inebriation of this girl. Woe is me for having to be embarrassed in a very public place too. No details to report, just pain and a red face.

8. Is there romance in Los Angeles?
There's romance everywhere. I find that romance is a subjective thing that can't be wrapped in a present or drank from a bottle, most often it's a situational happenstance that most often will be remembered as romantic rather than intended as romantic.

Either that, or I'm not that smooth.