Doug Bolden

Who I'd like to meet:

You.

No, well, maybe. I am a guy, and a married one, and I know two-thirds of the adds on this place are for single women. So if you are trying to get with me, well, ask my wife. She's my Top 1, below. She is going to say "no", but I don't want to dash your chances.

If you are a band, then maybe. Send me a message and let me hear your music. I like all sorts and tend to enjoy promoting independent artists.

If you are a writer, then probably. Let me see a sample of your writing but eve if I don't like it, chances are I will go ahead and add you and promote you. If I do like it, then I will make and post reviews about it and the like. I think underground and/or independent writers are going to end up saving our increasingly sluggish book culture.

Let me give a few additional guidelines:

• If you wrote bad poetry in high school and recognize that is bad, now, then I probably would dig chatting with you.
• If you have ever made a joke involving a cynical look on race relations, a literary reference, the current price of oil and a pornographic reference to Paris Hilton using physics, then zip me a note. Because I want to hear it.
• If you love the Da Vinci Code as more than just a friend...then it probably wasn't meant to be with us. Yes, I am being facetious. No, not that much.
• If your profile blinks in any way, then think before adding me, but it might be all cool. Realize that I use the power of Firefox's Stylish plug-in to see your profile like I want to see it, not like you want me to see it.
• If you think it is weird that I am currently eating off-brand Spaghetti-O's with Vienna Sausage's in them, while updating my profile, then maybe add me. Because that is weird.

To be perfectly honest, I am mostly a laid back guy with things. I post lots of blogs, so you can subscribe to it if you want, or just want to stop by from time to time and view it. I rarely change my profile, though, so that will probably bore you.