Win a Free Ticket to Avenue Q and a Date with Me!
Posted by Lauren | Under Adventures in the Modern Dating World, New Media Events with 166 views Monday Sep 3, 2007A random idea is random! Depending on the responses I get, this could either be a fun, unconventional way of meeting new people or a fast ticket to blogosphere loserdom.
Do you want to be more awesome and watch Avenue Q before everyone else can? Do you want to be even more awesome and watch Avenue Q before everyone else with a hot girl? Well now is your chance to make that happen!
What the hell?
I have an extra ticket to the Thursday (Sept. 6) show of Avenue Q, courtesy of the awesome Anton. It shall be at the RCBC Plaza Makati, 7 pm. And I want you to go with me!
Date me? No? kkz.
Srsly? How?
It’s very simple! If you are a single male blogger between the ages of 21-29 based in the Philippines (sry, I don’t have the funds to fly you out here :P), all you have to do is answer a very easy question: Why should Lauren watch Avenue Q with me?
So as to avoid bias or whatever, I am letting my best friend Kristel pick out my date for me. She doesn’t scare easy so feel free to answer the question in any way you want. (Hint: we’re both suckers for self-deprecating humor. Especially me.)
E-mail your answers to an.obliteration@gmail.com with the following information listed below.
- Your name
- Your blog URL
- Your cellphone number and YM handle
- A photo of yourself if your blog doesn’t have one
- Subject of the e-mail should be “Lauren’s Avenue Q Contest” so Kristel doesn’t get confused.
- Again, you MUST answer the question: Why should Lauren watch Avenue Q with me?
Deadline of all contest submissions is at 4:00 pm, September 5. Teh winner shall be contacted through text and/or YM.
This guy could be you!
So what’s the catch?
I shall only be asking two things from the winner:
1) Show up on time
2) Write a review of Avenue Q in your blog. You don’t really have to say that you watched it with me, although a mention would be kind of nice. 
3) Number three is optional but it would be much appreciated. Please don’t be creepy afterwards?
Oh, and I don’t actually have the tickets with me right now. Anton says to just kind of show up at the RCBC Theater at 7 pm. So if it turns out that there are no free tickets, or there’s just one free ticket and none for you, I’m buying you dinner. You pick where (but nowhere expensive, k?).
I’m harmless! Really!
But why should I go on a date with you?
1) I’m very easy to talk to. As long as you have a triple-digit IQ and can speak the English language fluently, I think we’ll get along fine. I can spew word vomit on a variety of topics - music, movies, books, philosophy, the environmental problems plaguing the state of Montana. Alternately, I’m also a very good listener. But be warned–I can smell bullshit from a mile away.
2) I’m low-maintenance and independent. Don’t have a car? No problem - I can hop on a train or hail a cab and meet you wherever.
3) I’m not that creepy. If I have a good time, you don’t need to worry about waking up to 25 missed calls and 10 text messages from me where I swear my undying love to you and insist that our children be named Talulah and Amadeus.
So go! Send those emails! Now! It’ll be fun. Promise. xD
I’m jealous. I wish I had free tickets to somewhere for my Date Me thing. Good luck!!! Hope you have a good one.
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you really did it. have you no shame?? lol i kid, i kid.
i would give this a shot but.. you know. it would be pointless considering how that other plan worked out lol
Well, I suppose it’s not any different than putting out an ad in a newspaper ads section, hehe… or signing up for those dating sites on the Net.
Kudos to your… ehrr, kickass bravery, LOL. Umm, hopefully you don’t get stuck with anyone creepy.
You should’ve also included “Your picture” as a requirement, hehe… just in case his blog doesn’t have a picture anywhere on it.
tickets to the theater and free dinner courtesy of an attractive young women? only a loser would refuse!
ah, if only i were not swamped with work and school — and i wasn’t pals with your mom yet
Considering that I entered before you put up the blatantly discriminatory restriction on international entries, I see it as only fair that my entry is still considered valid.
Racist!
I would have liked to see Avenue Q pero ang dami mong requirements eeeeeeeeeeh. Hahaha.
Damn the Pacific Ocean! Damn the Pacific Ocean!
aba ok to ah.
Me suggestion lang ako. I-request mo na gumawa ng parang introduction video yung mga potential dates mo tapos ipaupload mo sa YouTube.
o di ba? para maging kwela. ^_^
This I gotta see! I can’t enter the contest because I’ve already bought tickets. Also, I’m married. But you have to promise to post pictures of your date.
Cool, good luck on the date thing…. =p
- Your name (Ulrich)
- Your blog URL (www.2girlsAndaDick.com)
- Your cellphone number and YM handle (0917-my-nuts, imawhore@yahoo.com)
- A photo of yourself if your blog doesn’t have one (i look like the love child if a kangaroo and penguin mated)
- Subject of the e-mail should be “Lauren’s Avenue Q Contest” so Kristel doesn’t get confused. (let’s change it to… Ulrich’s ‘back-alley’ avenue?)
- Again, you MUST answer the question: Why should Lauren watch Avenue Q with me? (because i don’t change my clothes, never took a shower in my life, and oh i know how to fuck myself)
Fuck you Ulrich. You’re never there for me when I need you. I hate you. I think we should break up.
RCBC is just a spit away from my work place. I met all your requirements, huzzah! Except for that tiny bit on age. Bummer.
*is n9*
wow, pano naging ‘n9′ yan? Stupid keyboard…
*is 19*
how sad.
T*ngina, I want the ticket! Why is it only for men? What a sexist whore! Bwahaha.
I likey like it! It’s subtle men buying! Now if I could only pull my lazy ass to work first, then I can start selling myself online too. Haha. 
@boyutal I think my requirements are already scary enough as it is. Haha.
@fruityoaty Good idea! Haha I did that just now.
@Pete Fly to Manila and I’ll take you! I haven’t spoken to you in ages dude.
@Derek I knoes.
@RJ But you’re into comics! You seem cool.
@Fritz How old are you anyways? You don’t seem that young. Or that old.
@Macy HAHAHAH! I’m sick of girls. Stop sleeping and start working!
my boyfriend and I are planning to watch it cos he got free tickets too…
But I’m still outside the age requirement though :p
This is tempting
Can geeks with self esteem issues and social anxiety problems apply?
Haha sure!
Lauren never said anything about the tickets being free…….. cheapskate! And to think I was considering braving the trip across the aussie continent before a quick dip in the Timor sea, through SE asia, and arriving in Manila for Thursday night…
Oh wow! Singing puppets! I like
WOW - this like totally upgrades you beyond passive sociability! LOL
I’d kill for a ticket (or two…or five) more than the date - you understand where I’m coming from, right? You’re just not the right, um, gender, haha.
Good luck with your contest! Hope you meet someone nice.
I expect to watch this will all my queer friends as soon as we can raise ridiculous amounts of cash, haha.
cool.. i wanna watch avenue q! i had the cd b4.. the songs are soooo catchy.. anyways, cant wait for your blog entry of your experience!
Lauren, do you drink and smoke a lot? If yes, I’ll join… lol
@Rocky What can I say, I get crazy ideas every now and then. xD Go go watch! I’m really looking forward to it.
@Ian Tickets are kinda pricey but I would definitely watch even if I didn’t get them for free. Of course free is a lot nicer.
@TJ lolz as a matter of fact I do! Well I smoke way more than I drink, but same diff.
What the? Now that’s a blog post. Good luck with the dates Lauren.
WHO WON WHO WON??! TELL!!
I got to watch tech-dress. It was cute!
That date better treat you right, that’s my hood yo. xP *snaps-snaps!*
Damn, just got here TODAY and the contest’s up and gone. I would have loved a date with a hot girl with a hot tongue like ya. That is if you had chosen me of course. But you are open to other dates aside from this contest of your’s eh? Are you? I would love to apply for a date with ya. That is if you find mentally-slow and facially-challenged guys like me acceptable and worth a minute of your time(with seafood and probably adobong aso on our dinner table.) Eh? I gotta go, my throat’s burning with my rabid saliva. Ah, the burn….you burn me.
You’re too cute. Has anybody told you that you’re the splitting image of Rachelle Ann Go?
I’m watching Avenue Q too, but my girlfriend and I got tickets for a later date. Great blog.
that’s today!! who won??
Is it too late to submit my entry? Pak da age gap!
[…] It never fails to surprise me how I have more readers than I think. My last entry elicited more spectators than actual contestants, and more spectators than I expected. (Hell, it got more comments than my n00dz. wtf.) Well I suppose I shouldn’t be too surprised since I made quite a spectacle out of myself back there. So to satisfy everyone’s curiosity, I shall make a rather brief entry on What Happened That Night. […]
Shit why aren’t I a guy and living in manila right now. I guess I’m just going to save up money and watch avenue q over here.
Sorry that whole thing didn’t work out for You! But that was one lucky guy in your video clip — why on earth did he duck from Your playful puff?
[…] Offer free dates on your site. Get your male visitors involve in a contest of sorts, require them to blog about why they think they deserve a date with you, and require them to blog about your date right after. Sounds familiar, you say? Of course, Lauren did it. Ask her yourself, or, head over to her blog and see for yourself how well it worked. Heh. […]
Hey, Lauren! First time I read your blog and I’m kinda hooked. Just like with your mom’s blog. I was lookin’ for your blog and luckily I found it inside the pages of Sunday Inquirer Magazine.
Great idea to get a date. I almost tried this once in my Friendster blog to have someone watch The Simpsons Movie with me but I backed out at the last minute due to financial constraints. Hehe….:grin: