Vampire Love: Surprises in a Sea of Goths

Quick recap:
About 10 days ago, I embarked on my quest to find a suitable companion via gothscene.com, the ‘alternative dating site’. By “suitable companion”, I simply mean someone with low enough standards to date a broke, over-educated, and under-employed 24 year old male. At this point, vampires, zombies, and goths seem like the only beings capable of meeting the challenge. Communication with two users – Normal Girl and Mass Murderer – have indicated potential dates within the coming weeks. All of the “Vampire Love” posts can be found on the sidebar to the right.

Last night, after checking www.scottbrundage.com, I logged into gothscene with the full intention of starting up a chat with the undead to post in today’s blog. I browsed through the list of online users, picked a random profile and got to work.

To my surprise, I began communicating with an articulate writer. From the beginning of the conversation, I knew that it would be a legitimate exchange of words; far from the incoherent, world-hating babble so common to gothscene.

It was a great chat – one that definitely changed my outlook on the site. Out of all the negative BS that I read each day, it showed me that gothscene does have some positive, bright users.

I even broke the cardinal rule of Chuckblog’s “Vampire Love” coverage – telling a gothscene user about the blog. I couldn’t help it though; my chat partner seemed like she would genuinely appreciate the project, and more importantly, wouldn’t hunt me down, rip out my heart through my throat, throw it against the wall, and watch with delight as I bled to death. If she didn’t live so far away, I’d ask her out on a date to read graphic novels with me at Borders.

Thanks for providing some sanity to my gothscene experience K, hopefully I’ll see you around on the information superhighway.

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