Hey! Welcome back, Sunday Showcase! We’ve missed you!

Steve is up on deck today and is a fellow blogger. I don’t remember how I stumbled across Steve’s blog some time back, but he delivers some really funny and often painfully honest commentary on his personal dating life. I think it was probably his Craigslist All Stars Posts (One, Two, Three and Four, um, I guess Three again, but a different post). He has this thing where he photoshops pictures to go along with his blog and the end result is generally really funny. He’s also self-deprecating, which I love. If you can’t make fun of yourself, really… How are you going to make fun of other people? That’s my motto anyway.

ANYWAY, Steve posted recently about getting a Dating Coach. Apparently, she used to edit profiles for a dating site and I guess that makes her an expert…? I dunno. I tweeted to Steve that he should submit to Sunday Showcase because I think you guys should be able to help him with his personal ad more so than this other chick with a blog she rarely updates. Ahem. Sorry, my hater-dar is beep-beep-beeping.

ANYWAY (part deux), here’s Steve’s profile on Match.com.

For those of you who aren’t up to speed on how Sunday Showcase works, here’s the gist: This area is something of a snark-free zone. It takes a bit leap to share your personal ad with the world and open yourself up to criticism from complete strangers from all over the world. So, if you’ve got input for Steve, try to find a way to phrase it in a constructive manner. If you don’t play nice on these posts, I have no beef blocking your ability to comment on the blog as a whole. I am fiercely protective of my Showcasers.

Here he is:

I think it’s a pretty good profile. The Online Wing Woman suggested that he’s too smiley in his pictures which I just found… I mean, kind of hysterical. In one of Steve’s posts, he mentioned this and said: “I couldn’t find a single photo of me not smiling. This might be an issue, apparently.” I couldn’t disagree with this more — if you are a smiley person and you’re happy and cheerful, your pictures should communicate that. Now, if you’re secretly an emo joker who cuts his arms and wears long sleeves and bright smiles to cover up your deep, dark sadness… Then perhaps smiley pictures are misleading. But from what I know of Steve from reading his blog and following his Twitter/Facebook feeds, he’s a cheerful guy with a successful career, a heart for volunteering, and a great group of friends that he enjoys spending time with. Sounds happy to me. Why hide that?

The Online Wing Woman also suggested he read The Game.[heavy fucking sigh] Seriously… I will never understand. Dating is about experiences — not about reading books to learn the rules. GO. DATE. LIVE! What you think you know about the opposite sex is often thrown right out the window on your next partner. People are all different and trying to build a formula that will work on everyone across the board is insulting. To me, at least.

I think this is a good profile — you learn about who he is and how he spends his time. He touches on what he’s seeking, but doesn’t dwell. He doesn’t take himself too seriously, which I think makes people feel at ease.

Steve, I have no idea why online dating hasn’t been successful for you, pal. Maybe it’s where you live? Don’t let your appearance as a “nice guy” discourage you — from my experience, nice guys don’t have a good time dating in their twenties because bitches are obsessed with bad boys. But it won’t be long before women will see how great it is to date a nice guy.