Scared of crowds on the subway: Just play Alpha Male

Lifehacker has a little article for subway riders who claustrophobic. I am not sure if it is a joke or meant seriously, but one of the hint is

Be the alpha male - look powerful

All animals(humans included) keep their distance from the powerful alpha males. The vital space is proportional to the importance of the animal. An alpha male will benefit from a larger space, as the weaker ones will tremble in fear and step back.The nice trick here is that you don’t really have to BE a dangerous fellow. In order to maximize your vital space and push the crowd back, all it takes is to look powerful and confident. Not to mention you will probably hook up with some girls along the way - everyone loves a secure and confident guy.How can you do it? I’ll write about this some more in some future articles, but here’s the short version: it’s all in the attitude, language and body language:When you speak, do it a bit louder than usual with larger, confident hand gestures; when you walk try to look big and important; when you seat, keep your feet spread and your arms apart; instead of looking humble, look secure. When it’ll work, you’ll know - people will start perceiving you as a secure, important fellow, an alpha male they need to keep their distance from. Careful though, not to overreact - you don’t want to look obnoxious, loud and aggressive, do you?

Choose Me -- Evelyn Lau

In the middle of reading Choose Me by Evelyn Lau and I thought it was a good time to take a brief respite in the middle and write down how I feel.

First, I gotta say, "I love Evelyn Lau." Must be the whole angsty disgust thing that and broken down depressive -- our bodies are not ourselves -- theme that thread thru everything she writes. I like it. I like it a lot.

Then there is her use of language. It's knitted together very well. Something I always tried to imitate is the way she joins sentences in a paragraph together by the unity of images.

Oh, one more thing I really like. Twisty endings.

She don't use jelly

Tyra Banks apparently has a great tip on dry skin.

I have been reading your messages and a lot of you are concerned that putting Vaseline on your face is not the best thing to do. I have very dry skin, so Vaseline is great for the skin on my face. But if you have oily or acne prone skin, you should probably keep the 'LINE (nickname for Vaseline - pronounced "LEENE") off of your face.

Today, my feet were really ashy, and I put some Vaseline on them before I put my socks on. I just got home. (I went to the movies today to see CRANK. That movie ROCKED. It was sooooo good. It was really violent though and has some sexual stuff that is too strong for the young’uns out there. So I am NOT recommending that people under 18 years old see it! That Jason Stratham - star of the flick - is one sexy dude.) But anyway, I came home from the movies and took my socks off and my feet were ash free. They were glowing!!! Vaseline came to the rescue!!!

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