He and I ate at a restaurant called the “Rock Bottom” (which despite the name, did not seem as though it was suffering any ill effects of the economy going down the crapper). I updated him on my nutty life as a writer and 11 1/2 minutes of fame via CNN. He gave me the latest dish on mutual friends and told stories about the psychotic woman at work whose cubicle walls are so high that they are now dubbed “The Walls of Gondor.”

Somehow we got on the topic of Facebook, or more specifically, my general disdain for all FB applications and his love of FB games. He was trying to explain this application called YoVille which I  now understand is kinda (but not really) like The Sims – but with crappier graphics.  Zynga, the software developer, claims that YoVille is “the coolest virtual world on Facebook.” (There’s more than one virtual world on Facebook? Good lord. I don’t even have a *real* life.)

Here’s is what I am talking about:

Apparently, a YoVille resident can host a themed house party and it shows up on a general events list. Anyone can attend until the host “locks the door” – generally when he/she deems there are enough people at the party.

Jeff attended a party that was themed “Hot or Not?”

I have no excuse for him and cannot explain why.

Here is what transpired:

1. Boy and girl avatars split to separate sides of  the the living room.
2. Each person takes a turn standing in the middle of the room so that others can vote whether or not you are “hot or not.” If you are “hot,” you get to stay. If you are “not” you have to leave. No, I’m not kidding.
3. This keeps going until there are only two people left – one boy and one girl.
4. The boy and girl go into the bedroom and no one else can see what transpires.

Jeff got kicked out of the game early on because he, or rather his AVATAR, was not “hot enough.”

This is what’s wrong with the world today.

P.S.  Jeff, I will be happy to meet you or your avatar for lunch again soon.

P.P.S.  No, I’m not curious about what happens in the bedroom. My guess is that there is “heavy pacing.”