Probably will later regret this post

But I told myself I would tumblr uncensored.

I just watched Crazy, Stupid, Love on the plane which isn’t really that crazy a film, but it is kinda stupid. As for the love bit, well, Ryan Gosling is in it, but it’s probably his worst “love film” of his many, many “love films”.

Anyway watching it reminded me of the fact that the last guy I hooked up with looked a bit like Ryan Gosling (I know, lucky me).

The night we met he was coming out of a cab heading to the same warehouse party as me in Beijing and from the get go I thought he was pretty cute. We hung out all night and at some point we were on the dancefloor and he pulled me over and kissed me.

I didn’t have any intention of sleeping with him when we got in a cab together to take us to our respective homes, but I guess it didn’t take that much convincing.

He stayed the night at my place and the next morning we lay in bed and chatted lazily and I thought he was pretty cool and funny.

Up till now the story has all the makings of a Ryan Gosling fantasy. But Ryan Gosling fantasies are totally removed from reality which is why at some point the supply of RG sparkle runs dry and the prosaicness of the real deal kicks in.

When we met up again three days later it was kind of awkward but OK, and we were chatting away, drinking cold beers in a hutong cafe. At some point he tells me he has a house in Dublin and I ask him who’s living there while he spends his one year in China. And he says, “my girlfriend.”

And I’m like, “oh, OK then!” But I still don’t object when he puts his hand on my leg and arranges another date with me.

Well the rest can be summarised in one sentence: we had a few more adult sleepovers that were very sexy but the feeling was entirely friendly rather than romantic. And when he didn’t answer my last couple of texts I didn’t push it seeing as he had a girlfriend and all.

So that’s what an in-real-life Ryan Gosling is. No undying devotion. No bad-boy turned good. Just a few, friendly, meaningless one-night stands that disappear into the ether.