Nothing says loving like Greets
As last-minute Valentine's Day shoppers struggle to find the perfect gift for their significant others, Greets.com offers the computer savvy lover a non-conventional gift.
Greets.com allows its site's visitors to create a personalized, interactive Valentine's Day party neatly arranged into a CD-ROM. This option may appeal to those tired of flowers and candy, since it develops an extension to the ever-expanding market of online greeting cards.
Bob Nelson, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Greets.com, hopes this trend will quickly catch on with 18- to 24-year-olds, the company's target consumer population.
"College students are big Internet and CD-ROM users and quickly adopt new technology," Nelson said. "They send out the most online greetings, and the least number of paper greetings."
No two Greets Valentine's Day parties are exactly the same, with more than 7,000 combinations of color, background, music and animation adding a personal flair.
Recipients of the new CD-ROM get a message from their admirer, and a slew of Valentine's Day games to play in their own home. Among the game options, players can rate their love IQ and send their friends on an interactive blind date with the character of their choice. A box of chocolates serve as the menu for the program, and recipients choose which game to play by clicking on a different confectionery delight. To keep things somewhat conventional, when consumers pay $9.95 plus shipping and handling for the CD-ROM, Greets.com throws in a heart-shaped box of chocolates for free.
Club 216 heats it up for V-Day
Students and Charlottesville residents who think they can spice it up hotter than the Backstreet Boys are invited to test their skills at Club 216's third-annual Erotic Poetry reading today from 7 to 9 p.m.
To ring in the much anticipated weekend of love, the club offers anyone tired of typical Valentine's Day activities a chance to break free from tradition while at the same time sampling local poetic talent.
The first hour of the evening is arranged in an open-microphone forum, with aspiring poets signing up to participate at the door.
The second half of the festival will feature local poets, including 7th-year Graduate English student Amanda French and local residents Browning Porter and Janus Raphaelidis.
French, the event organizer, came up with the idea for an erotic poetry festival after attending a similar event two years ago in Colorado. She decided to move the festival from the Tokyo Rose to the larger Club 216 on the Downtown Mall after the tremendous turnout the past two years.
According to French, those concerned about the erotic nature of the evening should not shy away from attending.
"I've never had anything excessively inappropriate," French said. "The poems are erotic because they are suggestive, but not necessarily explicit."
The evening of entertainment guarantees a variety of original and non-original work anyone can enjoy, she said.
"We have a really broad spectrum of poetry," she added. "There will probably be at least one limerick, but you hear a lot of traditional love poetry too."
Tickets cost $5 for non-club members and $3 for members. Anyone 18 and older may attend.
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