All posts in: Geri Brin

15 Jul 2010

Mother Knows Best?

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ0-utckUyg]

Colby Brin is a 31-year old single who believes that mother knows best when it comes to steering his love life in the right direction. His mother, Geri Brin feels that by helping out her son and launching a website for the cause that she is “casting a wider net.” Maybe she is, maybe she isn’t. I believe in the saying, “Two heads are better than one,” but what would you say if you were the girl who later found out that you were chosen by your guy’s mother?

This story reminds me of the Diane Keaton movie “Because I Said So,” and that was a god-awful movie because Mandy Moore should have stopped acting after “A Walk to Remember.” In that movie, Mandy’s character is “Milly” who is a quirky and awkward girl in a not-so-cute way. She’s the one that needs to have her foot permanently shoved into her mouth. When Milly’s mother Diane Keaton finds out about her horrible track record of dates, she decides to put up an ad for her daughter, which causes a whirlwind of drama later on.

Back to this story though, Colby seems like a decent-looking guy and I’m sure he could get by without his mother. I wonder what’s going to happen to him now that he has a website for this and him and his mother were on The Today Show? Reality matchmaking without the drama in a whole season.

Would you ever let your parents pick someone out for you?