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Okay, I'll admit it. I don't get invited to any cool parties any more (not that it matters. Wifey, Baby and I will stay at home and have cool parties all of our own, thank you very much - and you're not invited to any of them!)

But I did recently - by no less than Tara Mack, host of Playboy Radio's awesome dating game show Play Date. Admittedly, the event was open to everybody, but I did actually get a personal email invite from Tara herself - meaning that finally, at long last, I can kid myself that am one of the cool kids.

Unfortunately I couldn't attend, since hours-from-delivery Tina would probably not have been impressed if I'd disappeared off to Los Angeles instead of being in the hospital with her when she gave birth (and she couldn't have gone herself in case her water broke on the dance floor.)

But the important thing is that I got an invite. And by all accounts, we missed a fantastic bash.

The event was a massive fund raiser Tara had organised for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, dedicated to helping those affected by leukemia and blood cancers. It's a cause everybody at Playboy Radio feels very strongly about - not least of which because Playboy Radio's own superstar Nicki Hunter was diagnosed with lymphoma early last year.

The party was apparently a blast - literally heaving with Playboy legends like Christy Canyon, Vanessa Blue, Tiffany Granath and morning show presenter (and former Special Edition Playboy model) Andrea Lowell. Awesome prizes were up for grabs and Tara hosted a live version of her quick-fire dating quiz with some of her loyal listeners.

The only downside to the awesome event was that Tara and company failed by a mere smidgen to achieve their fundraising goal. So I thought I'd ask any of my readers who might know somebody affected my Leukemia or Lymphoma to visit Tara's fundraising page and donate just a few dollars to this excellent cause.

You can make a VeriSign secured donation through www .active.com here.

Hopefully Tara will be able to reach her goal and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society can continue their excellent work.

Oh - and if you have SIRIUS Radio, don't forget to tune into Tara Mack's Play Date every weekday at 5pm Eastern on SIRIUS Channel 198.

Can Playboy Radio Save Your Relationship?

Since human civilization first arose, over seven and a half thousand years ago, man has continued to make startling developments.

He invented the wheel. The steam engine. He split the atom, sent men to the moon and now stands on the brink of cracking open the human genome itself, harnessing the very building blocks of life.

But despite all those achievements, it seems man is still no closer to understanding the oldest, greatest enigma of all.

Women!

But help is at hand, in the form of Playboy Radio presenter Tara Mack.

Every weekday afternoon, Tara opens the phone lines on Play Date. This quick-fire quiz offers a surprisingly candid glimpse into the enigmatic female brain - and helps a succession of hapless male callers hone their relationship skills.

The principle is simple. Tara, along with celebrity judges and female listeners, sets up a series of 'dating challenges' male callers have to overcome. These range from the simple (like coming up with romantic poetry) to the sublime - such as the cringe-inducing round in which callers have to wriggle their way out of a merciless hypothetical argument.

The show ends with callers competing for the celebrity judge's favor - by answering increasingly awkward questions as if they were trying to woo the lady five minutes before closing time at a swanky bar.

But the appeal of Play Date isn't so much the games themselves - although the behavior of the enthusiastic male callers are often laugh-out-loud funny. It's actually in the witty banter between Tara Mack and her team of scathing female judges.

Male listeners should sit poised by their SIRIUS radios, notepad in hand. You can learn a lot from these ladies!

The girl's chat reveals a surprising amount of the female thought process - revelations that would often surprise even the most confident Casanova.

For example, the average man might think flowers and chocolates were the ideal romantic gesture. For Tara Mack, she'd be more impressed by her man jumping into the shower with her fully clothed - so caught up in passion that he doesn't care about soaking his Armani houndstooth!

For any man who's ever scratched his head at his wife or girlfriend's seemingly inexplicable antics, an hour-long dose of Play Date will help illuminate the inscrutable female mind.

Okay, you might not discover the secret to the feminine psyche (don't feel bad. That's eluded man for the best part of eight millennia.) But it might help you score some extra brownie points!

Tara Mack hosts Play Date from Monday to Friday at 5pm EST (2pm Pacific.) Tune in on Playboy Radio SIRIUS Channel 198.