February 2011
90 posts
Ryan Call: "Knot" →
fleish:
You’re too young for me, she said. You know that, right?
I nodded. I tried to think what my father would say about a woman like this one, a woman who never seemed to make a mistake. I wanted to say what he would say. I wanted to say the words to her face, to thank her, to ask for her forgiveness, to tell her that I would miss her. But before I could speak, she gently took off my eye...
The Bad-Man Hype →
It took the 14-year old son of a friend to point out the obvious. “I don’t see many good stories about men,” he said, browsing through a newspaper.
“So how does that make you feel?” I asked.
“Not very good,” he replied, as he flipped through pages filled with stories about pedophiliac priests, teenage boys who kill, financial swindlers, sadistic dictators, pimps, homophobic politicians who...
January 2011
127 posts
Caution: Heart Opens Slowly. →
Outside I am cold but I keep walking. It is cold as shit. This would be a factual comment if shit were one degree below zero, and smelled like a Bon Iver album.
Across from the clinic is a small cemetery. I look at the small cemetery and feel nothing. I look at the sky and feel nothing. I think about Elizabeth sitting in the clinic and make myself feel nothing.
I hear crows. I don’t hear snow...
“He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect....”
– Bob Marley (via candacenicolee)
The conversation about men / wome /beauty /brains started by Tom Matlack’s “Cleavage or Soul?” continues on @jezebel. The comments themselves are a must-read. http://t.co/D1dLYQk http://amplify.com/u/ao19m
Caution: Heart Opens Slowly →
Things I have done since my last column: drunk a glass of orange juice three days in a row, moved from South Florida to Vermont for a beautiful woman 14 inches shorter than I am, worn snow boots without any irony, gotten engaged, shoveled a path through the snow to Elizabeth’s Subaru and then flexed through the living room window, run my hands along my first published book, and eaten venison and...
You do own that God-awful full-length white leather Gucci jacket with shoulder pads” said a bschool pal. http://bit.ly/TomMangina http://amplify.com/u/anw8x
The 'Douchification' of the American Man →
Tom Matlack’s “Have You Seen My Mangina?” inspired this comment from Thomas Miller at YourTango.com:
Tom isn’t advocating the pussification of America. He’s fighting the douchification of the American man. Pop culture (“the media”) manages to portray men as rods, doofuses, and jags. On primetime TV, a number of the comedic characters are hapless men dragged around by their ball-busting wives...
The United States of Awesome →
Gorilla Seeking Love →
goodmenproject:
