Full-Denim Wardrobe Now Acceptable, Claims Magazine @3:05 PM
You guys, there are "new rules of denim"! Now (March 18, 2010) "denim-on-denim is acceptable, provided you know what you're doing. (Yes, my April Details just arrived!) Yes, you me and Chris Pine and David Beckham and Bradley Cooper can wear the Canadian tuxedo. It's safe now. It's good. No, go on, you first. Also: "The easiest way to approach head-to-toe denim is to go for the chiaroscuro effect. Pair a chambray shirt with clean, inky jeans." 38
You Will Never Find A Husband In New York @1:00 PM
Are ladies leaving New York because the city's men refuse to settle down? That's the premise of this piece in the Post, which posits that the paucity of paramours prepared to propose perplexes and perturbs their presumptive partners, prompting them to pack it in for more promising provinces. READ MORE 78
Badvertorial: One 'Esquire' Undermines the Other @11:00 AM
May I totally gay out on you for a minute? There are two Esquires, at war with each other. There is the magazine that published the Roger Ebert profile, which is, by all accounts, amazing. (I can't read it yet because I don't have any time for a meltdown right now!) Then there is the magazine that is producing "Inside Their Olympics: Get All-Access Analysis from Lovely Athletes at the Winter Games (Easier on the Eyes Than Costas, Eh?)," starring "North America's Loveliest Olympians," which, wow, seriously, stab yourselves, your ironic Mad Men shtick is not actually ironic. I think it is this latter Esquire that is giving away clothes today. READ MORE 23
How To Ruin Valentine's Day For Straight People @2:34 PM
Is Esquire just for men who hate women? Or is it just a sideline? Their Valentine's Day date ideas package… written by a woman… is stuffed with resentment and seething anger! So maybe this is some Valerie Solanas thing going on, where some rogue lady writer is trying to destroy heterosexualism? For the inert, useless Esquire reader, they have recommendations "For the Woman Expecting You to Propose" (give her a "spa day"! Because "It's no ring, but it's indulgent enough for her to brag about to her friends." Ha, prepare to die). There is the advice that you "Don't spend more than: $35 on a ton of good, cheap wine" which is "For the Woman Who Doesn't Want to Do Anything." And: "For the Clingy Girlfriend: An Hour of Ice Skating." (Um: "Why she'll like it: Hand-holding, hot chocolate, sweaters — it's you that might have the tough time here.") Also they suggest you take your "friend with benefits" to a strip bar. Lots of luck, fellas! 41
The New 'Observer': Very Bro @3:20 PM
The New York Observer, once sort of a fruity, faggy, Jewy, weekly too-smart-for-its-own-good rag, always with just a little too much Yiddish, has had a real change in flavor this year! Kyle Pope came over as editor from his post-Portfolio break, and then he hired his buddy Chris Stewart (also formerly of Portfolio, and author of Hunting the Tiger! About the "dark, bloody world of Serb paramilitaries"!). And today they announced the hire of a new managing web editor, the awesomely-named Tyler Thoreson, late of the late (and, in my minority opinion, heinous) men.style.com. READ MORE 13
Women Unable To Marry Men In New York (Except One Woman!) @12:25 PM
What's up, ladies? Where you at? Two stories in today's Observer suggest it's "somewhere tricky." Did you know a mother of four was at the head of doing the Bank of America TARP repayment stock-offer deal? Imagine that, a lady—one with children even. That is so crazy! I'm not even going to be like Jesus Christ no profile of a man ever started like that because, why bother, guys. (The rest of it is interesting though! She is actually of interest!) And here is a report on a gathering of women, who have had it with the commitment-phobia of New York men and have resorted to dating Europeans (but NOT people from like Africa or Asia or anything gross like that). READ MORE 31
The End of the 00s: So Lax, by Katie Bakes @11:00 AM
I can't say for certain, but there is an excellent chance I have been, behind my back, erroneously labeled a lacrosstitute.
I say "lacrosstitute" because that is the epithet of choice for a girl in a sundress who, for whatever reason, chooses of her own free will to consort with a bunch of louche loudmouths in Hawaiian print board shorts and mesh practice pinnies that announce "SUNS OUT, GUNS OUT" and cover neither chest hair nor beer guts (both being marks of proud distinction among their bearers).
The results of a study of 515 patients diagnosed with brain tumors or multiple sclerosis from 2001 through 2006 show that men are dicks. @11:55 AM 9
Photographs of Men at their Manliest @11:20 AM
This is pretty wild, this gallery of men being manly. I like. (Warning some photographs contain the nudity!) 15
2 out of 3 Straight Men Have Sex Only Once A Week Or Way Less @11:02 AM
It only occurred to me later in life that the lot of a straight man was a terrible one. They think about sex all the time—but so rarely have it. So here is the most recent ridiculous survey about sex (from an alleged 50,000 male readers of men.style.com AskMen.com! (Whoops!)) and it finds that 28% of men have sex less than one time a month! Gah! Haha! Wow! Surprisingly, 87% of men also report being dissatisfied with their sex life. I BET! READ MORE 36
