“Repeatedly showing me images of semi-naked women will do nothing but make me feel depressed, frustrated, and grubby.”
Archives for November 2010
Fictional Sex That Sucks
The annual Bad Sex Awards are being announced today. But don’t worry; the first prize can only go to fictional sex.
Wikileaks Unveils the Coolest 75-Year-Old Ever
Despite a 14-hour trek across snow-covered mountains in freezing temperatures, Vahedi only had “a few aches and pains.”
The 10 at 10: November 29
1. We’ll miss you, Shirley.
The Great Johnny Depp Heist
How does a couple move forward from trauma? Slowly. But a bar-hopping, movie-star-stealing night on the town sure doesn’t hurt.
The Santa Story Revisited
An excerpt from Arita Trahan’s book, which offers a new way to teach children about Santa.
Why I’m Social-Media Promiscuous
Good Men Media CEO Lisa Hickey wants you—and Malcom Gladwell—to know: the revolution can be tweeted.
The Best Thing You Can Teach Your Kids
Our generation tends to overdo it when “Junior” scrapes the low end of mediocrity, and that’s a recipe for disaster as kids try and make it in the real world.
Monster’s Scared
Last night, the noise emanating from the baby monitor sounded different from all the others we had heard in the past.
(Bleeping) Car
Traffic came to a halt and we stopped. I let out a sigh and some grumblings. But I was not ready for the little voice that chirped from the backseat.
Ten things I’ve learned from travelling in Trinidad.
The ways that I speak, think, eat, dress, and dance are hilarious when I am outside of Canada. If you are on an empty street in Port of Spain, and a tall drug dealer/pimp with a gold tooth asks you if you want to come to the back of his store to look at t-shirts….don’t.…
The Big Setup: How We’re Willfully Flunking Our Young
It seems we’re all too willing to clasp mournfully onto the moldy and throw tantrums whenever a new gadget threatens our too-long-established archetypes.
Ten things I’ve learned from playing basketball
If you make the same move every time, your defender will learn to expect that move. This is when you switch it up. Confidence is everything. Basketball is as mental as it is physical. Pass. You are only as good as your team. Some white men can jump. Come up high and tall, come down…
Why ten things?
This is my first post. I’ve always enjoyed writing, although I tend to lean more towards long, colourful paragraphs than short, clever lists. I think I just want to find a process for categorizing and remembering things that I’ve learned, and how I generally think about my life. Writing is cathartic. So this is an…
Good Men Flix: ‘127 Hours’
Jordan Pedersen takes on Danny Boyle’s new film, which stars James Franco as Aron Ralston, who in 2003 amputated his own arm to escape a climbing accident.
Man of the Day: Mark Crea
Mark Crea is the executive director of Feed My Starving Children. Based in Minnesota, the organization distributes scientifically developed food to starving children in 67 different countries.