Hugo Schwyzer offers some practical advice for checking out women without making them head for the hills.
Archives for April 2011
Familial Diplomacy
Ron Mattocks navigates the minefield of co-parenting, and having stepchildren.
Beer and Water for 40 Days
Easter Sunday meant J. Wilson was finally allowed to ingest something other than beer and water. Cheers?
5 Ways to Keep Fit at Your Desk
Keep your body from dying a slow office-chair death with these five at-your-desk workouts.
5 Ways to Keep Fit at Your Desk
Keep your body from dying a slow office-chair death with these five at-your-desk workouts.
The 10 at 10
Sitting is really bad for you, waiters are doomed, and Gabby Giffords can attend her husband’s shuttle launch.
Errands With Andre
GMPM columnist Andrew Ladd meets up with author Andre Dubus III to talk about violence, empathy, and Dubus’ new book, Townie: A Memoir.
A Dream Act: On Education, Immigration, and Goodness
Can microfinance revolutionize American education and solve our immigration problem at the same time?
#musicmonday: “… you can’t escape the history that you was meant to make …” [free MP3 downloads]
A fresh batch of music downloads to blow your mind and rock your week.
Glee is bullshit
There are some things a guy just knows. I’m in the car with Drama Queen Sunday evening and she asks if I have the song Gives You Hell on my iPod. I dig The All American Rejects and I told her I did have it. She asked if it was “The Glee version or…
Guestpost #50: M – Ten things I've learned from my first year of working at UVic
Note: My name is M, and I’ve worked at the University of Victoria for almost a year. I got my BA for History In Art here, and have learned just how different it is to work here than be a student. Not better, not worse, just different. A lot of people in Victoria (and elsewhere,…
Guestpost #49: Caitlin Kelly – Ten things I’ve learned from being an author
I don’t know Caitlin personally, but I was honoured when she submitted a guestpost. She is an accomplished author and blogger. Caitlin Kelly’s new memoir, “Malled: My Unintentional Career in Retail” (Portfolio/Penguin) was called “excellent” by Entertainment Weekly and compared to “Nickeled and Dimed.” Her first book is, “Blown Away: American Women and Guns” (Pocket Books, 2004). A Toronto…
Best Man
“I don’t think that I’ve had too much to drink yet.” By Michael Kimball
Ten things I've learned from having "queer" friends
Note: in university, I was taught that the word “queer” has been re-appropriated as a sort of catch-all for any sexuality that is not “heteronormative”. But since normal doesn’t really exist (it has to do with Derrida, or something), then we’re all a bit queer! I guess you can also use LGBTTTQ, if you want to…
Good Men on Stage: ‘The All-American Genderf*ck Cabaret’
East Coast denizens with a vested interest in skewering outmoded models of masculinity ought to check out this intimate and incisive Manhattan production.
Playoff beard–update
They have to win. I hate Philly. You may or may not remember that I announced last week that I was growing a playoff beard for the NHL playoffs. I said that as long as either the LA Kings (the team I grew up watching), Anaheim Ducks (the team I covered for 8…