A lot of people remember one teacher or college professor who really stood out, who opened their eyes and made them see new things, who instilled a love of a subject in them.
Ten Wicked Idioms That I Love
January 23, 2013 By 4 Comments
Without letting the cat out of the bag: Carl Pettit loves idioms suggesting the torture of house cats.
Proud to Be an American
October 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
Only by traveling abroad does Kyle Carpenter appreciate what it means to be an American.
Jamaican Gentlemen
October 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
For a revolutionary generation of young Jamaican men, the strong and available role models looked like the enemy.
Don’t Take Yourself So Fucking Seriously
July 18, 2012 By 16 Comments
To laugh at oneself is enlightenment.
“Don’t Cry!”: Being a Man in Korea
July 17, 2012 By 4 Comments
What makes boys cry, and when are boys allowed to cry? Turner Wright reports, with examples from South Korea.
Man-to-Man with lawyer-turned author Clifford Garstang
June 23, 2012 By 1 Comment
Cameron Conaway sits down with Clifford Garstang to discuss life, law, inspiration, and now, writing.
Soccer’s Mad Men
June 11, 2012 By 4 Comments
JP Pelosi investigates how handshakes and martinis impact international soccer.
Be the Hero of Your Novel
September 20, 2011 By 4 Comments
All those things you learned in English lit class? They were really lessons in how to live your life.
Guestpost #68: Josef Addleman – Ten things I've learned from teaching English as a foreign language
September 12, 2011 By 2 Comments
Bio: For the past five years, Josef Addleman has been a Toronto-based improviser, musician, and teacher. Before that, he spent two years living in rural Japan. As a day job, he teaches an accent-reduction course to classes of mostly Japanese and Korean students. He improvises with Impatient Theatre Company and Opening Night Theatre, and performs [...]
Savage City, Great Soul
March 22, 2011 By 5 Comments
Andrew Ladd reviews two books that remind us how messy even the most celebrated social change can be.
Guestpost #19: Jen Littlewood – Ten things I learned from “suffering” from English repression
March 19, 2011 By 2 Comments
Jen is a terrific performer and an extremely funny person in an understated (read: British) way. Here is her bio: Jen has lived in Wakefield, Nottingham, London, Chicago, and Toronto. She has worked in a theatre, a bar, a strip club (not in that way), another theatre, another bar, a bedroom/office space, an improv theatre, [...]
10 at 10: December 17
December 17, 2010 By 2 Comments
1. Apologies are better late than never. 2. What’s the most annoying word in the English language? Someone put it to a vote, and it’s this. 3. And while we’re at it, how about the visual history of all words. (Brought to you by Google, who else?) 4. Why we’ll never stop believin‘ (in Journey). 5. Man, I [...]
“I’m happy I have a wife, and having two people both contributing across the board goes a long way.”
This is a comment by Lars Fisher on the post “I’d Benefit From a Traditional Wife”.