The Better Half: Chronic Interns and Standing Out
The Better Half is a no-holds-barred question and answer session with Maria, the resident expert on all things from a woman’s point of view. Maria answers all types of questions related to men’s fashion, grooming, lifestyle, interests, and advice on maintaining the mantra: happy wife, happy life. Maria is a sassy, organized, and accomplished 20-something bibliophile...
The Better Half: Proposals and Home Decor
The Better Half is a no-holds-barred question and answer session with Maria, the resident expert on all things from a woman’s point of view. Maria answers all types of questions related to men’s fashion, grooming, lifestyle, interests, and advice on maintaining the mantra: happy wife, happy life. Maria is a sassy, organized, and accomplished 20-something bibliophile...
The Better Half: Ties and Toppings
The Better Half is a no-holds-barred question and answer session with Maria, the resident expert on all things from a woman’s point of view. Maria answers all types of questions related to men’s fashion, grooming, lifestyle, interests, and advice on maintaining the mantra: happy wife, happy life. Maria is a sassy, organized, and accomplished 20-something bibliophile...
RIP “Carpe Diem”: The #YOLO Plague
I’ve noticed an increasingly disturbing trend among young kids on Twitter where Horace’s “carpe diem” attitude is slowly moving over to make room for the destructive attitudes behind this #YOLO hashtag (meaning: “you only live once”). Horace (65 BCE – 8 CE) wrote a poem with the first known usage of the term “carpe diem,”...
Protest on Savile Row
On Monday, protesters flooded the street of London’s Savile Row to protest the planned expansion of an Abercrombie & Fitch next to the historic haberdasheries and storied tailors that have done business there since the 19th Century. The residents feel that the mega retailer will cheapen not only the street but also British retail in...
The Better Half: Watches and Grooming
The Better Half is a no-holds-barred question and answer session with Maria, the resident expert on all things from a woman’s point of view. Maria answers all types of questions related to men’s fashion, grooming, lifestyle, interests, and advice on maintaining the mantra: happy wife, happy life. Maria is a sassy, organized, and accomplished 20-something bibliophile...
TLC’s Mama’s Boys of the Bronx
In continuation of reality television’s fascination with Northeastern Italians and overall dopey males, TLC premiered its new series “Mama’s Boys of the Bronx” which follows a handful of men in their late 30’s who are completely reliant on their mothers to function. Everything from finding the toothpaste to finding a spouse is run through their mothers. The...
The Better Half: Skateboarding and Sandals
The Better Half is a no-holds-barred question and answer session with Maria, the resident expert on all things from a woman’s point of view. Maria answers all types of questions related to men’s fashion, grooming, lifestyle, interests, and advice on maintaining the mantra: happy wife, happy life. Maria is a sassy, organized, and accomplished 20-something bibliophile...
Voyager’s Golden Record
In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2 which sent them both out into the cosmos in an effort to explore Jupiter and Saturn. Once they reached their destination, NASA kept them on course and wondered how far they could go. Currently, 35 years after their launch, they are both in the “heliosheath” layer, which...
Santorum’s Threat to Manliness
One of the most interesting time periods in American politics for me is always election season. While I by no means obsess over every detail of every campaign, there are some candidates who always seem to find a way to propose some of the most backwards or offensive objectives that they are hard to ignore....
Old Spice MANta Claus
After recently covering how not to use manliness in advertising, I thought I’d write about an instance in which advertisers can poke fun at ideas of manliness without being utterly ridiculous. Old Spice is by far the best at walking this fine line. You may remember this guy from the wildly popular “the man you wish your...
Dr. Pepper 10 Fails to Appeal to Men
I’m sure you’ve seen this commercial: some guy in the jungle tells you to drink some Dr. Pepper 10 and reminds you that it’s “not for women.” Now, I don’t like to get too sensitive about pop culture’s appeal to the generic male. I do, however, want to point out how badly Dr. Pepper failed...
