Tuesday Tunesday: Roscoe Holcomb
Roscoe Holcomb “Little Birdy” and “Graveyard Blues” If you’ve ever spent a night in the woods, whittled a stick, drank water from a spring, fallen out of a tree, had your dog run away, or ever longed for something you couldn’t quite reach, then you’ve felt Holcomb’s music even if you haven’t heard it. Restricting...
A Retreat With a Humble Yet Important Mission
The Insight Intensive retreat has simple aims for young post-college men: Get up. Clean your room. Hold meaningful conversations. Resolve your differences. Eventually, it moves on to setting some goals: Staying in school, getting a job, or both. Moving out of their parents’ homes when they leave this place is a hope for many. They are...
Cut Brooklyn’s Handmade Knives
This video highlights the life and career of writer turned knife maker Joel Bukiewicz and explores his passion for his work and what inspired him to pick up some metal and fashion a knife–something far different than his literary training would normally translate into. What is most interesting about Joel is how he chose a...
“The Arctic Circle” Examines Greed and Temptation
This stop-motion film by Kevin Parry is one of the coolest stop-motion films I’ve ever seen. Everything from the music to the tedious articulations of the characters is spot-on. Tim Burton called the film a “cross between 2001 [A Space Odyssey] and Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer,” and in some weird way I think he’s right....
Tuesday Tunesday: T-Bone Walker
T-Bone Walker “Woman You Must Be Crazy” and “Goin to Chicago Blues” Aaron Thibeaux “T-Bone” Walker is one of the most influential guitarists in American blues. In his later years he would often play with a large backing brass band to give his work a full and complex sound. T-Bone grew up eating dinner with...
The Motley’s Men of Distinction: Taylor Pemberton
The Motley presents the first video in a series about great men who are pioneering entrepreneurs in their area of work. Taylor Pemberton is the creator of Wantful which is an extremely unique way of finding presents that someone in your life might enjoy. By selecting strange parameters such as a sliding scale between “lives to eat”...
Think Charisma Makes Leaders? Think Again
When people think of great leaders throughout history, many of them jump to call them charismatic. According to Stanford Business School professor Jim Collins, charisma is not even an equation in the personality traits of great leaders. While some of them might have charisma, this is certainly not the most important part of the equation...
The Motley’s Men of Distinction
The Motley (makers of Buckler’s Chapped Skin Remedy) recently launched their “Men of Distinction” series which highlights young entrepreneurs who each work toward their own goals in various forms of men’s grooming or fashion. The Motley will reveal a video about a new person over the next month, and I eagerly await each release. For now, enjoy...
Shield Yourself From Winter With Buckler’s
Buckler’s Chapped Skin Remedy Fall is in full swing right now, but winter is just around the corner. Temperatures are dropping, the wind is getting bitter, and the humidity levels are dropping. All of these are perfect ingredients for chapped skin. Recently the good folks over at The Motley sent over some of their certified vegan,...
Release Your Inner Bear With Ursa Major
I don’t know about you, but temporarily turning into a bear sounds like a pretty sweet deal. Luckily, the nice people over at Ursa Major helped me realize this dream by sending over some bear potions–not really, but it’s as close as modern science will allow us to get. Perhaps this is why their logo is...
Tuesday Tunesday: John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker “Boom Boom” First and foremost, it breaks my heart that Chili’s used this song in their commercial. I cringe every time it comes on. That said, we can’t disavow everything awesome in the world whenever popular culture catches up to it, unless you’re just totally cool. John Lee Hooker created his own...
Burt’s Bees Deep Cleansing Cream
Good for: daily washes and acne The first step to maintaining healthy skin is making sure your skin is clean. This is especially important for men, because we tend to sweat more than the fairer sex. We also tend to get dirtier throughout the day, and going to bed with all that grime on your...
