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The Cool Poll / More Bon Mots from our Leaders of the Near Future

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Aug 3, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

Dear Readers, Please respond to this little poll. List your top five coolest (famous) people as a comment below. If you’d like to identify your gender, for the purpose of general interest in whom men and women think of as cool men and women, please do. But do...

John, Barack, Shwayze, Rakim, Paul, and lil ole me

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Oct 20, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

I've been listening to the new rock-rap act Shwayze. The music is catchy as all get out but it just dawned on me the way that it's equal parts ingriguingly and annoyingly just so very LA (Malibu, to be more precise.)Several times on the album, most notably on...

Dogs, Scum, and Me

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Aug 7, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

First, an advertisemtent for myself. I will be reading from my book Bo’s Arts and showing a powerpoint presentation detailing the rise of the Bo’s Arts Movement and illustrating my burgeoning talent as a powerpointalist, at the Rendezvous this coming...

Nonbelievers in the House say “Hell, Yeah”!

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Feb 5, 2009 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

Okay, this is a little late, but hi, I'm back, and I'm still glowing about the fact that Barack gave a shout-out to atheists in the hizzouse on inauguration day. For those of you who missed it, he said, "We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and...

More Hipsteria

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Aug 14, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

Q: How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: You don’t know?***Reader "Sheila" (aka my mom) writes:" . . . don’t or didn’t know the difference between hipster and hip so looked it up [at...
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