At Your Leisure

 
A few favorites from the past year or two.  A place-keeper for me more than anything.


Serendipity - Sasha Frere Jones, The New Yorker

The Importance Of Going Places - Fly Brother

Rules To Rule - Jay Mohawk, Corporate Takeover

The No-Stats All-Star - Michael Lewis, New York Times

The Great Escape of Timothy Sheldon - Steve Lewis, BlackBook

Papa - Sean Flynn, GQ

Who Is The Progressive Girl? - Nicholas Nadel, Asylum

Bryant v. Durant

I like this article.  Have yet to see Durant or Stephen Curry play in a pro game.

Of Interest

No theme here.  Just links that caught my attention.

Sex and Hamburgers - Sandiego.com

Ignorant Music - Miller-McCune

Millennials and Promiscuity - Slate

Ghost Town - Good

Know Your Mandarin

China reigns. At Big Think.

Moving Forward

Systems change. Standards change. Every so often, you might too.


On Rings And Hang-Wringing - Intelligent Life

Accelerated Learning / Paternal Instincts - Hemispheres

Dating Double Standards - Very Smart Brothas

Five Remakes That Improve on The Originals - Nerve

5 Questions That Can Could Change Your Life - Experience Life

Obama On Facebook

Laugh a little. At Slate.

The Day They Call You Sir

Young muscle and corporate pudge were once taken for my age and better.  At 26, a new job that evenly split office time and foot patrol, along with a retreat into the near-vegan diet I was born into, shed some 30 pounds and five years in four months.  Now, two years shy of 30, bartenders are as generous with ID checks as co-eds are with attention.  In either case, one of us fears giving up the goods may put them on the wrong side of the law.  Yet peers, as young as me or as old as my parents, still call me "sir" while I am on the clock. Both bring relief, reprieve from each other.  While the people who see shirt and tie remind me I've done well with the years that passed, the after-hours crowd reminds me just how many I have left.

Great Philosophers, Parties, & Rock Stars - Black Book

Resurrecting The Jetrosexual - Fly Brother

A Selection Of Five Trenches - Fantastic Man

(Don't) Put A Ring On It - Nerve

Modern Maturity - Art of Manliness

Ranking Progress

Obama's Time Machine - Slate

Stacey Dash is Forever Young - Cutie Central

Tony Passes On Coachella - Selectism

San Fransisco Makes The Most of It - Good

New York Has The Most Of Them All - AskMen

Classic Wardrobe

A dozen reasons to dress for the occasion.  At Tweed & Velvet.

Whole In One

Reading Glenn O'Brien's "Bane In Vain is Mainly on The Wane" and the "Facts Of Life," a book excerpt republished in this month's issue of The Sun (in print only), felt like looking in the mirror.  That the world's people are uniform in their variety and impermanence is as clear as water, a principle I live by and depend on.  Translating disjointed and self-contained subcultures into a single, flowing id is a personal choice.  One needs to at least in part decide who they are instead of being dependent on others to define their world for them, and never become attached to the idea that either will remain permanent.  Once person, personality, and exchanges precede the barriers that previously defined them, the individual is free to soak in the greater context - true, unadulterated, and equally familiar in all its distant parts.

Read "Bane In Vain is Mainly on The Wane" at GQ.
Preview Issue 412 of The Sun.

Frasier Knows

"I don't think there's a universal reason for drug addiction or alcoholism. I do believe in an axiomatic truth: Addiction is the result of unresolved grief."

Read "Kelsey Grammer: What I Learned" at Esquire.

Longer Every Day

 
I always wanted to live in nature's sanctuary, a step away from the diversity of urban frenzy.  Too bad Vermont doesn't border Manhattan.  Wealthy tycoons and powerful dignitaries would own my fantasy even if it did exist.  Splurging on city rent is doable, but would keep my pockets a lifetime short of a stable future.

It used to be that suburbia offered the best compromise.  Space was comparatively available and affordable, the city in reach, even if you lost a few more hours in the shuffle.  But as the cost of going to and fro rises in tandem with living anywhere and everywhere, that concrete-front lawn wonderland is feeling more and more like a nightmare stretched thin.

Burbs' Aren't So Cheap - Kvue.com

Commute May Cost More Than You Think - Culpepper Star

Should Home Listings Include Transportation Costs? - Boston.com

Home Buyers Don't Factor in Commuting - Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Fares Are Going Up - Daily Record 

Learning On The Go

Breaking ground often means learning to walk and run at the same time.  Stumbling, in public or private, should be expected and self-forgiven, as virgin territory necessitates more cross roads and road blocks than can be foreseen.  Refusing to acknowledge or learn from our errors deserves no such sympathy.  Venturing into the unknown is often how we learn to tell the difference.

Super Freak In Havana - World Hum

Letting Me Be Great - Very Smart Brothas

SiSe Interview - Nu-Soul Magazine

The Bright Green City / Submit To Mother India - The Sun

Sailor's Bag Makes A Comeback - Esquire UK

The Politics of Age

Ben Jealous looks to bridge the preservation of old sentiments and progress of modern reality at Uptown.

What 50 Feels Like

Laugh a little.  At Keith's Space.

Call Me Smitten

Phallyn Espinoza.  More at Indo's Place.

Too Old For This

4/20 went up in smoke with your rap career.  The velours of teenage glory make you look like you're fishing for jailbait.  Your offspring have a knack for serving your soul on a platter.  You are geting older.  Enjoy it. You are where you're supposed to be.  And life doesn't get much better than this.


The Reader I Want - Atlantic

Getting Over The Glory Days - Art Of Manliness

Things You Should Give Up At Age 30 - Very Smart Brothas

Ridiculous Tips For A Miserable Sex Life - Nerve

Men's Ties: Not Just For Cubicles And Church - Men's Playbook

Son Outperforms Dad - Better Than A Beatdown

Old Is New Again

Five style blogs. One theme.


Mil Spec Tees - A Time To Get

Spring Must Have Accessories - Tweed & Velvet

Oscar Style Lifetime Achievers - GQ

The Love of Neckties - Gentleman's Standard

The Classic - Kempt

Listen. Learn. Reproduce.

Men Don't Take Hints Very Well - Three Ways To Take It

12 New Facts About Women, 13 New Sex Secrets Men Don't Know - Esquire

How To Know If Your Woman Is Sleeping...WITH ME! - Undressing Her

Beware The Sperm Jacker - AskMen

Guys Are Easy If You Smile - Naked With Socks On

Fader Roundup 3/2/10

Where We Are The World meets Clubland.


"Mugwanti / Sqwejegweje" + Schlachthofbronx Remix - DJ Mujava

"Glitch Feisty Rub" -  Emvee ft. Bonjay

"Freak" - Estelle ft. Kardinal Offishall

"Starry Eyed" - Ellie Goulding

"Tipsy" - DJ Webstar ft. Serani & Jadakiss