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Posted April 10, 2012
Looking back through the archives of this Awesome Men column, it wasn’t too long before it became a celebration of weirdos and nerds. That’s okay, though ? one of the great paradoxes of this world is that nerds do a lot of really cool things, and any men’s magazine worth its weight in bikini model
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Posted April 9, 2012
Secretly, everyone envies the free spender.?You know the guy I’m talking about: the one who picks up the tab regularly, buys the last round even though it’s not his turn, and takes his dates to high-end restaurants. Where does this extra cash come from?? Is he dealing drugs on the side or donating more than
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Posted April 6, 2012
There?s a decent chance you bought a lottery ticket last week. Thanks to the largest jackpot in US history ? an epic $656 million — the country was in lotto fever. My girlfriend, who normally wouldn?t as much as buy a scratch-off ticket, even got in on the hysteria. I, on the other hand, spent
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Posted April 5, 2012
Most people don’t connect punk rock with entrepreneurial drive, but that really needs to change. After all, the punk scene’s national expansion throughout the 1980s and 1990s was built on people, often teenagers, starting magazines and small record labels to promote and distribute their music. A lot of them also booked shows and even promoted
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Posted April 5, 2012
St. Louis is the closest big city to my hometown where I grew up. I remember taking many a trip up to the city for various reasons, mostly around going to a St. Louis Cardinals baseball game. Cardinals baseball is truly a religion in most areas around St. Louis. I remember trips to the barber
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Posted April 4, 2012
There I was, sitting at the same seated row machine I had been using for the last 10 months, wondering why I still looked like a ?Before? picture. Glancing over to the other side of the gym (the one with all the benches and free weights), I saw masses of ripped dudes, not a machine
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Posted April 4, 2012
Jetting away for a weekend, or even a week or two, is what most people have in mind when they are thinking of ?a getaway.?? But what about taking off for months or even years?? This is not merely a reality for the silver spoon set.? Savvy people and those who don’t mind getting their
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Posted April 3, 2012
In my memory, there are two iconic moments to the first ?American Pie.? One moment is Jim (Jason Biggs) getting caught in the kitchen by his father with his penis in a pie. The other is Nadia (Shannon Elizabeth, who is the 4th beautiful actress that I?m looking at in preparation for the release of
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Posted April 3, 2012
Random fact: whenever I’m having a bad day, I take a moment to remind myself that at least I don’t have polio. And I have this week’s Awesome Man, Jonas Salk, to thank for that. More specifically, I have his polio vaccine to thank. Salk was born in New York City to Jewish immigrants who
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Posted March 29, 2012
Man, how have we been talking about entrepreneurs for this long without bringing up their patron saint? P.T. Barnum was like entrepreneurism concentrate, starting numerous businesses throughout his lifetime (including the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus), and was among the most famous American showmen in the world by the
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Posted March 29, 2012
?Kansas City, Missouri? is an interesting ?city.? I put both of those things in quotes because when I think of Kansas City, I think of the entire metropolitan area ? from Olathe, Kansas, east to Blue Springs and north to Platte City. It?s not as spread out as Los Angeles, but then again, it has
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