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Posted September 10, 2014
This week’s Awesome Man Throughout History is cartoonist Vic Green, whose near-total obscurity is quite impressive in this day and age. Vic was a painter and cartoonist whose comic strip ?Willie Dee? ran in newspapers from 1948 to 1952, and was fairly typical of comics from that era in that it wasn’t very good unless
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Posted September 10, 2014
One of the ways that workouts can be stressful is simply the amount of time that they take. When you have the word workout rattling around in your brain, a lot of times it gets a little intimidating because of the fact that workouts are supposed to take a long time. Not necessarily. Sometimes, all
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Posted September 2, 2014
If there’s one thing that should be dead and buried by now, it’s board games. Think about all the dynamic, technologically-superior stuff competing for everyone’s very limited free time. It’s crazy to think that board games are still around, much less prospering. Of course, Gordon Lugauer doesn’t think the current popularity of board games is
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Posted August 28, 2014
This week’s installment of Awesome Men Throughout History focuses on someone you should have heard of, but probably haven’t; musician and record producer Howard Werth. Werth was the frontman of Audience, a British art rock band that achieved cult-level popularity, but was a near-miss as far as mainstream success was concerned. Born in London, Werth’s
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Posted August 26, 2014
This week’s Self Made Man, pizza enthusiast and Pizza Brain owner Brian Dwyer, might come across a bit sillier and less driven than other entrepreneurs in this series. Maybe he is, at least by conventional standards, and that’s okay. Not everyone can be Mark Zuckerberg, and not everyone should be either.
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Posted August 22, 2014
Here’s the thing about the gym: Each of the pieces of equipment have a very special reason that they’re there. The dumbbells are using for lifting and getting biceps. The squat machines are used in order to get your legs in tip-top shape. And the bench press is there in order to make sure your
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Posted August 21, 2014
Some of TSB’s readers might think that current organic/gluten-free/juicing/etc. health fads are a modern thing brought on by fretful yuppies with too much disposable income. That’s only half-true, though; weird health and fitness trends have been a part of American culture for centuries, and sometimes the men behind them accidentally do some good. One of
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Posted August 20, 2014
Half of life is tricking yourself into doing something. Whether it’s psyching yourself up in order to ask that girl out on a date, or trying to make the foods that are good for you taste better, or simply playing a sport because then you get a little exercise, a whole lot of our existence
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Posted August 14, 2014
Making a living as a working artist is ungodly difficult, on a scale that your average tech start-up couldn’t begin to imagine; while theirs can be a very stressful world too, at least techies’ skills are respected by the world at large. Try telling people you’re a painter or freelance illustrator sometime and see how
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