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The Chap Magazine

I know nothing at all about The Chap magazine, but check out what’s in the Autumn issue; there’s not a thing wrong about any of this:
• An explanation of the history, tenets and practical applications of Bartitsu – the gentleman’s martial art devised in 1899 by Edward Barton-Wright
• The stirring biography of George Hangar, 18th [...]

Esquire is running a great slideshow showing the “Evolution of Men’s Style” from 1933 to 2008. I wish there was more commentary on each image — and even with forty some-odd images, I still wish there were more images, too! — but it’s a great primer for understanding teh last several generations of formal and [...]

A script reader got a hold of the movie written by professional internet bastard Tucker Max, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. They didn’t like it. (This is where I would tried to add “They must have been fat — or a woman!” but the sarcasm just didn’t come through.)
One other highlight before I [...]

Shark Week Now Has Robots

Discovery Channel is one of my employers, but they didn’t know that when they asked me to let you know that Shark Week now includes robot sharks. Informed.
Shark Week (dot com)

Discovery posts this fantastic update from the world of tree shrews, which are apparently nature’s own lushes:
Even the most ardent beer fans would have trouble subsisting on their favorite brew day in and out, but scientists have just discovered that the pentailed treeshrew lives off a frothy, fermented nectar that smells like beer and has [...]

Bill Bumgarner on Tequila

Bill Bumgarner explains tequila in more detail than you probably ever thought necessary:
First, Cuervo Gold is not good tequila. It is actually a really terrible product, quality wise, backed by some brilliant market. Sadly, most of the tequila consumed in the United States is Cuervo Gold or something equally as bad. And by “bad”, I [...]

I don’t even care anymore. We’re going all bulldog all the time.

Video: Bulldog Eats Baby

One more video and we’re going to have to change the tagline of the site.

Video: Bulldog Puppies

You will find this video delivers as advertised. (Thanks, John!)

If you’d like to watch a sad sack rant into a camera perched on the dash of his parked car about the end of womenkind’s preternatural ability to spot his self-loathing and axemurderiness from a mile away — and if you’re looking to stay positive about humanity, you’re not — then Steve Hoca’s powerful VoiceThoughts™ [...]






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