Things have been slow around here, I know. I’m actually ramping up on a couple of non-Dethroner-related projects that I hope to announce in the next few weeks, which has caused me to slack off here. I don’t know when and how Dethroner will shape up in the near future, but I haven’t thrown in […]

Gentleman, the culmination of every Dethroner discussion starts today as we embark on our most important theme ever: poop. Our guest experts this week are Josh Richman and Anish Sheth, M.D., authors of “What’s Your Poo Telling You?” They’ll be on hand as we take lower G.I. to all new heights.
Oh, the puns we will […]

The Modern Man’s Guide to Life, now tragically out of print, was the primary inspiration for Dethroner. So much so that I have forced myself not to consult it while working on the site, lest I rip the content right out of the book and slap it onto the screen.
What made Modern Man (and its […]

Susie and I are in KC for Memorial Day, tomorrow to South Missouri to visit the family graveyard, then hopefully a couple of days in a tent away from the internet. We probably won’t be updating until Tuesday. I am in terrible need of a little R&R.
When I get back, I’d like to talk about […]

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Funding is very low. We need to raise $5-10,000 in April.
While all is well at Erowid, the much-needed addition of a new crew member last fall has put a […]

At no point is a man more sure he’s ready to commit to a lifetime with one woman than when he’s buried neck deep in the crotch of a stripper so filled with cocaine her vagina looks like a snow drift. Or at least that’s what I’ve heard, having never been to a bachelor party […]

Webster’s would like us to believe and most would probably agree that gardening is “the act of cultivating or tending a garden”. That would be correct—but a guy would miss most of what gardening is by accepting this definition alone.
One could further distinguish gardening from, say, farming, by fundamental scale and intent. Gardening is done […]

Golf: you love it or hate it. In fact, a lot of people who love it also hate it. It’s an insidious pursuit with many layers of competition—man vs. self, man vs. nature, man vs. other men, man vs. wallet—lacquered atop the underlying truth that it’s a pretty damned hard sport. Hard enough that you’re […]