http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs Fearless. Thoughtful. Witty. Canadian. And Opinionated. Wed, 14 May 2008 01:49:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ...is you don't talk about acting like a man. The second rule of acting like a man is, well, you know. Forgive me if this post descends into an exercise in free association but this is a truth of traditional masculinity so self-evident that it's hard to understate, or to quickly ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/05/09/the-first-rule-of-acting-like-a-man/ Last Friday, just as I became preoccupied with planning and hosting a two-year-old's birthday party and then launching into a nightmarish hell of day-job research, The Shelf cried out to me for my opinion about Tree of Smoke and its particular appeal to male-type people and further, the relationship of ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/05/08/genre-bending/ Consider this the start of a blogroll with benefits -- I'll update it periodically and your own additions, objections and suggestions in the comments section give it a whole Web 2.0 interactivity thing that's been missing from so many inaccessible blog sidebars. Cause as you can see, this blog ain't ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/05/07/act-like-a-man-reading-list/ Just to tie up some loose ends after my post about Kay Hymowitz's "Man Child in the Promised Land." (Earlier knotting took place here and here.) Dave M declares his allegiance to the bong and says he hopes I really didn't mean to give my agreement or approval to Hymowitz's piece: it ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/05/01/its-the-crude-dude-dude/ Driving a cab (or just "driving cab," as the drivers themselves call it) is one of those jobs that remains overwhelmingly dominated by men. There are women in the business, but they're rare -- I got a ride from one a few weeks ago and interviewed her on the spot ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/04/30/dr-cab-driver/ This is why: Apparently now with added moral complexity. http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/04/29/if-the-dude-in-the-next-cubicle-calls-in-sick-tomorrow/ Christopher Goodwin at the Sunday Times of London laments "The sorry state of masculinity in American movies": Segel’s flaccid member looks pathetic and laughable, especially because it’s attached to a body that is doughy and pallid. It can’t seriously be accused of being capable of anything, let alone of breaking a ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/04/29/revenge-of-the-nerds/ Megan McArdle at The Atlantic points out the macabre reaction of the governor of Florida to the Supreme Court decision allowing resumption of the use of lethal injections for death-penalty executions. (Florida Governor Charlie Crist said he was “grateful that the Supreme Court rendered the decision that they did,” according ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/04/28/cold-bloodless-killers/ Viewing Knocked Up as a fairy tale about a male damsel saved by a brave princess answers (even if it doesn't excuse it from) its most frequent critique: that the female characters are humourless scolds, and not very well realized ones at that. Dana Stevens put that complaint forward at ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/04/27/the-knock-on-not-being-ready/ I don't very often tell the story of how I proposed to my wife Rebecca. That's her on the right in the photo above (my son Colum is on the left, the fetus(es) that will become our next child (or two) are slightly to the lower-rightish). There are people who go ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/04/26/thats-princess-charming-on-the-right/