With summer heat come summer smells. And beyond the scents that waft across the backyard from the grill, almost none of them are good. Particularly, summer is the time when bodies make themselves most pungently known, filled with sweat and armpit horrors, often covered by the cloying,...
Based on recent history, it would seem the popped collar originated with one of three male species: 1) frat guys; 2) Jersey Shore juiceheads; or super-rich bros who spend their many non-working hours in the Hamptons. But that wouldn’t just be recent history; it also would constitute...
Post-breakup trash-talking has only one motive, but can take many forms: There’s the artful sick burn, such as when actress Elisabeth Moss, remarking on her short-lived marriage to Fred Armisen, said that “the greatest impersonation he does is that of a normal person.” Then there’s the dirty...
If you’re in a relationship with a person who has a menstrual cycle, the odds are pretty good that you’ve been asked to go on a tampon run. And if it hasn’t happened to you yet, it will. Mastering the mysteries of the overwhelmingly pastel-floral feminine hygiene...
If there’s one thing I hate in life — and there is not; I hate many things with equal vigor — it’s being too hot. In bed, my wife sleeps under two sets of covers, wearing pajamas, still shivering, while I lie naked, the covers thrown off, two limbs ideally hanging...
Chinese Kung Fu Master Ye Hongwei is more than willing to put his testicles on the line for what he believes in. For instance, before a crowd of gawkers, he recently swaddled his penis and testicles in a yellow silk scarf that tethered them and a cable to a 5-ton...
In this installment of our “What Makes Me a…” column, we asked seven people what they really mean when they call you a “nice guy.” Rob Dick, Bounty Hunter School instructor: In my world, a “nice guy” is someone that treats the fugitive like a human being....
While the president has called diaper-changing “women’s work,” some 90 percent of fathers with children under 5 will change the diaper on that child every day or several times a week, according to a recent study. Yet it’s anyone’s guess where they’re doing it, since so many...
It’s pretty common to want to blame other people for our flaws, and it’s especially tempting — easy, even — to put the burden on our parents. Got angry-drunk and called your boss a bad name? Thanks for showing me how to self-medicate with alcohol instead of controlling my anger, Dad....
You have plans with a friend who you don’t entirely trust to stick to said plans. You’ve agreed to a time and a place. You show up at the appointed time and place. Maybe 20 minutes later, you get a familiar text: They can’t make it after...
Until recently, pop culture portrayed the “revenge bod” as a strictly female phenomenon. As Vanity Fair notes, the term first entered the lexicon in the early 2010s, as a way for glossy celebrity magazines to describe famous women (Jennifer Aniston, Kim Kardashian, Britney Spears, Katie Holmes) who...
I struggle with asking for things that I want. I’ve never, for example, sent a meal back to a restaurant kitchen for any reason. Instead, I’ll happily power down the veggie special after ordering lobster to avoid an uncomfortable confrontation with a waiter. I’ve been meaning to...