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Awesome Men Throughout History: “Mean” Gene Okerlund

Posted June 21, 2013

This week’s edition of Awesome Men Throughout History returns to professional wrestling, but not in the way you’d expect. The wrestlers are the center of attention in a ...

The Self-Made Man: Sean Belnick

Posted June 20, 2013

A decent amount of the successful men profiled in this Self Made Men column were precocious go-getters as kids, but they were still kids, and they generally didn’t start gett ...

The Self-Made Man: Christian T. Petersen

Posted June 13, 2013

Board games are pretty rad, and not just because they’re a relatively cheap and reusable excuse for social interaction. No, wait, that’s exactly why they are rad. My mi ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Arturo Vega

Posted June 11, 2013

The world lost a great artist recently, and a distressingly large percentage of the world doesn’t realize it. Arturo Vega, who was the Ramones’ guardo camino throughout ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Wesley Willis

Posted May 30, 2013

This week, we’re going to talk about Wesley Willis. Strap in. Wesley Willis, who died in 2003, was a paranoid schizophrenic musician and artist with a heavily callused forehe ...

The Self-Made Man: Jann Wenner

Posted May 23, 2013

Rolling Stone magazine has been around for so long that it’s easy to forget how, at one time, it was the project of an entrepreneur who wasn’t sure if he would succeed ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Garrett Morgan

Posted May 21, 2013

There’s been an inexcusable dearth of inventors in my Awesome Men Throughout History column, but fear not! I’m about to fix that by writing about Garrett Augustus Morga ...

The Self-Made Man: Tom Forkner and Joe Rogers, Sr.

Posted May 16, 2013

Any TSB readers south of the Mason-Dixon have passed by Waffle Houses plenty of times on the highway, and I bet most of you have eaten in one at least once. Lord knows I have; I gr ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Mike Judge

Posted May 15, 2013

The headline for Vice Magazine’s 2012 interview with Mike Judge is “Mike Judge is my Xanax,” and the interviewer’s introduction talks about how much Judge informed ...

The Self-Made Man: John Mackey

Posted May 9, 2013

The last time Whole Foods co-founder/former CEO John Mackey made the news, it was for his controversial statements about global warming and Obama’s health care plan. Take tho ...