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Awesome Men Throughout History: Rev. Nørb

Posted May 14, 2014

Men like Andrew WK and Nardhuar the Human Serviette have made careers from their boundless, somewhat childish enthusiasm for life, but there was one before them. He might not be as ...

The Self-Made Man: George Stranahan

Posted May 9, 2014

You can’t be a Maryland resident without drinking, or at least knowing about, Flying Dog Brewery’s line of beers. They’re made in Frederick, which is way out in w ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Puddles the Clown

Posted May 8, 2014

When a friend of mine told me that a 7-foot-tall clown was covering Lorde songs on the Internet, my curiosity was piqued. I do love clowns, after all. When that same friend told me ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Aaron McGruder

Posted May 6, 2014

There’s been some controversy about The Boondocks returning to television without its creator, Aaron McGruder. According to his friend Michael B. Jordan, who appeared in the ...

The Self-Made Man: Reed Hastings

Posted May 1, 2014

I usually watch TV when I write, and since I don’t have a proper television, I use Netflix most of the time. I always figured Netflix was the result of corporate boardroom th ...

The Self-Made Man: Gabe Newell

Posted April 24, 2014

Any readers with a Steam account will be interested in this week’s Self Made Man, Gabe Newell. Gabe is the co-founder and current managing director of the Valve Corporation, ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Lewis Grizzard

Posted April 23, 2014

It’s pretty hard to understand, at least on a superficial level, why I’m such a big fan of Lewis Grizzard’s writing. He was a sexist, permanently-fratty defender ...

The Self-Made Man: Orv Madden

Posted April 22, 2014

I haven’t been inside a Hot Topic in years, but that store was central to my high school experience. Hot Topic shoppers were disregarded as fad-chasing dorks who weren’ ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Juan Marichal

Posted April 15, 2014

This week, Awesome Men Throughout History returns to baseball, mostly due to my perhaps foolish belief that it has finally stopped snowing and we can begin warm weather sports in e ...

The Self-Made Man: Philip Danforth Armour, Sr.

Posted April 11, 2014

When you think of the Gilded Age, a few specific men come to mind: Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and so on. These men were industrialists and entrepreneurs, a ...