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Awesome Men Throughout History: Henry Durkee

Posted December 6, 2011

This week’s column is a special one to me, mostly because it involved some actual research on my part. A lot of my subjects, though obscure, have some kind of online presence ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Oliver Reed

Posted November 29, 2011

If you read my Awesome Men article about Richard Harris, which you damn well should have, you may have noticed that he was something of a drinker. This was not uncommon among Briti ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Jack Parsons

Posted November 17, 2011

If there’s one thing I hope to discredit with this column, it’s the idea that science is dull and fact-obsessed and full of nerds who can’t have fun. Scientists a ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Ambrose Bierce

Posted November 3, 2011

This week’s installment of Awesome Men Throughout History is going to be about a writer. Again. I had a huge apology all typed up for this glaring conflict of interest, but t ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Big Joe Turner

Posted October 28, 2011

Looking back, we’ve featured a good amount of musicians in Awesome Men Throughout History. So it won’t kill us to add one more; this week, we’re taking a look at ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Esquerita

Posted October 20, 2011

This week’s column is the natural consequence of leaving my iPod on shuffle for a six-hour drive home from a friend’s wedding in Connecticut. I have a lot of music on t ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: George Lippard

Posted October 13, 2011

I normally hate it when writers write about writing. I really do. Unless it’s meant for advisory or educational purposes, like Stephen King’s On Writing, or to shine a ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Voltaire

Posted October 6, 2011

This week’s Awesome Men Throughout History focuses on Voltaire, and not the goth guy who sings about atheism at nerd conventions. Screw him. The real Voltaire, born François ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Manly Wrestlers

Posted September 29, 2011

As we all know, I’m something of a pro wrestling fan despite the numerous reveals that it’s an exploitative business run by carnival scumbags. But what many people don& ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Rosey Grier

Posted September 22, 2011

Thanks to the Grand Prix screwing up Baltimore traffic patterns all weekend, I’m stuck in my apartment over Labor Day weekend with nothing better to do than celebrate my birt ...