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Awesome Men Throughout History: Louis L’Amour

Posted July 2, 2013

I’ve been playing through Red Dead Redemption over the past week (what? I’m a sucker for sandbox games), and the experience has reminded me how much I love westerns. An ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: George Takei

Posted June 26, 2013

Most people know George Takei because of Star Trek, in which he played, and sometimes makes cameo appearances as, Lt. Sulu. They may also follow his Facebook page, which is a beehi ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Terry Funk

Posted May 8, 2013

As we all know, I am a huge fan of professional wrestling, and have been watching it for most of my life. Yet somehow, I haven’t written up too many pro wrestlers for Awesome ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Joe Ancis

Posted April 30, 2013

“The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well” is a saying that I’ve lived by for years. It’s become sort of a mantra for me, in fact, and it& ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Joe Charboneau

Posted April 9, 2013

In honor of baseball season starting up again, I thought I’d profile another ball player for this week’s Awesome Men Throughout History. As we’ve seen, baseball a ...