Category: News

Man Cleavage rules

A history of bare chested manliness from America’s most trusted source in boy-tits news and coverage: the Wall Street Journal…

Male cleavage, particularly on the silver screen, has long played a prominent role in popular culture. Douglas Fairbanks Sr. had his chest on display throughout the 1920s in films like 1924’s “The Thief of Bagdad” and “The Iron Mask” in 1929. A dashing Errol Flynn showed man cleavage in the 1930s, most memorably in 1938’s “The Adventures of Robin Hood.” These actors made skin-flashing practically de rigueur for certain swashbuckling roles.

The aesthetic continued well into the 1950s and the 1960s, says menswear historian Robert Bryan, author of the new book “American Fashion Menswear.” Among those celebrated for their heavage were Marlon Brando (in the 1951 film version of “A Streetcar Named Desire”) and Sean Connery as James Bond in the 1960s.

Buzzkill, Melissa Clouthier is not amused…

It is interesting to me that during the Bush administration the men’s fashion designers were designing for the slight and the androgynous male, but now that the slight and metrosexual male is residing in the White House, designers are trying to butch things up — just like they did during the namby-pamby Carter era.

Well, no amount of chest hair or weird NFL United We Serve commercials where the president is catching a football with smiling children, is going to make this administration suddenly macho and manly. Nancy Pelosi is the toughest politician in Washington, and it’s safe to say she’ll keep her necklines from plunging.

Real men need to fight the cultural scourge of swing fashion trends. Real men are not trendy. They’re classic. No one wants to see lithe and androgynous men. And no one wants to see a man’s chest hair, either.

Read her full article here.

Glenn Beck Riding Around On A Scooter, Having Fun With Stossel

I wish Glenn Beck wasnt such a hated figure, cuz this segment was both fun and funny and I’d like to share it with a wider audience. oh well. I enjoyed it.

Glenn Beck riding around on a scooter for “fat people”, having fun and at times getting a little too close to John Stossel. Glenn also talks about the mysterious lights seen in the skies of Norway yesterday.

Sports Illustrated – Tablet Demo 1.5

Time Inc which owns Sports Illustrated released this demo of what they’re working on for some reason. I say for some reason because… why? whats their angle for showing people this? It would make sense in conjunction with the announcement of a product release – like an Apple Tablet for instance or some major freaky update to Amazon’s Kindle, but no. we got nothin.

Stossel wasn’t fired

John Stossel made a statement officially debunking the viral email going around claiming that ABC fired him from 20/20 because he aired a segment critical of healthcare.

The short segment was actually an update of a one-hour special that I did on Michael Moore and health care. ABC approved that too. I give them credit. For 28 years, they allowed me to express opinions that some viewers hated.

Our parting was by mutual agreement.

The truth is that I wanted to focus on economic liberty. I wanted to do more of the reports you find on this blog. The Fox Business Network has room for that.

Now, finally, on Thursday at 8pm, my new show begins!

The hour long segment Stoss refers to is here:

Hannity grills Dick

Dick Cheney on “Hannity” promo says “its a hard hitting Hannity exclusive”. a little misleading, considering “hard hitting” in context of an interview usually applies to the interviewer, not the guest. The promo should have just come out and said “Sean Hannity gives the former Vic President an unchallenged platform to bash the shit out of the opposition”.

Spousal abuse is funny when the dude is the victim

I like how Chris Brown beats Rihanna over cheating allegations and he’s a monster but Tiger’s wife beats him over cheating allegations and she’s a strong independent woman standing up for herself.

SNL did a “my wife is beating the shit out of me, oh no’z” skit which is featured below, and yet is not as humorous as the fact that this weeks musical guest was in fact… Rihanna….

UPDATE: I just saw that the director of the National Council Against Domestic Violence told TMZ she’s “horrified” by the skit.

Creepy singing heads through the ages

The real video for this post is the 3rd one down, but i wanted to run through some history first…
Here is original footage of the faces of the busts that sing the Grim Grinning Ghosts song on the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland:

Then the version of them that appeared in Disney’s “hey, it worked with Pirates of the Caribbean, lets try it with other rides” movie version of the Haunted Mansion:

And now, in 2009, something seemingly completely unrelated (nothing to do with Disney, themeparks or ghost motif dark rides), but I’m putting forward as a prediction of what is to come:

These three animatronic heads are part of an art piece being sold at Art Basel Miami Beach 2009 for $75,000. The heads are connected to servos behind the mold of the artist’s face that are controlled by a computer. The movements and sound are on a 15 minute loop and both sing together and uncomfortably look around the room individually. VEEEERY CREEEPY.