Apparently there are men who refuse to carry umbrellas because they are not “masculine,” which is a trend I discovered today when I heard a guy in the office ask a few other women, “How do you feel about men who carry umbrellas?” This has incited me to create a line of umbrellas for men. They’ll either be called “umbrollas” or have “no homo” screenprinted on them.
This is me still refusing to use an umbrella. Wear a jacket like a man!
Youth and strength and beauty are so fleeting. The man in the Hawaiian shirt once embodied all of those things, before these children were born. Three times the world heavyweight boxing champion, the center of global fascination and frenzied controversy after winning his first title and then changing his name from Cassius Clay, endlessly mesmerizing with his float-like-a-butterfly, sting-like-a-bee ring style, called “the greatest of all time” so often that the words became almost an official designation, the sight of his flawless face and the sound of his confident-beyond-all-dispute voice a sustaining part of the very atmosphere. …
The aftermath of a fire at my Uncle Mike’s house and the fate of his old Ranchero. As my old man said “This is why you buy fire insurance”. Thankfully no one was hurt.
“Sometimes the public recognition isn’t always expected — or necessarily welcomed. Specialist Zachary Boyd recently was enjoying a well-deserved sleep when his post in eastern Afghanistan came under enemy attack. He immediately grabbed his rifle and rushed into a defensive position clad in his helmet, body armor, and pink boxer shorts that said “I Love New York.” - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates