Week 18 of President Obama's second term: "How far will this Obama-Christie thing go? The term 'bromance' was used this past week almost as often as the word 'scandal' was used the weeks before. Should Hillary be jealous?"
Few books begin more engagingly than The Lives of Tao, a science fiction romp which wears its principal strength -- the wit and humor of the narrative voice -- on its sleeve.
The "President Boyfriend" meme was cute when it debuted in 2007 as ObamaGirl had her crush, but one would think Washington wouldn't succumb to the same tarted-up politics of personal attraction when it comes to actually governing. One would be wrong.
Making new friends as an adult can be weird ā you're not in school anymore, so that built-in icebreaker of, "Ugh, math is THE WORST," is gone. And m...
Just a couple of dudes and ladies, hanging out and having a few drinks and then surfing down the stairs in a laundry basket. What could possibly go w...
When I was a boy, my heroes were the strong, silent types portrayed in the movies. It took me a while to figure out what acting like a man really means.
Blake Shelton may have taken heat last year for a series of comments some deemed homophobic, but the country music star has no problem confessing to h...
In some ways, War is the bromance version of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, which could have been by McG but, instead, was by Doug Liman, who is like McG with a functioning brain.
Michael Buble guest-hosted "Live! With Kelly" (weekdays, syndicated on ABC) on the perfect day. The newly-married crooner and his wife, Argentinean ac...
From Grindr to Scruff, gay men have plenty of mobile apps they can use to meet each other while on the go. But how are straight guys supposed to find ...
Here's a red-blooded idea. Whenever you hear "man" or "he" or "guy" or "bro" strapped onto the front of some word in a desperate attempt to try and butch it up and banish the inner sissy, just replace it with "fag."
Being labeled a bromance actually prevents men from having these relationships because the very name feeds so many men's (and our culture's) homophobia.
These days, bravado in men on screen plays chauvinistic and strength boorish, where for women, good sense is written as shrewish and vulnerability weak.
Consumers of pop culture will find it hard to argue that there's not a strong undercurrent of formulaic and unflattering portrayals of women's relationships with other women.
We've been following the work of BriTANick, the sketch/video duo of Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher ever since we saw several of their super short vid...
Around 2,000 new words, phrases, and meanings have been added to the dictionary of American English, including bromance -- defined as "a close but non...
Yes, I wrote about how to get some shmearing done during the High Holy days. However, one category I didn't delve into was bromances.
For those three...
I apparently work in the wrong field, because romance and politics rarely go hand in hand (unless you discover your Argentinean soulmate on the Appalachian Trail) and it probably won't end well, anyway.
Maybe I should just try to "get ueber it" but I am not comfortable with the masochistic Jack Ass meets Candid Camera, you've been punk'd genre that is post-race, post-gay and post-p.c.
In Humpday, two friends back themselves into a corner when they resolve to make an amateur porn video together, examining the straight male's anxiety over his nascent gay side.
One thing that left me feeling queasy after the movie was Ken Jeong's character, Mr. Chow. I hated the generic Engrish accent. And the character's queeny affectation left me cold, coming across more prissy than funny.