June 2012

How to Fold the American Flag

by Brett & Kate McKay

In honor of next week’s Fourth of July. Illustration by Ted Slampyak

So You Want My Job: Restaurant Critic

by Brett & Kate McKay

Once again we return to our So You Want My Job series, in which we interview men who are employed in desirable jobs and ask them about the reality of their work and for advice on how men can live their dream. Getting paid to eat, what more do I need to say? Such is [...]

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How to Sew on a Button

by Antonio

I was in Chicago at a networking event three years ago and found myself with a problem. The dress shirt I was wearing had apparently “shrank” in the neck as I couldn’t get it to button-up all the way to the top. Although I could normally skip the tie, this event was more formal and [...]

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Moments in Manliness: Strong as a Bull Moose [VIDEO]

by Brett & Kate McKay

AoM reader and video producer, Sam Hakes, helped us create this short animation showcasing a manly moment from the life of Teddy Roosevelt. If you’d like to see more of these, please share it.

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How to Read a Topographic Map

by A Manly Guest Contributor

Editor’s note: This post was written by Jason Robert and originally ran on ITS Tactical. Today we’re going to discuss how to read terrain off of a map. Reading terrain is more about artistic visualization than it is science. There are three major factors that aid in the visualization of terrain from a 2d map: Contour [...]

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A Man’s Guide to Moving Back in with His Parents…While Maintaining at Least a Little Dignity

by Brett & Kate McKay

Continuing to live with your parents after you turn 18, or moving back in with them after graduating college…isn’t that the antithesis of manliness? That’s certainly how the regular spate of “What’s the matter with the menz?” articles portray it. The fact that the number of 25-34-year-olds who are living with their parents has doubled [...]

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Cooking with Cast Iron

by Matt Moore

Everything you need to know about cooking with the manliest piece of cookware- cast iron.

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Leadership Lessons from Dwight D. Eisenhower #3: How to Make an Important Decision

by Brett & Kate McKay

The complexity of planning and executing Operation Overlord — the largest amphibious assault in world history — was truly staggering. The mission involved formulating deception plans, building artificial harbors along the British coastline, figuring out how to effectively launch 12,000 planes and 7,000 vessels, land 24,000 paratroopers into enemy territory, get 160,000 troops across the [...]

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An Unimagined Success

by A Manly Guest Contributor

Editor’s note: This is guest post from Marcus Brotherton. It originally ran on Men Who Lead Well (www.marcusbrotherton.com). How many times have we hoped for a specific type of success, only to have it elude us? We dream of being an Olympic sprinter, a prize-winning surgeon, or a writer of the great American novel. But [...]

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Dim & Dash: Getting Ready to Go Out

by Brett & Kate McKay

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How to Turn an Old WWII Field Phone Into a Bluetooth Handset

by Brett

Command your forces with the same field phone used by WWII soldiers by following this Bluetooth mod.

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How to Get Free Accommodations When You Travel

by A Manly Guest Contributor

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Matthew Kepnes. Maybe you dream of being James Bond and cruising around the world with beautiful and dangerous women, driving fast cars, and stopping criminals. Or maybe you’d like to become a modern-day Indiana Jones, trying to solve ancient mysteries in exotic locales. Or, instead of luxury [...]

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The Libraries, Studies, and Writing Rooms of 15 Famous Men

by Brett & Kate McKay

This post is brought to you by Volvo. What’s this? 15 more Man rooms of 15 famous men.

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How to Make a Nifty Shoe Shine Box

by Brett

How to make your own shoe shine box in less than an hour.

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How to Use a [BUSTED] Cell Phone to Meet 5 Basic Survival Needs

by A Manly Guest Contributor

.This content series is brought to you by Dockers. Take the adventure of a lifetime! What’s this? How to use your busted cell phone to survive in the wild.

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Becoming Well-Spoken: How to Minimize Your Uh’s and Um’s

by Brett & Kate McKay

In the pursuit of becoming a better man, becoming well-spoken is a task that should not be overlooked. How you speak is a huge component of the impression you make on others, and thus your potential influence on them. People will form judgments about your education, intelligence, background, and personality simply based on the sound [...]

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10 Great Songs About Dads

by Brett & Kate McKay

The relationship between fathers and their children is one of the most important and influential of all human connections. Children want to be like their fathers, or their complete opposites. They can feel protected, smothered, or abandoned by their dads. Dads can wonder if they’re doing fatherhood right, struggle to express their love to their [...]

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The Autonomous Man in an Other-Directed World

by Brett & Kate McKay

“The struggle between the autonomous few and the non-autonomous many — is only beginning.” -The Lonely Crowd First published in 1950 as a sociological analysis of American life, The Lonely Crowd became a surprising bestseller; its authors, David Riesman and his collaborators, had expected it to be of interest only to fellow academics, and yet [...]

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So You Want My Job: Outdoor Shop Owner

by Brett & Kate McKay

Once again we return to our So You Want My Job series, in which we interview men who are employed in desirable jobs and ask them about the reality of their work and for advice on how men can live their dream. About a year ago Darren Bush left a comment on an AoM blog [...]

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