Welmer

I don’t know how many of my readers liked late 80s/early 90s grunge, but I was a pretty big fan as a teen. Soundgarden, Nirvana, Mudhoney and Mother Love Bone were all big sources of local pride for us Seattlites back then. My dad had a ratty apartment above the Off Ramp at the time, [...]

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In my recent post questioning the origins of what seems to be a sudden awareness of men’s issues, I wrote that the transition appears to have begun about two years ago. In asking what trends might have converged to spark an awakening of sorts and the emergence of a new generation of writers and activists, [...]

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In a pathetically misguided attempt to save itself from oblivion, the sinking ship of the traditional publishing industry has taken to purging young staff — especially if they happen to be white and male.
Lukobe sent me an AP article, the title of which, “APME survey: Newspaper cuts clip younger workers,” is somewhat misleading. In [...]

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A couple weeks ago, after seeing the buzz over the “Mad Men” TV series, I flipped on the tube and watched most of an episode. The visual presentation was pretty well done, with the period cars, clothes and hairstyles. However, it seemed that the emphasis on this may have been a little overdone, and the [...]

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I’ve read Whiskey’s arguments that advertisers and media companies ignore men at their own peril, but I thought he might be overstating the situation somewhat. I’ll admit that I’m primarily a reader, so TV and film are kind of an afterthought to me — I don’t really know what’s going on in Hollywood. However, when [...]

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All too often we are absorbed by the miserable work of survival, and we see and think of nothing but the task at hand, whatever it may be. It is easy to forget that there are still some vestiges of the primeval Eden, and they can serve as solace in this thankless struggle we all [...]

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While reading the series of emails between SC Governor Mark Sanford and Maria Belen Chapur, I began to feel a sense of tragedy, and came to feel a twinge of pity for the man, who has obviously struggled with his faith, torn between all he believes in and the Dark Lady of Buenos Aires. I [...]

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After reading Novaseeker’s latest post on escorts, I found a nice little piece on China Expat that uses the art of the short story to expose the longings and unmet needs of the men of our world to explain why there is a demand for such services. It is, indeed, a hard world out there [...]

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The pleasures of spring in Seattle are short, but they make up for brevity with intensity. After many long months of cold, wet darkness with only the somber shades of the evergreens and the sodden, but green grass to remind us of life, a few intervals of sunshine and clear evenings appear between the misty [...]

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Most of my favorite blogs are hosted for free by wordpress.com or blogspot.com, and while the templates they use are generally presentable, they would be better served by self-hosting with a good web host. Even a minimally customized WordPress blog offers far more flexibility and options than the free hosting services, and one can freely [...]

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