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The test to determine whether any celebrity has reached the iconic level is whether or not you can put a coffee table book about them on display without looking like a complete weirdo. For example, [...]

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Figuring out what the fuck you should make for dinner isn’t always as easy as it sounds. Do you make something with meat, or something vegetarian approved? Noodles or rice or salad? Don’t even get [...]

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The glock, more affectionately referred to these days simply as a "gat" (even though rappers didn't coin the term), is a pretty big deal. It pops up on TV, in movies and in the holsters [...]

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If we had a dollar for every time we've had to eject from a smoking aircraft only to fall directly into hostile territory, we'd have exactly the same amount of money we have now. Chances are, [...]

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Some time ago, photographer Henry Hargreave combined his passions for photography and sweater puppets with the book 3DD. Unsurprisingly, the book sold out faster than iPads on release day. If you happen to be [...]

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If we won the lottery right now, the first thing we would go out and buy is the same thing most guys would--a ridiculously expensive car. We're still undecided if it would be a Ferrari [...]

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Do you always buy the same beer? Of course not. Sure there's the old standby, but often you wanna try something new that you can brag to your friends about discovering. In a sense, it's all about being [...]

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What would you do if someone dropped an entire cow into your kitchen and said, "Enjoy!" Would you try to hoist the entire thing onto your Weber grill? Would you hack away like some guide in the [...]

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We can only imagine that this book is the coffee table equivalent of spending a day in the life and (high) times of Cheech and Chong...if they had a proclivity for online cat videos, psychedelic [...]

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DIY projects are a lot like cooking your meals at home—you're saving money, gaining a bit of satisfaction and often cursing and throwing things by the end of the night. We all know our way [...]

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In-N-Out. Gray's Papaya. Giordano's. Now you can also include The Meatball Shop on the list of places most people don't have access to every day but wish they did. (Editor's note: Sorry for making you [...]

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Aside from buying one drawer handle or a discounted washcloth, this is about the cheapest thing you can get at Restoration Hardware. While you might not be able to afford that salvaged wood coffee table in [...]

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If we didn’t know better, we would have thought that the release of Steve Jobs’ biography so soon after his death was some kind of brilliantly timed Apple marketing move. In a way, it kind [...]

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Dads do a lot of very important things in the formative years when a boy is growing up to be a man. For starters, he probably didn't bitch about how there was no instruction manual [...]

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It's not that we need to be reminded that we're men (we can just look down), it's just that there are times when we could use a reminder on what it is we strive for. Manvotionals [...]

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