Time to Level Up!
A video put out last year by a YouTuber and long-time internet user Glink laments the fall of the internet in a way that I really hadn’t considered. His argument is that the world wide web has passed its golden age, the turning point when Facebook overtook MySpace in 2009 in terms of users. His […]
But I didn’t meet my mother in the USO. (Check the reference.) This past weekend, I was in the Philadelphia area and was interested in making another foray into southern New Jersey. I intended to meet up with Vince, since he lives there, and telegraphed my intention. He heard, obliged me, and we made it […]
NOTE: TJ & Vincent will be discussing chivalry further in a podcast this upcoming Saturday (3/14) for our Patreons – accessible at all tiers –https://www.patreon.com/masculinegeek Everything most Westerners know about chivalry is wrong. This profound misconception exists even though people have varying notions of what chivalry is or what it means to be chivalrous – […]
Time balls, that is. New Year’s Eve is upon us and you know what that means – overpriced food and drink, idiots on the roads and highways, and sheeple crowding into Time Square, New York City, to watch the ball drop. In the not too distant past, The Time Ball was of real, practical use […]
A post from my personal site from April of 2018. I am at the age where the phrases, “I remember when”, and “this used to be such-and-such”, are stated in conversation more times than I care to count. Sentimentality and Romanticism have always occupied a small space in my heart and soul. I practically grew […]
In the Autumn of 1727 Benjamin Franklin created a club called The Leather Apron Club which was later officially dubbed the Junto. The Leather Apron Club/Junto was a small collection of like-minded men, tradesmen and artisans, that initially met every Friday evening at a local tavern to discuss philosophy, poetry, politics, self-improvement, and network in […]
I very much enjoy the study of History. I love it. Not for any academic requirement or gain, but just because. World history I have studied over the years for pleasure. I also believe it should be a gentleman’s duty to learn and absorb such. It’s a perfect means to gain perspective. And while I […]