Look, we can agree that men are idiots.  But let’s please allow men to be idiots in their own, familiar ways.  Egotism, triumphalism, obliviousness. Covetousness, sloth, unfocused aggression and obsession with trivia and the banal.  These are where… Read full post »

“Who are you talking to?”  I hated that question.  I hated the French words.  «À qui  vous parlez?»  Again and again.  He would sit with his knees touching mine, face thrust forward, alight with intensity.  Just in… Read full post »

Something was amiss.  I could tell by the way Valentina was sitting up in bed, staring at me wide-eyed and open-mouthed.  I suppose it could have been that she’d wakened to find a naked man bringing her a tray of coffee and milk, but I sensed something more at… Read full post »

I’ve had it with political women.  I won’t date them anymore.  I don’t care how pretty or smart they are.  I don’t care how witty or sexy or otherwise attractive they are.  There’s something wrong with them.  [Note: this surely applies to… Read full post »

No one writes letters anymore.  That’s a damn shame. A letter is a medium with a message.  Before you even raise your letter opener to cut the paper seal, you know someone cares about you. … Read full post »

Don’t you say those things

Don’t you look at me

Don’t you touch my face

Don’t you dare be kind.

I hate your voice

I hate your eyes

I hate my eyes

I hate your h… Read full post »

If you believe in God, there are times you feel closer to Him or Her.  There are times you feel His or Her presence.  There are times in life you would kneel and thank the Creator with all you have. … Read full post »

It’s a sound that inspires an instant, primal fear.  It has featured in this world for barely a hundred years, but it may as well have been with us since we left the trees. 

The squeal of rubber tires on a street.  The keen, desperate note of wanting, of… Read full post »

Oh, yes, you can judge a book by its cover.  Sure you can.  If you’re observant, if you’ve managed to let a few of life’s more obvious lessons make it through your th… Read full post »

The local paper had called him and the others “casualties”, as if there’d been a war.  But no, just a bad economy.  The company couldn’t afford him anymore.

He sits on his granddad’s Shaker chair, in the shed he’d built, on his land, behind his hou/… Read full post »

Sometimes, what’s good for the goose is just horrible for the gander.

Gentlemen, if you’re in a relationship with a woman for any length of time, there’s a good chance that someday she’ll want you to try wearing some kind of men’s lingerie.&nbs… Read full post »

“La passion est une obsession positive. L’obsession est une passion négative.” – Paul Carvel, odd Belgian writer and internet personality.

“A fanatic is one who can’t change… Read full post »

Since I was an adolescent, it’s become harder for teenage boys (and girls) to buy a Playboy magazine.  The law says you have to be 18, and show identification to prove it, just as if you were buying c… Read full post »

Stealing other men’s dates is getting easier, and the predatory among us have technology to thank.

Years ago, on a Caribbean vacation with a girlfriend, I watched as an unfortunate German bu… Read full post »

This is the latest episode in the Lesbian Chronicles.  They start here:  http://open.salon.com/blog/man_talk_now/2009/05/13/stop_kissing_the_lesbian_part_one

I was s… Read full post »

The following is the transcript of an interview with Patience Strane, spokeswoman for ManTalkNow, conducted by the staff of the Schenectady Shopping News. 

Schenectady Shopping News:  First off, we should mention that we’ve been trying to secure an interview with… Read full post »

Naturally, Elizabeth Watson simply materialized in my apartment.  No phone calls or emails for her.  Not even an old-fashioned letter with an “air mail” sticker on the envelope.  No warning at all that she&r… Read full post »

Intimate breaths unbidden

Lips soft forbidden

Prior acts forgiven

History to be hidden.

A sin if you proceed

Perchance she might accede

May permit the deed

She, newly mar… Read full post »

If you haven’t read parts I and II, this will make no sense at all, so please do.

Part I:  http://www.open.salon.com/blog/man_talk_now/2009/05/13/stop_kissing_the_lesbian_part_one

Part II:  http://www.open.salon.com/blog/man_talk_now/2009/05/14/stop_kissing_the_lesbian_part_two  … Read full post »

If you haven’t yet read Part One, please do, or this will make even less sense. 

I was furious, of course.  I paced my rooms in the drafty old hotel, cursing.  In a rage, I swe… Read full post »

Elizabeth was a queer young woman, in the original sense, before the word was appropriated by the homosexual enterprise.  She was unnaturally petite, about five feet tall, and dressed badly, in ankle-length second-hand store skirts with dilapidated shoes.  Her laugh, which she unshea/… Read full post »

INTERIOR – PRESIDENT OBAMA’S OFFICE – DAY

And

INTERIOR – FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH’S OFFICE - DAY

The President is alone.  He finishes a phone call, replaces receiver, reaches for his coffee.  His secretary informs him, via intercom, that former President George W.… Read full post »

I associate with people I don’t like.  There’s the guy who runs a group of production houses.  Wants me to join him and his buddies for a golf, girls and Glenfiddich debauch in Bermuda… Read full post »

One can’t strive for debonair.  It’s a quality that becomes more distant the more it is sought.  No, the essence of debonair is effortlessness.  It’s a bracing, stimulating aura that naturally precedes and trails a man of parts.  A man at the center of, yet subtl… Read full post »

There’s no goodbye

No decline

No end

Don’t stop the fight

No goodnight

Keep the light

Tonight we’re young

Tonight her tiger

Electric bright

Tonight she’s good

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