Be Better Guys

So there you are, talking with a customer or a date, and you’re going on and on about whatever it is you’re talking about and making no note whatsoever that the person with whom you’re talking has his or her arms folded, is hunched over, is not making eye contact, and is generally fidgety.  You just keep on plowing ahead...

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Ever shaken someone’s hand and been like, “Aww, that was like squeezing a dead catfish!  All squishy and moist…foul!”  Or not known quite how to shake a woman’s hand?  Like do you do the full-on grip of life or do you just grab the front-half of her hand like she just asked you to hold her purse for the next...

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Guys ask “How’d you do it? My girl can’t give a box turtle’s plop about sports, how’d you manage to get your girl to get so freakin’ nuts about sports?” To which I say, “Here’s how I did it”

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So, a unique situation at work just developed – now I have two bosses. I’d like to think it’s because I’m such a whopping success in my job that it takes two managers to corral my activities but nope – it’s an organization change that led me to this situation. I still report to my current boss for some of...

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I remember before my daughter was born my wife, Jill and I were eating breakfast in our old neighborhood, the Woodley Park area of Washington, DC. We moved away to buy a house, in anticipation of having kids, but always enjoyed going back. We didn't know it, but Simone would arrive in less than 48 hours. We were discussing names,...

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Normally, BBG uses its Five Easy Pieces to upgrade your wardrobe for the season. We're giving you a special Five Easy Pieces to help you with gift-buying for your girlfriend or wife. No sweat it, Five Easy Pieces for Winter is coming, too.

Be Better Guys has a question for you: are you gettin’ any? Because if the information we’re getting is accurate, the answer is not much and not as well as you’d like. In this day of on-demand porn, multiple forms of contraception, booty calls, toys, and friends-with-benefits, it appears that getting laid is still as tough as...

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This ever happen to you some mornings - the alarm goes off before you’re ready for it, your heart’s racing, you tossed and turned all night so you’re bleary and can’t see, it’s dark and cold as hell outside, and while your girl is still sleeping, you stare at the ceiling and feel this all-consuming bum-out just wash over you? ...

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Athletes have become rock stars (and rock stars are becoming politicians; politicians are now celebrities; celebrities are in need of a new identity) and with it all the requisite pathos and drama. Tantrums, drugs, bad relationships that impact their performance, athletes are exhibiting all of the signs of Rock Star Divadom. Jocks went from being blue-collar heroes—Willie Mays playing stickball...

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This week, millions of y’all are coming to America!  My town, D.C.  Now, you won’t have a snowball’s chance in Hades of actually eating a  decent meal somewhere, shopping for anything other than leftover tanktops with Grandpa Biden’s mug on ‘em (and the occasional McCain 2008 dishtowel set), get a proper haircut or see any culture, like art, or something.  Why?  Because there will be...

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