Sport
Man love
Sam de Brito So, I went on a hot date recently and I'm not sure how to follow up with ... well ... him ...
Weigh in
Sam de Brito So, thanks to my somewhat pathetic, pleading blog post last month 'Give me a TV show', I've hooked up with a production company called R & R Media and we're going to shoot a 'sizzle reel' for All Men...
Bloody kids
Sam de Brito You have to wonder if the "bloody kids" has replaced "the missus" as the perceived ball and chain around the modern man's neck ...
No expectations
Sam de Brito Do you have someone in your life who perceives any disagreement as a personal attack, a request for compromise as you "being difficult" or a defence of your point of view as "aggression"? ...
Big business warm up for profit making performance
Advertisers are going for Facebook as athletes go for the gold, in the first Olympic Games where marketers are placing such high hopes on social media to create a buzz for their brands.
Fact from fiction
Sam de Brito One of the obvious achievements of this blog having been around for almost six years is we've covered a looooot of ground ...
Privileged little shit
Marlo Begsley* Confession: I'm a privileged little shit; I'm the kid you see driving around Mosman in a BMW, the kid you judge for being incredibly spoilt, for not appreciating their yearly trips to Aspen or Vail .
Ripped off in the 80s
Sam de Brito The longer I live, the more convinced I become my generation got savagely ripped off as teenagers growing up in the 80s* ...
The real rules of attraction
Gentlmen prefer blondes. Right? Wrong. Sorting science from cliches.
A lone kayaker, a marlin and one wild ride
Never again will Jeff Sheppeard have to talk about the one that got away. For almost 10 years, the game fisherman has spent his summers roaming the open ocean in a kayak, hoping to fulfil his boyhood...
Outdoor Type?
Sam de Brito One of our great Australian songs, generally not considered an Australian song, is the Lemonheads 'Outdoor Type', sung by the once omnipresent Evan Dando ...
Shark!
Sam de Brito Fat Tony is standing on the cold concrete stairs of the surf club, still dressed, gazing down at the waves at south end like they might bite ...
The powder and the glory
The cultural mash-up that is Davos is not all about heavy-duty business, economics and politics.
Male sex drive to blame for world wars
Nick Collins The male sex drive is to blame for most of the world's conflicts from football hooliganism to religious disputes and, even, world wars, say scientists.
Currency lads
Sam de Brito In his research for his third novel Daniel's Empire, a good friend of mine, author Grant Hyde wrote recently that he's found himself "delving into the factors that make us Australians" and, by that,...
Respect
Sam de Brito Next to a well-regarded and successful doctor, guess what is the most universally respected profession in the country of Vietnam? No, not a model, football player, newsreader or Celebrity Apprentice...
Adventurer attempts to cross Antarctica solo
As she skis across Antarctica, Felicity Aston is taking on dangers including crevasses, storms, injuries and frostbite.
Just two movies and $19m: how Naomi Watts became Australia's highest paid actor
David Hirst Naomi Watts may have had a quiet year when it comes to movie releases but that hasn't stopped the King Kong star from becoming Australia's highest earning actor for 2011.
Motorsports - now I get it
Sam de Brito Last Saturday, I had the privilege to sit in the Jim Beam Racing box, above the pits at the Sydney Telstra 500 - a very loud race involving lots of very fast cars, driven by very skillful men, backed...
Peter Roebuck's sad legacy
Sam de Brito I feel sorry for gay blokes - not in a pitying, condescending way, and certainly not every gay man. There are plenty of gays who annoy me - particularly the vicious, snippy, Carson Kressley wannabes...
