Sam de Brito has spent more than a decade writing for TV, film and newspapers. In his books, No Tattoos Before You’re Thirty and No Sex With Your Ex, he offers advice to his unborn children. In his offerings The Lost Boys and Hello Darkness, he takes the pulse of Aussie manhood. Now it's your turn as he expounds on the business of being a bloke.
The "no problem, problem"
Sam de Brito There are certain readers of this blog who get the shits when I write about feminism and gender equality and subsequently comment "what about us blokes?" ignoring the fact, gender equality ultimately...
How to find them
Sam de Brito Been reading former-alcoholic, Augusten Burroughs', new anti-self help book 'This is How' which, ironically, is full of helpful advice ...
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 ...
Roughing the suspect
Sam de Brito I'm a wanker from waaaay back. I'm sure that comes as no surprise to many of you - I mean look at my headshot - but once you've finished patting yourselves on the back for spotting the obvious, let's...
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 ...
The snip
Sam de Brito I have a mate with four children under the age of seven. Four! Two were planned, one was a semi-surprise - conceived in the sleepless haze of caring for the first two - and, the last, was something...
Irrational self-confidence
Sam de Brito Success - be it in your career, with women or - well, actually, that's all that matters - is certainly a complex formula, but it's one that can be made easier by adopting a single uncompromising...
Mystery bags
Sam de Brito If there's an upside to your mother dying at home from cancer, it's there's a stack of heavy-duty narcotics left lying around the house once she goes ...
Enough money to do something
Sam de Brito There's a nice line in the recent George Clooney film The Descendants where his character Matt King says in voice over: "I don't want my daughters growing up entitled and spoiled.
I will always love her
Sam de Brito Some of you may remember Andrew Stuart Buchanan, a Sydney writer who in 2006 was made paraplegic after he fell backwards off the second story of a building site ...
David's bottom
Sam de Brito The last couple of occasions I've seen my daughter, she's run around chanting "David's bottom, David's bottom" which is strange, considering I'm the only man whose bottom she's seen and my name's not...
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"? ...
"So gay"
Sam de Brito When it comes to social faux pas, asking a straight man if he's gay ranks up there next to congratulating an "overweight" woman on her pregnancy.
ANZAC
Grant Hyde* It was Sunday 25th, April, 1915, the Great War was raging across Europe, but for the men of the Australian Imperial Force heading for the Dardanelles, it was just another 'sad Sabbath morn' ...
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 ...
Empathy is not a competition
Sam de Brito The Craigslist advertisement was allegedly written by a 24-year-old US man who described himself as "40 pounds overweight, not very visually appealing, not very confident or good in conversation,...
Monsters
Sam de Brito The more of my friends' relationships I see fall by the wayside, the more I can't help wondering if half the people in the world aren't some sort of monster when they're at home? ...
Violence
Sam de Brito Every now and then, my editor unlocks the door on the All Men Are Liars office and I get to roam the newspaper like an ill-bred cousin no-one wants to acknowledge they're related to ...
Thank god I'm a douchebag
Sam de Brito The former All Men Are Liars intern Marlo Begsley tells me he has a friend who habitually says "thank god I'm a douchebag" when he observes women acting manipulatively or treating "nice guys" poorly .
