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Entry Posted April 10, 2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/fashion/10date.html “Almost all men agree that beer and hard alcohol are acceptable man date beverages, but wine is risky. And sharing a bottle is out of the question.” 04:53

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Paotie’s Green Couch | Crumblings of Things (www.paotie.com):
… as simply hitting a small, dimpled and white golf ball around a golf course. And they’d be right because the whole objective is to “put it in the hole!” Male golfers around the world engage in golfing rituals every weekend - with other men. Golfman-datestypically involve foursomes of men who consistently talk about their crotches, grab their crotches and yodel to Riverdance. Men like this also smoke extremely large (or thick) cigars – some of them uncut and some of them not – as they travel …

Paotie’s Green Couch | Crumblings of Things (www.paotie.tv):
… as simply hitting a small, dimpled and white golf ball around a golf course. And they’d be right because the whole objective is to “put it in the hole!” Male golfers around the world engage in golfing rituals every weekend - with other men. Golfman-datestypically involve foursomes of men who consistently talk about their crotches, grab their crotches and yodel to Riverdance. Men like this also smoke extremely large (or thick) cigars – some of them uncut and some of them not – as they travel …

Keeping the Castle (www.keepingthecastle.com):
… be totally Chinese, but the adaptability and resourcefulness of their inventors reflect the culture pretty accurately. About the author: Jennifer 8. Lee, a metro reporter at the New York Times, is also the author of the popular Times article “The Man Date,” for which film rights were recently negotiated. via Hachette Book Group USA; image from Amazon.com …

taking fire (aaronbell.org):
… s more widespread. I hear that a friend in a straight relationship is annoyed because he doesn’t have any mates. Another bloke absent on a night out is described as, “off on a bromantic weekend“. It’s an actual cultural thing. Seriousarticlesare written on the subject and earnestly debated. As an illustration, the man-date is defined in the New York Times article as, “two heterosexual men socializing without the crutch of business or sports. …

The Spartan Sweetheart (spartanedge.com):
… Man Dates …

Celeb News 2 U (celebnews2u.com):
… We thought we went over this a few years ago with that New York Times“Man Date” article. But now the Seattle Times has taken it a step further with a trend piece dissecting the bromance - close friendships between hetero dudes. From “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” to Good Will Hunting …

Gawker, Manhattan Media News and Gossip (gawker.com):
… We thought we went over this a few years ago with that New York Times"Man Date" article. But now the Seattle Times has taken it a step further with a trend piece dissecting the bromance - close friendships between hetero dudes. More » …

Soccer Dad (soccerdad.baltiblogs.com):
… , Maryland Blogger Alliance founder, Pillage Idiot is a connossieur of the lifestyle observations of the NY Times. Three years ago he posted his thoughts about a "new" trend called "man dates." The New York Times's numerical reporter, Jennifer 8. Lee,writesabout the rules by which straight men operate when going out with a male friend. You know, so that people don't think they're, like, uh, GAY!!!! (Not that there's anything wrong with that!) Lee calls this a "man date," as in "Last election, Bush won a …

Paullyblog (paullyblog.blogspot.com):
… an articleon the weirdness that is the "man date" -- two straight guys hanging out. This past Saturday, without realizing it, I stumbled into an unscheduled man date complete with dinner and a movie. When I was in my basement as a teenager, drinking generic …

Paullyblog (paullyblog.blogspot.com):
… Recently, The New York Times featuredan articleon the weirdness that is the "man date" -- two straight guys hanging out. This past Saturday, without realizing it, I stumbled into an unscheduled man date complete with dinner and a movie. When I was in my basement as a teenager, drinking generic …

TheNinjaDon (theninjadon.blogspot.com):
… Every couple of weeks, Jay#1 and I meet up on a Sunday night for a nice platonicman-date. We catch up with each other, we drink beers, and we watch football... it's nice. It might surprise you to learn that we don't always drink at my favorite bar, Harvest Moon, where we're both regulars. In fact, more often than not, we go to Old Bay, …

The Sherman Foundation (theshermanfoundation.blogspot.com):
… The article was in response to this post on Gawker: Coming to a Sunday Styles Near You: 'Yellow-Light Bachelors' And a string of NYTimes articles in the past: Metrosexuals Come Out Gay or Straight? Hard to TellThe Man Date …

Bend there, done that (bendtheredonethat.blogspot.com):
… but we have to remember that the act of having a baby costs thousands of dollars in hospital bills(I've heard $3,000 and $10,000 from different father co-workers). What I love more than anything is how the NYT hearts inventing these trends, like the"Man Date,"the "Girl Crush" and my favorite, the "Men aren't sexually attracted to their wives after witnessing her giving birth." What? You're saying that we go through the body-changing, painful process of having a baby and now you're not attracted to us? I …

The adventures of ShinyShiny and Halfeman (marvellousmelbourne.blogspot.com):
… are more significant and the traditional reward of 2 eggs much more appreciated than any piece of shit you could buy at Melbourne Central.Ms ShinyShiny was beside herself after being told to get fucked by a bulgarian oboe player.The Man Date- got mentioned in the Good Weekend Modern Life section. Could The Adventures of ShinyShiny and Halfeman just be a front for two closet homosexuals to go out on a date?The wicked witch of the west metaphorically died, may sanity prevail. What a relief. …

mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY (www.mediabistro.com):
… of blogs to the Gray Lady's bottom line, the talented Jennifer 8. Lee of the New York Times moves from the city section to full-time duties on The City Room Blog. From the salmon-colored weekly: "Ms. Lee, who has written some of the Times' mostwidely-readconceptual pieces in the past few years, recently completed her book on the history of Chinese food in the United States, which is due out in March. She will start filing to City Room, which is led by reporter Sewell Chan and edited by metro deputy …

mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY (mediabistro.com):
… of blogs to the Gray Lady's bottom line, the talented Jennifer 8. Lee of the New York Times moves from the city section to full-time duties on The City Room Blog. From the salmon-colored weekly: "Ms. Lee, who has written some of the Times' mostwidely-readconceptual pieces in the past few years, recently completed her book on the history of Chinese food in the United States, which is due out in March. She will start filing to City Room, which is led by reporter Sewell Chan and edited by metro deputy …

julia (ringelnass.livejournal.com):
… http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/fashion/10date.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5088&en=37be779e04f07228&ex=1270785600 …

Snarky Behavior (snarkybehavior.blogspot.com):
… are subject to mercurial swings in popularity. This is why Nike doesn't sponsor, say, Dick Cheney, who is the only person in the world right now with lower popularity ratings than Kobe Bryant. Option 3 is what we're talking about: stories like the"Man Date", a feature in the Fashion section of the New York Times, can generate water-cooler chatter to rival LOST and Grey's. These kinds of stories, which offer insightful thinking pieces and encapsulate a broad segment of the news environment, are what …

My Musings (notings.blogspot.com):
… together with a Man Friend or Confidiante of their’s! No two men can ever even sit in a public place and discuss a private conversation without a thought running in their minds that they are being branded as Man Date (ers)! I googled and found thisarticle …

...just a cheap knockoff (cheapknockoff.blogspot.com):
… number of friends for Marko's blessing on the first. I guess it's made me realize how few my friends are and how poor contact I keep with them. And it's not like I have friends in the ward. I sure don't go out of my way to make them. Tito [brought up]a "Man-Date", and I realized that's what I need. What I crave, want. I want more than the superficial relationships I've got with my coworkers and classmates. I miss my good companionships, Elder Smith*, Elder Jones*, Elder Holmes*. …

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