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Lake Havasu City, 200 Miles from Everything but Muscle
I could do without visiting Arizona, the ultra-red state where Sheriff Joe Arpaio was torturing jail inmates, it is illegal to teach Hispanic culture, and the racist, antisemitic, and homophobic...
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Who is Doug Brochu, and Why am I Following Him on Twitter?
I just found out that I follow Doug Brochu on Twitter. He tweets so rarely that I don't remember why I followed him, or for that matter who he is.He's an actor, born in September 1990 in North...
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Revisiting Luther College, the Site of my First Sexual Experience
I had my first sexual experience when I was fifteen years old, at a summer music camp at Luther College, in the far northeastern corner of Iowa (See: Spending the Night with Todd).It was a memorable...
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10 Cross-Country Challenges for Beefcake Fans
I've been running since I was 15, but I'm not a big fan of watching runners. Especially cross country runners -- standing around for the 1/2 hour or 45 minutes it takes for them to cover the 3 miles...
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The Wrestlers of South Newton
If you're heading east from Peoria, Illinois to Lafayette, Indiana, which you might do if you have friends in both cities, you will see, on the I-24 just past Kentland, a group of buildings standing...
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Superboy in West Hollywood
Seems like there's always a version of the Superman mythos on tv or in the theater. One of the more obscure was Superboy (1988-92), a syndicated reboot that was, for obvious reasons, very popular in...
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The Top 10 Beefcake Hunks of Fear the Walking Dead, Season 4
Fear the Walking Dead, Season 4, has been a big disappointment. First they take the most annoying character on The Walking Dead, Morgan -- who went crazy when his wife died and now spouts pseudo-Asian...
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Burt Reynolds Naked on a Bear Skin Rug
The most famous male nude photos in history:1. Johnny Crawford's full-frontal nude shot advertising The Naked Ape (1973).2. Burt Reynolds's nude centerfold in the April 1972 issue of CosmopolitanThe...
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In Search of the Wrestler with a Eagle Beak on the You-Know-What
The University of Central Missouri tweets: "We have signed 2xtime Nebraska State Champ John F. of Omaha Northwest HS. Projected 125/133."It was dated May 2016. John F., an 18-year old senior,...
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The Penises of Fine Art
Heterosexuals, especially heterosexual men, have an intense fear of the penis. They don't want to see it, they don't want to think about it. They design costumes that hide it as much as possible, and...
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Finding Foran: The Beefcake of Connecticut's Gold Coast
An article from 2018: "Foran's Ryan L. after winning the state open title at 152 pounds last week. The Foran senior won his second-consecutive New England title Saturday, March 4 in Providence."I could...
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Grown-Ish: Black-ish Goes to College, and Meets Bisexuals
The sitcom Grown-ish (2018-) a spinoff of Black-ish, sends Zoe (Yara Shahidi) off to the mostly black-ish Cal University (shades of A Different World), where she makes an ethnically diverse group of...
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10 Problems with High School/College Powerlifting
Muscular guys with their shirts off straining at 300-pound barbells. What's not to like? It would seem that high school/college weightlifting, aka powerlifting, would be an ideal sport for...
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Cruising in Aberdeen, not Aberdeem
I've got a master's degree in English, I've been to Britain about six times, and I've seen every episode of The Simpsons, with Willie the Groundskeeper. I must have heard the name spoken, or read it, a...
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In Search of the Headless Wrestler
This wrestler who has no head is either"Aaron Bancroft" from North Carolina or "Trevor Mansfield" from South Carolina.Why no head? Did they think they were displaying everything important about the...
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Things To Do in Gaylord
Since "gay" used to mean something like "happy, joyful, carefree," there are a lot of streets, towns, and personal names in English that inadvertently have a gay connotation, causing kids to be...
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The Interrupted Journey of Betty and Barney Hill
There haven't been a lot of alien abduction stories recently, but for about ten years, they were all the rage.People having weird "missing time" experiences or strange screen memories, going to a...
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A Date from Hell with the Suit Man
West Hollywood, May 1994I've always been attracted to men in business suits, probably because I saw so few growing up. All of my friends' fathers worked in factories and wore coveralls, except to...
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Did PJ Make it to West Point, and Other Beefcake-Heavy Questions
This wrestler reminds me of Infinite Chazz, our boy toy in West Hollywood, called "infinite" because he was infinitely attractive to everyone who saw him. He could get anything he wanted -- an extra...
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How Do You Handle a Hungry Man?
I'm not a big fan of soup, especially that partially coagulated Campbell's stuff. Besides, they had a stupid logo -- "Mmm, mmm, good," not even words -- and the most cutesy-disgusting advertising...
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