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Complete this phrase: “it’s the little things…” Maybe you went with “that count,” or “that make life worth living,” or “that tend to be cute and fluffy.” No matter what you went with I bet it was on the positive side because we love the little things. They’re just so little! And such things! Sometimes we can take all the little things for granted because they’re just being little and doing they’re on thing, so let us now praise one of our most beloved but not always celebrated little things- buttons. Admit it, most of the time we think about...

Pablo Picasso is famous for a great many things- his Blue Period, Cubism, being quite an ass hole with a mean infidelity streak, etc. His artistic legacy and impact are hard to overstate, the guy was the de facto leader of the 20th century art world and one of those rare artists that were as famous alive as they are dead. Despite that, I’d bet dollars to donuts that even though you could think of a half dozen of his paintings off the top of your head you barely have any conception of how the guy looked. This is a...

Swimwear is powerful. Aside from the occasional overalls or jumpsuits it’s the only time most men wear only one item of clothing. Your style is honed into one singular garment. Is your preference for trunks leaning towards a roomy board short, or maybe you prefer something barely there? No wrong answers here, folks, nor any dictum that says you got to look a certain way to wear a certain thing. If you’re most comfortable in something baggy then that’s cool. You got a belly and want to keep things brief? I say more power to you, and I’d recommend adding...

Fatherhood is fucking messy. Yes, in the literal sense at the very beginning with a trial by diapers, your dad there to tend to your pants-shitting habit, but then the mess expands and mutates into more oblique shapes. All of these elements are interconnected in a tangled mesh that knot up in weird ways. Worse yet, there’s no correct way to navigate it all. Everyone does the job differently to their own designs in wildly different circumstances. One person’s parenting plan for their kid could go completely to shit when applied on someone else. And the stakes? Just a human...