A Resource for Men

Gentlemen,

I happened upon this fantastic resource for men that I wanted to share with you all: www.artofmanliness.com. It's a very well put together website, and has a great mobile version for browsing on your smart phone while your on the John at work!

The website has a vast catalog of articles specifically written for men, by men. Articles include "How to Throw a Perfect Football Spiral", "How to Make the Best Beef Jerky in the World", and "How to Grow a Handlebar Moustache". 

To be honest I'm a little jealous of this website! I feel like the MOP have the skills, knowledge, and breadth of experience to produce an equally (if not better) resource for men. Our group includes men who have served in our military, travelled the world, shot at (and sometimes hit) large mammals, raised small humans, fought and defeated cancer, jumped out of a plane,  spied on the Chinese, drove across the U.S., seduced beautiful women and tricked them into marriage, walked on a frozen river, launched a mouse into space, helped people less fortunate, skied down mountains, climbed up mountains, drank their own urine, graduated with Bachelors, Masters and PhDs, cooked delicious meals, mixed elaborate cocktails, smoked the finest cigars, been in bar fights, shoveled out of record breaking blizzards, hit a hole in one, bowled an almost perfect game, read the greatest literacy masterpieces etc. etc.

Why can't we have a website that men flock to to gain knowledge and expand their minds. We have everything we need. Perhaps we should launch a new website/blog for writing full articles for men? Something like www.menoftheworld.com. 

We could break it down between the group, so someone writes and posts an article each month to start. With 6 members that means we'd only have to each write 2 articles a year. Not too taxing I think. The articles should come from your own life experiences. For example maybe McPageTurner writes a piece about how men should travel for work e.g. 10 things to pack for business travel. Or Pompous writes a piece about how golf e.g. 5 tips to help your short game. Or Master Lieb shares advice on geocaching e.g. Geocaching for the beginner. 

We have too much knowledge not to share it with other men who need our help. 

Please let me know your thoughts on this idea. I see it as a way to draw attention to the MOP in the long run. 

Go forth,

LLdP

Meatlovers rejoice

Just when you thought you'd seen all the bacon-themed products there could possibly be in the world, someone goes and throws us all a curve ball from left-field! Bacon Shaving Cream. Just let those three simple and 66.6% delicious words resonant in your mind. Bacon. Shaving. Cream. I mean why on earth would any man want his face to smell like menthol, aloe, or original ever again–when your chops could literally smell like chops–bacon chops that is! Genius.

Are we getting dumber?

This may not be the first time you've heard this argument, but it is an interesting one all the same. This guy basically argues that our cozy lifestyles are dumbing us down as a species. If you, say, brought some homeslice from ancient Rome into our midst, he would be the leader of the pack, vroom, vroom, vroom vroom: Dumb little babies

On a similar vein, I recently listened to a story that argued intelligence in 2012 and beyond is not about possessing a wealth of knowledge. Years ago, acquisition was the most important part of being 'smart' because information was more limited and access was also limited (or restricted). But now that information is expanding exponentially, the real mark of intelligence is the ability to sort and organize that information. Everyone has access to Google, Wikipedia, and tons of other sources of data. So the necessity to know things is not as important as the necessity to find and organize things.

Preparing our mind for The Winter's Tale - Absente with burning sugar cube

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Vespa

How awesome would we all look riding down the street on one of these bad boys! We could even customize them with the MOP seal! This post is a test using the aforementioned email posting technique. Hope it works!

Blog Updates

Members of the parchment, I wanted to bring you all up to speed with some recent changes to the MOP Blog. Firstly, I added a new page entitled 'Library'. This page is basically a chronological list of all the parchments we have read to date. It's an impressive list of literature - 15 books in all. We can of course add to this list as we digest more written words.

Secondly, I have added to the 'Council Meetings' page. I have listed out all of our meetings (from first to most recent), with some key stats for each e.g. book title, location of meeting, the selector etc etc. I spent some time filling out some of the details for each, but it should be the responsibility of the selector to complete the stats for their own meeting(s) (or at least to the best of their abilities/memory). Of course, feel free to fill out details for a meeting that wasn't your own. My hope is that we can 'document' all our council meetings before memory loss sets in!

Finally, I had to change us all from being 'Authors' of the blog to 'Admins'. This will allow each one of us to edit these pages - not just make posts, as was the case before. To update a page simply go to the page and click on the small pencil icon at the bottom. This will open up a content editor that will allow you to add, edit and delete information. Just remember to click 'Save'!

We can all be very proud of how we've contributed to the blog, through posts, book reveals, and even comments. I think we have a good thing going - and it should prove to be a tangible part of the MOP archives. The blog can be more than just posts about the current parchment. For instance if you come upon an interesting article, photograph, weapon, large breasted wench, or potential mascot while surfing the inter-webs that you think would be of interest to the group - please share in a post. I know members have been doing this, but I think we could really push for more of this sort of thing.

Go forth,
Lord Lloyd de Papel