Glibertarians.com 2017 Archive

Category: Beefcake

  • Manly Monday – Cooking With Bears

    Back by (surprisingly) popular demand, but probably on an irregular basis!

    My boyfriend has been marketed to: a British honey producer—Rowse Honey—asked their advertising firm for something interesting and challenging and someone came up with selling honey with bears…gay bears, three of them…and porridge. Unlike the BF, my preferences do not begin and end with “is a bear,” but the ads contain three hirsute men of varying beefiness preparing oats, doing yoga, and chopping wood and they’re charming as all get-out. Rowse is available on Amazon, but not with Prime shipping (boo!)

    https://youtu.be/KSZJ8yH_u2Q

    Part of the problem with doing Manly Monday is that I start GISing something topical like “scruffy men in aprons” (hey, it’s Thanksgiving week*) and then have a difficult time finishing the task at hand my post. It’s fun how a simple image search can lead one to #bearnakedchef a web series of Adrian De Berardinis cooking in just an apron (often just over his nethers). *Except in Canada where y’all already blew your Thanksgiving wad

    Or that there’s a combination photo/cookbook of Italian bears cooking healthy Italian cuisine (one of whom looks suspiciously like a doctor/former chef I work with).

    And then you might stumble on scruffy pizza chef, Daniel Gutter who goes by @Pizza_Gutt on Instagram and makes (wait for it) deep dish pizza in Philly, and was harassed online because his username was too close to #Pizzagate (wtf is wrong with people?)

    http://www.instagram.com/p/BMfUSZdDab4

    All that said, I need to kill the GIS window, don a full body hair net and get some cooking of my own done.

  • Wednesday Afternoon Links

    Hey kiddos, I’m here to provide you with your daily dose of afternoon links! Won’t this be fun?

    • Speaking of kiddos, the Paddock family is really working hard at notoriety. The Vegas shooter’s brother is in the OMWC way currently having been arrested during an investigation of consumers of adult content featuring child actors.
    • The .in.mb family seat in rural NY now has a spectacularly named gun club for homos and trans-folk “Trigger Warning Queer and Trans Gun Club.” I’d rather see the membership and clout of the Pink Pistols grow, but I’ll take what I can get.
    • Fun fact: Playa Manhattan is masturbating furiously right. this. minute.
    • Philipines continues to snuggle up to people we don’t really like.

    And since I was drunk at Oktoberfest this weekend, here’s a scruffy blond fellow in (faux) leather lederhosen playing the sax.

    Thanks, Alpine Village Oktoberfest!

  • James Comey: Jilted Lover or Spineless Chump?

    As far as I can tell, there is no other plausible explanation for his actions in retrospect.

    Many of you watched the hearing as I did. Hell, I think it was watched by half of America (not including John McCain apparently). And its hard for me to comprehend how there are any true winners or losers here from either a legal standpoint other than maybe Loretta Lynch losing some footing as being above partisanship when it comes to her department’s handling of the Clinton private email server investigation.

    John McCain in his natural state.

    But what should be attacked vigorously by any responsible authority tasked with oversight or any media talking head is Comey’s ability to be a man and do his job with any form of integrity whatsoever. Because he completely contradicted prior sworn testimony today by suggesting that Trump was attempting to influence him. And that he should have carried himself differently many times with interactions with the President in regards to how he reacted and how he reported (or failed to report) what he perceives months later as attempts to coerce or manipulate the FBI head into dropping investigations.

    I’m sure there is some sense of being awe-struck by someone being summoned to the White House. I would like to think I’d be immune to that, but you never know. But the head of the nation’s federal law enforcement apparatus should never be of that mindset unless he is feeling guilty about something. He has spent his life climbing into situations and relationships that are complicated and him being somehow cowed by a President he believes is acting in an unprofessional and borderline-illegal way defies common sense.

    I swear to tell the truth. Even if its different than the “truth” I told the last time I was under oath here.

    Which leads me to my personal opinion: Comey is changing his tune because he feels like he was wronged. He deliberately leaked government property to a friend so they could be sent to the media. He allowed erroneous leaks to remain in the news in order to damage a President he didn’t care for. He contradicted prior sworn testimony in an attempt to change the public narrative on meetings that he considered “notingburgers” until he was fired to “possible attempts at coercion” in the aftermath of that termination.

    Whatever your thoughts about Donald Trump are, whatever you think his relationship with the Russians was, and whatever you think the Democrats are attempting to accomplish here, one thing should be taken away by anybody with an ounce of brains: Comey is gutless or Comey is grinding his axe. I’ve made my decision. Please discuss yours in the comments.

  • Manly Monday

    Yo, it’s Memorial Day Weekend and also the weekend when Scottish Fest USA happens at the OC Fairground. I haven’t had time to post process most of the pics, so I’ll throw up a few choice ones today and dig through the rest later.

    The flowing locks really makes this action shot actiony.
    Former football player, current Highland gamer, and exuberant thigh tanner.
    This guy’s name is Sasquatch. The very Scottish announcer could not get enough of saying that.
    rawr
    Eddie Braun (or Brun or Brown…it was hard to tell with the thick Scottish accent). One of the women next to us kept describing the filthy things she’d do to the guy in the blue kilt.
    Braun (or whatever) had mad hops. As soon as I put my camera away he hopped into the air pulled his legs up horizontal and touched his toes. Landed gracefully to.

  • Manly Monday

    Since May 2013 I have made note of the annual Herndon Climb at the US Naval Academy. The short version is that the first years must work together to scale a lard-greased (they’re claiming shortening this year) granite obelisk and put a hat on top marking the end of their first year.

    2014, 2015, 2016 here

    This years climb was broadcast live by Fox5DC, and is airing live as I type (but will likely be over by the time you read it), so I’m gonna get back to that, but if you have any interest in lads slathered in grease, grappling in the mud with phallic symbols and each other to achieve something together that they cannot do alone, this might be an event worth following. Update: it took about 2:15/

    Man astride a very greasy obelisk (not this year’s)

  • Manly Monday

    Sugar Free sent this my way, but don’t let that scare you off: “Romance novel cover model wanted in Connecticut robberies is arrested in San Diego” David Byers (mildly NSFW) of the (very ritzy, I’ve been there) Solana Beach, CA has apparently been robbing banks (three of them! or one of them twice the story seems muddled) and a gas station in…Greenwich, CT. As far as I can tell he started his life of crime in SD when he stole a rowing machine from his apartment complex gym. Honestly, I’m thinking Zoolander sequel: male Instagram models gone rogue while Derek and friends overcome their increasing irrelevance at the democratization of beauty and save the day. Anyway, Byers randomly resurfaced in NY, PA and AZ before making it back to San Diego where he was driving around applying for jobs while driving a stolen vehicle and of course because he’s a model, he was arrested shirtless (autoplay video warning).

    Something SFW, and something less SFW. Now don’t get me wrong, I would, without question, stick it in crazy in this case, but only with an assumed name and at a hotel. One doesn’t want crazy following one home.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BHvun0DDkFW/?hl=en

    A SFW example of his professional work (though unless the story is about a closet case with a girlfriend, his photo doesn’t really fit the title).

    When SF sent this my way, the fact that he was a Michael Stokes (mNSFW: man butt and implied nudity) model immediately pinged something in the back of my brain. When I saw the guy’s pictures I realized immediately what it was. Stokes has a type (muscles, bad tattoos) and a style (shiny, bold, uncanny use of HDR) that’s very distinctive and a few years back he did a series–and companion coffee table book–on Veterans who had lost limbs while serving, which began with him shooting Alex Minsky. This launched Minsky’s career as an underwear model, and also a fully clothed model who cleans up well, but where’s the fun in that? The Daily Mail has some fine examples from the book. There’s also a 2017 calendar…because of course there is.

  • Manly Monday

    The lumbersexual and pretensions of masculinity. Once upon a time metrosexual was all the rage. As far as I can tell, men thought that women thought that men would be better if they were lithe, well dressed, controlled their eyebrows to the point of looking like a Kardashian and talked excessively about fair trade organic coffee while writing their next screenplay. Like most style trends, this one bore the seeds of its own destruction and the coiner of the term metrosexual, Mark Simpson, also coined the term retrosexual , which originally referred to people who rejected the trappings of metrosexual style and went for a butcher, less coiffed look (retrosexual eventually got eaten by Don Draper wannabes and means something different now–if it’s used at all).

    Lumberjacks are examplars of manliness with the most dangerous job in America and hundreds of years of rugged masculine history, and killing them and wearing their skin is one of the faster ways to cheat your way to a butcher you. And since people are lazy as fuck about their portmanteaus (cf every political scandal being -gate), we ended up with “lumbersexual.”

    I am, admittedly sitting at my desk, very bearded and in a flannel shirt as I type this (and looking damn fine). So I’m hardly immune to such trends; although like a good hipster, I would contend that I was wearing flannel shirts after grunge had been abandoned, but before it had been rediscovered as a way of taking a decent looking fellow and giving him just a touch of oomph. One doesn’t really even need the flannel as you can see by this musclebear with a beard and a log. Handing someone an axe to make them look like less of a cityslicker does have its limits though:

     

    Your author not pulling off lumberjack drag very well for Halloween last year.

  • Wednesday Afternoon Links

    It’s Wednesday afternoon and your favorite contributor (I AM your favorite, am I not?) is taking an unusual turn at the helm of the Afternoon Links. I promise this will have 93.76% less hunky content than my normal posting.

     

    Alliterative assertions allay apostatic angst
    Proper Papal palace
    • TED Talks 2017 is officially a techno-rite church service in communion with the Roman Papacy (I was hoping they’d join up with the Pope in Exile in Avignon, but apparently that’s not a thing anymore, so whatevs). CNN summarizes, “Essentially, he told the academics and innovators, scientists and techies, there is no ‘you,’ without an ‘us.’” full transcript with link to the ~20 minutes sermon talk here.
    • Jeff Goldblum is planning to reprise his role as Dr. Ian Malcolm. The internet responds with a vexing amount of genital moistness, which confuses this author, but I’m certainly not going to yuck someone else’s yum.
    • Side of English beef, Ben Cohen, may soon be single. His professional dancer lady love wants a Hollywood career, but he wants her to stay in jolly ol’ England. *tidies cave, polishes club* I’ll be right back.
    • Passenger found dead after United flight from Heathrow to O’Hare. Passenger was rabbit on track to be a world record holder for size, owner was a former model turned rabbit breeder. Fuck it just click through it’s all weird.
    • Serge Brin apparently wishes he was as interesting as Sir Richard Branson and is “reportedly building his own secret airship,” which “apparently looks like a classic zeppelin.” While it isn’t partying naked with my favorite ginger prince on a private island, we at Glibertarians welcome our Steampunk zeppliney future with open arms and freshly brushed top hats and polished monocles and brass doodads.

      Go 'way, touching myself inappropriately while dressed as a Victorian dandy
      Not pictured: Brin’s airship

  • Manly Monday

    Work has been a bear already (and not in a good way), so I’m gonna keep it short and sweet. When I was but a wee lad and unwise in the way of manly men my mother was a HUGE fan of Magnum PI. At the time I thought she just found the show compelling. Hindsight being 20/20, I realize now that Tom Selleck is a retro bit of beefcake who liked his shorts short, his women thicc and his cars very red.

    I am retroactively horrified that she was so insistent I’d go outside and play during summer break when it was on.

  • Fur Friday

    It has been brought to my attention that my posts have been a bit monochromatic. We here at Manly Monday/Fur Friday of course strive to bring you the full United Colors of Benneton ad experience less the women and savage depilatory regimen of the ’90s/’00s.

    This brings us to today’s Fur Friday choice. Another site I frequent usually has a roundup of attractive fellows on the Instagrams at the bottom of their daily links and a photo of these two fellows caught my attention for both their scruffiness and their interesting use of fur in winter apparel.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BQA3n5olRb2/

    What I didn’t realize until I clicked through their respective instagrams is that they are married (and an adorable one at that). Who are promoting wholesome family values. I’ll let Midnighter express how I feel about these pics in panels three and four.

    Also there’s some great great otteriness going on in some of these pics and perfectly on-point beards in others.