If you google Sylvia Plath, it’s hard to find her described in any terms other than the superlative. ‘One of the finest lyric poets of the twentieth century,’ is pretty close to the general assessment. Continue reading
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Sylvia Plath: Godmother of Punk Rock?
Posted in Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags Ariel, Black Flag, Buddy Willard, Catcher in the Rye, Colossus, Esther Greenwood, Henry Rollins, punk, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar on August 6, 2019 by Jarrod Boyle
Rodney Hall: A Stolen Season
Posted in Fiction, Reading, Real Men with tags A Stolen Season, Autumn of the Patriarch, Belize, Central America, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, George Saunders, James Joyce, Mayan, Miles Franklin Award, Rodney Hall, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, Ulysses on July 16, 2019 by Jarrod Boyle
At the gym – working on the gun show.
Rodney Hall is one of Australia’s greatest living writers. He has been nominated for the Miles Franklin Award seven times and if he wins this year, it’ll be the third time he’s gone home with the prize.
I have known him for eighteen years and he never fails to deliver on the subject of literature. He has been kind enough to wax lyrical at the Theme Park on matters literary and a few others that happen to intersect within his purview.
T.P: I’m guessing that if the Miles Franklin Award was predicated on biceps, you’d win that. Continue reading
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Jordan Peterson
Posted in Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags Eurydice Dixon, GQ Magazine, Helen Lewis, Jordan Peterson, Nietzche, patriarchy on February 5, 2019 by Jarrod Boyle
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Perhaps this is a function of modern life; every time Peterson posts a lecture, it is watched by millions of people. This is a highly intelligent, eccentric and (by his own admission) fragile person. It is foolish to think this kind of attention would not be difficult to adjust to, and put a profound strain on his character. Continue reading
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Jordan Peterson
Posted in Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags 12 Rules For Life, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Bikram Choudhury, Bikram yoga, Cathy Newman, Clementine Ford, Dale Carnegie, Dostoyevsky, Eurydice Dixon, How To Win Friends and Influence People, Jack Farmer, Jordan Peterson, Jung, Kafka, Lisa Wilkinson, Nietzche, Osho, Patanjali Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Rilke, TED talk, Wild Wild Country, Yoga: The Science of the Soul on January 30, 2019 by Jarrod Boyle
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A friend of mine sent me a critique of Jordan Peterson yesterday in response to my encouragement of her to give him a listen. Originally published in an American journal called The Star, it’s the first decent criticism of Peterson I have read. Continue reading
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Lady Gaga: Magnificently Ugly
Posted in Film, Real Men with tags A Star is Born, Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth, The Hangover on December 13, 2018 by Jarrod Boyle
If Hollywood filmmaking is spellcasting, A Star Is Born seduced me absolutely. Continue reading
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Is Jocko Willink A Psychopath?
Posted in Real Men with tags Afghanistan, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Echelon Front, Fields of Fire, Henry Rollins, Jim Webb, Jocko Podcast, Jocko Willink, Joe Rogan, John Pilger, Mark Donaldson, My War, Ozzy Osbourne, Peter Attia, Ramadi, SEAL, The Corner, The End of Silence, The Hurt Locker, The Wire, Tim Ferriss, Tools of Titans, War Pigs on December 5, 2018 by Jarrod Boyle
After taking a regular interest in his podcasts, I’m finding it hard to tell. Continue reading
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An Open Letter to Hannah Gadsby
Posted in Real Men, Statement of intention with tags gay pride, Hannah Gadsby, Henry Rollins, Mardi Gras, Nanette, Netflix, rainbow flag on August 4, 2018 by Jarrod Boyle
I just wanted to write to tell you how much I enjoyed your show, ‘Nanette.’ You don’t see a lot of genuinely incendiary stuff anymore. Incendiary and vital. Continue reading
