Posts in Music and Books
The Dangerous Book for Boys

It was Albert Einstein who said, "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot." By definition, that would make the crasis of Conn and Hal Iggulden's book The Dangerous Book for Boys very dangerous. They unveil with reckless abandon a brief history of artillery, how to  make a bow and arrow, fireproof clothing, build a treehouse, and make a battery from a stack of quarters—enough to keep a boy dangerous from eight until eighty...

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Tomboy Style

More often than not, we have found ourselves drawn to a woman's sense of style only to find out later that she was a tomboy in her youth. We like to think that it’s a testament to our affinity for menswear or the androgynous northeastern preppy aesthetic—maybe it's completely unrelated. We suspect it's not.

There's actually a really good style blog on the subject: Tomboy Style. What Lizzie Garrett Mettler, its author, proposes is that a tomboy is more than just a girl raiding her father's musky closet...

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