12 Jun
Want to know what to buy for Father’s Day? Columnist and dad of two Michael Hogan says yes to posh scents, meh to anti-ageing creams and no to toiletries that look like something from Halfords. As a journalist, Father’s Day gets right on my moobs. As early as February, your inbox starts filling up with press releases tenuously hooked around it. “Take out some pet insurance for him this Father’s Day!”. By March, the phonecalls from PR firms begin....
24 Apr
Ditch the spray on testosterone, says Daniel Maier. Real men wear girls’ deodorant. It’s weird. Though the boundary between male and female fragrance is long-blurred, men’s deodorant remains a world of dry-boakingly unhelpful gender assumptions. Colognes, of course, come in many shades – from light floral through sharp and citric to smokier, boskier scents. Men’s deodorant, on the other hand, runs the gamut from teenage bedroom to gym locker. Essentially, any chap who doesn’t want to smell like the...
22 Apr
Michael Hogan says goodbye to More! magazine, where he wrote, laughed and tested implausible sex positions for money. This well-appointed website isn’t the first time I’ve been “Token Bloke”. I was also TB at the first consumer magazine I was lucky enough to land a job on: the mighty More!. I worked there from 1994 (“nineteen-ninety-phwoar”, we called it) until 1996 (you guessed it, “nineteen-ninety-sex”). Sadly, More!’s closure was announced this week. The news brought back a Proustian rush of...
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