Maven: one who seeks to pass knowledge onto others

thedailywhat:

Street Art of the Day: Tired of Banksy? Subversive street artist Mobstr has surfaced in East London just in time.

[ianbrooks]

(Source: thedailywhat)

siphotos:

Baseball’s top Latin American players — Felix Mantilla, Roberto Clemente, Tony Oliva, Cookie Rojas, Juan Marichal, Zoilo Versalles, Vic Davalillo and Leo Cardenas — pose before on the field before the 1965 All-Star game. (Herb Scharfman/SI)

chitwoodandhobbs:

Junior

“When I was a [freshman] in HS, Junior Seau worked the Jay Fiedler Football camp and at the end of one of the days he challenged anyone to a 1 on 1.

“Being one of the ‘big’ kids, I was volunteered by my buddies and went up in front of the whole camp to face this monster of a man. Shaking in my cleats, he gave me a wink before a coach gave the cadence. He let me pancake him. And he sold it too.

“I can’t even tell you how good I felt at that moment; it changed me forever. The whole camp cheered for me, a chubby kid that didn’t know if he even liked football. From then on I was addicted. All thanks 2 this 10 time all-pro that felt like making some snot-nosed kid’s day.

“Doesn’t seem like much but it meant a lot to me. Sorry for the essay just had to share. RIP Junior I’ll never forget what you did for me.”

— Eric Olsen

@chitwoodhobbs

(via sbnation)

A History of the American Bachelor: Part I – Colonial and Revolutionary America
Brett & Kate McKay, artofmanliness.com

Many of you who read the Art of Man­li­ness are bach­e­lors. And if you’re mar­ried, well, you were a bach­e­lor once, too. Bach­e­lor­hood has become such an ingrained part of the male expe­ri­ence, that we usu­al­ly don’t give it too much though…

Amer­i­cans have had con­flict­ing views about sin­gle men. On the one hand, we’ve seen them as a threat to good soci­ety and stig­ma­tized bach­e­lors for not con­form­ing to tra­di­tion­al fam­i­ly life by putting off mar­riage. On the other hand, Amer­i­cans have cel­e­brat­ed bach­e­lors as paragons of Amer­i­can indi­vid­u­al­ism and inde­pen­dence and envied their free­dom.