Sam de Brito has spent more than a decade writing for TV, film and newspapers. In his books, No Tattoos Before You’re Thirty and No Sex With Your Ex, he offers advice to his unborn children. In his offerings The Lost Boys and Hello Darkness, he takes the pulse of Aussie manhood. Now it's your turn as he expounds on the business of being a bloke.
Calibrations
Sam de Brito You have to wonder whether James Magnussen's underwhelming performance at the 'Lympics so far wasn't sealed the moment he was dubbed the "Missile" and the universe decided to punish him for crimes...
Magnificent
Sam de Brito A few months ago I was asked to write about what I would consider to be the "perfect date" and after at least ten or 20 minutes reflection, I realised it would be one that ended in sex ...
Bloodsuckers
Sam de Brito Tell me you don't know this woman: She started seeing a guy when she was aged 28 or 32 and the dude said he wanted to get married and have kids, but the time wasn't right ...
Endless circles
Sam de Brito I've been getting my nerdy pants on lately, reading a bunch of fantasy fiction because ... damn, where's my Bluetooth earpiece ... it's just cool ...
Nigel No Friends
Sam de Brito In the week since Denver's 'Dark Knight' cinema shooting, there's been a mountain of media coverage as well as commentary from people who have claimed to know the gunman ...
Blockheads
Sam de Brito "I think I'm gonna spew," said Brad Cranfield, winner of The Block, which is certainly how this viewer felt watching the Channel Nine renovation show ...
Super focus
Sam de Brito A buddy of mine and I have a saying that some people are so desperate to remain unhappy, they'll search for the proverbial needle in a haystack, just so they can jam it in their eye ...
Shock of the old
Sam de Brito "You mean we actually used to stop foreigners coming to Australia?" my grandkids will ask me in forty years time ...
Walk away
Sam de Brito Hey fella, I know you don't wanna hear this from some bloke who's old enough to be your (very well-preserved) father but if you'll just give me a minute ...
Winnowing
Sam de Brito It usually begins with a text message to your mobile phone asking "What's your home address?" then, two or three weeks later, "it" arrives in the mail ...
What life can I save next?
Sam de Brito Saw a great advertisement for a certain brand of gin on the weekend, thanks to a blog by James Altucher, in which he explores why the main character of the ad, a bartender, is so likeable and...
Science!
Sam de Brito Aside from hearing my mate's cancer is in remission because he stood up and shouted "NON-HAPPENING MOTHERF---ER!" to Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the thing that thrilled me this week was news of the ...
Best cities for the single guy
Sam de Brito Having returned once again to the dating trenches, I've been surprised by how many attractive women there are in Sydney and how few of them want to have sex with me ...
Picture this
Sam de Brito One of the cultural hypocrisies that always surprises me is the timeworn caricature of Asian tourists ceaselessly taking pictures of everything and everybody ...
Human nature
Sam de Brito Some years ago, a country publican took ownership of a neglected rural hotel and on his first day in charge, the front bar was once again overrun by a local drug dealer and his crew of hoons ...
Barbarians made the gate
Sam de Brito "Cultures live in one of three states. The first state is barbarism. Barbarians believe the customs of their village are the laws of nature and that anyone who doesn't live as they live is beneath...
Attracted to crappy people
Sam de Brito Do you ever wonder what the French women who dated the Nazis 'occupying' Paris were like? No doubt some of them were terrified, doing what they could to protect their families and friends and keep a...
Fatso
Sam de Brito I'd hate to give you the impression my mates are a pack of yobbo loudmouths because, they're not - honest - but, carrying on from yesterday's post about political correctness, I'd like to tell you...
PC
Sam de Brito When I was in my early 20s and I'd had a massive night out, I'd jokingly tell people I'd been as "drunk as ten abos" and more often than not get a horrified laugh ...
Be nice to beggars
Sam de Brito Some years after the Ottomans defeated the Byzantine Empire in the mid-1400s, the men of power around the ruling Sultan grew weary of the corruption of the bureaucracy they'd inherited and...
