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.
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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...
I feel so good, I wanna get drunk
Sam de Brito You ever spent a week eating well, exercising like a demon, drinking your friggin' eight glasses of water a day, stretching, doing all the stuff we're told we're supposed to do, and none of the bad...
The Mermaid and The Minotaur
Sam de Brito "For the hand that rocks the cradle / Is the hand that rules the world," wrote William Ross Wallace in his poem The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, written almost 150 years ago ...
Being bitchy to Lara Bingle
Sam de Brito The reality TV show Being Lara Bingle kicks off Tuesday night on Channel 10 and if there's one thing more certain than her saying "like" a kajillion times, it's the putrid waterfall of bile, spite...
Time travel
Sam de Brito There's a time machine being built on Bondi Beach ... or maybe it's being demolished ... it's hard to tell some days ...
In praise of beer
Sam de Brito Perhaps I'm misreading it, but is there not just a whiff of dopey self-congratulation in the media coverage Australians are drinking less beer and more wine and spirits? ...
Keep it to yourself
Sam de Brito I can't be the only person who feels a little ... icky about former rugby league star Andrew Ettingshausen's public self-flagellation over his affair with an ex-teammate's wife ...
Poor and male
Sam de Brito In my relentless quest to be at least 10 months behind popular music trends, I'm only now digging into Kanye West and Jay-Z's 2010 album Watch the Throne ...
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Sam de Brito Next time a person swears at you in traffic, why not wave giddily at them so they'll spend the rest of the day wondering which acquaintance they just insulted ...
The "no problem, problem"
Sam de Brito There are certain readers of this blog who get the shits when I write about feminism and gender equality and subsequently comment "what about us blokes?" ignoring the fact, gender equality ultimately...
How to find them
Sam de Brito Been reading former-alcoholic, Augusten Burroughs', new anti-self help book 'This is How' which, ironically, is full of helpful advice ...
Man love
Sam de Brito So, I went on a hot date recently and I'm not sure how to follow up with ... well ... him ...
Roughing the suspect
Sam de Brito I'm a wanker from waaaay back. I'm sure that comes as no surprise to many of you - I mean look at my headshot - but once you've finished patting yourselves on the back for spotting the obvious, let's...
Weigh in
Sam de Brito So, thanks to my somewhat pathetic, pleading blog post last month 'Give me a TV show', I've hooked up with a production company called R & R Media and we're going to shoot a 'sizzle reel' for All Men...
Bloody kids
Sam de Brito You have to wonder if the "bloody kids" has replaced "the missus" as the perceived ball and chain around the modern man's neck ...
The snip
Sam de Brito I have a mate with four children under the age of seven. Four! Two were planned, one was a semi-surprise - conceived in the sleepless haze of caring for the first two - and, the last, was something...
Irrational self-confidence
Sam de Brito Success - be it in your career, with women or - well, actually, that's all that matters - is certainly a complex formula, but it's one that can be made easier by adopting a single uncompromising...
Mystery bags
Sam de Brito If there's an upside to your mother dying at home from cancer, it's there's a stack of heavy-duty narcotics left lying around the house once she goes ...
Enough money to do something
Sam de Brito There's a nice line in the recent George Clooney film The Descendants where his character Matt King says in voice over: "I don't want my daughters growing up entitled and spoiled.
