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.
The lengths
Sam de Brito My stepfather used to say there were some women a man would crawl a mile over broken glass for, just to let them fart on the bridge of his nose ...
Respect
Sam de Brito Next to a well-regarded and successful doctor, guess what is the most universally respected profession in the country of Vietnam? No, not a model, football player, newsreader or Celebrity Apprentice...
Come together
Sam de Brito Labor versus Liberal, Republican against Democrat, Iran v the USA, Sunni v Shiite, Catholic v Protestant, Kyle Sandilands versus everyone ...
Long hot summer
Sam de Brito So here we are again, the sixth time All Men Are Liars has bid you a Merry Christmas, happy holidays, a super summer ... whence I commence my January prayer that I'll have a job come the new year ...
Someone for everyone
Sam de Brito What if some people - despite what movies, romance novels and porn would have us believe - are destined to live and die alone? Would it change your outlook on life? ...
Kyle
Sam de Brito Fighting Kyle Sandilands and his ilk strikes me as about as futile as fighting terrorism: it's a war that cannot be won - at least using 'conventional' methods ...
Motorsports - now I get it
Sam de Brito Last Saturday, I had the privilege to sit in the Jim Beam Racing box, above the pits at the Sydney Telstra 500 - a very loud race involving lots of very fast cars, driven by very skillful men, backed...
Why didn't we learn this at school?
Marlo Begsley* "What happens if your girlfriend gets pregnant?" was my question to our school's 'Personal Development' teacher. "You keep it," was his reply.
Peter Roebuck's sad legacy
Sam de Brito I feel sorry for gay blokes - not in a pitying, condescending way, and certainly not every gay man. There are plenty of gays who annoy me - particularly the vicious, snippy, Carson Kressley wannabes...
Speed dating
Sam de Brito Walking into the venue and spotting the slightly condescending expressions of the bar staff, all I could think was "has it really come to this?"
Free to be human
Sam de Brito Been thinking about freedom lately, what with a quarter of the world fighting for it, another quarter screaming they don't have enough, a third quarter complaining their's is being eroded and, then,...
Ummm ...
Sam de Brito Ahhh, summer, the clink of glasses, the soft throb of Rod Stewart on the stereo, a lingering glance here, another drink there, inhibitions run wild, tonight's the night! ... and ... and ...
Swear
Sam de Brito Yesterday, as part of White Ribbon Day, I flew to Melbourne and participated in a panel discussion about violence against women for the Law Institute of Victoria, and at the end of the talk, all...
Lazy
Sam de Brito Last week I gave a talk with my Fairfax colleague Samantha Brett at Sydney's ivy, opining about the things women are doing wrong when it comes to finding a guy and keeping him ...
We answer death with life
Sam de Brito I really wanted to write something cheery and amusing this week to perk up your week but then my step-dad died of cancer and, well, the breezy mood never quite materialised ...
What to do?
Sam de Brito A teenage boy attacks another with a broken bottle and slashes him viciously on the shoulder, opening up a 30-centimetre cut ...
Face spinach
Sam de Brito You know the whole facial hair thing has gotten out of hand when our august National Portrait Gallery in Canberra jumps in on the act ...
Role models
Sam de Brito "Role model" is a weird and weighty term that we in the media seem to adhere to the strangest of people like footballers and cricketers and ...
Vale Sean Flannery
Sam de Brito I've been a bit off my game the last few weeks dealing with the death of my step-father Sean Flannery, who passed onto the big Journalist's Club in the sky last Friday.
Child porn
Sam de Brito Bear with me today, cos it's gonna get a little uncomfortable: I want to talk about child pornography.
