New York City – home to every type of person you can imagine, all crammed on top of each other into an area 1/10th the size of Los Angeles. Because of this denseness and the swath of humanity living within its borders, from immigrants and working Joes to crackheads to the richest people on the planet, surviving in New York as an average person is hard. It’s hard to get around, hard to pay for rent – and hard to keep from going postal every 10 minutes because of some douchebag you run into on the way to work. So, as a follow-up to “How to Not Be a Douchebag Tourist in NYC,” here are a few things to remember when living in New York, to help keep the gears of this great city moving (and to keep someone from punching you in the face.) (more…)

Ah, college. For many people, those first four (or five, or six … ) years you spend away from home, mixing school with a social life, are some of the best you’ll ever have. Somewhere between teenhood and your adult years, you’re allowed (maybe even encouraged) to mix a lot of pleasure with your business.

Soon enough, the real world slaps you in the face and you’re a real adult. But for some, the party never ends. We decided to pay homage to our friends who never grow up by listing 10 common signs that you’re still living like you’re in college. Let us know of any we missed in the comments. Viva la “Animal House”!

Check out the 10 signs here!

How do you create the ultimate bachelor pad so a lady – or possibly many ladies – will come through and not be turned off by the fact that you live in your own sh*t.

The most important things to keep in mind when designing your bachelor pad are: YOU must be comfortable there. A WOMAN should not be uncomfortable there. It should reveal your PERSONALITY. It should be a FUNCTIONAL place to live. It should look like a MAN lives there.

Whether your pad passes the lady’s “test” or not could be the difference between heart-pounding success and mind-numbing failure. Of course, certain things are obvious and go without saying – such as your place should be clean, neat, and smell-free (or preferably smell good). However, keep in mind that it should look “lived in” and not like you just spent six hours cleaning it before she came over. You want her to be “impressed” but also comfortable.

Check out How to Create the Ultimate Bachelor Pad after the jump! (more…)

Friday’s mid-term, asking out the cute girl you sit next to in chem lab, and where to apply for grad school are all things people our age worry about. Failure, rejection, and the future are all pretty scary, but they’re small potatoes when compared to the end of the world as we know it; something a very good friend of mine is concerned with.

I recently went home for a long weekend, and while hanging out with…oh let’s call him Bob, a friend from high school, I learned about an interesting new “hobbie” he developed.

Bob has started to collect swords and exceptionally big knives, but not for show or display, they have a practical purpose. I’m going to let Bob tell you in his own words why he started this…collection. (more…)