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Weekly Link Round-Up: November 14, 2009

by Brett & Kate McKay

Announcing the Winner of the Cigar/Beer of the Month Club Giveaway
Congratulations to Jim Rainwater for winning the Cigar/Beer of the Month Club Giveaway. For the next 3 months, Jim will be getting a monthly shipment of 12, 12-ounce microbrews from two lightly distributed domestic microbreweries with a total of 4 different varieties to try. He’ll [...]

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A Beginner’s Guide to The Art of Manliness: A Guided Tour

by Brett & Kate McKay

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While many of you have been following The Art of Manliness since we started back in 2008, some of you are fairly new readers. To help you new arrivals get the most out of AoM and navigate around our extensive archives and community section, we’ve compiled this beginner’s guide.
First a note: There’s a TON of [...]

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Best of Art of Manliness: October 2009

by Brett & Kate McKay

We had a lot of cool stuff happen in October. The biggest news was the launch of our new book, The Art of Manliness: Classic Skills and Manners for the Modern Man. A big thanks to everyone who has gone out and bought a copy (or 2 or 3…. or even 7! Thanks John T.). [...]

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The Art of Manliness Movember Contest 2009

by Brett & Kate McKay

Every time I turn on a football game, I see players with pink shoelaces and pink gloves and pink towels, all promoting breast cancer awareness. I’m all for saving the world’s wonderful tata’s, but men have a cancer all of their own, and it unfortunately doesn’t get quite as much attention (I guess nobody wants [...]

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Important Updates About the Art of Manliness Book

by Brett & Kate McKay

First off, a big thanks to everyone who has already bought a copy of the new Art of Manliness book. Thanks to you all, last Monday we made it up to #33 on Amazon.com’s Bestseller list. We really and truly appreciate the support. We’ve gotten a lot of very positive feedback about the book, and [...]

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Announcing the Launch of the Art of Manliness Book!

by Brett & Kate McKay

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Well it’s been over a year in the making and Kate and I are proud to announce to launch of the Art of Manliness book!

Why an Art of Manliness Book?
I’ll level with you, there are a ton of “man skill” books out there. But while they offer advice on how to make a potato gun [...]

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The Best of Art of Manliness: August 2009

by Brett & Kate McKay

I can’t believe summer is almost over. It went by fast. Thankfully, for the first time in 21 years I won’t be going back to school this fall. It feels sort of weird. Anyway, August was a great month at the Art of Manliness. Lots of great comments in the posts and lots of manly activity [...]

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Get the 30 Days to a Better Man eBook!

by Brett & Kate McKay

This past June, The Art of Manliness ran a month long series called 30 Days to a Better Man. We got a very positive response from it and many of you told us that you found it very helpful. After the series was over, we received many requests from readers to put the series together [...]

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The Art of Manliness: Best of July 2009

by Brett & Kate McKay

Last month was a big one for Art of Manliness. We started off the month with the redesign of the site. Thanks for all of your fantastic feedback on it. We also launched our new line of t-shirts and hosted another epic Saddleback Leather Company giveaway. Once again, the contest really drew a crowd. Thanks [...]

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Congratulations to the Winner of the Saddleback Leather Company Briefcase Giveaway

by Brett & Kate McKay

We were blown away by the response to the Saddleback Leather Company Briefcase Giveaway. 1,218 of you left comments sharing your briefcase essentials, over 900 joined the Man Bag Group in the Community, and thousands of you sent emails to your friends. Thanks for your impassioned response. If we could give a Saddleback briefcase to [...]

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Announcing the New Art of Manliness T-Shirts

by Brett & Kate McKay

Well we’ve upped the design on the Art of Manliness website and we thought it was time to up the coolness of our t-shirts as well. We’ve teamed up with the awesome men at Tankfarm Clothing to create a new line of AoM shirts. Not only are the designs uber manly, the t-shirts themselves are [...]

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Weekly Round-Up: New Redesign Edition

by Brett & Kate McKay

So this week was AoM’s very first with our new facelift. I think the Art of Manliness is looking pretty dang sharp. We’ve been tweaking little issues this week. If you encounter any problems, please let us know. Some of you have mentioned that you have to complete a “captcha” to leave a comment. This [...]

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Art of Manliness Housekeeping: RSS Feed and Email Updates Fixed

by Brett & Kate McKay

If you subscribe to the Art of Manliness through RSS feed or by email updates, you may have noticed that you haven’t seen anything new from AoM in about a week. No, we haven’t stopped blogging; perish the thought! This past weekend we’ve been doing some updates on the server and on the site’s design. [...]

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Welcome to The Art of Manliness Redesign

by Brett

I’m sure many of you noticed that The Art of Manliness was down for maintenance this weekend. In between scarfing down burgers and watching fireworks, we were busy rolling out the redesign of the site. Welcome to AoM 2.o.
I’ve been wanting to redesign the site for awhile now. When I first started AoM back in [...]

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Happy 4th of July 2009!

by Brett & Kate McKay

Tomorrow is Independence Day here in the United States and we’re going to take a break so we can celebrate with friends and family. We hope you have a wonderful and safe 4th of July weekend. Here are some patriotic themed posts from AoM that you can read while taking a break from chowing down [...]

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