The Manliest Man

Richard Daniel Babcock, III, goes by the name of “Dick D. ‘Cock.” His garage is the manliest man cave you will ever see in your life. It is basically a bar that fits into a garage and is stocked with every kind of alcoholic beverage imaginable. It also has a lot of sports swag (too much for one person), a giant wall-mounted plasma tv that only plays sports games, and movies for manly men. It is lavishly decorated with pictures that are so inappropriate that they’re only worthy of a manly’s man’s eye. It is truly a man cave. 

Inside his house on the other hand, there are light pink frilly curtains, a sewing machine, cooking appliances, hot pink wallpaper, and, in the cabinet behind his mirror, a buttload of makeup. Before he invites his manly men friends to his man cave to drink and talk about manly man things, he goes into his car to watch videos of cats helping each other out. Like if one cat falls down, the other tries to lift it up. He cries and says, “It’s so beautiful.” Then, for the next ten minutes, he practices his smoking voice to sound like he was just smoking a couple of cigarettes, not watching feminine things. When his friends come, he says, “I was just smoking.” 

Richard’s friends are also very manly men in public, though they too like to get in touch with their feminine side at home. One of his friends has won the knitting world championships as Zoe Glamour. I don’t think that’s a thing, but I don’t care. And others like to do womanly things such as gossip about celebrities and buy the latest beauty products. They are so focused on keeping their secrets and looking like stereotypical manly men that they don’t notice when their friends’ manliness slips. One time as his friends were coming over to his manly man cave, Richard realized that he was in the middle of knitting and all his friends could see it so he quickly put it away, though none of his friends actually saw because they were too busy stuffing their lip glosses deep in their pockets and frantically removing their mascara. All of them go to the local knitting and bridge club and dress drag doing it. They do not want to get caught! They also do not realize that it is their friends who are in this club and that they are also dressing drag (it turns out there are no women in this club, just Richard and his friends.) 

On a sort of unrelated subject, today’s manly men are not manly compared to men from the paleolithic era. Men from preagricultural times had to go out and hunt giant woolly mammals (that could probably kill them in one blow) using a hand axe. Today’s manly men can just go order a pizza from Round Table. The manly men of the present era might have very ferocious bulldogs, but I don’t even know how many animals they dared to try to domesticate in the paleolithic era. And trying to domesticate scary giant animals is much manlier than buying a bulldog at the pet store. (No one from the paleolithic era would ever have cats, because the only cats there were saber-toothed tigers and would rather eat a human than be pet by one.) The thing is, women from paleolithic times are probably more manly than today’s manly man is. Sadly, we cannot study manliness through looking at people’s bones, so actually I have no idea. 

Amos Young wrote this piece. He also wrote about Tanner Lovelocks, and he’ll probably end up writing other stuff on this blog.

The Ascension of Tanner Lovelocks

Tanner Lovelocks was born on June 26, 1989 in Providence, Rhode Island to Beau and Rosalinda Lovelocks. Mr. and Mrs. Lovelocks owned a modest underwear company called Booty Beauty. Little did they know, their only son (he has 3 older and 2 younger sisters) was soon to become the second most recognizable face of the Millennium. After graduating high school, Tanner said adios to his tiny state and moved with his two schoolfriends Dax Jackson and Jax Dackson to Los Angeles, where they formed a boy band called The Sexy and Awesome Guys. A couple of facts about The Sexy and Awesome Guys:

•        Their hit song was called You’re So Controlling But I Love You So Control Me Babe*.

•        Their first concert had over 13,000 people attending in a very small theater. The majority of people were Tanner’s fangirls.

•        Dax Jackson and Jax Dackson were not just stage names, their real names were actually Jax Dackson and Dax Jackson.

Sadly, their career together ended when Tanner’s lovely face caught the eye of Face Place as well as Veronica C. H. Ease, whom he later became romantically involved with. The band broke up on December 7, 2007 – only 5 months after it was formed. Not much is known about what happened to his bandmates after they were tossed aside.

Tanner started with being in advertisements for only a few companies and acting only for Ease’s movies, such as the famously infamous horror/romance movie, Love at Last Sight. However, this was not enough for Tanner. Using his face to attract more and more directors and cosmetics companies, Tanner became involved in bigger and bigger things until the name Tanner was practically synonymous with complete stardom. In April 2008, all the tabloid magazines had Tanner’s picture on it. This, sadly, was not going to last forever.

It started a few months after Tanner began advertising face creams for Face Place. Tanner had signed a contract and was using only their products, but he started getting pimples. Companies started rejecting him. His girlfriend started rejecting him. Luckily, he broke the contract and before long, everything was normal. It was like nothing ever happened. But then, something worse was happening. He was balding.

He should have known. Much of his family on his mother’s side was bald, including his grandmother. But by then the pimples had come back, and in the space of about two months, he had gone from superstar to being a total reject, and this time, nobody was on his side. His girlfriend actually did break up with him. Everyone left, including the Cult of Tanner that had dubbed him their lord and savior. It didn’t help that someone else’s face had been noticed by these same people. It was the face of the one and only Swedish hottie, Sven Svelte.

Sven Svelte was born in Sweden in 1992 and moved to Minnesota at the age of one. He starred in several commercials when he was younger, but he never thought he would one day become even more famous than Tanner Lovelocks. No one is really sure how it happened, but soon Svelte became more successful than Lovelocks and was dating Tanner’s ex, Golden Bootylicious. Tanner was soon forgotten and never heard of again. But most people (besides conspiracy theorists that are also stoners) figured he couldn’t have disappeared. The question remains: What happened to Tanner Lovelocks?

*Other famous songs by the Sexy and Awesome Guys:

  • I Love You Almost as Much as Myself
  • I Think You’re Beautiful (But I Don’t Care Anything Else About You)
  • We’ve Been Dating So Long That I Don’t Remember Who’s the Bad Influence
  • I’d Date You But Only if You Get Plastic Surgery

Amos Young, who made the art and wrote this, is a person, not a dog. He likes certain things and dislikes other things.