Esquire articles from October 2006

Esquire archives from October 2006

This way in: the sound and the fury.(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2006... We've grown accustomed to the response that comes with putting a politician on the cover of Esquire. For many readers, the face of a U. S. senator in such a prominent place in the magazine is sufficient cause for lengthy comment. It's been a...

What took you so long? And thank you.(This Way In: THE SOUND AND THE FURY)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2006... I just spent the entire day getting my seventy-two-year-old kicks from the August issue. After fifty years of reading your magazine, the time has come for me to praise you. It is all relevant. Keep it up, please! BRUCE MOFFITT ...

McCain!(This Way In: THE SOUND AND THE FURY)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2006... In the August issue, writer Chris Jones spent time with senator and potential 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain as he addressed the graduating class at New York City's New School, "express[ed] affection with invectives,"...

McCain?(This Way In: THE SOUND AND THE FURY)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2006... As a lifelong Democrat who might have voted for John McCain in 2000, I now find myself confounded by the man. Here is someone who stood up to the North Vietnamese under hellacious circumstances but who wouldn't stand up to George W. Bush in...

Who said you could talk?(This Way In: THE SOUND AND THE FURY)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2006... Your article on the dominant-and-submissive relationship ("What It Feels Like to Be a Sadist and a Masochist," August) hardly did justice to the bond that it creates, so here's my version. Submitting to my Master, I feel a peaceful calm as a...

McCain!?(This Way In: THE SOUND AND THE FURY)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2006... How much did John McCain have to pay for the eleven-page campaign ad you ran in your August issue? JESSICA GULLETT Athens, Ga.

A search for answers.(This Way In: THE SOUND AND THE FURY)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2006... Also in the issue, John H. Richardson profiled two investigators for Human Rights Watch, Marc Garlasco and John Sifton, who've spent the last year examining practices and abuses at American militarg detention facilities ("Acts of Conscience")....

Pupils.(This Way In: THE SOUND AND THE FURY)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2006... In his August Influence column, Tom Chiarella experimented with the power of eye contact. The results moved some readers to try it themselves. Please don't ask me to explain why, but normally my mother stares me down over meals. So this...

Just like an RV, only more horrible.(This Way In: THE SOUND AND THE FURY)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2006... To test out the new 2007 Hondo Odyssey minivan, writer Ezra Dyer derided to live in one (Cars, August). As someone who's spent the last six months crisscrossing the country, living in a minivan--one with no air-conditioning, a stuck...

Editor's letter.(This Way In)(Editorial)
October 1, 2006... THIS ISSUE is like a couple weeks of conversations and meetings around the office. Well, a couple really good weeks. Like the weeks when Paul Haggis comes by to talk with Lisa Hintelmann (No. 111) about his new TV show and contributing editor...

Correction.(This Way In: EDITOR'S LETTER)(Correction notice)
October 1, 2006... Last month's cover photo of Daniel Craig, as well as the photos inside, were incorrectly credited. These stellar photos were actually taken by Greg Williams. We regret the error and hope to showcase more of Mr. Williams's work in the near...

Elsewhere in the bin.(This Way In: THE SOUND AND THE FURY)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2006... As a librarian, I see hundreds of books and magazines a month. Mostly I just skim them. But I stop and read every word of Esquire. So now you're providing open access to back issues on your Web site? That earns you my eternal loyalty. Heck,...

A letter from an old friend.(This Way In: THE SOUND AND THE FURY)
October 1, 2006... I was just passing the Banana Republic consulate today when I sow a mannequin wearing back-to-school clothes, and in Pavlovion fashion I declared this the gear I make people notice how much growing up I've done over summer break. At Esquire's...

Rodney Cutler.(owner of Cutler Salons )(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... * Rodney Cutler Tester: "The Esquire Grooming Awards," page 103 WE'VE ASKED A LOT of Rodney Cutler, the owner of Cutler Salons in New York City, since he wrote his first Maintenance column for us in February 2005. He didn't complain...

Esquire on Jeopardy!(This Way In: THE SOUND AND THE FURY)
October 1, 2006... A: July 17, 2006. Q: On what date did Jeopardy! feature the category "Esquire's Dubious Achievements 2005"? A: Eight. Q: Out of the original thirty answers, how many besides those in the Esquire category remained before...

Funny * joke from a beautiful woman.(MAN AT HIS BEST: The Front)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... As told by MELISSA SAGEMILLER This guy is out in the country, and he sees a farmer with a three-legged pig. He asks the farmer what happened. "Well. once there was a huge lightning storm. A bolt Struck the house, which caught on fire....

The leisure meter: how to allocate your free time this month.(MAN AT HIS BEST: THE FRONT)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Appreciating the expanded reprint of Sam Haskins's 1964 photo book, Cowboy Kate & Other Stories: Director's Cut. 1 hour Reading The Echo Maker, Richard Powers's gripping new novel about a man suffering from Capgras syndrome, a disorder...

Narrative sprawl: Fast Food Nation and Babel prove six plots aren't better than one.(Screen)
October 1, 2006... MEDIOCRE MOVIES don't often sneak up on you. They announce their lack of imagination from the get go. Whenever you see opening credits superimposed over the New York City skyline, for example, leave immediately. Lately, I've found a new opening...

See this movie! Sleeping Dogs Lie.
October 1, 2006... ANY FILMMAKER EAGER to offend middlebrow sensibilities could have made a movie about the repercussions that ensue when a nice young woman (newcomer Melinda Page Hamilton, in a miraculously naturalistic performance) confesses to her fiance that...

Q&A: John Krasinski.(Interview)
October 1, 2006... EVERY OFFICE HAS A BOSS; most need a hero. As Jim Halpert, the bored but Lovable paper salesman on NBC's The Office (second-season DVD available now), John Krasinski has revived hope in workplace romance and inspired every pencil pusher who's...

1 biggest buzzkiller.(The Awards)
October 1, 2006... "If he had been in the Old Testament, Harry Potter would have been put to death. You do not make heroes out of warlocks!" --Pastor Becky Fischer in Jesus Camp, a documentary about the Kids on Fire evangelical summer program in Devil's Lake,...

Wine and a movie.
October 1, 2006... CHRISTOPHER SAWYER MAY VERY WELL BE the world's only film sommelier. At the annual Sonoma Valley Film Festival, it's his job to pick an appropriate wine for each movie at prescreening meals. But matching arty festival fare is one thing. What...

The complaint: your wedding Web site.(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... THE FOLLOWING ITEMS may be featured on a wedding Web site: links to registries, hotel options, directions to the ceremony. And that's pretty much it. But like most things associated with weddings, the Web sites created in their honor have...

Movies that won't change our lives.(Brief article)
October 1, 2006...

Why Mel Gibson is okay by me; he may not be a fraynd to the Jews, but, hey, we've got bigger problems.(Opinion)
October 1, 2006... WHEN BERNARD MALAMUD WROTE, "If you ever forget you're a Jew, a gentile will remind you," I don't think he had Mel Gibson in mind. But here we are, and it is not a happy place. Not only am I tired of all the "Mel is an anti-Semite" revelations,...

If you hang around long enough: three underrated veterans with impossible-to-ignore new albums.(Music)(Ben Kweller )
October 1, 2006... BEN KWELLER THE EVOLUTION: When he was just 15, in 1997, Ben Kweller was all but anointed the next Kurt Cobain by The New Yorker. It didn't take (how could it?), but at age 20, he released his unabashedly poppy solo debut--2002's Sha...

2 Least famous last words.(The Awards)
October 1, 2006... "Beau Nasty represents everything I'll ever need. We will be around for a long time to come."--Vocalist Mark Anthony Fretz of the short-lived late-'80s Los Angeles band Beau Nasty, as quoted in the oddly poignant coffee-table book American...

The wildest 20 minutes two dollars can buy.(Music)(Ornette Coleman)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... SURE, THE RELEASE of saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman's first live album in 20 years is an event worthy of buying in its entirety. But for the casual jazz fan, downloading Sound Grammar's last two cuts is the smart money; not only have...

The greatest football book of all time.(Instant Replay )(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... IN THE BEGINNING, before there were as-told-to's and the snoop-o-ramas of the Internet, the late great sportswriter Dick Schaap convinced Jerry Kramer, an All-Pro offensive guard for the Green Bay Packers, to write a diary of a season under...

Big book of the month: $20,000 a page.(Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier )
October 1, 2006... THE SLUSH PILE IS a hospice for the dreams of wannabe writers--where their unsolicited manuscripts go to die. When Charles Frazier was a complete unknown, his first novel, Cold Mountain, was reportedly plucked from just such a garbage stack to...

How to get into college if you're stupid.(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... EASY, JUST BE RICH. Here, three ways to grease your application, according to Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Golden's new expose, The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Bugs Its Wag into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left...

The Iraq defense: can lawyers make the case for PTSD?(post-traumatic stress disorder)
October 1, 2006... BRANDON BOLLING is amarine captain and military defense attorney who defends soldiers for smoking pot on base or killing people they weren't supposed to kill, like their wives. He is now stationed at the Naval Justice School in Newport, Rhode...

Q&A: I want my Al Jazeera TV!(Interview)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... AL JAZEERA IS KNOWN for a lot of things. But, fair or not, providing unbiased news coverage is not one of them--at least in America. That may change with the upcoming launch of Al Jazeera International, a 24-hour English-language news channel...

Combat investing: when bombs fall, buy the survivors.(Hezbollah-Israeli War, 2006 boosts capital markets)
October 1, 2006... AFTER HEZBOLLAH KIDNAPPED two Israeli soldiers and killed a bunch more this summer... after Israel responded with its assault on Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon... after Israel's stock market dropped 10 percent in the first week of...

3 Most perfect circle.(The Awards)
October 1, 2006... From celebrity photographer Marc Horn's new book, Portraits, which also includes (less-naked) photographs of Maggie Gyllenhaal, Stanley Tucci, Penelope Cruz, Martin Scorsese, and many others.

Things we won't be covering in esquire this month.
October 1, 2006... Jeff Foxworthy's new board game, You Might Be a Redneck If... , in which players win by collecting items such as jerky and hound dogs and returning to their trailers. Who's Who of Dogs, a bound collection of submitted photos of dogs around the...

The indefensible position: Rachael Ray doesn't suck.(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... THE RACHAEL RAY SUX Web site? What am I going to do? Call them up and scream, "You have to like me"? Start a response Web site called "you know what you suck. corn"? It's like trying to get the class bully to be your buddy: a waste of time. ...

The Mulberry Richmond briefcase.(Stuart Vevers manages)(new designed shirt from Thomas Pink)
October 1, 2006... SINCE ITS LAUNCH in the 1970s in rural Somerset, southwest England, the leather company Mulberry has remained conservative--judging by the tough, quality leathers it uses and the robust construction it employs-but its design sensibility has...

Brunello Cucinelli's cashmere.(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... CASHMERE IS AS INTEGRAL to the genetically conditioned Italian determination to enjoy life as beautiful women. And Brunello Cucinelli offers the Monica Bellucci of cashmere. Consider its source: the Umbrian hilltop town of Solomeo, near Assisi....

Motorcyclist Eddie Mulder: (with help from designer Bill Amberg).(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... CALIFORNIA-BORN motorcycle racer Eddie Mulder won five AMA Grand National TT races for the British Triumph team in America during the '60s and numerous regional titles in endurance races before moving on to stunt work, where he doubled for the...

Elie Tahari.(wood flannel jacket )(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... ELIE TAHARI MEN is what American fashion often does very well: dressed-up urban sportswear that won't stick out in the sticks. You don't have to think about it all that much; it just works. High points like this wool-flannel parka incorporate...

Prada denim's stripe.(cotton jeans)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... It was first used in 1998 on the America's Cup yacht Luna Rossa and in the Prada Sport line that was inspired by it. Now it signifies the more casual end of the Milanese design house's output, which for fall includes deep-ondigo denim jeans...

How to keep a suit forever.(THE GUIDE: STYLE)
October 1, 2006... 1. BUY SOMETHING CLASSIC--NOT TRENDY. 2. USE THESE INEXPENSIVE TOOLS TO MAINTAIN IT. The Garment-Suspension Device Every time you don't store your jacket on one of these (it's a hanger, by the way), you're cutting its life. Look...

The road worrier: the latest in GPS navigation.(THE GUIDE: THE DIGITAL MAN)
October 1, 2006... IN ORDER TO TEST the strength of our 17 years of blissful marriage, Sweetie and I recently made the six-hour drive from our house in Telluride, Colorado, to Santa Fe to visit the Coen brothers on the set of their new movie. Our big point of...

Adult swim.(THE GUIDE: TRAVEL)(Advertisement)
October 1, 2006... NOTWITHSTANDING SOME VARIATION in table limits and lighting fixtures, Las Vegas casinos are all pretty much the same. Not their pools. Along with their recent focus on fine dining and nightclubs, hotels on the Strip are now trying to...

How do I say goodbye to a one-night stand?(THE GUIDE: SEX)
October 1, 2006... The courteous thing would be to quickly dub her a VHS copy of the footage you shot so she doesn't have to see it for the first time on YouTube (unless you're making a hidden-camera bathroom compilation, obviously). That and maybe a lozenge are...

The Esquire grooming awards: hundreds of products, one obsessive expert, and 14 winners worth your money.(THE GUIDE: MAINTENANCE)
October 1, 2006... CHARGED WITH PICKING the absolute best in men's hair, shaving, and body products regardless of price or brand. I spent a month trying every grooming item that my body-and wife-could stand: a different deodorant under each arm: twice-daily...

A vegetarian world order, gay accents & why girls wear pink: Esquire's Answer Fella believes that there are no stupid questions, just stupid people who don't ask questions, fearing they'll look stupid. So ask Answer Fella anything. If he doesn't know the answer, he'll find out who does or who has a guess that sounds right.(THE GUIDE: ANSWERS FELLA)
October 1, 2006... Why do girls like the color pink? Because it matches their pudenda. Sure, AF often kids--because, goddammit, AF loves--but that's no joke. As Dr. Gregory S. Berns, a neuroscientist at Emory University, speculates, "Women think that men are...

Tenacious TV: lost may be the best drama in television history, but it's nowhere near as important as that other desert-island classic.(Chuck Klosterman's America)
October 1, 2006... BECAUSE I'VE WRITTEN ABOUT REALITY TELEVISION on numerous occasions over the past ten years, people often ask me questions about it. Roughly 90 percent of these queries are different versions of the same question, which is "When will all of...

Black cab: at $182,000, with a 552 hp engine and burled-walnut detailing, the Bentley Continental Flying Spur makes for a damn line gypsy cab. Care for a lift?(Cars)
October 1, 2006... BOSTON CABBIES HAVE A REPUTATION for being assholes. I've been taken on scenic fare-doubling detours, yelled at for going only three blocks (after a blizzard buried the sidewalks), and left a mile from my destination after my cab crashed into a...

10 Things you don't know about women.
October 1, 2006... 1. We know what you're doing when you put your hand in your pocket. 2. We think it's okay if you get fat and go bald. Please do us the same courtesy. 3. When we say we "almost tried that in college," it means we did. At least twice....

Surfing's next wave: ... is the revival of a lost art--one that requires a paddle and a big-ass board.(THE Restless MAN: Real Adventures for REGULAR GUYS)
October 1, 2006... Admittedly, the first time I saw somebody do it, I was skeptical. Dude was pretty far out to sea, prowling the Hanalei Bay lineup like a Venice gondolier. Standing up on his board, holding a long oar, he was a crane among us sitting ducks. But...

Where no chef has gone before; celebrity chefs have slapped their names on pans and frozen pizza, out none has ever braved the cutthroat hotel business. Until now. Charlie Palmer gambles it all on a $300 million Vegas dream.(Charlie Palmer Hotel)(Company overview)
October 1, 2006... REMEMBER ASPIC? Probably not. Even back in the winter of 1980, when Charlie Palmer had just graduated from the Culinary Institute of America, aspic was already old school. But aspic is part of the bedrock of classic French cuisine, and classic...

The sexiest woman alive: a six-part peek at a day in the life of an icon.(Part 5: THE GOOD EARTH)
October 1, 2006... Here it is: the fifth and final photographic clue to the identity of Esquire's Sexiest Woman Alive. Every month since June, we've published another delightfully enigmatic picture of this woman--as she shaved her legs, baked in the sun, rode her...

No.009 The best bar in America: following a four-month search, * this is the one. (But don't go--you'll just ruin it).(Nye's Polonaise)
October 1, 2006... THE BEST BAR IN AMERICA isn't Irish. It isn't in a strip mall. It isn't the sort of place that charges an outrageous cover for people to stand around in black light pushing back shooters out of test tubes. It isn't a fight club or a meat...

No.023 A story unlike anything you've read before: man enters hotel.(The Man Behind the Voice)
October 1, 2006... Man checks into a hotel, meets a girl, has sex with her. A man exits a plane, takes a limo to a resort hotel, lugs his bags through the door of the lobby, then he's having sex with a stranger. A professional man--an athlete, a basketball...

Things, people, places, ideas, and extraordinary events that you need to know about right now.
October 1, 2006... STARTING HERE, everything you see in the rest of this issue is one of those hundred things. In fact, two of them have already appeared (No. 9: "The Best Bar in America," on page 147, and No. 23: "A Story Unlike Anything You've Read Before," on...

No.015 Mr. Pitt & his magical mattress: on a hot summer afternoon, the most glamorous birth father in America sits in a diner booth and tries to make sense of the world.(MAN ON FIRE)
October 1, 2006... A thunderous revving noise ruptures the quiet of the Spitfire Grill on a lazy afternoon in Santa Monica, California, accompanied by a series of subsonic reverberations that tinkle the ice cubes of my overfull water glass, breaking the surface...

No.016 My list: fifteen things I think everyone should know.(Brad Pitt )
October 1, 2006... THE DRUG WAR I'll agree that drugs are harmful, but we spend $40 billion a year on the drug war and $8 billion a year incarcerating people, 25 percent of whom are in there for drugs. If someone wants to do drugs, as long as it doesn't...

No.020 This is now: to fix one of the heart's most common defects, surgeons used to cut you open with a sternum saw. Now they don't need to cut you at all. A window into the bloodless future of surgery.(mitral valve prolapse)
October 1, 2006... The mitral valve is the body's metronome. When your doctor places his stethoscope on your chest, the beat he hears is the mitral valve snapping shut as it regulates blood flow between the left atrium and the left ventricle of your heart. Most...

No.008 The gyroball: baseball's first new pitch in thirty years.(Esquire 100)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... When it comes at you--and, initially, it does come at you--you really have two options: Lean forward and hope it'll sail behind your back, or bail completely. Taking a cut might technically be another, but that almost certainly won't occur to...

No.024 terrible trend.(Esquire 100)
October 1, 2006... MOVIES SHOWCASING JON HEDER!S ACTING CHOPS

No.057 Minimart of the Millenium: Famima!(FamilyMart Company Ltd.)
October 1, 2006... One exclamation point is enthusiastic; three are ironic. But two? We're not quite sure what to make of the punctuation in "Famima!!" but we love the concept: Famima!! is the American version of Asia's twelve-thousand-store FamilyMart chain of...

No.036 The Koran.
October 1, 2006... It's not easy, treating the Koran as literature--that is, as a book we are free to pick up or put down depending on our appreciation of its merits. First of all, its great literary achievement is said to be the musical perfection of its...

No.049 The cloak suit.(Alexandre Plokhov )(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... It's a very long way from the strategic missile forces of the Soviet Union to the fashionable streets of SoHo. New York. Yet Cloak designer Alexandre Plokhov's circuitous route to fashion stardom puts him in good stead. Military service, if...

No.042 The country to watch.(Egypt)
October 1, 2006... Let me give you the four scariest words I can't pronounce in Arabic: Egypt after Hosni Mubarak. Osama picked the time (9/11), and Bush picked the venue (Iraq), but this fight between radical Islam and globalization's integrating forces was...

No.003 The new city: ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Newark, New Jersey.(number of murder increases)
October 1, 2006... JULY 17, 2006, an oppressively hot day. I held a news conference about a number of shootings and murders that had occurred the prior forty-eight hours. They tore me up inside. I'd already seen too much violence. A couple of years ago, I held a...

No.018 Izabel.(THE NEXT IZABEL)
October 1, 2006... Her name is Izabel Goulart, but you can call her Izabel, because there will come a time when that will be her only name. Like most models, she has a quirky discovery story: Originally from Sao Carlos, Brazil, she moved to Sao Paulo to pursue...

No. 039 The dog whisperer should just shut up.(Cesar Millan )
October 1, 2006... For Cesar Millan, the goateed tough-guy, best-selling author, and cable-TV star who throws down pit bulls, it's time for new rules. And for countless dog owners, dog lovers, or stray humans skittish at the big-ass Doberman mix approaching them...

No.011 The Shure E500PTH earphones.(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... With most earphones, you get only two choices for color, black or white, and one choice for sound quality--worse than headphones. Even so, we put up with them for a simple reason: They don't make us look as if we belong on an airport tarmac....

No. 021 The most explosive book of the fall.(Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... In a nearly unprecedented move for a former secretary of state of a sitting administration, last year Colin Powell agreed to open up his personal archive and sit for six extended interviews with Washington Post associate editor Karen DeYoung....

No.098 Ingredient of the year: pork belly.(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... The feverishly innovative Wylie Dufresne of WD-50 in New York was one of the first to serve the dish, with black soybeans and turnips. In Alexandria, Virginia, Cathal Armstrong of Restaurant Eve does it as a confit, with cannellini beans and...

No.053 Benderspink: minimoguls of the Entourage generation.(Esquire 100)(Company overview)
October 1, 2006... Hey, man, you read the latest draft of Curve? It's awesome." We're thirty minutes from the world premiere of Talladega Nights, but in the packed lobby of Granman's Chinese Theatre, it's already show time for manager-producers Chris Bender and...

No.048 Dark spirit of the moment: rye whiskey.(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... * For generations, rye has played Abel to bourbon's Cain. Lately, though, it's begun showing a little fight: an uptick in its anemic sales, a handful of new premium brands-we especially like Old Potrero Hotaling's whiskey ($65), a rich and...

No.030 The return of chest hair.(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... A little while ago, movie stars like Heath Ledger and Hugh Jackman and then just regular dudes started turning up at parties with their shirts unbuttoned. Not, like, all-the-way-to-the-navel, Vinnie-at-the-club unbuttoned--but undone enough to...

No.012 The Panerai Luminor.(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... The 1950 8 Days GMT is something of a milestone for the veteran Florentine watchmaker Panerai: It's the first Luminor the company has ever made entirely in-house. In an industry in which most brands, even very expensive ones, buy their...

No.005 The coastal-cities phenomenon.(face all environmental problems)
October 1, 2006... Half of all humanity, including 53 percent of all Americans, live in or in proximity to a coastal city. And whether in Miami or Mumbai, these people are most severely affected by many of the planet's most pressing problems: global warming,...

No.059 The director's cuts.(Stranger than Fiction from Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. )(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... In November, Sony Pictures will release the ambitious comedy Stranger than Fiction, starring Will Ferrell and directed by Marc Forster. It is based on the much-talked-about original screenplay by Zach Helm that Esquire excerpted in our Best and...

No.007 Greg Oden.(basketball player )(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... > Last season, this was more or less the view high school kids in Indiana faced upon entering the lane. He stands six foot eleven and a half, barefoot. He weighs 270 pounds. But that isn't what makes Greg Oden special. He's also just...

No.013 The rise of shame.(wiretapping by National Security Agency)
October 1, 2006... Everyone's worried about NSA wiretapping and such. But really, that's not the invasion of privacy that's going to affect our lives. Instead, it's user-generated spying and gossip. That's what is going to make America into the equivalent of a...

No.014 ... and the privatization of virtue.
October 1, 2006... If you thought some things were beyond the reach of outsourcing, you'd be wrong. Here is the final frontier: hiring others to exercise your own self-control. Have a video-game problem? Online message boards are full of people asking to be...

No.060-062 Chuck Klosterman's three things you need to know about sports this fall.(Esquire 100)
October 1, 2006... 1. NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL. NBC broadcasts every home game the Fighting Irish play, and it seems like ABC finds a way to get two thirds of their road games on the air, too. This has been a mild annoyance for most of the previous decade, as Notre...

No.093 The wine-aging machine.(Hiroshi Tanaka)
October 1, 2006... One day soon, Hiroshi Tanaka will take some undistinguished fermented grape juice and in about six seconds turn it into a bold chardonnay that tastes as though it's been aging in a barrel for years. Although not a wine maker or even a wine...

No.051 David Lehre (Filmmaker, 21, Los Angeles).(Interview)
October 1, 2006... David Lehre rocketed to prominence this past winter after one of his shorts, MySpace: The Movie, became the most-watched video in YouTube history. Now he is working on a TV pilot for Fox and negotiating to write and direct a feature film. He...