by Eddy Ashioya | Mar 30, 2026 | ManTalk
I’ve always admired bartenders. Anyone who can convince you that Sex on the Beach at 11 a.m. is a good idea understands the human condition, or what dreams are made of. And when the Manhattan floods the hole in your soul, and the right colour of black hair has come...
by Eddy Ashioya | Nov 29, 2025 | ManTalk
I’ve always been a clumsy boy. I have lost two phones within the last four months, one whose gallery contents are the stuff OnlyFans careers are made of. I lost my high school admission letter, and the principal was adamant that I was lying, which I was, and he swore...
by Eddy Ashioya | Apr 9, 2023 | ManTalk
So…my English teacher (teacher of English?) is one of those people who made it a criminal offense to start a sentence, much less a paragraph with ‘so..’. I never understood why. The thing is—from a writer’s point of view—is that you can use that word only once (maybe...
by Eddy Ashioya | Mar 15, 2022 | ManTalk
It is now exactly *checks notes* nine years since I took someone’s daughter for a date at Java. I was fresh off the high school boat, a greenhorn in matters red. I had been saving up for several terms, three to be exact, because Sauti Sol had cooed that taking a girl...
by Eddy Ashioya | Mar 15, 2022 | ManTalk
Back when I was a highly impressionable young man with a sepia tinted view of the world, I always looked at things in twos. I loved dating, I still do, but I used to, too. I consider this our first date, and I know you are a bit nervous but I want you to know this; I...
by Eddy Ashioya | Mar 15, 2022 | ManTalk
How To Advise A Man In Love: Do Not As the old romantic saying almost goes: if you love something, let it go – naturally while retaining a semblance of hope that it will come back. Is there anything left to say about that over-analysed institution, The Couple? What...
