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Give Your Libations a Proper Home

For the man who seeks to exude class and refinement, the storage and application of one’s stash of imbibers can be a make-or-break factor. That is to say, rummaging through a kitchen cabinet or reaching atop the fridge to access your well-cultivated spirits selection simply won’t do. Though procuring one requires a decent chunk of [...]

Enlightenment, self-advancement, being the best darn man that you can be – these are the aspirations of Gear Patrol editors and readers alike. Part of advancing oneself is, of course, knowing where to get the information you need to grow in your game. Assholeology is one such invaluable resource. Both hilarious and instructive, Assholeology lays [...]

The Greatest Generation in Action

If you didn’t see WWII in HD when it premiered recently on one of our favorite channels, HISTORY, then you did yourself a disservice. It’s time to right that wrong, as the exceptional documentary is now available on Blu-ray (and for a bang-up price, to boot). The production value of this collection is through the [...]

Shepard Does It Again

Today marks the release of one of the most anticipated games of this young year, Mass Effect 2. Exclusive to Microsoft’s Xbox 360, this outer space opus picks up where its predecessor left of, with humanity and the other Citadel species wary of a threat far greater than they can imagine. Dogged by a previously [...]

Do Your Fellow Man a Real Solid

Many of you will know our venerable Gear Patrol correspondent and all-around car video maven, Bradley Hasemeyer. Additionally, he provides our community with some much-needed Left Coast perspective on fashion, cuisine, and a smattering of other topics. What you might not know about Bradley is that he’s also an savant of the silver (and flat) [...]

Super Simple, Insanely Important

Being responsible, safe, and planning for contingencies aren’t always traits that we men are known for. Sometimes we just like to do, as though spontaneity were written into our genes. When it comes to running, I’m guilty of jetting out the door without taking the time to stretch or hydrate or, sometimes, even check the [...]

Recipes for a Classic American Spirit

You needn’t be an employee at Sterling Cooper to appreciate the value of a well-made American cocktail. For our money, bourbon is one of the best ways to get there from here. Happily, food writer and chef Fred Thompson agrees and has thus served up a definitive selection of recipes to utilize and improvise on [...]

The only thing better than getting to test the latest and greatest gear is having the opportunity to give some of it away to you. In recognition of Aperion Audio’s newly released Home Audio Link (launched today) we, and Aperion Audio, want to give you a chance to get in on the wireless sound goodness. [...]

Sharp. Looking. Knife.

A pocket without a knife is like a pie sans the filling. It’s just empty and useless. We’ll give you a pass if you are wearing suit pants, but eventually you are going to dress down and fall back into the need to keep a useful implement on your person. That’s why we want to [...]

Improve Your Game F.A.S.T.

Despite the fact that most of the U.S. is locked in winter’s icy, heartless grip, it is always a good time to think about, plan for, and gear up to play golf. If that means updating the most important piece of golf equipment that you don’t swing at or with (read: your bag), the new [...]

Our Neighbors to the North Kick Out Some Stellar Performance Gear

Here at Gear Patrol, multifunction is our middle name (seriously, it’s on our birth certificate). That’s why we love to discover brands and pieces that appeal to our sensibilities of both form and function with equal panache. With performance garments suited to runners, cyclists, and triathletes, the Canadian outfitters at Sugoi seem to have a [...]

Oh Bacon Flavor, How We Do Love Thee

It’s no secret that we’re big fans of Bacon Salt and that we completely agree that, in fact, everything should taste like bacon. Still, not content to rest on their laurels, Justin and Dave (of J&D’s) have continued to capitalize on what seems to be a world-wide-web-wide craze for all things bacon. It’s in that [...]

Because Once Just Wasn't Enough

There’s a reason that fans commandeered $550 million (yeah, you read that right) worth of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 within the first five days of its release. As the follow up to its hugely popular predecessor, the prelaunch hype was at a fever pitch, to say the least. As we tend to do [...]

An All-In-One That Does It All Well (Really!)

One of the traits most valued in a Gear Patrol man is versatility. Unsurprisingly, we appreciate the same thing in our gadgets, particularly in those upon which we rely for daily productivity. You need only to glance down at that smartphone that’s likely never out of reach to confirm my hypothesis. That’s why we jumped [...]

Green Golf Goodies

The venerable golf tee: it’s the most basic of all the equipment that you faithfully wag around in your bag. Honestly, you don’t even think twice before blasting handfuls of the wee wooden props into oblivion each and every round. It’s just the cost of doing business. Not so, according the the folks at Evolve [...]