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Health & Fitness

How to Have the Best Damn Year of Your Life at 50+

My four-step guide to maximize midlife awesomeness

By David Hochman

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Inside Dope

We were the first to grow up with this national sports spectacle. Here’s how the Super Bowl changed the way we look at sports — and at life.

By Jay Ferrari

, January 23, 2023

3 Min Read

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Sex & Relationships

4 Valentine’s Day Date Ideas That’ll Make Her Extra Frisky

How to make the holiday more than just business as usual

By Nicole Pajer

, January 23, 2023

3 Min Read

Money & Career

How to Dress for Warmth and Still Look Cool

Channel your inner Jason Bourne with these fashion tips

By Joel Stein

, January 23, 2023

3 Min Read

Family & Fatherhood

The Taylor Swift Survival Guide for Gen X Dads

How to tolerate your teen’s Tay Tay obsession without losing your mind

By Matt Crossman

, January 23, 2023

3 Min Read

Our most popular newsletters, from health & fitness for guys over 40 to sex & relationships as Generation X men

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Eating & Drinking

3 Manly Recipes for Your Super Bowl Party

Give your guy friends something they’ll remember as much as the game

By Bob Blumer

3 Min Read

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Health & Fitness

How to Trick Yourself into Living Longer

By Bill Stieg

, December 21, 2022

Men have a bad habit of avoiding annual checkups — here’s how you could stop being that guy

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Inside Dope

A Beginner's Guide to Beginning

By Tom Vanderbilt

, January 31, 2022

Want to develop a new skill in 2022? Here’s how

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Family & Fatherhood

A Gen X Father Sends His Son to War

By Brendan Baber

, March 28, 2022

I grew up scared of the USSR. Now my son’s signing up to fight Putin

Eating & Drinking

3 Manly Recipes for Your Super Bowl Party

By Bob Blumer

, January 23, 2023

3 Min Read

Health & Fitness

How to Trick Yourself into Living Longer

By Bill Stieg

, December 21, 2022

2 Min Read

Inside Dope

A Beginner's Guide to Beginning

By Tom Vanderbilt

, January 31, 2022

2 Min Read

Family & Fatherhood

A Gen X Father Sends His Son to War

By Brendan Baber

, March 28, 2022

2 Min Read

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Family & Fatherhood

How a Run DMC Rapper Taught His Teen to Love Hard Work

Rocking a rhyme can be tricky, but not as tricky as making a sleeping kid wake up for school

By Darryl McDaniels (As Told To Michele Wojciechowski)

The Arrow Poll

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How are you dealing with the cold weather?

14%

Only speaking in "The Thing" movie quotes for the foreseeable future. "Nobody trusts anybody now… and we're all very tired.”

29%

Guarding the thermostat like you've taken an oath with the Night's Watch.

43%

Locked and loaded with Blizzard of '78 stories, in case anybody complains that "it's never been this cold."

14%

Thinking about maybe putting on some socks.

What's the biggest misconception about Gen X?

13%

That we think long johns under shorts count as "business casual."

25%

That all of our financial troubles can be traced back to the Columbia Record Club.

13%

That we communicate entirely with 'zines, mixtapes, and eye rolls.

50%

That we don't care. We do care. Quite a bit, actually.

What's your favorite part of the new HBO series "The Last Of Us"?

20%

Every time I nudge my spouse and say, "That part happened in the game, too."

40%

Piano frog.

20%

Nick Offerman, but only if he gets to ride piano frog.

20%

Realizing that the show's apocalypse happened in 2003, which means they're living in a world in which "Napoleon Dynamite" never happened.

What's the greatest sports rivalry of all time?

10%

Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali

29%

Boston Red Sox vs. New York Yankees

14%

Boston Celtics vs. Los Angeles Lakers

48%

Rodney Dangerfield vs. Ted Knight (Caddyshack)

What discontinued thing would you love to see make a comeback this year?

12%

Blockbuster

15%

Sony Walkman

15%

McDonald's deep-fried apple pie

58%

My libido

What classic TV car would you love to take for a joy ride?

33%

The "General Lee” Dodge Charger from Dukes of Hazzard

44%

Magnum P.I.’s Ferrari 308 GTS Quattrovalvole

17%

KITT the '84 Pontiac Trans-Am from Knight Rider

Sanford & Son’s '51 Ford F-1 truck.

What gave you a Gen X existential hot flash this week?

44%

Schoolhouse Rock turning 50.

44%

Adam Rich, who played the bowl-cut kid on "Eight is Enough" dying at 54.

11%

The hottest fashion trend among teens is "grunge sleaze."

Finding out there's going to be a Goonies sequel, but not till 2027, forcing you to calculate how old you'll be in five years, and now you just want to go back to bed.

Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, 24, suffered a cardiac arrest after being tackled during a game Monday. Has it changed your mind about football safety? Would you let your son play?

52%

Sure! That was a freak accident, not the norm.

26%

No way. Nobody gets carried out on a stretcher playing ping pong.

17%

I'm torn. I know it's dangerous. But I want to retire early, so that kid needs a job where he makes BANK.

Yes, but only against the Chicago Bears. They couldn't catch a pug with a limp.

How do you want to change in 2023?

40%

Lose weight.

10%

Make more money.

40%

Have more and better sex. With my wife, I mean. What? Of course I meant her. Why would I have not meant sex with her? No, you can't check my browser history!

10%

Quit drinking.

What are your resolutions for the rest of 2022?

17%

To gain as much weight as possible, so my weight loss in 2023 will be extra impressive.

To watch the extended six-hour director's cut of a Tarantino movie, I forget which one, honestly it doesn't matter.

33%

To give my old sweatpants one last run for glory like it's an aging Thoroughbred racehorse.

50%

To see if I concentrate hard enough, I can become one with the couch.

Much of the country is facing what forecasters call a “once-in-a-generation storm." How are you preparing?

29%

Toilet paper and booze. Oh wait, should I have gotten food, too? Son of a....!

14%

Bringing up the Blizzard of '78 with extra hyperbole, like it was our generation's Invasion of Normandy.

43%

Wearing shorts. If I put on pants, winter wins.

14%

Saying "You know, my nickname is college was Bomb Cyclone" to anybody who'll listen.

When did you realize the truth about Santa?

43%

Eight or nine. The usual age.

14%

I was late to find out. My parents fought hard to keep the Santa magic alive.

43%

What are you implying? You shut your lying mouth!!

I'm on my fortieth consecutive Christmas of not getting the G.I. Joe Motorized Battle Tank and it's starting to get suspicious.

Have you finished all of your holiday shopping?

17%

Of course! Everything's been wrapped since July.

I'm not proud of the way I acted on Black Friday. I may've shoved a kid to the ground. But yeah, it's done.

67%

Are you crazy? It's only mid-December. Settle down, brah.

17%

If my wife isn't okay with lottery tickets and energy pill packets from the gas station, she married the wrong fella.

The Arrow covers real-world advice for Gen X men in their 40s and 50s about the stuff in life that really matters

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Health & Fitness

I Was Ghosted by My Best Friend

He was my ride or die, until suddenly he wasn’t

By Dan White

, January 9, 2023

2 Min Read

Robert Stack, host of Unsolved Mysteries 1987

Inside Dope

Why Is Gen X So Obsessed With True Crime?

It isn’t some macabre fascination with murder and death

By M. William Phelps

, November 7, 2022

3 Min Read

Family & Fatherhood

I Was a Latchkey Kid, So Why Am I a Helicopter Parent?

The Gen X parenting struggle is real

By Shannon Carpenter

, December 21, 2022

2 Min Read

Inside Dope

12 Things Turning 40 in 2023

Your pop culture memories are getting older, just like the rest of us

By Kelly Houston

, December 21, 2022

5 Min Read

Want more ham-fisted tales from Gen X men? We’ve got you covered

Inside Dope

Can I Still Pull That Off?

By Ted Allen

, August 30, 2021

A “Queer Eye” guide to dressing smartly at midlife

Family & Fatherhood

A Man's Guide to Protecting His Daughter's Self-Esteem

By Elizabeth Heath

, August 29, 2022

What you can do to help her body image in a media-saturated world

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Inside Dope

Why I Finally Gave in and Bought a Minivan

By Brett Berk

, January 14, 2022

The “soccer dad” taxi has become the epitome of Gen X cool

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Inside Dope

I Demand Access to Paul Rudd’s Fountain of Youth

By Brett Berk

, November 11, 2021

A full investigation into why that motherf***er never ages