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If You’re Boring Guy, Find A Hobby
There’s one big, fat reason that the hot women you run into aren’t on the prowl for Boring Guy. Can you guess it? We’ll wait…that’s long enough. The truth is that your average SHB is not going to...
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Larry the Cable Guy. Anti-Swank?
Sometimes the easiest way to define a term is to tell you what it’s not. So it is with swank. We were innocently surfing the Internet today, doing a bit of research for random topics that might or...
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It’s All About Sex, Money, and Religion
If you ever get to thinking that world is simply too complicated to comprehend, Swank Life is here to tell you that it”s not. Every event and action undertaken by any human being throughout history can...
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You Say “Gold Digging” Like it’s a Bad Thing
Conventional wisdom used to say that it was always the woman who kept her eye peeled for the upwardly mobile, wealthy, successful man to latch onto and enjoy the ride to the top. Some people call it...
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Increase Your Koolness Quotient With Kindle
Having the latest and greatest technology at your fingertips is not a bad thing when it comes to increasing your swankiness score. You've got the iPhone and the iPad. You're all over the social media...
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The Four Best Restaurants in America
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Great Nightclubs Around the World
Americans sometimes blame the continent across the pond as being a little too Euro-centric, but forget that we tend to be a little Yankee-centric at times. As a fully developed swankster, you can’t...
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Read About the World's Most Expensive Television – If You Dare
Swank Life offers our sincere apologies to any blog reader who already owns one of the televisions on this list. We, of course, intend no disrespect by implying that you haven’t outfitted every room...
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Stock Your Home Bar Like You Mean It
If, at the end of an evening of general carousing, your group of friends usually ends up at your swanky place, then you’ve got to have a well-stocked home bar. We’re talking about mixed drinks too...
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Meet the Most Expensive Hotels in the World
If you’re “lucky” enough to be a one-percenter, or plan to be join that club someday, this following list of the world’s most expensive hotels should give you something to set your sights on. After...
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Vietnam is Now a Luxury Travel Destination
With the end of the Vietnam War nearly 40 years in the rearview mirror, it might surprise some readers to learn that our old communist foe is turning into a desirable travel destination for the...
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The Swank Life Guide to Literary References
With the Swank Life Guide to Literary References, you too can be a literary snob without even having to read the source material! Seriously, who has time to wade through hundreds of pages of what is...
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Atlas Finishes Shrugging
As we put fingers to keyboard, the cinematic release of the conclusion to Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, is less than 10 hours away. To most people, this probably qualifies as a non-event. The first film...
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Swank Life Girls vs. the Mayan Calendar
With the release of our 2013 Swank Life Calendar drawing closer by the day, it suddenly dawned on us that another calendar, this one put together by a retro civilization you might have heard of, the...
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Where to Party this All Hallow’s Eve
If cost is no object, and it never should be to swanky men and women who have been playing their financial cards right, there are a double-handful of perfecto Halloween bashes from coast to coast for...
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Swanktastic Halloween
Depending upon your personal preference, Halloween may or may not be the swankiest time of year, but it’s is going to happen and there’s not much you can do about it. Psychologically, it’s easier to...
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Robin Leach is Not Dead Yet
Those readers of a certain age should remember the mid-1980s through the early 1990s television show Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, hosted by a celebrity reporter turned media personality, Robin...
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Famous (and soon to be) Calendars
There’s something about a calendar that speaks to humanity’s inner clock. We each have been granted only a short That of old. The phone app to monitor husbands phone without him knowing it could that....
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Step Aside Harlem Shake – Meet a Real Dance Craze
Sorry to disappoint all you Harlem Shake aficionados out there, but this sucker’s fifteen minutes of fame is long gone. Not only is it merely a lame derivative of the Harlem Shuffle, which originated...
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Turn Your Vacation Home into an ATM
Jake Swank thinks it’s plain silly to own a vacation home and let it sit there twiddling its thumbs, costing you money the majority of the year. Swanky people have got to change their way of thinking....
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3 Swanky Things to Do in 2013
Well, we’re almost halfway through the year, which means it’s time to take a look back and assess your Swanky Quotient (SQ). Have you done anything exceptionally swanky this year? Jake Swank is proud...
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4 Stupid Apps and Where to Find Them
Leave it to humanity to go above and beyond in creating apps that increase work productivity and make life easier. When it comes right down to it, though, people are really all about the things that...
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Stuff You Should Stop Doing After 40
While we’re strong proponents for maintaining youth as long as possible, we also favor giving up stupidity at the earliest opportunity. Certain activities that were swank in college probably aren’t...
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The Internet Makes Gamblers of Day Traders
It used to be, back before the dawn of history – say 1990 – that buying or selling a stock was an arduous process. Pick up the phone. Call your broker. Tell him what you want to do. Sit back and wait...
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Life’s Too Short for Bad Movies
Does a swank cinephile invite his best girl over to his pad and pull up Fast and Furious 5 or Transformers on Netflix? If so, get thee to the back of the line. You can’t be swank on a diet of fast food...
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Profile of a Fake Internet Girl
Long before Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o found himself duped by an Internet girl who was actually a dude, scammers have been posting fake profiles on dating websites. While some may do it solely...
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The Ridiculous Edge of Infinity at Marina Bay Sands
Once in a great while you stumble across a man-made marvel so unique, so stupefying, so ridiculous that it immediately goes onto the bucket list. The Skypark Infinity Pool at the top of the Marina Bay...
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Luxury Travel – What’s Hot for the Rest of 2014?
Sophisticated luxury travelers want to have the experience ahead of the curve. If the Smiths’ and the Joneses have already been there flying coach class, no thanks. We’ll find something else. There are...
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All I Want for Christmas is Just One Viral Video
Is it swanky to be the progenitor of a viral video? In a word, yep. There is no better way in today’s world to get your brand out there in a big way in a short amount of time. the trouble with creating...
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