CONTACT US if you must: like Oprah, Make It Like a Man! (miLam) used to be produced in Chicago, by Cubs fans, and like Oprah, guests of Make It Like a Man! stayed at The Drake. To contact us back in those days, you had to hang around on the Addison ‘L’ platform just as a game was getting out, and ask around for us. We used to suggest that you wear a Sox cap as you do this, so that we could easily pick you out in the crowd. But eventually we left our Sweet Home, Chicago and relocated ourselves deep in the northern woods, where we’ve had to learn to stack firewood and the ups and downs of wells and septic systems. So to contact us these days, please simply attach a comment to this page. We will not post comments that you attach to this page, but instead will respond to them via the email address that you attach to your comment. We’d love to hear from you, probably.

WORK WITH US, maybe: We’re not doing this for the money. It’s just a fun thing we enjoy. So if you’re a marketer, hoping we’ll want to “partner with you,” don’t get your hopes up. We’re not yet convinced that “partner” is the right words to describe that kind of relationship. On the other hand, if you make something that we could obviously use – like a chocolate tempering machine, or a professional-grade induction burner – and want to send us one, we will market the HELL out of tht thing like a carvival barker! (Not that the world needs another carnival barker at the moment … except that with us, you get someone who can actually string together sentences that are not just coherent, but downright well crafted.) Same deal if you’re casting the next season of the Great British Baking Show. We’re not British, but we’ll pretend to be! 

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ACCOLADES: we’re pumped tp report that the Male Pumping Forum linked to our report on banana holders. We can neither confirm nor deny that our Dates with Goat Cheese were featured on Xhorni, but just the thought of it kind of makes us feel desperate to rethink that title. That is not what we meant by “dates.” On yet another porn site, one of our lovely pictures of strawberries with a dusting of sugar found a home in a category they call “strawberries iz a rockstar.” We would have paid money to be in a category called that. But we didn’t. It just happened, and we stumbled onto it. Nevermind how we stumbled onto something on a porn site. However, in our blog post, we captioned that image “Strawberries Awaiting Cream.” Can someone explain to me how that caption wasn’t suitable for porn?