A few weeks back, I did an interview for Asylum, which is AOL's men's lifestyle page and whose motto is "For All Mankind." If you're of the opposite sex and hoping for more information about what matters to men, according to Asylum it primarily consists of "humor, weird news, sex tips, fashion, dating, food and gadgets."

During a lunchtime break at work I biked over the Manhattan bridge to arrive at a Brooklyn bar to be interviewed, then headed back over the bridge, only slightly tipsy this t...