How to carry all your gear? Get a 'grip'.

Can it be? The elusive 'grip' (aka the man-clutch)

Name:  Adam Jackson

Age:  23

Sign:  Virgo

Occupation:  Writer & Consultant

Location:  Startup Weekend in San Francisco

Hometown:  St. Augustine, Florida

I have to admit: I did not spend this weekend writing a new post for “What’s In Your Man Purse.” Instead, the Always Hungry Husband and I spent a three-day weekend at sfCUBE for the Women2.0-sponsored “Startup Weekend” event! (To anybody following my Twitter feed, this is not news.  By the way, I am so loving Twitter.  Does this make me twitterpated? And I thought it wasn't going to happen to me.)  Naturally, once I arrived at this event, one of the first things I did was try to locate some geek chic in the form of a man purse. In fact, here is my first tweet of the night:

#sw20sf Scoping out the laptop bags at startup weekend. Will tweet if I find any man purse treasures!

Immediately after posting I saw that this had been tweeted just a moment before by someone with the handle of  @adamjackson:

adamjackson Heads up: If you're a single guy in SF. Head to #sw20sf it's a 4:1 ratio of talented geeky women. Woot! http://women20sf.eventbrite.com/

Correction: talented & HOT geeky women. #sw20sf 4 days ago from Tweetie

Who was this cheeky tweeter?  I couldn’t resist replying with my own sassy tweet: 

manpurse To all the men checking out the hot geek girls at #sw20sf. I am checking YOU out (that is, your man purses.) How's THAT for Women 2.0?

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Murse Matchup: FABIO!

Guest blogger "The Always-Hungry Husband" here! Today, as our Head Mursenary prepares for a weekend satchel safari, it is my privilege to peruse the Submit-A-Man archives and present to you a Fantasy Four that breaks with tradition not only in its authorial composition, but also in its conspicuous lack of last names.

That’s right, ladies and gentlemen (and probably a lady again): Fabio.

Thank you Akila for suggesting Fabio to our Submit-A-Man. While he’s never been spotted with a man purse to our knowledge, it’s clear that a man of such prodigious accomplishments must have an appropriate accessory both for the carrying of things, and, um, the looking of good. A metaphor, for your consideration: just as ol’ ‘sinistra e destra’ form the strong foundation of a triumphal Viking conquest-pose, so must Fabio’s manbag maintain the perfect balance of rugged masculinity and feminine sensibility that has made Fabio the undisputed king of romance.

Well, I guess, technically the title of "King of Romance" is disputed by one Englebert Humperdinck, but I don’t think this will become a dispute of or anything. Anyway – on to the show!

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Murse-Match - Bradley

Name:  Bradley

Bradley searches in the distance for a much-needed man-purse.

Age:  26

Astrological Sign:  Taurus

Occupation:  Screen Writing Student at Chapman

Musical Tastes:  "All over the place - Post-punk and British Invasion" (M and I enthusiastically approve!)

What Does He Like To Do:  Ride bikes

Where We Spotted Him:  The Haight

I was having a tasty brunch--Huevos Rancheros, to be exact, while simultaneously scanning the street through the cafe window, just in case some to-die-for man-purses happened to march by.  I was enjoying/suffering an extreme adrenaline high after my first interview with dear Jannik, and was hungry to spot another fashion-forward man begging to be splashed across the front of my spanking-new blog.  But none showed up, and my eggs were getting cold.  I had given up hope and tried to make up for lost time by chowing down pronto and picking off some home fries to toss onto my always-hungry husband's plate.  I felt full, and wasn't even half done (though everyone else had obliterated their meals by this time,) so I gave up on eating and began ogling the men through the window, once again.  I then noticed a man who had already walked past the window at least once.  He seemed like he might have been the type to carry a man purse--but no, he bore no such item.  In fact, I realized at that moment, how encumbered he was with multiple books and a shopping bag.  He might have been in danger of dropping one of his items (if he were as clumsy as myself, at least) and upon closer inspection, even had well-worn fade lines in his pants pockets where the silhouette of his mobile phone and wallet bulged through, ready to emancipate themselves from those pockets.  I realized to myself that WhatsInYourManPurse.com could actually help this man.

M and I hopped out of the cafe and found Bradley, arms full, and pacing around with a shop bag in his hands.  We introduced ourselves and learned that Bradley was actually originally from the Bay Area, himself, though he was currently studying screen writing at Chapman.  We let him know that he was a perfect candidate for a man purse, to which he surprised us (but not really) by confiding that he actually usually DOES carry a man purse.  This made a lot of sense to M and I as he clearly had misjudged his carrying capacity for the day, being so used to carrying around his favorite Seagull and Timbuk2 bags most every other day.  When asked why he didn't have his man purse on him, he couldn't provide an answer.  I'm assuming that it was fate that we should come to his rescue.

So what is it that Bradley usually carries in his man purse?

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