Bro-dar

brodar |brōˌdär|
noun
a system for detecting the presence, direction, distance, and speed of bros, frat guys, and other short spiked haircuts, by sending out pulses of high-frequency electromagnetic waves that are reflected off the object back to the source.
• an apparatus used for this.
ORIGIN early 21st Century: from bro d(etection) a(nd) r(anging)

This is a term I coined tonight whilst talking with Meg and cleaning the kitchen. I'm sure I'm not the first to coin it, but I hope I'm the first to define it in terms of a derivative of the term radar. This came up for a couple of reasons.

First, we were at a bar on Saturday after my bands gig and you couldn't have gone from one extreme to another in a bigger way. I drive from a metal club full of really cool punked out rock people where I just played a great show to a bar full of dudes in either a.) Surfer cuts and t-shirts or b.)Button downs and short spiked hair wearing sunglasses inside ala "My New Haircut" (see you tube if you don't know what I'm talking about).


Second, Brody Jener, the super cool guy made famous for being the love interest of Lauren Conrad (of The Hills) who was formerly a friend of one of the girls on Laguna Beach (a terrible take on reality TV on MTV) was on Howard yesterday morning. I mean really?! When did it become that cool to be like this guy? And as Meagen has pointed out, who the fuck is this guy to begin with? And now he has a show called 'Bromance' on MTV in which several guys (read: bros) vie to win his friendship and adoration. Now I think my Gaydar is going off.

The moral of this story is, I appreciate my true friends for who and what they are. Not what they have or what their status is. I hope they feel the same about me. Those who know me well and have been around have stuck by me through a lot, both good and bad. Many times they've told me how much of an idiot I am when I needed to hear it most. They've also been around to celebrate good times and pick me up when I'm down.

And they'll be around for years to come because real friendship like that can't be won on some game show. How shallow must that guy feel...

-Mike the Ryan