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Ask a Bogan: Managing Your Money and Saving for Epic Metal Adventures
July 13th, 2010 | ask a bogan, grymm and frostbitten lands, tr00 metal life | steff | 7 Comments
Dear Steff Metal Your Plunder for Metal Chicks post this weekend got me thinking about my money problems. I want to have adventures and travel, and save for big things like a house or a car. But I can’t. I don’t have any debt or anything, but I work at a fast-food place, so I [...]
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Ask a Bogan: Making Friends with Metalheads
June 23rd, 2010 | ask a bogan, tr00 metal life | steff | 5 Comments
Dear Steff Metal I have moved to a new city to study, and left my friends behind. I love the university and all my classes and lecturers, but I feel very lonely and isolated here – it seems as if everyone in my hostel is already friends, and I don’t know anyone. I would love [...]
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Starting a Blog
April 21st, 2010 | Steff, ask a bogan, runes | steff | 3 Comments
Dear Steff Metal I’ve been reading your blog for a few months now. It’s very different to the other blogs I read - totally inspiring! I’m a visual artist, and I’m thinking of starting a blog to help promote my work (I have an Etsy store but no website as yet). But I don’t want to [...]
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Ask a Bogan: Dating a Non-Metalhead
April 12th, 2010 | ask a bogan, tr00 metal life, wuv | steff | 6 Comments
Dear Steff Metal For the last six months I’ve been dating the sweetest, funniest girl. Everything’s perfect, except … she’s not into metal. She likes indie shit music. I’ve never dated a “metal chick” before, and this has never been a problem for me. Except now I really like this girl. Recently, a lot of bands [...]
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10 Ways to Get Involved in the Metal Subculture WITHOUT being a Poser
March 22nd, 2010 | ask a bogan, steff metal top ten, tr00 metal life | steff | 3 Comments
Last week, we talked about not being a poser when trying to immerse yourself in metalhead subculture. I said I would offer up a list of suggestions on “metal” things you can do to entrench yourself as a dedicated metalhead without seeming like a try-hard poser. If you want to get involved in the metal [...]
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Ask A Bogan: Don’t Be a Poser
March 16th, 2010 | ask a bogan, tr00 metal life | steff | 8 Comments
Dear Steff Metal, So, I’m a fan of metal. Pretty obvious, really. However, my problem with any alternative subculture is that I’m trying too hard and being a poser. Yeah, sure, I could act as if I didn’t care what others thought, but that’s not true. It’s just that when people look at me, ‘metal’ [...]
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