Smooth.  Suave.  Debonaire.  Intelligent.  Cunning.  Handsome.  Well-dressed. Well, at least one of those adjectives describes Archer on FX, our latest ESM Icon. According to the official Archer on FX website: Rakish and reckless, suave and sarcastic, Sterling Archer (Codename: Duchess) [...]

For the first time, ESM is not only selecting a fictional character to be our latest ESM Icon – we’re selecting a fictional character played by a fictional character. We’re going Inception on your ass. For our latest ESM Icon, [...]

When Barry Gordy founded Motown on April 14, 1960, I bet there were 2 things he didn’t anticipate: First, the music all the Motown artists created would have such a huge impact on the entire world Second, the fact that in [...]

Sometimes being a former CIA Agent has its advantages. You get to travel the world, get the best covert operation experience and you get to kick ass and take names.  Unfortunately, you’re just not as highbrow as your MI-6 counterparts. [...]

Gabriel Macht plays the cool-as-ice, well-dressed, hotshot lawyer Harvey Specter on USA Network’s show Suits. I mean, with that sentence alone, it’s very clear why we chose Harvey Specter as our next ESM Icon. For fans of the show, they [...]

For those familiar with the CBS show How I met your mother, you’re probably wondering why it took us so long before we recognized Barney Stinson as an ESM Icon. For those that aren’t familiar with the show, these three [...]

Arthur: What was that? Susan: French kiss. Arthur: Really? Because the French always surrender, that was decidedly German. Oh Arthur, such a character.  Spending days spending his millions and acting like a 5 year-old boy with a libido of a [...]

So my morning started like any typical Friday. Wake up.  Take a dump.  Catch up on Twitter while taking aforementioned dump (hey, when you have two jobs, you have to multitask). Most of the discussion topics were fairly mundane – [...]

That’s thirty minutes away. I’ll be there in ten. In the cult-pop-Tarentino-all-time-ESM-favorite movie Pulp Fiction, Harvey Keitel plays one of the most memorable characters in movie history as Winston Wolf (or simply “The Wolf”). His job?  To fix problems. According [...]

Comic book geeks out there – name the bad guy in X-Men: First Class with the killer sense of style, long hair and mutant power to create tornado-type winds? To be honest, we didn’t know either – so it took a bit [...]

A recent advertising campaign by Adidas (you can see it in the video below) made us realize that our next ESM Icon has been right in front of us this entire time. We’re big fans of the Adidas Originals products, [...]

There are guys who build bikes.  And there are guys who build bikes. For this week’s ESM ICON, we were fortunate enough to feature and interview Roland Sands from Roland Sands Design (RSD).  We love everything Roland does, from the bikes [...]