Confessions of a Male Model |
Modeling seemed like a dream job. The pay was sometimes good, and I flew coach all over the world. Bouncers treated me like a celebrity. And then there was the table—do you know about the table? Plenty of men will buy overpriced vodka in exchange for proximity to pretty women, so certain nightclubs keep a table where female models eat and drink for free. The female models invite the male models to come along and serve as buffers against these men, and voilà! Enter main character.
That's where I was, surrounded by tall women with nice teeth and cute accents, when the fissures began to appear in my facade. |
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| Ron DeSantis Flew Immigrants to Martha's Vineyard, Echoing a Racist Stunt From Exactly 60 Years Ago |
Yesterday, close to 50 undocumented immigrants arrived on the tiny island of Martha's Vineyard. When they landed at the airport, they had a brochure for the Martha's Vineyard Community Center, so they walked the two miles to get there, having had nearly no food or water all day, according to The Cape Cod Times. The two planes left from Texas but many of the immigrants were originally from Venezuela. It didn't take long for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to take credit. |
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The Marshall Emberton II Bluetooth Speaker Is Dripping With Style—And Packed With Power |
I'll be honest here, the Bluetooth speaker market is a mess. Everyone's got one, everyone touts theirs as the best, you can get one for $10, or splurge on one for $1,500. So, where do you go to buy one? Who do you trust? A good bluetooth speaker is a companion, akin to a dog, who you don't have to feed, or walk, and it just plays music. So yeah, you're understandably feeling the shopping pressure, but I'm here to make this real easy for you. There is one bluetooth speaker that stands out amongst the rest; it has the sound quality, the fashion sense, and the rugged power necessary for any adventure. That speaker is the Marshall Emberton II. The second of its royal line, it's far more exquisite and refined than its earlier sibling. Chances are you've heard of Marshall, or at least seen a speaker or two on that artsy coffee shop's bookshelf. Now you can be that artsy bookshelf, wherever and whenever you want. |
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A Few Things About the Queen |
The royal eyes are very blue. The royal skin is much admired. The royal smile is often fixed. She is not shy with strangers. She weighs one hundred nineteen pounds. The queen is five feet four inches. In certain smart London circles, she is known as The Big Chick. In her presence, one curtsies or bows slightly from the neck, not from the waist. One is not introduced, one is presented. |
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From Breathless to La Chinoise, These Are Our Favorite Jean-Luc Godard Films |
Jean-Luc Godard, legendary French-Swiss filmmaker—who shook the world with his radical political ideas and innovative approach to storytelling—died Tuesday in Rolle, Switzerland. He was 91 years old. During his career, Godard philosophized about life, love, and art, but he also used film communicate his perspective on the world. Godard launched his career in 1960 with the boundary-breaking feature, Breathless, which is often referred to as the first French New Wave film. In his work, Godard took preconceived notions of linear narrative, cut them up, and pasted them together again to create completely new kind of films. Breathless, along with films from his friends and colleagues, François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, and Éric Rohmer, influenced a league of young filmmakers who began to emulate and expound upon their style. This movement of filmmaking was dubbed Novelle Vague, or New Wave, the hallmarks of which were its low-budget, almost documentary style of direction, experimental visual editing, and an often existential perspective on sociopolitical affairs. In his 1963 feature Le Petit Soldat, which follows a man caught between sides in the Algerian War, Godard grapples with the suffering that war causes people. In 1967's La Chinoise, Godard critiques consumerism and openly discusses the use of violence to achieve revolutionary political goals. |
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The New James Bond Novels Are Fun, Progressive, and Totally Thrilling |
If you've skipped the Bond books, should you read them? Maybe not! Although Ian Fleming was a pioneer of espionage literature who essentially revolutionized the page-turner, it's very hard to make a strong case that a contemporary reader (or casual Bond fan) will love reading the Fleming-Bond for one simple reason: many of the books are dated to the point of (sometimes) being offensive. While a case can be made for individual novels (again, Moonraker and Thunderball are great, as is On Her Majesty's Secret Service), others, like Live and Let Die (1954) and The Spy Who Loved Me (1962), can only be read with a bag over your head. To really enjoy yourself and feel good about the world at the same time, you really have to cherry-pick your vintage Bond books pretty carefully. But there's a solution to this problem. If you're looking for official James Bond books that are actually, legitimately great and not as problematic as their literary forebears, three much newer novels—all published between 2015 and 2022—are damn near perfect. |
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