This year has been especially busy on the humiliatingly-healthy-habits front. Maybe it's a post-Covid focus on fitness, or a more robust wellness marketplace, or the fact that I hit my 50s and need to get that shit started now if I want to live forever. Whatever the reason, 2024 has been a boom time for people who want to sell wellness stuff to Dave Holmes, and the truth is that a lot of it works. Here's an incomplete list of the kinds of assholes I am now. |
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Holy hell, this is getting out of control. |
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The House of the Dragon brothers are having a smoke outside their hotel, looking like the most famous British rockers who never existed. There's Ewan Mitchell, twenty-seven, whose six-foot frame is hidden by a baggy black hoodie and sweatpants. At his side is Tom Glynn-Carney, twenty-nine, slightly shorter, looking proper as heck: newsboy cap, cords, the works. They're so perfectly, lazily, and hilariously draped against the Soho Grand's brick exterior that I expect someone to ask for an autograph thinking they're Cambridge Asylum (my name for their fictional band), not Aemond and Aegon Targaryen. |
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Skip the stop at the hotel and get straight to business. |
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Not everything needs to be reinvented, but we're obsessed with optimizing. Optimizing ourselves, optimizing products—it's all part of this weird improvement-and-newness complex. My algorithm will show me ads for smart bar carts, smart vacuums, and smart toilet seats. The Internet wants to sell me the comfiest pants ever made or barefoot shoes that will fix how I walk. (Do I need to fix that?) The travel world is one of the worst offenders. There are a million brands that make a million travel-hack products that will all end up in a landfill pretty soon. You know what I actually need while traveling? A bag—sometimes a suitcase—and a Dopp kit. |
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