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It Me
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The Black Bonnie and Clyde
Really enjoyed “Queen & Slim.” A black “Bonnie and Clyde.” Gorgeously shot and perfectly styled. Uncle Earl and his girls offer a New Orleans highlight. Will they live or die? You’ve got to watch to find out.
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The Rider
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I got back into horseback riding in December 2019. Initially, it was about confidence, but then I started to realize it’s really more about trust. Trusting the horse. Trusting the trainer. Trusting yourself. Eventually, if you’re steering a 1,600-pound horse towards a jump, you better trust that you’ll make it to the other side.
(The image above isn’t me, but I took it at a horse show today.)
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Where the Girls Entertain
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Looking to buy a strip club? Look no further than this LinkedIn post. It offers a “Profitable Adult Topless Club” for sale in “Big Texas City, TX.” For $850K, you get 3,500 square feet of “Topless with Full Alcohol Club.” Gross sales were either $780K or $790K last year — it’s not entirely clear. To buy, you’ll need to put a mere 5% down, and if you want to know more, well, you’ve got to sign a nondisclosure agreement.
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Pariah
This Sonny Liston documentary on Showtime is terrific. It’s based on a book by Shaun Assael. From a sharecropping family to the boxing ring to the Las Vegas mob, it seems Liston never had a chance.
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Just Say No to Bloomberg
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I Get Email
Hello Ms. Breslin,
I just finished reading your blog (I know I’m three years late), and I too thought I was the only one who didn’t enjoy the new Wonder Woman movie. I wholeheartedly agree that her character is extremely lacking in dimension, and I find the plot tiresome and predictable. However, I disagree with something you said in the post, though I may be misinterpreting your meaning. To quote you directly, you wrote “I get it. I'm not supposed to expect that from a superhero movie. Wonder Woman is a cartoon. She is a caricature. She is by her very nature not complex. Literally, she is flat, two-dimensional, nothing more than a symbol.” but I think this may be too harsh a judgement of the superhero genre. Despite the fact that women in early comics were incredibly one dimensional, I think the superhero genre has grown in leaps and bounds over the decades, but continues to be overlooked and discredited by most serious critics, and honestly most adults in general. Wonder Woman and other early woman heroines may have begun as, like you say, caricatures of women and as heroes, but I believe that this is no longer the case, and it is only the result of poor writing that casts them in this light. The writers of this screenplay chose to tell a bland, dimensionless story, when they could have followed the lead of modern comic writers and created a strong and inspiring narrative based around a well rounded character. Please don’t discredit her character completely, as she has much potential that is being wasted on cheap, make-a-buck writing tactics.
Sincerely, [redacted]
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The Intimacy Coordinator
The latest episode of “High Maintenance” on HBO has a terrific story line involving an intimacy coordinator and how she navigates coordinating intimacy in her personal life when she encounters someone with unique intimacy needs. Instead of being played for laughs, it’s a lovely depiction of the ballet of romantic seduction.
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i want to become pornstar...... and I'm ready to sell my body for money [redacted] is my number please contact me
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That Car Guy
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I never read car reviews unless I’m shopping for one, with one exception: If it’s written by the WSJ’s Dan Neil. He’s fantastic. The Pete Wells of petrol. His latest is a playful homage / send up of the 2020 Mercedes-AMG G 63. You know, the G-Wagen. Here’s one great line: “The G 63 is a flaming beacon of vice, a rolling, trolling lighthouse of petrosexuality.” Here’s another: “Soon after, the G-Wagen became an action-film cliché, typecast globally as embodying nihilism and up-armored criminality.” Terrific stuff. A really great critic celebrates something as he defenestrates it, analyses the thing as he mocks the critical task itself. Want the wagon? It starts at $156,450.
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NoHo
My Mind's a Cathedral
What if every memory you ever had ended up in a file in your head? Would you be a cathedral? Or a filing cabinet? A great scene from “Doctor Sleep.”
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What She Told Tony
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The Golden Beaver
On Twitter, I offered up an entrepreneurial question. Hypothetically, were I to open a strip club where all the dancers were 50+, what would I call it? The contenders were COUGARS, OLD MAIDS, and THE GOLDEN BEAVER. To little surprise, the winner is: THE GOLDEN BEAVER. In theory, all dancers would keep 100% of their earnings, the house moms would also be financial advisors, and Jennifer Lopez would be the headliner. Think I’m kidding? Given that MILF is the #4 most-searched-for term on Pornhub, this model was built to scale.
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I Get Email
I have been searching for my true passion and I still havent gotten anywhere. I'm trying out rapping right now. I want to know how you found yourself or figured out who you are? Im so lost just looking for the light at the end. I'm living for now just not as good as I can be.
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Spike
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After 14 rejections and years of submissions, “Spike,” a short story I wrote about a male porn star with a penis problem, found a home with Bending Genres. You can read it online here. The moral of the story — my story, that is, not the fiction story — is never quit.
Tripp Towers, male porn star, sat on the bench, his penis in his hand. It was late afternoon, and his dick had been hard since that morning, when he’d injected it with the drug so he could get it up and get through the performance that he was about to do in the next room.
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Me Every Morning
“No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.”
— Francis Bacon
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The Better President
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