Blowhard, Esq. writes:
- When American suburban princess culture meets a beta male father. NPR listener that he no doubt is, you’d think he’d be more cognizant of the history of African colonialism.
- I wonder how many elementary school-aged girls stare forlornly at the American presidents while sighing over their oppression.
- The city of Santa Monica hired some chic designers to create some new bus shelters and, surprise, the public hates them. Typical, right? Designers designing for other designers, and looking to win awards, as opposed to creating things for the people who will actually use them.
- When starchitects design parks the results are predictably constipated and hyper-controlling.
- L.A. might be getting a new contemporary art museum. Looks like someone is trying to disassemble a cardboard box.
- Some DC cops refuse to let a guy take pictures of ugly government buildings. If this attitude spreads, there go half my blog posts.
- Inside North Korea’s hidden car culture. I reviewed a bunch of books about the country here.
- Lloyd on director Victor Fleming, the man behind THE WIZARD OF OZ and GONE WITH THE WIND. Lloyd also takes a look at Bergman’s PERSONA.
- Cinemax is getting in the prestige TV biz in an attempt to distance itself from it’s 90s “Skinemax” notoriety. I guess in the age of plentiful and easily-acquired porn their rebranding makes sense, but I still think it’s too bad. Isn’t there enough prestige TV already? Shouldn’t there be room for softcore steaminess?
- Men: is shaving cream unnecessary?
- Gratuitous Redhead Du Jour:
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gra·tu·i·tous
grəˈt(y)o͞oitəs/
adjective
uncalled for; lacking good reason; unwarranted.
synonyms: unjustified, uncalled for, unwarranted, unprovoked, undue.
I think not.
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Totally true about shaving cream. Soap and water is just fine. Never tried oil like in that article. Going to give that a go.
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Shaving cream helps you keep track of where you are on your face. But outside of that, it has no function. I often go for months using only soap and water. And, as one of the commenters to that article noted, deodorant is also pointless — although not for the complicated reasons stated. It’s just pointless.
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Everything Faze just said.
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I’ve tried all the “real man” alternatives to shaving cream, and thus far they’ve all been shite. Pine tar soap has probably come the closest as an alternative solution.
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