Cultivons l’érotisme

Allez, osons. Quoi de mieux pour contrer la grisaille (la glaciation !) ambiante, relâcher un peu la tension (et la polarisation) de ce mois de février mollo aux airs de marmotte que de se concentrer enfin sur nos plus bas instincts. Rien que pour vous (et nous !), décortiquons l’érotisme, ce langage à la fois unique, culturel et subjectif, à la limite indéfinissable, évanescent et terriblement excitant.

- La Presse

 

The Tao of Wee Man

His world was radically altered by “Jackass.” But now, Jason Acuña has harnessed his fame to live the life of his dreams.

- NY Times

 

Photos that capture the dark, seedy underbelly of 1960s Hamburg

Wedged on Hamburg’s infamous Reeperbahn, in the thick of the city’s Red Light District, Cafe Lehmitz once stood as a raucous, no-frills dive bar. Surrounded by over 25 brothels, open around the clock, it was a late-night playground for local working people; home to a family of misfits. “The music was good,” Anders Petersen says softly. “The people were very kind… It was a very special place.” 

- Dazed

 

People Tell Us About Their Dating App Nightmares

We asked a bunch of people to recount their creepiest, weirdest and worst dating app nightmares. May their experiences serve as a reminder that while social media is a toxic, troll-filled space, dating apps may sometimes just be worse. 

Or, you know, reassure you that it’s okay to run into a couple of weirdos as you swipe your way to true love. Some of the names have been changed upon request because these folks requested privacy while delving into their sex lives and their weird, weird dates.

- Vice

 

The Spine Collector

For years, a mysterious figure has been stealing books before their release. Is it espionage? Revenge? Or a complete waste of time?

On the morning of March 1, 2017, Catherine Mörk and Linda Altrov Berg were in the offices of Norstedts, a book publisher in Sweden, when they received an unusual email. A colleague in Venice was asking for a top-secret document: the unpublished manuscript of the forth-coming fifth book in Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” series. The books, which follow hacker detective Lisbeth Salander, have sold more than 100 million copies. David Lagercrantz, another Swedish writer, had taken over the series after Larsson’s death, and his latest — The Man Who Chased His Shadow — was expected to be one of the publishing events of the year.

- Vulture

 

The Boys Who Ran Away from Home on a 747

In “Nothing to Declare,” two friends reminisce about stowing away on an international flight when they were just kids, and how parenting has changed since the nineteen-eighties.

- The New Yorker

 

50 Things You Probably Never Knew Existed Shared By “Yup That Exists” Instagram Page

If you ever feel like you’ve seen it all, done it all, bought it all, then you clearly haven’t spent enough time on the internet. We might spend way more time online than your average Panda, but even we get surprised by some of the things we stumble across.

- Bored Panda