Shh. It’s Breakfast Time

Silent breakfast is a wellness practice that is helping some people cope with the pandemic. “I don’t meditate so I look to other parts of my day to become meditative, including my coffee and breakfast routine,” Nina Zorfass, 30, a New York City resident who works in marketing, wrote in an email. Her technique? Eating breakfast in complete silence.

- NY Times

 

L’heure de jouir

Quarante-cinq minutes de préliminaires avant la pénétration : c’est ce que suggérait aux femmes désireuses d’atteindre l’orgasme Anita Boeninger, une conseillère en santé holistique et spécialiste de la culture orientale.

Anita Boeninger est citée dans le livre Jouir. En quête de l’orgasme féminin, de la journaliste canadienne Sarah Barmak, récemment traduit en français aux éditions Zones. Dans la tradition orientale, écrit Sarah Barmak, « les femmes, qui avaient plus de yin, étaient associées à l’eau : il leur fallait du temps pour s’échauffer, mais aussi pour refroidir ».

- Le Devoir

 

The Montreal Woman Having Sex With Two Men in One Day

A woman tanning naked while working from home and pining for a man she loves but has never had sex with: 33, single, Montreal.

DAY ONE

10 a.m. I invited a guy over for a quickie after we matched on one of the apps last night. When he arrives, I see that he’s cute just like his photo. He’s ten years my junior, with a mischievous smile. We have our way with each other in the living room and then my bedroom.

- The Cut

Shelley Duvall off camera cooking breakfast at the Overlook Hotel

 

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DXXVI)

Welcome to your Halloween edition of 13 Things, not for the faint of heart!

1. The French Werewolf Epidemic (1520-1630) was France’s version of Europe’s witch trials and executions, but with werewolves. For 110 years, 30 thousand people were accused of being werewolves, tortured in exchange for their confessions, or lack of admission of guilt and died at the stake. Of the many examples of accused werewolfery is of Jacques Rollet, dubbed the Werewolf of Chazes. Rollet lured a fifteen-year-old boy to the woods where he murdered and ate his body. When he was tried for his crime, he confessed to having done the same to other locals, specifically employees of the court system such as lawyers and attorneys. Rollet got the death sentence (like pretty much everyone else back then) but ended up in an insane asylum…

- Messy Nessy Chic

 

Portugal - Des surfeurs de l’extrême s’attaquent aux premières vagues géantes

(Lisbonne) Plusieurs surfeurs de l’extrême tentaient jeudi matin de dominer l’énorme houle à Praia do Norte, célèbre spot de Nazaré atteint par les premières vagues géantes de l’automne, dans le centre du Portugal.

- La Presse

 

Requiem for a Dream at 20: Aronofsky's nightmare still haunts

The auteur’s bold and brutal 2000 adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr’s cultish novel about addiction remains an indelible and shocking act of provocation.

I was 17, and just beginning university, when Requiem for a Dream descended on cinemas like an opaque, bruise-blue mist. Notwithstanding the no-under-18s restrictions stamped upon it by stern censors in the UK and elsewhere, I like to think I was the optimal age for it. Darren Aronofsky’s addiction drama may be cross-generational in its focus, but with its unremittingly punishing storytelling and frenzied, all-systems-go cinematic energy, it represents a very young person’s idea of how a very adult film looks, sounds and spasms. 

- The Guardian

 

William Bujold à la recherche de la perle rare

À 26 ans seulement, William Bujold est déjà un pionnier de l’élevage des huîtres au Québec. Premier à commercialiser ce mollusque dans les eaux de la Gaspésie, cet amoureux de la mer compte bien faire déguster l’huître au-delà des fameux mois en « bre ».

- Le Devoir

 

Men Love Sluts: How the Fear of Bigger Penises Fuels Slut-Shaming

Sexual due diligence, penis metrics, dick discernment, and how the sexual shaming of women hurts both sexes.

In 1996 I was eighteen years old and had been a stripper for two years already. I hung out with a group of drug dealers, pimps, professional athletes, and a crew of four other strippers I booked for private dances with some of my rich and famous friends, who I met in the private gentlemen’s club where I worked daily double shifts. I’d been living on my own since I was sixteen years old and pulling in no less than a thousand dollars a day. I was a troubled teenage dropout, a runaway, and one hell of a hustler.

- Medium

 

Japanese Artist Draws Every Meal He’s Eaten for Over 30 Years – Food Is Love

For decades chef Itsuo Kobayashi has been drawing his food diaries, creating a visual record of an enduring love.

- Flashbak

Sped up footage of astronauts jumping and tripping on the surface of the...

Sacha Baron Cohen: This Time He’s Serious

Reviving his Borat character and playing the political activist Abbie Hoffman, the actor feels he “had to ring the alarm bell and say that democracy is in peril this year.”

Borat uses the flower bed in front of the Trump hotel at Columbus Circle as a men’s room.

Sacha Baron Cohen plays the cello and is planning to take some Zoom classes from the masters.

Borat keeps his teenage daughter in a cage. (“Is it nicer than Melania’s cage?” she wonders.) And when he takes her clothes shopping, he asks the saleswoman to direct them to the “No means Yes section.”

Sacha Baron Cohen, who once dreamed of being a chef, loves to cook for his family.

Borat buys a chocolate cake and asks the woman behind the counter to write on top, “Jews will not replace us” in icing — with a smiley face.

Sacha Baron Cohen is an observant Jew who speaks Hebrew and works with the Anti-Defamation League on “Stop Hate for Profit,” a campaign to stem the bile on social media.

- NY Times

 

Ces femmes par qui l’horreur arrive (ou s’achève)

La décennie des années 1970 fut particulièrement féconde en matière de cinéma d’horreur. Entre les diableries de The Exorcist et The Omen, financés à gros frais par Hollywood, des films à petit budget émergèrent de la scène indépendante, tels The Texas Chainsaw Massacre et Halloween, cumulant des recettes tout aussi énormes et confirmant un goût du public pour la peur faite film. L’époque était aux bouleversements, aux changements. La guerre du Vietnam s’enlisait et divisait, le désenchantement politique planait avec un scandale du Watergate en chantier, la seconde vague du féminisme déferlait : autant de sujets qui s’immiscèrent dans le cinéma d’horreur. Durant tout le mois d’octobre, la plateforme Criterion Channel revisite cette période clé du genre en proposant une sélection bigarrée de vingt-neuf films, dont plusieurs portés par des héroïnes bien de leur temps.

- Le Devoir

 

If You Can’t Go Out to the Disco, Bring the Disco to You

It’s exercise! It’s dance! It’s an excuse to throw on a pair of rayon flare pants! As weekends begin to feel somewhat meaningless in a quarantined world, with few faces to see and certainly no place to go, here at MessyNessyChic, we could all use something to look forward to. Nightlife as we know it might be cancelled, but all the more reason to get creative and set up your own family disco night at home. 

- Messy Nessy Chic