A Vast Web of Vengeance

Outrageous lies destroyed Guy Babcock’s online reputation. When he went hunting for their source, what he discovered was worse than he could have imagined.

Guy Babcock vividly remembers the chilly Saturday evening when he discovered the stain on his family. It was September 2018. He, his wife and their young son had just returned to their home in Beckley, an English village outside of Oxford. Mr. Babcock still had his coat on when he got a frantic call from his father.

“I don’t want to upset you, but there is some bad stuff on the internet,” Mr. Babcock recalled his father saying. Someone, somewhere, had written terrible things online about Guy Babcock and his brother, and members of their 86-year-old father’s social club had alerted him.

- NY Times

 

The joys of being an absolute beginner – for life

The phrase ‘adult beginner’ can sound patronising. It implies you are learning something you should have mastered as a child. But learning is not just for the young.

One day a number of years ago, I was deep into a game of draughts on holiday with my daughter, then almost four, in the small library of a beachfront town. Her eye drifted to a nearby table, where a black-and-white board bristled with far more interesting figures (many a future chess master has been innocently drawn in by “horses” and “castles”). “What’s that?” she asked. “Chess,” I replied. “Can we play?” she pleaded. I nodded absently. There was just one problem: I didn’t know how. 

- The Guardian

 

Anton Chekhov Lists 8 Qualities of Civilised People

“You are cultured and intelligent, Ivan, and you surely understand that the world is not destroyed by villains and conflagrations, but by hate and malice and all this spiteful tattling. It is your duty to make peace, and not to growl at everything.” — Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya

- Flashbak

 

The America We Lost: Fascinating Found Photos Show How Life Of The US Looked Like In The 1960s

The 1960s were a decade of revolution and change in politics, music and society around the world. It started in the United States and the United Kingdom, and spread to continental Europe and other parts of the globe. These fascinating photos were found by Dean Avants that shows how life of the United States looked like in the 1960s.

- Design you Trust

 

Le dernier voyage de Jack Kerouac au Québec enfin raconté

Août 1967. Jack Kerouac, alors âgé de 45 ans, est au bout du rouleau. Alcoolique et fatigué, il n’est plus que l’ombre du jeune écrivain qui a atteint la gloire littéraire avec la publication de son célèbre Sur la route (Gallimard), 10 ans plus tôt.

Mais la pulsion de vie qui bat en lui est forte et le pousse, dans un ultime sursaut, deux ans avant sa mort, à prendre la route et à quitter Lowell, sa ville natale, où il est retourné vivre quelques mois auparavant, pour se rendre au Québec, pays de ses ancêtres, y vivre son tout dernier road trip, sa dernière plongée dans les tripes de son Amérique.

- Le Devoir

 

Too Full to F - - - You can’t always make room for a dick.

For straight couples, there is one key difference be­tween sex for the male and for the female: a woman gets a penis inserted into her while a man gets to insert his penis into someone else. That’s all nice and good. Sex is pleasurable for both genders. But from what I’ve discovered, only one gender has to save room in her body if a penis is to go into it — mean­ing that sometimes, if you’ve eaten a hearty meal, there isn’t enough room for a penis.

- The Cut

 

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Hottest And Most Grooviest Photos From The Past That Will Redefine Your Style Statement

A pictorial celebration of the coolest kids from the past… From beatniks to bikers, mods to rude boys, hippies to ravers. And everything in between. These are images that will set your soul on fire. Get ready to get a style check.

- Design you Trust

 

Life Lessons from a 97-Year-Old Lobsterman

John Olson has been on the water for nine decades—and he's still working.

If the definition of a true outdoorsman is spending more of your life braving the elements than seeking shelter from them, lobsterman John Olson may be the finest example alive.

- Outside

Our ‘Lost’ Weekend With Van Halen A couple college dudes won an MTV contest to tour with Van Halen. Then all hell broke loose

On an overcast morning in the spring of 1984, Kurt Jefferis and Tom Winnick, a couple of college-age bros of no particular renown, departed the world of normalcy in a stretch limousine to embark on a rock-and-roll fantasy. Their destination: Detroit. More accurately: oblivion. Jefferis, a 20-year-old department-store stock clerk, had bested more than a million other competitors to win the MTV contest “Lost Weekend With Van Halen.” He and his plus-one, Winnick, a childhood buddy, would in a matter of hours find themselves backstage with the legendarily hard-partying Atomic Punks on a two-day bender that ticked every box of rock debauchery synonymous with the Big Hair era. 

- Vulture

 

Erika Lust: ‘Women want to try porn. But it’s not for us.’ Meet the filmmaker who’s leading a feminist revolution

Erika Lust is taking on the misogynistic world of porn. The female gaze matters, she tells Emily Sheffield.

It’s a blustery Tuesday evening and I am upstairs at the Groucho Club in Soho turning blindly in circles, watching numerous beautiful people having sex: group sex, masturbation, spanking… It’s elegantly shot and certainly erotic, but at the same time I am trying to avoid bumping into the bar or anyone else around me.

- Evening Standard

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Michel Simon dans un musée du sexe ?

Tout ce qui touche au sexe, l’acteur Michel Simon l’achète. En parallèle, il fait des photos explicites, annotées de petits textes obscènes, maintenant publiées sous le titre : “L’Album pornographique de Michel Simon”. La part cachée du monstre… sacré ?

- Libération