18 mars 2021
How ‘Lolita’ Escaped Obscenity Laws and Cancel Culture
My father, John Mortimer, brought me up to believe that you can be a good person and kill someone and a perfectly awful person who never gets so much as a parking ticket your whole life. It’s an education I’m proud of. He was an author and a criminal defense barrister — in his words, “the only playwright ever to have defended a murderer in the central criminal court at the Old Bailey” — and his prowess in both professions rode on his ability to see past easy morality and to respect the fact that the truth is never one-sided and therefore art should not be, either.
- NY Times
13 mars 2021
Sex Tapes, Hush Money, and Hollywood’s Economy of Secrets
Meet Kevin Blatt, the celebrity fixer who’s a master at shepherding compromising material off the internet—or into the hands of the highest bidder.
In 2018, Amber landed a job at Public Storage. The gig involved overseeing auctions for the stuff left behind in unpaid storage units. Speculators could, if lucky, quadruple their money by flipping the contents. Two months into lockdown, Vinson was combing through stuff he’d bought in previous auctions and hadn’t sold yet. He found an old Blackberry and fired it up. There, he saw photos of an engagement ring, then a funeral, and then, was that a naked woman? He looked closer. Yes, it was a naked woman; it was a famous naked woman, strutting around, and giving a blow job to a famous naked man, in a series of short video clips.
- Wired
Forbidden and Filthy Love Letters of Yore
The chances of most of us receiving an actual love letter this year are slim to none. These days, text messaging and multiple social media platforms have seen to it that emojis come before real emotions, but today we’d like to pay tribute to hand-written romance as it becomes increasingly rare. With any luck, it might just inspire some of us to put pen to paper. From the forbidden to the filthy, these are best of a lost art…
- Messy Nessy Chic
11 mars 2021
This hanging hotel in Peru isn't for the faint-hearted
Vertigo alert! This hanging lodge hotel, Natura Vive Skylodge, located in the Cusco region of Peru, offers incredible views over the valley below. You can only reach the accommodation by climbing, hiking and zip wire, but it's definitely worth the effort.
- euronews
These Jell-O molds are actually LAMPS!!!
Elrod’s Mexakitsch art may look like dishes from another era but don’t try to eat them, because they’re really centerpieces that LIGHT UP!! She uses resin, glitter, and fake foods to create these absolutely stunning midcentury-inspired masterpieces!!
- Peewee.com
9 mars 2021
People Literally Don’t Know When to Shut Up—or Keep Talking—Science Confirms
We are really bad at navigating a key transition point during one of the most basic social interactions.
One evening Adam Mastroianni was reluctantly putting on his bow tie for yet another black-tie party at the University of Oxford that he had no interest in attending. Inevitably, Mastroianni, then a master’s student in psychology at the university, knew that he would wind up stuck in some endless conversation that he did not want with no way to politely extricate himself. Even worse, he suddenly realized, he might unknowingly be the one to perpetuate unwanted conversation traps for others. “What if both people are thinking exactly the same thing, but we’re both stuck because we can’t move on when we’re really done?” he wondered.
- Scientific American
22 févr. 2021
La joyeuse démesure de Gab Paquet
Avec sa coupe Longueuil et son personnage de crooner kitsch directement sorti des années 80, Gab Paquet se fait de plus en plus d’adeptes. Nous avons discuté avec le chanteur de Québec de son nouvel album, La force d’Éros, mais aussi de démesure et d’amour universel.
- La Presse
Preparing for “Yardi Gras” in New Orleans
Most of the traditional Mardi Gras activities in New Orleans have been canceled this year because of the ongoing pandemic. But locals have spent their time and effort working on safe alternative celebrations to keep the spirit of Carnival alive—including the decoration of hundreds of houses in the style of Mardi Gras floats. The Krewe of House Floats has worked with people across the city and is listing participants on a map. Gathered below are a handful of images of this year’s socially distant “Yardi Gras,” as New Orleanians prepare for Mardi Gras.
- The Atlantis
18 févr. 2021
FOUND PHOTOS OF PEOPLE KISSING FROM ACROSS THE 20TH CENTURY
- Another Man
14 févr. 2021
Jamais deux sans trois
Et si le modèle unique du couple monogame, exclusif, je-me-toi-nous, était aux soins intensifs lui aussi ? Manque d’oxygène, bas les masques, désir en panne, la débandade intime. Un tabou, certes, mais saluons les efforts d’un nombre croissant de valeureux pour secouer la dyade pérenne, même si cela complique les Saint-Valentin.
Le libertinage n’est pas né d’hier, mais une tendance semble vouloir s’incruster, surtout chez les millénariaux, celle des relations non monogames consensuelles (NMC). Le dernier mot est important. Si c’est bon pour pôpa, c’est bon pour môman.
- Le Devoir
11 févr. 2021
En Corse, la double vie de Cathy la « matonne »
Surveillante de la prison de Borgo, en Corse, elle était fascinée par l’univers du banditisme. Cathy Sénéchal est aujourd’hui accusée d’avoir contribué, par un baiser, à l’assassinat de deux figures du milieu, à l’aéroport de Bastia, en décembre 2017.
De loin, à l’oreille, ils reconnaissaient son pas, son tour de clé, son parfum parfois : en prison, on s’attache à des détails auxquels, à l’air libre, on prête peu attention. Bien avant d’apercevoir le pantalon bleu nuit et le pull à barrettes de l’administration pénitentiaire, avant d’entendre l’accent de pinzuta (« continentale ») de Cathy Sénéchal ou de voir ses longs cheveux noirs, les détenus du centre pénitentiaire de Borgo, au sud de Bastia, savaient, de leur cellule, si c’était elle ou un autre surveillant qui arpentait le couloir ou prenait sa garde. « Salute, o Cathy ! »
- Le Monde