Glibertarians.com 2017 Archive

Author: jesse.in.mb

  • Manly Monday

    So, I probably won’t be around when Manly Monday goes live this week. Most likely I’ll be passed out cold in a Tel Aviv hostel. Since I’m a bit jet-lagged (I assume), so I’m going to go with an easy win.

    Ben. Fucking. Cohen.

    Ben Cohen is a sexy former rugby player who founded the anti-bullying StandUp Foundation and a leaked jack off video, which I will let you google for yourself. Anyway, without further ado, here are a bunch of pictures of the very sexy Ben Cohen. If someone wants to invite Kaptious Kristen over now would be the time. 

     

    Also if you need calendar, Ben Cohen has you covered.

  • Fur Fridays

    Once upon a time I was visiting the Andong Hahoe Folk Village (안동 하회마을) in Korea. One of the interesting features is a garden full of carved tree stumps in phallic figures. Now dicks have been a good luck charm in cultures the world over. Or at least as a decorative embellishment (see picture to the right). Often dick art is whimsical and Andong is no exception.

    A sake serving set (Enoshima, Japan)

    Other Korean towns have tales to explain their dick-totems. But unfortunately I don’t know if Hahoe Village does or if it’s just a fun way to pass the time when you have a bunch of tree stumps around. I’ve included a few examples below. So about now you might be wondering why this is showing up in Fur Fridays, no?

    Never let your mother cut your hair
    Female tree with penis knees

    The short version is that I’d planned on doing a Fir Fridays joke and post a bunch of trees (maybe some upskirt shots), but I realized that that probably wouldn’t be that entertaining, then got distracted by a McSweeny’s column about romantic entanglements with a sycamore tree, and then realized I had pictures of me stroking a giant wooden dick carved for good luck, so here we are…reminiscing about that time I walked a dick forest in a historical village outside a small town in The Republic of Korea.

    And of course, for those of you with less…ecumenical tastes in wooden genitals, here’s a thing I found when searching for sexy lumberjack pictures (safe for work, but you might get funny looks).

     

    The author, c. 2007 with much less beard

  • Manly Monday

    Sad news from Manly Mondays: due to hard demographic numbers, I’ve been “encouraged” to include more Canadian friendly content. I have also been told that we cannot link to well-looped gifs from Kristen Bjorn’s RCMP-themed 1992 classic adult film Call of the Wild “starring 11 hot French Canadian men”

    So instead I’ll talk about the next most masculine thing I can think of Canadians doing–CURLING.

    A quick google search has taught me absolutely nothing about the sport but I am enamored with the adorkable, and unfortunately fauxhawked, Mike McEwen, who had a tasteful spot wearing very little in 2014’s (apparently one off for some reason) Men of Curling charity calendar. If you track it down you can use it again in 2025.

    And just to prove that he plays a sport here’s an action shot:

  • Fur Fridays

    So looking for fodder for other Fur Friday posts I ended up on PETA’s Instagram feed. Mostly because I was looking for a Creative Commons license variant of their Bare Skin not Bear Skin featuring New BSG’s Jamie Bamber which makes me feel funny in my bikini zone. PETA regardless of your opinion (which I assume is quite strong whatever it is, dear Glibertarians) is REALLY good at drawing eyeballs to their cause particularly with barely covered ladies and clever plays on expectations. I will spare you an in-line link to a video where a ginger lass with pert tits is interspliced liberally with cows being inseminated by a very long metal rod (don’t get play and you’ll get all you need from it).

    What really surprised me was how often people dressed in )not high enough quality to really be) fursuits shows up on their instagram feed

    For instance, Pam Anderson and her friends wearing animal costumes reminiscent of uncanny vintage Halloween costumes:

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BOj-awTh-Av/

    Although some of them clearly put in more effort than others:

    https://www.instagram.com/p/5Eya8DN8sO/

    And they’ve even had a celebrity pose for something for Mr. Lizard:

    https://www.instagram.com/p/-MSsMnt8s7/

    And with that, I hope you all have a good weekend. Oh and just in case next week HM takes the day over for Fetish Fridays, I’ll give you all a soft transition

  • Manly Monday

    Anyone who has done yoga, stepped on a cardio machine at the gym, or flipped a tractor tire over repeatedly at CrossFit owes a nod to Physical Culture. The idea had bubbled up previously but began coming together as a movement in the mid-1800s as people realized that sitting at a desk all day probably wasn’t that good for you. Because 19th century Europe, all of this got tied in fairly neatly with nationalism and we’ve never quite escaped a sense that the physical fitness of the people is a reflection of the health of the nation. Physical Culture and the various ways it’s been en vogue or out of fashion for the past ~175 years is fascinating and you can learn more from Dr. Warty’s paired courses “Physical Culture: an anthropology of manly strength and nations at war” T, Th 8-10am and “Squat more, fleshy thing, I am disgusted by your weakness” M, W, F at the same time. Or of course you can check Wikipedia for the ultra abbreviated version or The Art of Manliness for a sweeping gloss of the issue.

    One of Mizer’s models

    Because it’s Manly Mondays, we’re mostly here for the skin and so we turn to the case of Bob Mizer. Mizer was a Los Angeles based photographer with ready access to the burgeoning muscle culture of Muscle Beach in Santa Monica in the mid-1940s. He founded the Athletic Model Guild, which published Physique Pictorial one of the earliest beefcake magazines of the post-war period. By the mid-1950s the implication of nudity under the posing pouches he was using on his models had drawn the ire of the USPS and he was charged with obscenity and did a 9 months stint in a work camp. The obscenity charge only served to make him more well known and he became a primary source for photographic records of muscle culture in Santa Monica/Venice Beach through the ’60s and ’70s. You’ve potentially seen some of his art with old photos of the Governator showing off.

    Unforutantely for you all, copyright is a strange beast and I’d prefer not to get trampled under foot, so I’m just going to send you looking elsewhere including a fairly Safe For Work Bob Mizer Foundation Kickstarter campaign from 2012 to help raise money for properly archiving some of Mizer’s work. The less safe for work, but safer-than-a-Mapplethorpe-exhibition, galleries hosted by the Bob Mizer Foundation, and of course potentially NSFW depending on your Safe Search settings: GIS or Bing Images.

    Also bonus footage from Muscle Beach back in the 1950s heyday that has nothing to do with Mizer, but is part of his milieu.

     

  • Fur Fridays

    He didn’t even have to shave this morning

    This week saw the sale of furry bit of history at auction: a glass disc containing a sample of Dr. Alexander Fleming’s original penicillin.The final sale was $14,600, which seems astonishing considering Fleming was a shameless self promoter. According to the AP:

    The Scottish-born doctor likely made at least dozens of such mold mementos, derived from his original sample of the fungus.

    and

    [Matthew Haley, director of books and manuscripts at the auction house Bonham’s,] noted that other bits of mold were given to Pope Pius XII, Winston Churchill and Marlene Dietrich, perhaps in an effort to cement Fleming’s legacy as the discoverer of penicillin in 1928.

    Sounds a bit like splinters of the one true cross for the modern age. Hats off to the hairy scientific discovery that ushered in a new age of medicine and all that.

    Example of a Fleming mold disc with usage rights we could afford.

     

    I know you’re all disappointed that this link isn’t full of naked otters (work unfriendly) or something like that.

  • Manly Monday

    When talking manliness our thoughts invariably wander to Clint Eastwood. He has been a paragon of Hollywood masculinity since well before I was born and has aged into a codgery reminder of bygone values of self-reliance and grim determination. What some of you might not know is that he has a son (one of several children with…several women), who wants to be a leading man, just like his father.

    Scott Eastwood has decidedly hitched his wagon to his father’s rugged good looks and manly charms. In 2013 he did a photo shoot for Town & Country, which had him perfectly coiffed and done up maximally preppy on a yacht off the coast of Newport, CA, channeling the very model of Ivy League elitism paired with the text

    People assumed that I would have everything handed to me, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. I was on my own just doing the grind.

    One wonders how true that is, considering one of his earliest credited roles was Gran Torino and profiles frequently (if not universally) refer to him as Clint Eastwood’s son. Since 2013 there has been a concerted effort to make Scott Eastwood happen. Movie and TV roles, modeling gigs, an Instagram account that gets linked by gossip rags whenever he shows up shirtless, and codgery co-interviews with Clint discussing the pussy generation (a fun brouhaha to read about), but while he inherited many of his father’s features, it remains to be seen if he can pull off his father’s gravitas or effortless machismo.

    To quote The Streets “Yeah yeah like I said you are really fit/But my gosh don’t you just know it.” Regardless, he’s handsome, a bit of a ham in a way that walks a fine line between adorably goofy and overly packaged, and I’d undeniably hit it like the fist of an angry god if I had the opportunity.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/dgibeoksjR/?hl=en

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BNTl7tGBxup/?hl=en

    Never say I’m not benevolent.

  • Sunday Evening Links: Tiny Golden Idol Edition

    All right folks, it’s Sunday night and you need bread and circuses. If we are not carby or creepy enough for you Hollywood has you covered. First (through n) gay joke about me covering the Oscars gets cat buttholed by SugarFree (or not, as is his wont).

    The Golden Horde
    • Oscar night is upon us. You can stream them here or on the ABC app, or, you know tune in to ABC on your telemajigger. Full list of nominees here.* Huh, I’ve only seen Kubo and the Two Strings. I should probably get at least Moonlight under my belt before the night is through.
    • Speaking of entertainment…the grim reaper has come for both Bill Paxton* and Judge Joseph Wapner. OMWC demands I link this
    • Mix up an Oscar night party snack of Buffalo chicken dip a recipe from the .in.mb family seat in Western NY. Your friends didn’t want to be svelte and long-lived anyway, did they?
    • Some of you might prefer the printed word to the movie, Amazon has you covered with a sale on books that got turned into movies.

    *Notes autoplay video after the link. You’ve been warned *looks pointedly at Ted*

  • Fur Fridays

    A decade before her father became POTUS, Ivanka hit the town wearing an extended chinchilla family and Jezebel noticed (click through for some vintage Jezebel comments). More recently The Daily Mail tells us that PETA blasted her for using real rabbit fur for the pom-pom on a cable knit cap available for $22.97 at Nordstrom Rack (originally $45 at Nordstrom’s non-outlet locations). The Daily Mail also notes:

    Fur may be murder but it looks warm

    And while this particular piece does feature a ‘genuine rabbit fur’ pompom, the vast majority of Ivanka’s line is made with animal-friendly faux fur.

    Well at least there’s that!

    Who wore it best?

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Congrats everyone you survived the inaugural Fur Friday! Come back next week for scantily clad PETA models, furries, bears or pictures of me doing barely-dressed mold remediation. The possibilities are ENDLESS.

  • Manly Mondays: Just like Thicc Thursdays, except totally different

    Since it’s the first (hopefully of many) Manly Mondays, I bring you original content!

    Value-added background beef
    However it may appear this is not the bouquet toss at a gay wedding

    Scottish Fest USA is the long-running Highland Games + cultural festival at the Orange County Fairground that brings together manly men of all backgrounds together to pick up heavy things and subsequently throw those heavy things, all while wearing a skirt. Afterwards, fried things are eaten and beer is consumed.

    Scottish Fest 2017 is May 27-28. Check it out if you’re in the area and want to try Irn-Bru, eat foods guaranteed to cause a cardiovascular event or stare at thighs that look like cabers.