Glibertarians.com 2017 Archive

Tag: Beefy

  • Manly Monday

    Sugar Free sent this my way, but don’t let that scare you off: “Romance novel cover model wanted in Connecticut robberies is arrested in San Diego” David Byers (mildly NSFW) of the (very ritzy, I’ve been there) Solana Beach, CA has apparently been robbing banks (three of them! or one of them twice the story seems muddled) and a gas station in…Greenwich, CT. As far as I can tell he started his life of crime in SD when he stole a rowing machine from his apartment complex gym. Honestly, I’m thinking Zoolander sequel: male Instagram models gone rogue while Derek and friends overcome their increasing irrelevance at the democratization of beauty and save the day. Anyway, Byers randomly resurfaced in NY, PA and AZ before making it back to San Diego where he was driving around applying for jobs while driving a stolen vehicle and of course because he’s a model, he was arrested shirtless (autoplay video warning).

    Something SFW, and something less SFW. Now don’t get me wrong, I would, without question, stick it in crazy in this case, but only with an assumed name and at a hotel. One doesn’t want crazy following one home.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BHvun0DDkFW/?hl=en

    A SFW example of his professional work (though unless the story is about a closet case with a girlfriend, his photo doesn’t really fit the title).

    When SF sent this my way, the fact that he was a Michael Stokes (mNSFW: man butt and implied nudity) model immediately pinged something in the back of my brain. When I saw the guy’s pictures I realized immediately what it was. Stokes has a type (muscles, bad tattoos) and a style (shiny, bold, uncanny use of HDR) that’s very distinctive and a few years back he did a series–and companion coffee table book–on Veterans who had lost limbs while serving, which began with him shooting Alex Minsky. This launched Minsky’s career as an underwear model, and also a fully clothed model who cleans up well, but where’s the fun in that? The Daily Mail has some fine examples from the book. There’s also a 2017 calendar…because of course there is.

  • Manly Monday

    Some links mildly NSFW*

    I have it on good authority the that snow is melting rapidly on the SoCal ski slopes, but before it does I figured I’d get in a crack about biathletes. I figure everyone here can get behind a sport comprised of skiing and shooting things AND as a National Siblings Day bonus we have the Fourcade brothers. Now Martin is ostensibly the better biathlete, and he’s not hard on the eyes either, but I’d let Simon eat crackers in bed. He’s got a great body, likes to show off (I dare not do more than happy baby on a paddleboard), is very photogenic and knows it. He balances goofy and sexpot with aplomb, much like other jesse.in.mb favorite Chris Pratt. It doesn’t hurt that he’s perfectly happy to bare dat ass.

    I’m not sure why, but he was photographed twice for the Dieux Du Stade calendar, this year (see link for “aplomb”) and in 2015 where he posed on a 55 gallon drum (because Santa came early…and so did jesse.in.mb).

    *Specifically biathletes (woman) and shooting (women), sexpot (man), aplomb (man), dat ass (man) and 55 gallon drum (man).

     

  • Manly Monday

    Work has the better of me so I’m going to keep the analytics you don’t read anyway short and get to the video of strong men picking things up, setting them down in slightly different places, hugging, and ripping each others’ shirts off. Bonus points for those who find burly fellows attractive, one of the men is Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, aka The Mountain, who is not only strong, but adorable. The other is British strongman Eddie Hall who is large in a way I find somewhat unappealing, but the man is impressive both in picking things up and putting them down again in slightly different places, but also swimming.

    Warty sent me a link to a paywalled video of this event which is much better, but–you know–paywalled, so you’ll have to make do with the potato-quality one here. I highly recommend watching to the end:

     

  • 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.

  • 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.

     

  • 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.