Hot on the heels (and we do mean hot!) of an unseasonably warm December, here it’s early April and the mercury is already hitting 80 degrees. Ample reason to kick off our new season of topless sojourns in the sun a bit earlier than normal.
And if that weren’t enough reason (and it would be, believe me), starting early also gave us a chance to visit Central Park in the company of one of the nicest, most interesting people on the planet, the video blogger-diarist-documentarian known on YouTube as Beckie0, who is briefly in town from her native England. Hats off to Becca (though for much of the day she sensibly and stylishly kept hers on) for being brave enough to taste the New York sun in our company.
And what of the rest of us? Well, we met some new friends and cracked open some new books (including — thank you Hard Case Crime! — early advance copies of new novels by Stephen King and Elissa Wald), discussed the merits of Dr. Who and Benedict Cumberbatch and whether Wallace Shawn is or isn’t adorable, debated the definitions of “dialectic” and “apogee,” ate miniature cupcakes before they melted in the sun, and best of all, felt the sun — glorious, radiant, blessed sun! — on our Vitamin D-starved bare skin. Do our nipples look hard in some of these pictures? That’s just them straining heliotropically toward the sun.
More, please! More more more more more. It’s going to be a fine summer, and with any luck, a long one.
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Global warming sucks, but you guys are awesome. BTW I’m curious about what you think of Femen and the situation with the Tunisian woman Amina. I think it’s interesting that topfreedom is (maybe) being taken seriously as a political issue.
It’s horrifying to think that in 2013 a woman could be in danger of physical assault or worse just because she chose to uncover her chest. We’re so fortunate to live in New York, in the U.S.; in the 21st century rather than the Dark Ages.
Hooray for spring!
Just this past week I highlighted you folks on my blog–great to see you’re back in action!
Thanks, Mike!
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It seems to be fun time in Central Park.I wish I was there.
The most beautiful ‘flowers’ come out in the Spring! Here’s to many more such wonderful days.
« There are in French two words for “future” which cannot be adequately rendered in English: futur and avenir. Futur stands for future as the continuation of the present, as the full actualization of the tendencies which are already here, while avenir points more towards a radical break, a discontinuity with the present—avenir is what is to come /a venir/, not just what will be. (…) We can see here how ambiguous the slogan “no future” is: at a deeper level, it does not designate the closure, the impossibility of change, but what we should be striving for—to break the hold of the catastrophic “future” over up and thereby open up the space for something New “to come.”»
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Slavoj Žižek (“The Year of Dreaming Dangerously”, 2012)
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… With lots of kisses ( from a french friend who wishes you the best 😉
Spectacular boobies! Thanks for showing them off.
Thank you for these lovely images from the avenir. Metadata say “june 18, 2013”. And your park looks like the People’s Garden near my home. Alas, in Tianjin (China, not far from Beijing), people are not allowed to wander outdoor topless (men and women alike) except while working (no guardian of public peace would dare to enter a building site for so futile reason) . Have a happy spring.
It’s great to see strong young women standing up for their rights.