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This new NYC-based book club is getting a lot of attention online this week, and it's not really hard to figure out why. It's because everyone is really into pulp fiction all of a sudden. Can't get enough pulp fiction, everyone was just saying a few minutes ago.
"How were we supposed to know that our little book club would strike such a chord for so many people?" the Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society writes on their blog. "As of this morning, more than 100 websites have written about us, and word keeps spreading." Not bad for a blog with something like 4 posts over a week or so.
Maybe it's because of all the b00bs they've got on display? But that doesn't really make any sense either, does it? There is, literally, an infinite supply of tits on the internet. No end to the tits. Just tits falling out of your computer screen all the time like a guy who just looted a tits store and has them spilling out of his pockets and piled so precariously high into a shopping cart of tits that they keep toppling onto the sidewalk as he wobbles away.
There's a crucial difference here, however. These are incongruous tits. Context is everything, you see. Even when it comes to boners.
Boring old sexualized boobs in all of their myriad internet forms just don't have the same appeal that they used to. But when you parachute those boobs, on little boob-sized parachutes, into a seemingly surprising context, then that reinvigorates their boobly-power. They are born anew in a different light. Naked breasts in the general proximity of books? Now that's something worth unbuttoning your pants for. Or at least unbuttoning your brain. This is, after all, not meant to be pornography. It's meant to be a fun group for people who love books. And hate shirts.
As a person who happens to actually still read books -- in fact they're probably my second or third favorite thing in the world after boobs and football -- I appreciate this group's efforts to, what is it, promote reading? Maybe that's it. It's kind of like the old Oprah's Book Club maxim: it may not always be great literature, but at least it's getting people to talk about books. Although in this case, I must admit, the group's blog has sort of had the opposite effect on me. I just looked at the entire thing and I don't think I remember a single word I read. Could've been all the boobs. Here's how they describe themselves anyway, in case you're still reading:
We’re a group of friends, and friends of friends, and friends of friends of friends, and complete strangers, who love good books and sunny days and enjoying both as nearly in the altogether as the law allows. Happily, in New York City, the law allows toplessness by both men and women. So that’s the way we do our al fresco reading. If you’re in New York and the weather’s good, won’t you join us sometime…?
Wish I could. I would love to "read books" with these girls sometime, if you know what I mean. That's not a euphemism. It doesn't even have to be.
More NSFW pics after the jump.
All of a sudden the old "What book are you reading?" pick-up line seemed a little harder to pull of than usual.
Books or GTFO
I take that last caption back.
Think it's still probably a lot more hygenic to go bare-chested in the city than open-toed.
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6 comments:
Those are shockingly attractive boobs for this sort of thing.
You're not exactly wrong about that.
The boobs + books thing has been pretty well played out already it seems, what with the naked girls reading shit shows that pop up in every city that has books, shows and boobs, but yeah, you’ve got it with the incongruity thing. Still it’s pretty much a yawn. You should post a pic of you shirtless and reading. Right, ladies!?!? (and dudes, right???) We need to take back shirtless reading.
Yeah, but you have to go all the way down to a place and sit there and be a guy who is at a thing where people are reading books naked to experience that whole thing. This is a lot easier, vis a vis lazy.
Hrm. Shirtless Luke reading. I suppose the people want what the people want.
Wait a minute. I was already sort of suspicious of this thing considering that these girls are a little too good looking for the types that normally do this sort of stunt /nomisogyno, but it just occurred to me this is probably some sort of viral marketing thing for the book they're all reading, which just so happens to be coming out soon if I remember correctly.
If so, it's pretty genius. Not that I remember the name of the book, but someone probably does.
That one girl in the glasses in the top photo. Dude.
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