Thursday, April 30, 2026

Pictures of Beautiful Women, The End - One Year On

It was a year ago today that I posted on my now-defunct beautiful-women picture blog for the last time, terminating it completely a month after.  A year later, do I miss it?

Do I miss it?  You mean, do I miss posting pictures that I did not own the rights to, risking the possibility of being called my violations of intellectual-property rights, fair use be damned, until it  finally happened?  Do I miss posting pictures of models no one had ever heard of the also-defunct model comp-card site run by Peter Marlowe?  Do I miss posting pictures of movie actresses young enough to be my daughters that I'd only heard of twenty minutes before to appeal to guys young enough to be my sons?  Do I miss posting pictures of television actresses who would disappear from public view and/or become culturally irrelevant within five years?  Do I miss posting pictures of dancers from dance companies whose performances I'd never seen?   Do I miss posting pictures of local broadcast-news anchorwomen I'd never seen on TV in metropolitan-area markets I'd never been to, thinking I was celebrating their journalism careers when I was actually objectifying them for their looks?  Do I miss posting pictures of actresses and athletes who turned out to have no inner beauty because they were Trump supporters?  Do I miss posting pictures of national broadcast-news anchorwomen I had once idolized when they confronted Trump but failed to speak truth to power?  Do I miss any of that?

In a word, no.

I still have pictures of the numerous fashion and beauty models I posted on that blog and saved them on a USB file, and I've even added to them, and had my blog continued longer, I would have certainly posted them there, like this gorgeous picture of model/actress Susan Hess. 

I know I never posted this picture of Susan Hess on my blog - mainly because I never posted any pictures of Susan Hess on my blog.  She was one of those names that slipped through the cracks.  She's a Facebook friend of mine, and she is an absolute sweetheart - I only wish I had featured her instead of media showhorses like Gayle King and MAGA horse's rear ends like Danica Patrick. 

Anyway, I still hope to put together a Web site with the pictures of models that I accumulated over nineteen years, and it would be challenging, though it also must be fun, and that's why I ended my beautiful-women picture blog last year - it was no longer fun. For now, though, my plans for such a site are on the back burner - and maybe off the stove - while I deal with more pressing manners.  Like the evil clown occupying the White House.

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