Benedict Cumberbatch Reads a Letter to a Man Blow-Drying His Balls at the Gym
I don’t know about you, but my brain is short-circuiting a bit from the news today, so I was glad to run across this video of Benedict Cumberbatch reading Ross Beeley’s letter published by McSweeney’s in 2011 called An Open Letter to the Gentleman Blow-Drying His Balls in the Gym Locker Room.
You’re actually doing it. I mean, we’ve all dreamed of blow-drying our balls out in the open, but you’re actually doing it in front of me and at least sixteen other people who just finished exercising at this pricey sports club. Some of us will do it in private in our homes, or in a hotel room using a hairdryer a stranger might have just used to style their hair for that big business meeting in Denver. But not you. You are not confined to such social norms, norms that usually keep flapping, flag-like balls out of my eyes.
(via open culture)
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Letters Live is such a damn delight. I like to dole them out one by one when I have a bad day.
Like a (sometimes filthy) Godiva chocolate.
The gym I go to has the following sign in the men’s locker room:
“In consideration of all members, please use the hair dryers appropriately”
It’s so Miss Manners - like, c’mon man, don’t make us come out and say it.
Thank you for posting this. I needed that rabbit hole, and I didn't know about Letters Live.
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