#weight control

From Earlham College's 1923 yearbook.

Here's my gallery of unusual imagery from vintage college yearbooks.

and here we go again. i get why someone might think of this as a nuisance with a regular partner, however you gotta consider his particular position. if i’d be a muscle machine and one of the most targeted idols, i’d do nothing but eat and practice my daily escapism. unlike the average chad, jungkook is not doing it just because he wants to exploit someone else. nor is he a typical guy by virtue of his career. in his shoes what else can you do, he had his entire teenage years and privacy taken away. everything a normal kid does from 15 upward he has to postpone into his twenties, and only bit by bit. 

to put it even more bluntly: in an extreme setting like that, as an introvert you either end up a lonely workaholic with anxiety like yoongi or joon, or become a reclusive foodie gamer watching anime. hitting the gym to take off your mind and frustrations. now even if it bugs you, and you’d never live like that yourself: you gotta let the person do what they wanna do without being entitled to their time. or correct their behaviour (as if you actually could) according to your apparently-oh-so-holy standards which will probably just be hypocrisy left and right. mind this: whatever helps them, helps. it’s their responsibility and they have to decide themselves. if it’s not your type, let them be, preoccupy yourself with idols you find agreeable instead. jk is under no obligation. and he can eat how he wants to eat, the industry is full of coercion concerning weight already. demonizing a person enjoying meals and their free time, especially a highly athletic and overworked idol, that means sinking very very far down.

Stay Slim the Johnny Dodds Way

Jazz Lives not only is a wealth of delicious jazz information and insight from Michael Steinman, but dietary advice, too: now we all can shed some of those pandemic pounds with help from clarinetist Johnny Dodds.

-Scott Wenzel