The whole world is going through tough times right now, requiring women everywhere to demonstrate their grit, nerve, courage, flair, and determination. And just because we here at Gorgeo.us believe that it’s every woman’s right to look her best all the time, to do whatever she wants whenever she wants, to define for herself what [...]

Every year, to coincide with its national conference, the American Library Association names its American Librarian of the Year. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of this award, the in-house journal decided to locate the whereabouts of the first 25 winners:
1985: Keith Hingis. Died 1997. Froze to death on the Matterhorn.
1984: [...]

The intensification of the working day is familiar to anyone trying to keep their heads above water in the current cut-throat grind-teeth bump-knee chew-tongue finger-elbow climate brought on by head office’s opportunistic trouser-slashing under the prepuce of the recession. There’s nothing that any of us can do about it but smirk and bear it, but [...]

In keeping with the spirit of the times, Khmer Rouge Strippergram (in association with ILR) is launching its annual Limerick for Ireland competition. Entrants must endeavour to produce works that accurately represent and reflect life in 21st-century Ireland. It is our fervent hope that the naturally good-hearted and instinctively cheerful people of this fine and [...]

Treating injuries miles from the ER is an essential skill, but you don’t need to be a doctor, surgeon, nurse, paediatrician, obstetric gynaecologist, or even a plain old voyeur to learn what it takes to survive in the wild. Brad Chilterns is the founder of Outdoor Medicine, which specializes in teaching underedumacated back-country folk and [...]

“Swallow my luminous cack!” When Swindon mom Debbie Flobb heard her four-year-old son, Robert, use this phrase in conversation with a telecoms engineer on the phone one Monday morning, her first response was utter horror. “I can’t imagine where he might have picked up language like that,” said the 63-year-old mother of three from Didsbury. [...]

Excerpts from works by novelists who didn’t even get a look-in at this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, won by Romanian-born German novelist and poet Herta Müller.
Eric thought nothing of knocking out a couple of dozen portraits a day. Lenin. Bruce Lee. Archbishop Makarios. JFK. Rolf Harris. What frustrated him was how easily it came [...]

Money is brilliant. Some people think that it is not brilliant, but they are wrong. It is. If you think about it, money can be used to buy anything. Darts, newspapers, Matlow’s Refreshers, season tickets for the MK Dons, blowjobs, cheesecake, pints of lager, shoes, forests, cars, Whitesnake DVDs, after-shave, knee-pads, haircuts, Ph.D.’s, Swiss army [...]

Thierry Henry, 32
FIFA Footballer of the Year 2010
What is Va-Va-Voom? Va-Va-Voom is doing things with style, with flair, panache, a certain je ne sais quoi. Who can say? Not me. I am not the ref.
Gillette Mach 4 Turbo: Now that’s what I call a close shave.

I do a lot of work for charity, you know. [...]

From Advertising Age magazine, an update as to the current whereabouts and activities of past winners of the U.K.’s Advertising Executive of the Year award.
2008: Gareth Dailly: Liver failure brought about by excessive consumption of Jack Daniel’s bourbon. Currently in intensive care, Luton.
2007: Brett Kenna: Died 2008. Trampled underfoot during crowd [...]