# An Open Letter to the Gentleman Blow-Drying His Balls in the Gym Locker Room - Host: [mcsweeneys.net](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/mcsweeneys.net/) - Saved: June 3, 2011 (2011-06-04T03:21:54Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/25d1526ab401/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/25d1526ab401.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) You're actually doing it. I mean, we've all dreamt 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 that 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. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [Imagining U2’s Next Stage](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/117578a9cb39/) (mcsweeneys.net, November 20, 2009) - [In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/65c4d3809b56/) (mcsweeneys.net, January 25, 2012) - [McSweeneys Internet Tendency: Signs Above My Halloween Candy: 19962006.](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7c1e37c7f556/) (mcsweeneys.net, October 31, 2012) - [Bay Area to Standard American English Translator - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/39e197f589db/) (mcsweeneys.net, July 29, 2015) - [My Fully Optimized Life Allows Me Ample Time to Optimize Yours - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ebbd76afbeb5/) (mcsweeneys.net, March 28, 2017) ## Saved the same week - [Why bitcoin will fail](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/fd437abe352c/) (apenwarr.ca, June 3, 2011) - [Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4345d9c18168/) (shortlogic.com, June 3, 2011) - [Sarah Palin Explains Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9ea04e228d9c/) (gawker.com, June 3, 2011) - [Niwa Design Studio](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4b9feef0fa53/) (niwadesign.com, June 4, 2011) - [Twin Cities Bike Walk Week](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9355b5b5cf00/) (bikewalkweek.org, June 4, 2011) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-open-letter-to-the-gentleman-blow-drying-his-balls-in-the-gym-locker-room