It’s not raining yet but man does it look like it wants to.  It’s foreboding enough I am reluctant to go outside lest I get caught in a downpour.  I am not anit-rain as a thing, sometimes rainy days are  a great excuse to stay inside and read comic books or play a board game or whatever.  One days where you’d really like to walk to the park though rain is less than ideal.  I think that’s why I posted Alexis Ren.  Because the beach sounds so appealing right now, it has all year, it has been on my mind.  I have meditated on modeling and what makes us connect with some models and not others before, especially when writing bout Alexis Ren.  She is of course a minor phenomena on tumblr in that tumblr loves her and she really owes the level of popularity she has to it.  So I have wondered what it is about her work that makes her stand out.  Not because I don’t get it, I get it, but because I tend to wonder why a lot.  Modeling often makes me think in that it goes beyond “Pretty girl is pretty” but I have a really hard time figuring out what it is.  Recently I saw someone post looking at her pictures made it seem like she’d be really fun to hangout with.  I get the impulse, there is something about her work that conveys a feeling.  For me my urge for the beach has less to do with sun and surf than it does with a feeling.  The beach was my favorite as a kid, this weird place of teenage independence I had nowhere else, the ability to wander to the boardwalk alone, to do as I would with my time, just freedom.  It is steeped in nostalgia for french fries and pit beef sandwiches, for taffy and arcade games, for flirting clumsily when my pack of friends would cross another pack of people our age. And I think a good model gives you a lot of room to project, cause those are very specific memories that I can’t imagine Alexis Ren evokes in anyone else but I think what she is good at is evoking an idea, a very Americana one at that, which is summer vacation and beaches and California and just this sense of how our youths were spent.  Well, some of us.  Those of us who no doubt connect with it. So I am posting her because she is hot but also because it is going to rain and I would rather be 100 miles away at the beach than caught inside reading X-Men comics.  So today I want to fuck Alexis Ren.