What Is A Wellness Asshole?

This year has been especially busy on the humiliatingly-healthy-habits front. Maybe it’s a post-Covid focus on fitness, or a more robust wellness marketplace, or the fact that I hit my 50s and need to get that shit started now if I want to live forever. Whatever the reason, 2024 has been a boom time for people who want to sell wellness stuff to Dave Holmes, and the truth is that a lot of it works. Here’s an incomplete list of the kinds of assholes I am now. [View in Browser]( [Esquire]( [SHOP]( EXCLUSIVE [SUBSCRIBE]( [I Am a Wellness Asshole Now]( [I Am a Wellness Asshole Now]( This year has been especially busy on the humiliatingly-healthy-habits front. Maybe it’s a post-Covid focus on fitness, or a more robust wellness marketplace, or the fact that I hit my 50s and need to get that shit started now if I want to live forever. Whatever the reason, 2024 has been a boom time for people who want to sell wellness stuff to Dave Holmes, and the truth is that a lot of it works. Here’s an incomplete list of the kinds of assholes I am now. [Read More](   [Pool Shed Papers Judge Aileen Cannon Is the Preeminent Lawn Ornament at Mar-a-Lago]( [Pool Shed Papers Judge Aileen Cannon Is the Preeminent Lawn Ornament at Mar-a-Lago]( Holy hell, this is getting out of control. [Read More]( [Our Hands-Down Favorite Father’s Day Gifts]( [Our Hands-Down Favorite Father’s Day Gifts]( Thoughtful gifts that don’t require a lot of thought. [Read More](     [Ewan Mitchell and Tom Glynn-Carney are Ready for the Throne]( [Ewan Mitchell and Tom Glynn-Carney are Ready for the Throne]( The House of the Dragon brothers are having a smoke outside their hotel, looking like the most famous British rockers who never existed. There’s Ewan Mitchell, twenty-seven, whose six-foot frame is hidden by a baggy black hoodie and sweatpants. At his side is Tom Glynn-Carney, twenty-nine, slightly shorter, looking proper as heck: newsboy cap, cords, the works. They’re so perfectly, lazily, and hilariously draped against the Soho Grand’s brick exterior that I expect someone to ask for an autograph thinking they’re Cambridge Asylum (my name for their fictional band), not Aemond and Aegon Targaryen. [Read More](   [The Best Travel Blazers That’ll Keep You Looking Fly on Your Next Trip]( [The Best Travel Blazers That’ll Keep You Looking Fly on Your Next Trip]( Skip the stop at the hotel and get straight to business. [Read More]( [The Best Bars in America 2024]( [The Best Bars in America 2024]( From glamorous hotel bars in New York to cocktail dens in San Francisco, here are the very best new spots to grab a seat and start a tab. [Read More](     [The Dopp Kit That Will Last the Rest of My Life]( [The Dopp Kit That Will Last the Rest of My Life]( Not everything needs to be reinvented, but we’re obsessed with optimizing. Optimizing ourselves, optimizing products—it’s all part of this weird improvement-and-newness complex. My algorithm will show me ads for smart bar carts, smart vacuums, and smart toilet seats. The Internet wants to sell me the comfiest pants ever made or barefoot shoes that will fix how I walk. (Do I need to fix that?) The travel world is one of the worst offenders. There are a million brands that make a million travel-hack products that will all end up in a landfill pretty soon. You know what I actually need while traveling? A bag—sometimes a suitcase—and a Dopp kit. [Read More](   [ESQ Membership]( [LiveIntent Logo]( [AdChoices Logo]( [How satisfied are you with the content of this newsletter?]( Follow Us [Unsubscribe]( | [Privacy Notice]( | [CA Notice at Collection]( Esquire is a publication of Hearst Magazines. ©2024 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This email was sent by Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019-3779