There is one post, however, that is available, and while it is not a glamour spot, it is one that gets plenty of prime-time attention.
In an age in which science now holds the glamour spot in academia -- Derrida is out, the M.I.T. Media Lab is in -- literary Darwinism is an understandable development.
When daytime wasn't the glamour spot at ABC, I went and worked there.
They visit the glamour spots — the Himalayas, Hong Kong, the pyramids, the South of France, the Taj Mahal, and the African savanna, where the terrain bursts with enough digital zebras to freeze a supercomputer.
Next week BET will unveil its new reality series, "Harlem Heights," which will follow eight, young, good-looking, ambitious African-Americans as they manage their professional and emotional lives in glamour spots north of 110th Street.
These youths live among simulacra of the world's glamour spots, yet they are trapped and depressed, lurching in and out of hapless and inarticulate love affairs conducted mainly by cell phone and text message.
But the country is increasingly becoming the five-star playground of the Caribbean, pulling in tourists that might otherwise have gone to Jamaica, Puerto Rico or St. Thomas and gearing up to give the glamour spots of Anguilla, St. Bart's and Turks and Caicos a run for their money.
They're snapping up properties at the traditional glamour spots of Aspen and Vail, Colo.; Sun Valley, Idaho; and Jackson Hole, Wyo.
A Chinese "Absurdistan" needs a conflicted iconoclast, a figure torn between the tug of China's commercial bounty and the critical imperative to keep his distance — let's say, an outspoken, frequently-censored blogger who does glamour-spots for an instant-coffee company.
I suspect there is a blank template stored on a server at the Daily Mail so the reporters can simply fill in the blanks: "Former sex kittten [fill in name here], who once lived a fabulous life of glamour, was spotted this weekend in [put unglamorous location].
On Saturday, Idris Elba and Lucy Liu provided the glamour in guest spots with the Bullets, but Metronomy's sophisticated electronica was more impressive.
