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AZBlogX: rear view, full frontal, harnesses
Over on AZBlogX this morning, three postings: two with images sent to me by Chris Ambidge (seven celebrating male butts, in a variety of settings, in “Rear views”; and four celebrating penises, in...
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to clean up well/nicely
Caught in passing in a posting of mine on AZBlogX about porn actor Boomer Banks (I am not making this name up), who’s notable (at least) for his very long and thick cock (illustrated in my posting),...
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Folsom Street Fair
Today is a big event in San Francisco: from Wikipedia: The Folsom Street Fair (FSF) is an annual BDSM and leather subculture street fair held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco’s...
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Alan Ritchson (and Justin Hartley)
(Not about language, but about shirtless actors, mostly in underwear.) An episode of Smallville that came by in reruns this morning featured hunky actor Alan Ritchson as Arthur Curry aka Aquaman, a...
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¡Sí Se Puede!
Following up on yesterday’s posting “Yes we can”, on the slogan, Eric Holeman asked on Facebook, Which came first: “Yes, we can,” or “Si, se puede!”? The straightforward answer to the question framed...
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Sunday funnies
Two of today’s strips: a Rhymes With Orange and a Bizarro: (#1) Logo time! (#2) Two different uses of wish here: as a mental-action verb (‘They each wished that the other were dead’) and in a...
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Logos
From the New York Times Magazine on Sunday the 13th, “Who Made That Android Logo?” by Pagan Kennedy: Irina Blok may have drawn one of the most recognized logos in the world, but her association with...
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The Czech finger
From several sources, pointers to this piece of in-your-face public art: (#1) The story from the NYT on the 22nd: “Angry at Prague, Artist Ensures He’s Understood”, by Dan Bilefsky: “The finger,” said...
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On the phallic church watch
Making the rounds on the net recently, this story about an inadvertently phallic church (here from Daily Kos, from 10/31, “Phallic-shaped church to get fig leaf”): Officials from the Christian Science...
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Yellow vs. cardinal
Yesterday was Duck Day in Palo Alto — people dressed in yellow all over the place, on the occasion of a football game between the Stanford Cardinal and the Oregon Ducks (which Stanford won, 26-20)....
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Mandela
On the occasion of Nelson Mandela’s death (at 95), reported on in almost every medium, the forthcoming cover of the New Yorker: From HuffPo: The cover is entitled, “Madiba,” Mandela’s tribal name, and...
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Genital plants
Two cards in succession in the Art of Instruction set: acorns and arums, both visually similar to human genitals, a fact recognized in some of the common names for the plants. The acorn. The object:...
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Xmas phallicity
From Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky, from the CakeWrecks site, one of the phallic Xmas creations: Yum.
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Fertility window
From Leith Chu today, this “rare example of what architectural historians refer to as a “fertility window” “: The design elements are routine, but sometimes the combination makes for high phallicity.
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Sexy stuff
Not about language, but sex and sexuality. A wonderful phallic vegetable image, and a collection of images of butts, bears, and labs (scientific laboratories, not labrador dogs). (All thanks to Chris...
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More sexy stuff
(Not about language.) Over on AZBlogX, a set of eight images from the ivegtaboner site (yes, I’ve Got a Boner). A varied set of (very much) X-rated images of men.
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Plant phallicity
Not about language. The cover of the 10 January Science: (#1) (The yellow medallion wasn’t on the physical cover, though it’s an entertaining addition.) Confocal light microscopy image of a lateral...
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Flag food
(Not really about language, though certainly about signs and symbols. And food.) From Andy Rogers, a link to this site on “National flags made from each country’s traditional foods”. Many of these are...
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One more V-Day posting
In the Washington Post yesterday, a piece “A whole lot of history behind ‘x’ and ‘o,’ kiss and hug” by Nadine Epstein, which asks the question: Where do those symbols come from, these ur-emoticons that...
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Signage error (or not)
For Daylight Saving(s) Time, this photo has been making the rounds on Facebook: (#1) The Errington (Volunteer) Fire Department is real; the question is whether this sign was an inadvertent error or...
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