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Dwarfs for a new age
A Benjamin Schwartz cartoon in the latest (February 13th/20th) New Yorker: The German folk tale of Snow White provides the basis for this name play, though the published version of the story by the...
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Chocolates for Valentine’s Day
(Very little of linguistic interest, beyond a penis joke in Spanish and a note on grammatical gender. Otherwise, it’s the massive Latino musclehunk “The Marvel” on display.) From my regular...
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VDay kiss-in
On the eve of the holiday, we come to same-sex kissing in public (in the flesh or in photos distributed publicly), which I maintain is, these days, still almost always a political act (and to my mind...
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The news for penguins and, oh yes, penises
From Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky on Facebook yesterday, a chocolate cupcake for Valentine’s Day (which is also, significantly, Elizabeth’s birthday), with white frosting and a blue frosting design on...
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Emoji are the hieroglyphs of the future
Today’s Bizarro: (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 4 in this strip — see this Page.) Another bash at the hieroglyph-emoji relationship. For discussion,...
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Art of the penis
(Obviously, there will be a lot of dick talk here, but of the art-historical and art-critical variety, rather than the sexual-arousal variety.) On Facebook, art historian Reuben Cordova writes: I’m...
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The little man with the laundry
Another item from my blog backlog file, this time a delightful (and informative and perceptive) piece in the Economist’s special year-end issue (of 12/24/16), “Mankind in miniature: A simple, oddly...
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Plant packages
This morning, another visit (with Juan Gomez) to the cactus and succulent garden at Stanford, which has been made very happy by all the rain we’ve been getting (it’s been wreaking havoc all over...
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A codgerie of shaggy men
Among the stand-out cactuses at the Stanford cactus and succulent garden these days: the wonderfully named Cephalocereus senilis (very roughly, ‘old man candle-head’). One of a large set of stand-up,...
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Body works
(Frank talk about the male body, but no sex in this particular posting. Use your judgment.) Four body items that have come my way recently: bouncing penises and testicles (and other intimate views of...
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Body works, Part II: Mytilid Matters
(Some frank discussion of the female body, with a racy food photo. Use your judgment.) A photo on Facebook from John Dorrance, with the comment “These things are obscene”: Well, they’re striking...
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Friday cartoon 1: the husky pup meme
First encountered on Pinterest this morning, what is apparently a new rage in texties: jokes told by a cute husky pup (rather than, say, a llama, a penguin, an eel, or Ryan Gosling), for example this...
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Friday cartoon 3: more news for penises
Today’s Bizarro: (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 2 in this strip — see this Page.) To understand this cartoon at all, you need to recognize the figure...
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Risible (faux-)commercial name
From a posting by Randy Murray to the Facebook page “THE ERRORIST MOVEMENT – Correct grammar, with humour”, where he comments, “apostrophes mean so much”: (#1) At first glance, this ad would seem to...
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Pop, ejaculated the weasel
I set it off with my 3/11 posting on “Ejaculatory pop”, about the vivid ejaculatory V and N pop. On ADS-L the next day, Larry Horn cracked: And it does add a whole new perspective on that hanky-panky...
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Sexting with emoji
(Talk of sexual bodyparts and sexual acts, but with symbols rather than pictures of carnal reality.) From the NYT‘s Fashion & Style section on the 14th, “Gaymoji: A New Language for That Search” by...
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The invention of the X job
(Sex acts up the wazoo, so very much not for kids or the sexually modest.) Passed on by Gregory Ward, this entertaining Onion video “This Day In History: The Invention Of The Handjob”, in which Handjob...
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Signs and symbols
Two items picked up on Facebook today: the Transgender Pride Flag (following on the death of the designer of the Gay Pride Flag, or Rainbow Flag, Gilbert Baker); and a remarkable bathroom sign that...
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Lord Jeffrey Mammoth
Announcing: the Amherst Mammoths. On the Boston Globe site on the 3rd, “After sending Lord Jeff packing, Amherst College picks mammoth as mascot”: Amherst College announced Monday that it had selected...
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The news for penises: Wanksy
This is old news, but (I think) evergreen, about the graffiti artist who styles himself as Wanksy (wank + Banksy: on masturbatory wank, see this posting; Banksy is the celebrated British graffiti...
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