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The Further Adventures of Dick Dangler, Phallic Eye
Bulletin from Max Vasilatos, who got this ad (for an eye cream) on Facebook a few days ago and did a double-take: Yes, just a finger with a bit of eye cream on its tip. But for a moment, it takes us...
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Calla, calla, calla, California
An Easter gift from Kim Darnell on Sunday: a handsome purple calla lily, looking dark bluish-purple in yellow interior light, but in fact bright pinkish-purple in sunlight. Purple is the liturgical...
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rest stop
(A posting on the compound rest stop is inevitably going to take us into the world of mansex, so this posting will, eventually, be way out of bounds for kids and the sexually modest.) The morning name...
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Alien signage and Arbus in Anaheim
Two cartoons for today: a Mother Goose and Grimm with alien signage; and a Zippy in the coffee shop of an Anaheim bowling alley, where Diane Arbus is evoked: (#1) (#2) Take me to your toilets. The...
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Is that a Paschal Peep in your pouch?
From Chris Hansen on Facebook, a late entry in this year’s Easter Peepstakes: a model who dreamt he played with yellow Peeps in his Aronik swimwear: (#1) About the company, its products, its models,...
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You can call me Al
Yesterday, a posting on a mini-phal /mIni fæl/, a miniature Phalaenopsis (orchid). Which moved me to investigate names of the form /mIni Cæl/, for various consonants C: existing names and ones you can...
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Saint Phalle
(There will be references to sexual bodies, both male and female, and to mansex. Admittedly, in the context of art/sculpture and novels, but still… ) Saint Phalle — St. Phallus (with phalle as an...
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Shelf Life
The cover of the March 27th New Yorker, “Shelf Life” by Luci Gutiérrez: (#1) Oh, a set of shelves. And a map. Of Manhattan. With objects on the shelves evoking particular neighborhoods. Cool. On the...
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Four Days in May
(There will, eventually, be some references to mansex for Cinco de Mayo, so use your judgment.) Four occasions that come around every year on the same date: yesterday, the silly Star Wars Day and the...
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Mothers
I’ll start with Roz Chast’s cover art for the May 15th New Yorker, “Motherboard”, a droll celebration of Mothers Day in embroidery. With notes on uses of mother. From there to a sepia-toned mother and...
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Homophilatelic days
News relayed by Chris Ambidge on Facebook, the coming, on June 1, of a Canadian stamp honoring same-sex marriage in that country: The rainbow maple leaf forever! Ushering in Pride Month. (Meanwhile, Le...
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From the alien agriculture desk of the News for Penises
From the National Lampoon site, “Cartoon: Crop Circles” by Bob Eckstein, yesterday: (#1) Hey, you aliens! Get offa my field! Meanwhile, giant penis images are everywhere. Here at the News for...
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Months and days
Something I’m moderately sure of is that May is National, maybe International, Masturbation Month. All ny sources seem to agree on that. From the current version of Wikipedia: The first National...
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Fags Before Flags, and other in-your-face t-shirts
(Plain talk about men’s bodies and sexual practices, so use your judgment.) Thanks to Greg Parkinson for a link to this John Crisvitello t-shirt: (#1) The slogan is a send-up of the odious BROS BEFORE...
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Red hots, getcher red hots here!
Anticipating Memorial Day (May 29th this year), Pinterest has provided a big Hot Dog board. Memorial Day is a US holiday honoring Americans who died while serving in the armed forces, but it has also...
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Play with your hot dogs
As the run-up to the American holiday Memorial Day continues (only 9 days to picnic time), Pinterest has responded with a board of playful things you can do with hot dogs — sometimes moderating their...
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Brainless Tales, with more news for penises
#4 in my “Squid Pro Quo” posting is from Marcus Connor’s Brainless Tales, a new webcomic for me, but one largely devoted to language play. And immediately I came across this cartoon, with a portmanteau...
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Dog dogs
From a Pinterest board on hot dogs (looking forward to Memorial Day in the US), this way too cute presentation of hot dogs in buns: Hot dogs by themselves are phallic symbols, but here they are, first,...
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Let slip the dogs of Japan
Though hot dogs combine Memorial Day interest (picnics and cookouts!) with the gay attractions of phallicity (as Pride Month comes into view), after a recent flurry of phallic hot dogs on this blog, I...
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Rodeos and sword dances
(Warning: there will be talk of penises and mansex.) On The Hill site on 5/21, “Tillerson: ‘Not my first sword dance’ in Saudi Arabia”, by Jill Manchester: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday...
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