Song for the day: rabbit rabbit rabbit
Rabbits round the workers’ maypole, Rabbits round the workers’ maypole: Máy-ó, may-yáy-ay-ay-ó Maylight come and me wan’ go home Trochaic tetrameter to welcome in the month of May. Allegro agitato,...
View ArticleHe said “prickles”
(You can see where this is going, so use your judgment.) So I did, in my recent postings on desert plants, as on 5/1/18 in “Stanford Arizona IV”, about: the nasty prickles on the trunk and branches of...
View ArticlePickled pricks
(Treat the title as a warning — or as an invitation, whichever suits you.) Yesterday, the posting “He said “prickles””, on prick, prickle, dick, prickly, and pickle (with notes on pickles as phallic...
View ArticleFour things are two binary oppositions
From Bitty Ramirez on Facebook: It is really unusual to have a K-12 lesson that allows discussion of dice and playing cards. This may be the first time I’ve encountered it. And I am finding it really...
View ArticleForever Gay
From Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky this morning, a little present from the workshop of artist and designer Ben Wagner: (#1) ∞ + – infinity sign (‘forever’) + rainbow flag (‘gay’) (also available as a...
View ArticleNews for penises, Icelandic edition
From Sim Aberson, on his Grand Tour of Iceland, this wonder from the Phallological Museum in Reykjavik: (#1) An eyed dickhead, a red-caped shaft, and those ample balls. Elmo is ready to fly wherever...
View ArticleGay butterflies
(Only the first image — daddy and boy in sexual medias res — is problematic; but it’s probably over the line for Facebook these days, and it might be for you too, even though it’s penisless. The...
View ArticlePsychiatrist Meme Day
… at King Features Syndicate, or so it seems. In my feed today, three cartoons (of my five regulars from King) with a psychoanalyst and his couch: a Bizarro/Wayno with an empty couch; a Zippy with...
View ArticleThe 6-fold way
A fabulous design from Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky yesterday: (#1) “6-fold” (or: “The 6-fold Way”) To come. On 6-fold symmetry: snowflakes (natural and in paper), many monocot flowers, Kekulé’s...
View Articlebunny ears
It started with a candid photo of people at a social gathering, with one person making a V hand gesture behind the head of the person next to them, much as in this photo of pro tennis players: (#1)...
View ArticleMore porn for the holidays
(About gay porn, but not wildly racy. Edgy for kids and the sexually modest.) On the 26th, about the Lucas gay porn sale for Memorial Day 2018: “Memorial mansex” on AZBlogX; and “Porn for the holidays,...
View ArticleDramatic exits
A Leigh Rubin cartoon from the 22nd, illustrating an exit and a dramatic exit: (#1) First, this is a play on the ambiguity of exit, as a N referring to a concrete object (a door, used for exiting) or...
View ArticleThe rose and the flames
(After some extended moments of reflections on religious belief, this posting will venture into the sexual wilds, and the later material will not be suitable for kids or the sexually modest.) Two...
View ArticleAgain with the nose job
Today’s Zippy is a re-play of a drawing from 2015, now with dialogue: (#1) Stroke the nose and you slip through the nasal passage in the nose-time continuum to the bulbous-nose Cartoonosity region of...
View ArticleWhite stars on a field of green, part 2
Yesterday, in “White stars on a field of green”, Myoporum parvifolium in bloom, just down the street from my place. But surely there’s a flag of that description? Yes, there is, or was: (#1) Flag of...
View ArticleRainbow moments
For Pride Month, and looking forward to the SF parade two weeks from today, four heterogeneous items: Jungle Flossers for kids, in rainbow colors (and they’re fruit-flavored, wink wink nudge nudge);...
View ArticleThe Calvin Klein pentachromatic neon rainbow
CK special for Pride Month: (#1) (#2) Pride Trunks In five neon colors: pink, yellow, lime green, aquamarine, dark blue. The color bar in #1 is red, but the actual trunks are pink pink pink: (#3) The...
View ArticlePride space flags
More Pride flags, all transformed versions of existing X Pride flags, for various values of X having to do with gender or sexuality. Transformed by Laurie Raye by superimposing images of the starry sky...
View ArticleBackground foods and food discoveries
The spur: this brief moment from the NYT obit for chef, author, tv personality, and social critic Anthony Bourdain, by Kim Severson, Mattew Haag, and Julia Moskin, on-line on the 8th as “Anthony...
View ArticleWhy? Why?
Because we can. And we think it’s clever. And cute. But why try to read the minds of people who do these things? Just sit back and admire their artisanal pigs in blankets. On a Pinterest board: (#1) “A...
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