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On this day in 2019
At least seven occasions of significance to me today: three fixed to the date June 16th, plus four movable occasions that happen to take place on this Sunday this year. There will be a section in the...
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The Magnificent WaterSports
(Men’s bodies and mansex, not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.) In the Daily Jocks mailing yesterday, this heavily sexualized ad for WaterShorts swimwear (in black, aqua, lime, and coral), the...
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Mickey gets stuffed for Pride
A week from today (on the 28th) is Stonewall Day, this year the 50th anniversary of the original event, which catalyzed a long tradition of homophile organizations and protests into annual Gay Pride...
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Over the edge with formulaic language
It looks simple at the start, but then (as Mark Liberman explained earlier today on Language Log, in “[REDACTED]’s “cocked and loaded”: a tangled history”), it gets intriguingly convoluted. It starts...
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On your knees for St. George Michael
(Mostly about men’s bodies and mansex, flagrantly, in street language, so not for kids or the sexually modest.) Every year, as a lead-up to Stonewall Day, June 28th, comes a much more specific — male...
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Torus! torus! torus!
A Mr. Lovenstein comic, on the bagel and the donut hole: (#1) “Oh, you don’t look Jewish”, said the donut hole to the bagel [AMZ] (Hat tip to Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky.) On the strip, it has a site...
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Oh Canada baby, ripple my maple leaves!
Today is Canada Day, Canada’s national day, celebrated in many ways, perhaps most remarkably in this display of national pride — “hot shirtless muscle jocks in Canadian themed pants”, according to one...
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4th of July displays
(Much about men’s bodies and mansex, in street language, so not for kids or the sexually modest; also about military displays for Independence Day, but that comes after the raunchy stuff — Erst kommt...
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On the lawn
In the July 29th New Yorker, two cartoons about things for American lawns, each requiring one key piece of knowledge for understanding: Bob Eckstein showing a moment of silence; Farley Katz featuring a...
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Cheeseburger mouse
Today’s Zippy takes us to restaurant or diner whose mascot is a mouse offering a cheeseburger: (#1) The intersection of two genres: the cheese mouse mascot, in fiberglass images indigenous to...
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News for penises: ocean edition
(Consider the title as a content warning.) Widely reported: Chace Crawford’s monumental moose-knuckle in the calendar for the new tv series The Boys: (#1) Dick and the Dolphins From Yahoo!...
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Annals of phallicity: symbol and simulacrum
(Warning: consider the subject; penises will be under discussion, so some will want to skip this posting.) I’ll start with the logo of Herb’s Plumbing & Heating, 2562 Noble Rd., Cleveland OH: (#1)...
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Annals of category labels: food from a hole in the ground
… or edible roots (with root covering any underground plant organ), or whatever you call the stuff. In the 7/30 One Big Happy, Ruthie, confronted with /hol fudz/, takes it to be just such a label, hole...
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Revisiting 33: the ambiguity of the truffle
Just popped up on Facebook, this old (1/30/07) Bizarro cartoon: (#1) See my 8/22/19 posting “Sexy Dark Swiss”, with its section on truffles, fungal and chocolate. And then an intersection between the...
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Chocolate-covered amidst the statuary
Today’s Zippy takes us to the shore of Lake Erie, in the roadside realm of Dolly Dimples (but, startlingly, it will end with the minstrel-show character Rastus and the Cream of Wheat box; you never...
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Musclemen from Mars
(There will be rampant male shirtlessness. Just a friendly warning, or an invitation, depending on your tastes.) It’s a Zippy strip (today’s!). It’s another gender note (about masculinity). It’s yet...
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The sea eagle
Yesterday’s New York Times Magazine (in print) was “The Voyages Issue: Photographic dispatches from the extremities of the earth”, with one report from remote parts of Norway: “Majesty on the Wing:...
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Up to the line, and sometimes over
(About men’s bodies in very plain terms, and about the fantasy world of steamy male underwear models, and a bit about the social and sexual practices of gay male life, so not for kids or the sexually...
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Der Migros-Sprecher Gabriel Zwicky
In the Swiss German-language daily Blick, a 10/6 story by Marc Iseli, “Neues Gastro-Konzept kommt nach Zürich: Migros bringt den Metzger zum Anfassen” (‘A new gastronomic concept comes to Zürich:...
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Space Candy
(Highly sexualized men’s underwear, leading to blunt talk of men’s bodies and mansex. Lots of other content, but this is enough to put it out of bounds for kids and the sexually modest.) Today’s Daily...
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