quiescent and deliquescent
My morning names for 1/26 (yes, my posting queue is absurdly backed up; life has been hard). quiescent came to me first, in connection with popsicles, with deliquescent immediately following. I’ll post...
View ArticleGay couple in Pouchland
… with vivid pops of genital color in their underwear, plus waistbands that celebrate peace and freedom, also exhibiting sharply differentiated roles in their relationship. Lots of stuff packed into...
View ArticleFurther adventures in Pouchland
(No street talk about men’s bodies or mansex, but the topic is men’s genitals displayed flagrantly though covertly — just barely covered — so this posting will not be to everyone’s taste.) Following on...
View ArticleSpontaneous erections
(About penises and nipples, in plain talk. Not for kids or the sexually modest.) The original spur for this posting was a magazine piece (which I can no longer locate) by a woman complaining about guys...
View Articlepeacocking
A commentator on the Imperator Grabpussy at the State of the Union speech on 2/4/20: he pumps his fist in the air, he peacocks (Hard to believe that the man believes he is a resplendent, gorgeous...
View ArticleGreat progress, grave threat
Two recent items about great progress in the acceptance of lgbt people in my country, with an alarm bell in the second about grave threats to us. First, a posting about a piece in Out magazine. Second,...
View ArticleThe flannel guys
It starts with a photo that came up in a slideshow of things from Elizabeth Daingerfeld Zwicky’s image trove: Steven Levine and me, both in flannel shirts, in a time and a place and on an occasion that...
View ArticleIt started with a kiss
(Six male-male kisses, of different sorts and with different sociocultural meanings, plus a general suffusion of homoerotic content and undercurrents throughout, so this posting is not to everyone’s...
View ArticleFleurs des males
Penises as literally the flowers of manhood, which can be collected into bouquets and other floral arrangements — an occasional theme in artworks that are light-hearted and charming rather than...
View ArticleIs that an American flag in your crotch?
(Fit young men wearing nothing but scraps of the American flag pattern, so not for those who are modest about displays of the male body or offended by casual disregard for the flag, but there’s nothing...
View ArticleMacho toys: the ads
(Plain talk about sex toys for men and about male genitalia, so not for kids or the sexually modest. ) A Daily Jocks mailing back on 2/9 offers a novel solution to creating visually interesting ads for...
View ArticleThree remarkably named men’s fragrances
First, to announce a new Page on this blog listing my postings about men’s fragrance. Then, to continue some recent postings on notable names for men’s fragrances, a look at Fucking Fabulous and two...
View ArticleGolden Boy does a cock tease
(Hunky men performing suggestively in remarkable underwear, with a caption alluding to sex between men, so probably inadvisable for kids and the sexually modest.) In an ad for a Daily Jocks late...
View ArticleAn uncanny object at an elevation
An example: the Reading (PA) Pagoda (a feature of my life from age 5 through age 18). Which will take us to uncanny objects of many sorts and also to one specific cultural function of elevations,...
View ArticlePhallicity: Nick Cave’s Soundsuits
From Pinterest on 3/5, on the Business Insider site, “Frist Center [in Nashville TN] Presents Visual Artist Nick Cave’s Soundsuits, Installations, Video, and More in Dynamic Survey Exhibition”, in a...
View ArticleA jointed-limb portmanteau and a sugary front-clipping
Two recent Wayno/Piraro Bizarro strips, from the 15th and (for St. Patrick’s Day) the 17th, both of linguistic interest: among other things, the portmanteau arthropodcast in the first; and the...
View ArticleTramp stamps
and odalisques (with their erotic lumbar regions, aka lower backs) and rhyming disparagements (like tramp stamp and slag tag). It starts with the Zits comic strip of 3/26: (#1) The rhyming (and...
View ArticleAssuming the position
(Men’s bodies as sexual objects — women’s, too — and sex between men, all of this discussed in street language, with edgy images, so not for kids or the sexually modest.) At the intersection of the...
View ArticleThe elephant and plum
Not Frog and Peach, but Elephant and Plum, in a kid joke as told by Ruthie in the One Big Happy strip from 2/22 (in my comics feed on 3/21): (#1) Four things: kid jokes, of which the Elephant and Plum...
View Articlesmouldering
Recently received: Almost Completely Baxter: New and Selected Blurtings (New York Review Comics, 2016), a collection of absurdist cartoons by the artist Glen Baxter. There will be more drawings from...
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