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Easter Morning redux

Some close analysis, and some reflections, on the Jacquie Lawson animated greeting card “Easter Morning”, that I posted about yesterday, in “Sheep grazing among the Paschal roses”. There I looked at...

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Underwear model with tire

Today’s ad mailing from the Daily Jocks homowear company came with an artistic allusion (plus some fairly routine ad copy): (#1) [ad copy:] 20% OFF – FETISHWEAR Welcome to The DailyJocks Backroom, from...

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The heifer executive

Yesterday’s wry Rhymes With Orange strip, wordless and spare-looking, but packed with tons of meaning on two fronts, the dairy and the managerial; meanwhile, it presents a challenging exercise in...

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Shouting songs

Continuing a series of recent postings on the music of joy, now specifically joyous praise to God, and even more specifically “shouting songs” from the Sacred Harp tunebook. This is loud, passionate...

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Woolly mammoths in Birkenstocks

Knowing that the woolly mammoth is my primary totem animal, Anneli Meyer Korn has pointed me to this little slice of the University District in Seattle: (#1) The Woolly Mammoth shoe store, 4303...

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Big queer cool noodles

In the bon appétit e-mail yesterday (6/10), Taiwanese noodles for Gay Pride Month. From the e-mail: Big Queer Cold Noodles: These noodles have a special place in the heart and stomach of BA contributor...

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Flagging day

(Well yes, holiday time, but it quicky turns to man-on-man sex in street language, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.) Yesterday, June 14th, was Flag Day in my country: “It commemorates...

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Be the Master of the Meat!

(Warning: some discussion of sexual slang in a serious but straightforward tone.) From the annals of masculine meat holidays in my country, a Blackstone tv spot “Father’s Day: Griddle Envy” (first...

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From the annals of commerce: Doggie and Whippy do it in a leather bar

(This is obviously going to go where no kids or sexually modest people should go, and it’s going to get there fast.) The commercial names Doggie Diner and Mr. Whippy, both surely conceived in all...

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Sisgender Night’s Dream

Start with the sexual-identity terms cis(gender) and trans(gender), which I looked at on this blog yesterday, and they’ll lead you to various forms of language play. If there’s a Transylvania —...

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Words at the Java Lanes

Today’s Zippy strip is a triple riff on masspop culture — on bowling as recreation, on the Googie style of architecture, and on Polynesian-stye “Tiki” culture (architecture, food and drink, and...

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Ravioli stuffed with Italian sausage

(Some indirect and asterisked reference to man-on-man sex, but, hey, it’s from the Associated Press.) Or: Love among the mobsters.  In some hot news: Chicago (AP wire story) — An odd chapter in...

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Hey, buddy, we’ve been waiting for you!

(Symbolic allusions to men’s raunchy bits, so not to everyone’s taste.) Poolside image in a Daily Jocks sale ad in this morning’s mail, in which three men hawk Elia beachwear in gayboy-themed patterns:...

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Codpiece swim trunks!

(Obviously not to everyone’s taste: consider the title and #1 below.) This morning’s genital surprise from Daily Jocks, the Alpha Swim Trunk for the alpha dog, the big dog on the beach: (#1) [ad copy:]...

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Many a pickle packs a pucker

O pickle, my love / What a beautiful pickle you are! Blame it on Nancy Friedman (@Fritinancy on Twitter), who took us down to the pickle plant in Santa Barbara on 7/18, citing these 5 delights, with...

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cogedores

(Warning: the posting quickly descends into various kinds of vulgar, unsavory slang.) From Kyle Wohlmut (from Twitter) on Facebook this morning, with the comment “good morning fuckers’: (#1) A set of...

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The Joy of the Penis

(Well, yes, about — among other things — men’s genitals and the beauty of Black bodies, some of it in plain language, so not for kids or the sexually modest.) The Joy of the Penis: A Study in...

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Three peanuts meet in a bar

Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro, requiring a boatload of popcultural knowledge to understand: (#1) The easy part: these are three anthropomorphic peanuts, M, M, F from left to right, and they are...

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Breaking through the wall

Today’s Piccolo / Price Rhymes With Orange strip is a play on specific American tv commercials (with some gentle old-age mockery folded in), so will be baffling to any reader who doesn’t recognize the...

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Who was that winged man?

   (three tigers for the last day of the month, ultimate August) In search — not for the first time — of an attractive image of Apollo Resplendens, I fixed on this guy, who’s only roughly one-quarter...

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