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The character of a creature
… as explored in the playful animal artwork of photographer Yago Partal, available for inspection in his 2017 book Zoo Portraits and for sale from his on-line site. The book cover, which shows a panda...
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Three greetings for 9/6/22
For Woo(l)ly Mammoth’s #82: a fresh greeting formula, a morning hummer, and a fairy woodland bouquet. To which I’m adding some carrot cake and coffee ice cream: it’s not only my birthday, it’s also...
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The Sprinkles carrot cake caper
As reported in my 82nd birthday posting “Three greetings for 9/6/22”, while I was holed up at home in severe and debilitating heat misery on the day, some friends e-mailed me delightful greetings —...
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Plush life
(Penis plush and dildos too, in detail, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.) Breaking News for Penises: you can now purchase adorable soft-plush penis-simulacrum stuffed toys. Some for you...
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News for really clean penises
(No actual penises are depicted, but there’s plenty of penis-talk, so this posting will not be to everyone’s taste) Offered on Etsy, from LoveLeeSoaps, this hot dog soap set ($12): (#1) A (phallic)...
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The news for wieners
(Phallic preoccupations abound in this posting, sometimes in street language — I mean, look at the title above — so some readers may want to skip over it) Passed on by a friend on Facebook yesterday,...
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Keep watching this space
Yesterday, the posting “Watch this space”. I’m still away meeting a writing deadline, and I have a medical appointment too. So this posting is another Mary, Queen of Scots notice that I am Not Dead...
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Male art: the hidden talent of the conch
(There will be discussion of penises and vaginas, some of it using street language, so not for kids or the sexually modest.) Having discovered and posted about a vintage photograph of three young men...
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Tastes like glazed donut
(Gets right into gay men’s sexual parts, fore and aft, and man-on-man sexual acts, using street language, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.) … or like cherry, vanilla, peach, or pumpkin...
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The Funny Aperitif Board
This is today’s Mary, Queen of Scots Not Dead Yet posting. I am overwhelmed by piles of undone things, but suffering from deep exhaustion (no doubt a consequence of the most recent jigglings with my...
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Appetizer boards
A follow-up to my 10/20/22 posting “The Funny Aperitif Board”, with its entertaining word confusion between appetizer and aperitif — but now getting serious about the two categories involved in the...
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The dubious appetizer board
A digression from today’s intended posting, “The groaning phallic board”, the final chapter in the story of a raunchy appetizer board, which began in my 10/20 posting “The Funny Aperitif Board”. One of...
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Invitation to the groaning phallic board
(Below is the introduction to what was intended to be the fourth and final posting — “The groaning phallic board” — in what I’ve come to think of as The Tale of Raunchy Appetizers. But I was felled,...
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The Tale of Raunchy Appetizers
A gripping adventure, begun yesterday in my posting “Invitation to the groaning phallic board”, which was temporarily abandoned due to illness. The final chapter in the story of this raunchy appetizer...
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Zwicky logos
Return with me now to the middle of June, when I was impelled into the world of Zwicky logos, including not only ones for prominent Swiss commercial enterprises in grain, sewing thread, and real estate...
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The Black Friday Banana
(Just a bit about the ceremony of the BFB, which is of course date-specific. But only a hint; my day has been a complete shambles, prominently featuring long intervals of narcoleptic sleep. But a small...
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Beneath a green auroral sky
… the Christmas penguins embrace: (#1) In the sky, the green shimmer of an aurora; on the ground, a parent penguin nurtures their young one (in a green knitted cap) The image comes to me from Joel...
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Give a banana a head
(In the last section, a simulacrum of male genitals, referred to by a street name, so not to everyone’s taste, also NSFW.) Give a banana a head, and it will go far. The memic banana duck. Spread on...
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Out with the old, in with the new
The passage from one year to the next, as recognized in illustrations, cartoons, calendar pages, greeting cards, and the like. The conventional representation of this passage uses the figure of Baby...
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Penguin suits
(On the personal background, see my Zardoz posting; the posting below is one I started yesterday but was unable to finish. Hard days.) Yesterday’s Rhymes With Orange cartoon shows a collection of...
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