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The solemn duties of Independence Day Eve
What must be done on this day, according to an adaptation of the cover for Uncle Sam: Special Election Edition, about the DC Comics character Uncle Sam, who is himself a dark and hallucinatory version...
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Nice guy with an American flag beach ball
(Talk about men’s genitals, so not to everyone’s taste; it’s coming up fast, so if you want to avert your eyes, do it now) For the 4th of July, welcoming us to the swimming pool, he’s projecting...
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Let me do few tricks
(Charms of the male body, plus a striptease song, so not to everyone’s taste) A Daily Jocks e-mail ad in my mailbox today, with this beautifully composed male figure: [AMZ caption:] Let me entertain...
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The coming duodecfest
Not pocalypse, but fest / A day on which I’m blest: September 6th is the coming AMZ duodecfest, the celebration of my 84th birthday, 84 being the 7th — and therefore lucky — duodecade (a duodecade is a...
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A taste for snails
Nelson Minar writing on Facebook on 7/19 alludes to the controversial oysters vs. snails bath scene in the 1960 movie Spartacus: Facebook has now figured out that I prefer snails to oysters so it is...
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Puns, clever and raunchy
Sunday (7/28) is once again Punday, with a clever pun from the PunHub site and a couple of raunchy puns in a gay porn ad on the Gay DVD Empire site. (Warning: the raunchy section is unsuitable for kids...
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A homo thesaurus
An alert yesterday from Ernesto Cuba about the Homosaurus project: an LGBT thesaurus, with a portmanteau name homosaurus = homo(sexual) + thesaurus — thesaurus from Ancient Greek, meaning ‘treasure,...
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Toto, Tonto, let’s call the whole thing off
Today’s Dan Piraro Bizarro, in three panels: an odd title panel that seems to be mostly about phallicity in the mythic Old West, and two Toto / Tonto confusion panels: the Lone Ranger and Toto (with a...
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What’s in YOUR holster?
By some odd accident, today has turned out to be Holster Day — it’s also, unrelatedly, the (96th) birthday of the late Bill Bright, eminent linguist and great friend — as the first panel in a Bizarro...
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The NASCAR snail races
That is, the NASCARGOT races, as a Bizarro of 12/26/10 has it, reveling in the portmanteau of NASCAR and escargot (French ‘snail’) and showing us Dan Piraro’s goofy conception of snails in a NASCAR...
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I PAINT BOYS
(Talk about male bodies and sex between men in plain language, so, alas, not suitable for kids or the sexually modest) The artistic manifesto of Polish queer artist Wojciech Woś (now working in...
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A Mexican in Paris
(About art, and about some Z-folk (yay us!), but the Z-folk are knee-deep in homoerotic art (yay for Team Sodomite!), and male bodies and man-on-man sex will be discussed in plain language, so this...
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In the midst of violent conflict, echoes of St. Sebastian
Found via Pinterest, a pointer to the Hi-Fructose site (“The new contemporary art magazine”), “On View: Johnny ‘KMNDZ’ Rodriguez & Nicola Verlato at Merry Karnowsky Gallery” on 2/14/2015 (details...
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White Party
White Party: my name for the white-flower bouquet that León Hernández Alvarez gave me last Thursday for my birthday, which I trimmed and rearranged yesterday. It sits on my worktable, giving me great...
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IMMIGRANTS EAT OUR DOGS
So reads a sign — a genuine sign, not an achievement of digital image-making — reproduced widely on Facebook in the past two days: (#1) The sign at the Wiener Circle / Wieners Circle / Wiener’s Circle,...
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A dragon, some pansies, and a dispute in the Bob family
Presents from Max Vasilatos a couple days ago: a little brass dragon figurine (the dragon is my Chinese astrological animal), a box of Max-designed flower notecards (prominently including some pansies;...
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Gimme a Z, gimme an X
Mike Pope on Facebook yesterday, about this banner on e-mail that had come to him: — MP: I mean, wtf is “Zix®” and why would this banner across an email in any way reassure me about anything? Followed...
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Penguins, on the ice and with a cocktail
From the squadron leader of the AMZ Penguin Patrol, Michael Palmer, two recent items I’ll package together: a real-life penguin on ice in a delightful photo; and a collection of penguin simulacra (in...
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When X means yes
… in one sense / use of yes: ‘yes, I select this one’. Which came up yesterday as I was ordering an Original Italian Sub from the Jersey Mike’s Subs in Mountain View CA, just south of Palo Alto...
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Idiom come to life
A cartoon by Suerynn Lee in the New Yorker issue of 10/14/24: (#1) We’re … we’re … like two peas in a pod! Those peas really know their idioms. The peapod pendant. From my 8/5/23 posting of this name,...
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