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The news for penises: wrap it in a bagpipe
Wrap it on your willy, or play it like a piper. From Sim Aberson, a link to a condom bagpipe performance. Photo here: You can watch and listen to it in action here, in a YouTube video uploaded on...
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Crate labels
Continuing the story of commercial art forms in popular culture that started with tie art this morning (“Most unusual ties”, here): the art of crate labels, for shipping fruit, vegetables, and other...
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Pleasures of patriotic penetration
(Well, dildos and vibrators, so not for everybody.) Passed on by Jeff Shaumeyer on Facebook, a startling sex toy, from the BlogRebellen website yesterday: (#1) Fühl den Nationalstolz tief in dir mit...
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Constructing a Voice of Authority through Persona
A highlight of Stanford’s graduation last Sunday for me was Andrea Lawson Kortenhoven’s “walking through” our departmental ceremony for her PhD in Linguistics, tentative title above. Something personal...
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Michael DiMotta
(Graphics on gay male subjects, probaby not for kids or the sexually modest, and with little linguistic interest.) A follow-up to my “Kinsey strip-tease” posting yesterday. I was unable to identify the...
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Fireworks, hot dogs, and, yes, gun sales
Three phallic things for (U.S.) Independence Day, the Fourth of July, today: fireworks, one of the classic audio-visual symbols of sexual climax; hot dogs (so common that there’s a whole Page on this...
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The 31-room elephant in the room
Today’s Zippy, with 19th-century novelty architecture: (#1) From Wikipedia: The Elephantine Colossus, otherwise known as the Colossal Elephant or the Elephant Colossus, or by its function as the...
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Celebrations
The Daily Jocks ad for the 4th, featuring their very own patriotic underwear, worn by a decidely worried-looking model (with my caption): Hank was always Up for the Hot-dog eating Contest, but he was...
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Wolverine eats a weenie
From the queerty site on the 11th, “37 Unintentionally Gay Moments in Comic Book History”, this Fleer trading card from 1995 (in a series of X-Men trading cards from the period): Wolverine is here...
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Time to refuel
Low? Need some? Hook up with Zwicky and let us fill you up. A neatly designed ad from 1936: (#1) And then a cruder number from the next year: (#2) Feast your eyes on that giant high-performance tank!...
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A remarkable website
A site I stumbled on — FU(UU)CKING YOUNG! (sometimes one U, sometimes three), F.Y! for short — which combines a passion for edgy men’s fashion (with great attention to the shows and the models), young...
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Cereal mascots
Today’s One Big Happy, with the kids’ grandparents at breakfast, contemplating the cereals on offer, with some dismay: (#1) It’s a tribute to the saturation of television advertising that a great many...
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The dildo days of summer
(Let the title be a warning: not at all for kids or the sexually modest.) The illustrations, beginning with an ad for a Channel 1 Releasing sale on pornstar dildos, are in an AZBlogX posting “The...
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Briefly: a humorous postcard
From Ryan Tamares (attending a conference in Chicago) a couple of weeks ago, this humorous postcard: (#1) Much of its time (1953, apparently; note that the man wears a hat), mildly racy (because it has...
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Dick’s rhyme
(Racy, but not, I think, officially dangerous to children and the sexually modest, unless the verb shag is over the line. Look, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me came out in 19 – bloody – 99, with...
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Exit BVM, enter elephants and lions
A charming piece — indeed, a hopeful story in mean times — on the editorial page of the NYT today, “A Changing of the Guard on the Front Lawn” by Francis X. Clines, about lawn statuary in a period of...
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News for penises: the Orgy logo
(Warning: mature sexual themes.) Putting DVD discs into binders (and discarding the boxes), to reduce my DVD collection to something spatially manageable, has brought me back to a classic gay porn...
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Falcon trading cards: the faces
(Entertaining news for penises, from the past. Entertaining, but not for kids or the sexually modest.) More unearthing: a set of pornstar trading cards from Falcon Studios in 1994. On one side, the...
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News for penises: dick pic advice from Eric André
(Obviously a racy topic, but, I think, no more than that.) From Kim Darnell, a link to a 8/11 GQ piece about Eric André giving no-nonsense advice to guys about taking dick pics of themselves (you can...
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Pink motels, Cadillacs, etc. etc.
Today’s Zippy takes us into the land of pink motels, pink fairies, and pink Cadillacs, which then takes us of course into the Forest of Pudendiana and sexual symbolism. There will be innocent drinks,...
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