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The Fine Art Exemption
The media news for penises. The cover of yesterday’s New York Times Magazine, illustrating a story about Michelangelo’s David: Shocking! A penis in the NYT! The word penis, quite a lot, but...
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More on the David
News for Italian Renaissance penises, part 2. Material from the New York Times Magazine on the 21st — racy topic, but not officially X-rated. Part 1 yesterday, with the cover of the issue, showing a...
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Linguistics and its orthographically related disciplines
Nathan Sanders writes on Facebook to display the nameplate for his new position at Haverford College: There are few people in LINGUISTICS who have not been afflicted by the spelling LINQUISTICS, or...
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Two impressively eccentric artists
… in the current (August 29th) issue of the New Yorker: earth artist Michael Heizer (the subject of a profile by Dana Goodyear) and sculptor and painter Lynda Benglis, one of the arists in a current...
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Sylvia Sleigh’s male art
A follow-up to the last, bonus, section of my posting on Michael Heizer and Lynda Benglis, a section about Sylvia Sleigh and her gaze-reversal paintings: Around 1970, from feminist principles, she...
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Rainbow ads
The latest (August/September) issue of The Advocate has two themes, one long planned — it’s the LGBT travel issue — and one responding to urgent current events, the June 12 shootings at the Pulse...
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The Mystery Man of Crotch Beach
(Some crude sexual talk, but some humor, too, and plants, several plants. Use your judgment.) (Notice: Prunella vulgaris and Orchis mascula are real plants, and what I say about them and their names...
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Horns
As one of the rewards of making it through eight days of a super-lowfiber diet preparing for a colonoscopy last week, Kim Darnell brought me a box of Almond Horns, looking much like this: (#1)...
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News for penises and their simulacra
(Racy content — consider the title — so not suitable for everyone.) Two new annoyances with the Penis Ban on WordPress, Facebook, and Google+. In two recent postings on AZBlogX: “Bear poets in 1963” on...
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Briefly noted: ribbed, for her pleasure
Decidedly phallic funerary memorials have been common since ancient (probably prehistoric) times — presumably, representing aspirations to ascend in death to a new plane of being — but occasionally you...
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News for penises: NCOD, Portlandia
(Some plain talk about male bodies and man-man sex, but nothing extravagant. Use your judgment.) Yes, I will make a connection, via my guy Jacques Transue: our anniversary is National Coming Out Day,...
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Zwicky le Chat
Thanks to Google Alert this morning, I discovered Zwicky le Chat, the mascot of the Parisian home furnishings shops Fleux’, first on a cushion: (#1) The brief item descriuption: La tête de Zwicky, le...
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… and his fruit was sweet to my taste
A return, after several years, to posting my collages on this blog and on AZBlogX (depending on their X-ratings). Two inaugural postings: one already on my X blog with five collages in the Bangers...
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Another Spanish lesson
Left out of my AZBlogX posting of the 19th, “Spanish lessons”, was this item (#11 in the set), decidedly homoerotic but not actually X-rated: A Daddy-Boy scene, illustrating el papá. And ornamented...
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Emoji days
Emoji(s) are hot news these days. In the NYT yesterday, “Look Who’s Smiley Now: MoMA Acquires Original Emoji” by Amanda Hess. And just a bit earlier, two cartoons linking emoji to hieroglyphics, one by...
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Two cartoons for month’s end
.. and Halloween, though, pleasingly, neither has anything to do with All Hallows’ / All Souls’ / All Saints’. A One Big Happy that’s a study in American (and Antipodal) phonology; and a Zippy with a...
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Mad skills
Today’s Zippy, which presents an exercise in comics comprehension: (#1) If you don’t recognize the goofy freckle-faced icon Alfred E. Neuman — two-thirds of his name is supplied in the last panel —...
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Vases for phallophiles
(Warnings: penis simulacra by the handful. And not much about language.) Home furnishing news for penises, starting with a bud vase featured (very briefly) in the Bel Ami porn flick An American in...
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News for animated penises
Now in theaters and being advertised on tv: the animated movie Sausage Party, pretty much an extended (but good-hearted) dick joke. Innuendo in the posters (fill alluding to insertion, rise alluding to...
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A planter for phallophiles
In line with my recent posting on vases for phallophiles, now a little planter for the same audience. Sold on Etsy last year, link sent to me on Facebook by Emily Rizzo, photo below: Explanation from...
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