I love you: a nipple and a pec
(Yes, about male bodies and sex between men, often in plain terms, so not for kids or the sexually modest) It begins with an e-mail ad for some recent Raging Stallion gay porn; the DVD cover photo has...
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(Jam-packed with male bodies and man-man sex discussed in street language — admittedly, along with a lot of other stuff, but there’s no denying the high raunch content — so not even remotely suitable...
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(About male-male sex in street language, definitely not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.) Unearthed this morning — amidst piles of note pages with material for, I estimate, about 500 blog...
View ArticleThe SIN and GUILT of a LINGUIST
The admirable John Wells has made my Sunday morning by informing us on Facebook that the Sunday Times (of London) cryptic crossword contains the anagram LINGUIST = GUILT + SIN Secretly, linguists have...
View ArticleA sensitive young man
From my 1/23/22 posting “Sexy Italians”, about a Pinterest offering of a 1900 painting Italian Man with a Rope by John Singer Sargent: meanwhile, Pinterest also offered me a Sargent portrait of a...
View ArticleMetalico Cat
The 2/7 Wayno/Piraro Bizarro strip offers the complex portmanteau Metalico Cat = Metallico + Calico Cat (plus a cute title from Wayno: “The Shredder”): (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the...
View ArticleVDay kisses
For Valentine’s Day, sexual (rather than social) kisses. And since this is my blog, male-male kisses, which have moved me since I was a child. The spurs being some male-male kisses recently in the...
View ArticleVincent Price and his sushi at the Boulevard
Today’s Zippy strip has Griffy and Zippy inside the Boulevard Diner in Worcester MA while snow falls outside: (#1) The two men exchange opinions about their two favorite things, which are definitely...
View Articlesurfdom
The Zippy strip for 2/20, in which Bill Griffith gets to goof on surf vs. serf: (#1) Zippy’s title: “Serf City!!”, playing on the song title “Surf City” panel 1: the serf wakes up in his cell and gets...
View ArticleGarden Prince
A Vicki Sawyer greeting card (on Sawyer’s animal art, see my 2/5/22 posting “The groundhog and the scallion”) from Ann Burlingham, Troublemaker (that’s what it says on her business card) — written on...
View ArticleWhoopee spicy beef and celery soup
Seizing a moment of pleasure in yesterday’s deeply despairing hours: the little bit that I can still manage by way of cooking, which is really just assembly and using kitchen appliances (a rice cooker,...
View ArticleZippyphrases 2
Some riffing on yesterday’s posting “Catchphrases for sale”, about this Zippy strip: (#1) Offering fresh phrases — not already in circulation as catchphrases, sayings, proverbs, slogans, famous...
View ArticleLunch with saucy Porchetta and Chimichurri
Those luscious ladies, Porchetta Banh Mi and Chimichurri Aioli, waiting for our lunch date at District Seven in San Jose (south of Palo Alto). Or so the restaurant’s owner, John Le, announced in a...
View ArticleAuntie Em and the hex wrench
Two cartoons in today’s feed: the 4/5/10 One Big Happy, in which James copes with an unfamiliar technical label by assimilating it to a name he knows; and the 3/21 Wayno / Piraro Bizarro, with a cute...
View ArticleTouch my pouch, liquid buddy
(Freely exploring men’s bodies as sexual objects and man-on-man sex, so totally inappropriate for kids and the sexually modest.) From Daily Jocks on 3/21, what I found to be a startlingly weird ad for...
View ArticleTwo cartoons on familiar themes
In my comics feed recently: a One Big Happy (from 4/6/10) on masculinity for boys; and a Wayno / Piraro Bizarro (from 4/23) with an Ahab and the whale cartoon (but with a whole lot more packed into...
View ArticleThe effeminate elephant
Effeminacy in the animal world, first in yesterday’s (3/28) Wayno/Piraro Bizarro: (#1) Not only elephant effeminacy, but also a cosmetic anagram, a rouge and peasant salve (If you’re puzzled by the odd...
View ArticleRiffs on squat
(There will, as the title tells you, be riffs on squat, well, on squat. Since I’m given to finding my material in louche and faggy places, there will be brief encounters with squat — short and thick,...
View ArticleThree cartoons for 4/12/22
(Warning: as is my way, a soupçon of smart-ass street talk.) Two on gendered topics, plus another cartoon that’s incomprehensible unless you recognize one of its elements (and only incidentally has a...
View ArticleSheep grazing among the Paschal roses
From my old friend (of 60+ years now) BBC — Benita Bendon Campbell, aka Bonnie Campbell — yesterday, a Jacquie Lawson electronic greeting card “Eastern Morning”, full of symbols of the holiday...
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