What makes the world go round?
Today’s Zippy starts with Zippy and Griffy at Universal Studios Hollywood, reflecting on what is worthwhile in our lives: (#1) Griffy inventories some of his passions, in high culture and popular...
View ArticleThe clown facial
Today’s Rhymes With Orange, with a clown facial: (#1) From NOAD, the nouning of the Adj facial ‘of or affecting the face’: noun facial: a beauty treatment for the face. Then the noun facial ‘facial...
View ArticlePortraits of Frank O’Hara
(Mostly about poetry and art, poets and artists, with some raunchy moments on men’s bodies and mansex, so kids and the sexually modest should steer clear, but not much about language, or for that...
View ArticleThe Magnificent WaterSports
(Men’s bodies and mansex, not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.) In the Daily Jocks mailing yesterday, this heavily sexualized ad for WaterShorts swimwear (in black, aqua, lime, and coral), the...
View ArticleMickey gets stuffed for Pride
A week from today (on the 28th) is Stonewall Day, this year the 50th anniversary of the original event, which helped to catalyze a long tradition of homophile organizations and protests into annual Gay...
View ArticleOn your knees for St. George Michael
(Mostly about men’s bodies and mansex, flagrantly, in street language, so not for kids or the sexually modest.) Every year, as a lead-up to Stonewall Day, June 28th, comes a much more specific — male...
View ArticleFashion notes for Pride 2019
This year on the Pride catwalk, it’s shorts and one-piece garments. In stunning show-off colors. Rainbow shorts. They come in various styles, and the rainbow ones mostly have the flag colors in...
View ArticleThree Pride moments
Pride Month is past, and so is the Fourth of July (US Independence Day), but my postings on these celebrations will go on for some time. Today, three images for Pride: the art of the flag; penguins at...
View ArticleI do like a bit of cowboy butter to my meat
The original spur was this Pinterest item: (#1) [ cowboy butter ] [ dipping sauce ] On the dipping sauce in #1; the cowboy butter that is its basis; the interpretation of cowboy butter and other cowboy...
View ArticleNever go out without a speech balloon
That’s today’s advice from Zippy: (#1) Zippy is a long-time fan of speech balloons, their history, their uses, their attractions. In fact, speech balloons are a fairly frequent explicit theme in...
View ArticleContamination by association
(Regularly skirting or confronting sexual matters, so perhaps not to everyone’s taste.) Yesterday’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro takes us back to the Garden of Eden: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols...
View ArticleAnnals of phallicity: symbol and simulacrum
(Warning: consider the subject; penises will be under discussion, so some will want to skip this posting.) I’ll start with the logo of Herb’s Plumbing & Heating, 2562 Noble Rd., Cleveland OH: (#1)...
View ArticleLexical adventures: kinks
Recently in Facebook postings from Steven Levine, issues of a Popular Mechanics annual supplement Home Kinks from the 1940s and 1950s, supplying illustrated advice on home maintenance. Two things: some...
View ArticleBig sexy prime birthday gay ice cream
(References to gay male life, men’s bodies, and mansex, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.) Yesterday was my birthday, my 79th, 79 being, as I noted in a 8/29 posting for the day, a sexy...
View ArticlePat-SU fuck: new visions
Yes, this posting is about fucking — specifically about the syntax, semantics, and sociolinguistics of the sexual verb fuck in English, especially with reference to male-male anal intercourse (that is,...
View ArticleAnnals of burritio
(It starts with burrito-savoring, but immediately spreads to flagrantly carnal acts described in plain terms, so not for kids or the sexually modest.) An old ad campaign for Taco Bell’s beefy burritos,...
View ArticleNOOKY at Poundland
On the shelves at the Poundland on the London Rd. in Brighton SX, for £1, this item that Lynne Murphy came across recently: (#1) She posted her astonishment yesterday on Facebook at finding BLUE PILLS...
View ArticleHung with care
Yes, cheap louche wordplay, and for Christmas. Manifested in the playful and deeply carnal CGI artwork of Vadim Temkin, in his alphabet of gay sex, where the letter shapes are formed by men’s bodies...
View Articleharam / treyf
(This posting discusses sexual matters in very plain terms and is deliberately and grossly offensive in several ways, so it’s not for kids, the sexually modest, or those who are uncomfortable with the...
View ArticlePreference labels and little pockets
(This will go, almost immediately, into the weeds of male genitals and mansex in street talk, so not for kids or the sexually modest.) Daily Jocks ad on the 10th (with somewhat rocky non-native...
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