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Julio Torres
In my e-mail recently, the program for this year’s New Yorker Festival, with some of the interviewees in a display ad: (#1) No, I don’t know why pink; Cumming, Maddow, and Torres are notably LGBT, but...
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Done with style
Back on 8/23, Benjamin Dreyer (long-time copy chief at Random House, now retired to the life of a pointedly opinionated public intellectual, and connecting with me on Facebook) celebrated the birthday...
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Put on some pants, ranger!
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro — Wayno’s title: “Forestry Union Negotiations” — plays with the homophones bear and bare in a fresh way, turning on the fact that Smokey the Bear (in those American...
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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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SoCal lads with spread-lip smiles
… and boy-foot bear with teak of Chan … no, no, Kent McCord and the Nelsons’ Rick, that’s the ticket. (Tales of male-male desire and sexual acts — so this posting will be edgy for some readers — but...
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From my e-mail: two male nudes
tiger tiger tiger for ultimate December; it’s New Year’s Eve, so tomorrow’s rabbits will accompany the enfant terrible 2025, while my end-of-the-year e-mail brings me two male nudes, of very different...
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Dylan by Smith
I guess because of the success of the 2024 movie A Complete Unknown (about Bob Dylan’s early career), the video of the crowning piece of the Dylan Nobel Prize ceremony popped up on Facebook recently:...
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Arbeit macht frei
International Holocaust Memorial Day today: 80 yrs. since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp (worin Arbeit wird freimachen) by Soviet soldiers. That was in January 1945; in April of that...
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Fortuitous soup
This is a third Kharkiv Opera posting, about a pleasant, playful, joyous event staged in the face of terrible times. Previously on this blog: — on 3/9, “The dandelion caper”, about the enjoyment of the...
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Vending-machine objects of desire
[Naked men making love, so not to everyone’s taste (but so carefully done it can appear on a book cover, so no alarm bells)] Briefly noted: a clever photo (attributed on Pinterest to male photographer...
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