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The news for cigars
Following up on yesterday’s posting “No cigar”, on a Tom Chitty cartoon with phallic foodstuffs striving to become cigars, two items: You’re no Cigar (Lloyd Bentsen: You’re no Jack Kennedy) and...
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Fellatial publicity photos
(About men’s bodies and man-man sex, in very plain talk, with only a little bit of linguistic interest — so not for kids or the sexually modest.) What is this man so earnestly fixed on?: A penis, which...
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Asian male muscle in fantasyland
(Male bodies and elaborate photographic fantasies, to inaugurate 2017, which is, by the way, a prime number.) From my correspondent RJP, a link to the work of the Skiinmode studio (supplying Asian male...
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A kiss is just a kiss
(About men kissing and how people interpret such acts. There will be references to man-on-man sexual acts, so you should be prepared to exercise some judgment.) A kiss is not just a kiss; it’s almost...
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A snapshot of the field
Now for something completely different: something that has to do neither with Valentine’s Day nor with sex / sexuality. Instead, a project portraying linguists, in photographs and texts, from an...
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Corey Saucier
… the male model, in body-display, rather than fashion-display, mode — so only a little about language. On the other hand, this posting is, in word and image, at least technically SFW (though...
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The baby and the little kid (part 1)
Not about language, but about my life. In photographs from over 70 years ago. Partly in response to a request from a friend on Facebook to post baby photos, partly as part of a project to post more...
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For the day
The text: And I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered I don’t have a friend who feels at ease I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered or driven to its knees But it’s alright, it’s alright,...
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In camera
Today’s Zippy takes us to photographic LA: (#1) While namechecking the famous American photographers Diane Arbus, Edward Weston, Berenice Abbott, and Weegee, Zippy peers in the window of the Darkroom...
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An urban jungle
Back on the 12th, I posted about the “War of the Weeds” in back of the Palo Alto downtown library, across the street from my house: a contest between common ivy, ailanthus, and golden bamboo for...
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Revisiting 6: Fire Island Pines
From June 30th, a posting “In the dunes, in the dunes” about Fire Island Pines, in reality, in gay porn, and in gay cartoons. At the time, Emily Rizzo wrote me about Tom Bianchi’s [2013] book on the...
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Boys with Plants
The name of an Instagram site, which I learned about from Laura Staum Casasanto today. Stunning plants (heavy on houseplants, but by no means confined to them) accompanied by good-looking men,...
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Que Seurat, Seurat
(‘Whatever Seurat is, Seurat is’, that is, ‘Seurat is what he is’. That’s with English que /ke/, as in “Que Sera, Sera”.) A photo by Elizabeth Zwicky on Facebook on the 14th: (#1) Boston harbor; the...
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Superhero supper
This morning I stumbled on an odd vein of art: superhero parodies of the Last Supper. Two examples: (#1) by Michael Kozlov; note Thanksgiving turkey (#2) by Luis M. Hernandez The intersection of two...
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Er ist der Schönste in Berlin
(Men in fetishwear, or less, starting with today’s Barcode Berlin model from Daily Jocks, with a caption from me. Steamy and suggestive, but no more.) (#1) Felix, an athletic Submissive, can be Viewed,...
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Objects of carnal desire
(Men’s bodies and sexual desire, decidedly racy but not explicit. Use your judgment.) The latest from Daily Jocks, with an offer of the 2018 Pump! calendar: (#1) Male photography by Rick Day for the...
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The world out my front door
I post a lot about the world out my front door: what can be seen and appreciated within a few blocks of my house on Ramona St.: buildings, businesses, public art, parks, food, and (especially) plants....
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Chard semantics, chard art, and chard food
My recent Swiss steak posting,”Braised short ribs with Swiss chard, and the Swiss Hotel” on the 15th, in considering Swiss chard as an ingredient in cooking, also looked at the semantics of the...
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Get your cruise face on
(About the social-sexual world of gay men — men negotiating for sex — so much of this is not for kids or the sexually modest.) Two recent Daily Jocks postings featuring men displaying their bodies in...
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Bruce Weber II: the photographer’s gaze
It begins with this photo, sent to me by a gay friend who found it, unattributed, on a hot-men website; found it, um, moving; and thought I would too: (#1) Filed under “Hunks at play”, though the hunks...
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