The gang of four
A follow-up to yesterday’s posting “Certified queer”, a riff on a t-shirt that I posted about in 2022; the message on it is the playful 100% Certified Queer, and it has the the label QUEER in it....
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The first of two postings about message-bearing t-shirts. This one is a riff on a tee that I posted about in 2022; its message is the playful 100% Certified Queer, and the label QUEER in it turns out...
View ArticleThe group birthday card
Arriving a bit after the day itself (9/6), a big (two 8 x 12 panels) greeting attached to the handle to the front door of my apartment. Signed by many of the other residents at Avant. None of whom I...
View ArticlePinned with Pride
[I started this posting a few days ago, but was balked from moving ahead by bad juju in both Facebook and WordPress. The curses magically lifted on 9/9. So I’m back on task now, but it’s 9/11 (25th...
View ArticleLabor Day 2026 #1
It’s Labor Day weekend in my country — unofficially serving also as the end of summer — and we are supposed to be celebrating ordinary working people (OWP). Eventually, I’ll grind into the tangled mass...
View ArticleBright lights and moral purposes
(all the way at the end, we get to some sexual street talk, which I think has exactly the right shock value for its context; but if s*cking c*ck offends you, skip the next-to-last sentence) It starts...
View ArticleLoci of gay desire
(images that aren’t actually XXX-rated, but get as close to the line as possible while serving WordPress modesty — so some readers may choose to avert their eyes) Briefly noted. For charging up the...
View ArticleDogbookman
The promised note on Albert Payson Terhune — with a name like that, he’d have to have been at least upper middle class, and he was, he was — and his dog books. From Wikipedia: Albert Payson Terhune...
View ArticleStanding out
This morning, I went to get a bunch of lab tests done at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (for a nephrologist consultation tomorrow) and discovered that a lot of the phlebotomists recognized me,...
View ArticleCool nights
It’s mid-August, and still hot summer in Palo Alto, but the nights are now cool (quilt time is upon me) and it’s cool when I get up (around 3 am), moving me to put on a thick flannel shirt and gelling...
View ArticleAdam’s ribbing
It’s all about men’s crotches, but it’s not actually X-rated; but, but … it is about crotches and their contents. Adam in a jockstrap, Adam in a rubber. Adam in a jockstrap: the jock with ribbed pouch....
View ArticleFaces of fulfillment
(all about sex between men, described largely in street language, and utterly inappropriate for kids and the sexually modest) Two engaging images of faces, both conveying pleasure, during man-on-man...
View ArticleTwo notes on gay moral purpose
One inspired by Aaron Broadwell, one by Steven Levine; I get a little help from my friends. Broadwell. First, a shameless exploitation of a friend’s life story to make a point. On Facebook yesterday...
View ArticleJesus pyjamas, and a sweatshirt
From Toni Borowsky (in Australia) on Facebook on 6/24: Jesus PYJAMAS! Ffs I am seeing ads for Jesus pyjamas. (AuE / BrE spelling PYJAMAS, AmE PAJAMAS) In response: — AZ > TB: Links! Pix! We need...
View ArticleThe pocket bulge
Fresh news for male genitalia, in a Daily Jocks e-mail ad today (5/13): DJX Prime Enhancing Underwear: an instant bulge booster. Provides the illusion of great size, thereby addressing the American...
View ArticleREX&M graphic art
Spurred by Max Vasilatos’s show-n-tell at the most recent (5/3) soc.motss get-together on Zoom, some material on the S&M graphic artist REX, assembled from material in his Wikipedia entry; the...
View Articleassless (also: amply assed)
(much talk of men’s bodyparts and some of man-on-man sex, much of it in street language, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest) Background: from Benjamin Dreyer on Facebook yesterday (5/7),...
View ArticleThree plants
Three plants — all old favorites of mine — that have recently caught my helper Isaac’s attention on our walks around downtown Palo Alto: two because of their striking foliage and flowers, one because...
View ArticleThe SIR shirt
(plenty of references to a wide rage of sexual practices, mostly between men (though not in street language), so dubious for kids and not for the sexually modest) A e-mail ad today for a new t-shirt...
View ArticleStylish? Or in costume?
(lots of discussion of men’s bodies in street language and similar references to sex between men, so not for kids r the sexually modest) Stylish? Or in costume? There can be a fine line here, often...
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