(Part of this posting will dive right into gay porn for the day, with street-talk musings on man-on-man sex that’s totally off-limits for kids and the sexually modest; I’ll hold this part off until the end, so if you need to you can bail out then)
It’s St. Patrick’s Day, and in my e-mail: two Bob Eckstein cartoons for the day (on turning and wearing green for the day); and a Falcon Studios sale on gay porn, made holiday-appropriate by the mere addition of a shamrock, but which opens the topic of gay porn with actual St. Patrick’s day themes.
Background: being green. Ireland is associated with the color green: it’s the Emerald Isle (from its verdant landscape, the color of emeralds), the (very green) shamrock is a national symbol, and the national flag, the Irish tricolour, has a significantly green stripe. Ireland’s patron saint, Patrick, and his saint’s day, March 17th, then pick up the color green from Ireland.
I’ve posted about the shamrock — in a section of my 4/17/22 posting “Easter morning redux” — but not about the Irish tricolour, so a few words now on the national flag of Ireland:
(#1) Green, white, and orange stripes (a cousin to Italy’s green, white, and red)
Wikipedia on the Irish tricolour, an earnest and hopeful flag:
The green pale of the flag symbolises Roman Catholics, the orange represents the minority Protestants who were supporters of William of Orange. His title came from the Principality of Orange but his power from his leadership as Stadtholder of the Netherlands, a Protestant bastion from the 16th century. The white in the centre signifies a lasting peace and hope for union between Protestants and Catholics in Ireland. The flag, as a whole, is intended to symbolise the inclusion and hoped-for union of the people of different traditions on the island of Ireland, which is expressed in the Constitution as the entitlement of every person born in Ireland to be part of the independent Irish nation, regardless of ethnic origin, religion or political conviction.
The bob cartoons: turning green, wearing green.
Turning green. In Weekly Humorist magazine, hot dogs on the street:
(#2) Turned green; the vendor maintains that it’s intentional — green beer, green cookies and cakes, why not green hot dogs (or pretzels or chestnuts or …)? — but the cautious buyer might want to perform a sniff test
But all this turning things green is on a small scale. On a larger scale, cities light up big buildings in green, paint some streets green, and, yes, dye their rivers green — Chicago, famously. From Travel and Leisure magazine, “How and Why Chicago Turns Its River Green for St. Patrick’s Day” by Meena Thiruvengadam on 6/23/23:
(#3) Shamrock green for St. Patrick (photo: Scott Olson / Getty Images)Every year, St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago is celebrated with a massive parade. Preparations begin the Saturday before the holiday, when the city turns its namesake river green — part of a decades-long tradition that almost never happened.
In 1961, the city of Savannah, Ga., attempted to dye the river behind its City Hall green, however, the best they could do was create colored streaks in the water. The following year, Mayor Richard J. Daley — a politician of Irish-American descent who was raised in a heavily Irish neighborhood in Chicago — had been hoping to turn Lake Michigan green for the holiday.
After finding out that turning Lake Michigan green was a bit too much to ask, a group of Chicago plumbers identified the right formula for turning a city river the perfect shamrock shade, and a new holiday tradition was born the following year, in 1962. Finding the green color was truly a happy accident, according to the Illinois tourism site, as the plumbers union’s business manager just happened to notice bright green stains on another worker’s coveralls while they were off working on a different job — and the color was perfect.
Wearing green. In The West Side Rag (in NYC):
(#4) St. Patrick fashion for dogs
Meanwhile, for humans, hats in several Irish styles, ties, suits, dresses, shoes, and more, all shamrock green.
Patrick porn. (If you’re under 18, or XXX-averse, this is where you bail out.) What came up in my morning e-mail (with the dick in the original fuzzed out for WordPress modesty, but it’s a standing fuck, so it’s XXX conceptually, just not visually):
(#5) the image, with nicely posed bodies (though the angle of entry would be much more comfortable if the receptive man bent forward) and with classic facial expressions for the two men (Workman fucks Ecstatic); and (#6) the sale offer, with shamrock (porn-irrelevant) and phallus (holiday-irrelevant)
(The Shamrock and the Phallus: a title that clearly needs to be fleshed out in a saga of pedication in the emerald-green clover fields of March: Roll ‘im over / In the clover … Roll ‘im over ‘n / Fuck ‘im again!)
I then recalled that there are gay porn flicks, or at least scenes, on St. Patrick themes. There seems, in fact, to be a subgenre devoted to Pornstar1 Fucks Pornstar2 In Green — with one or both of the actors wearing a green Irish hat (and possibly some other green accessories). Yes, this is profoundly silly, but that’s part of its charm: diverting the urgent drive to fuck and get fucked, prolonging the ride, through playful interventions.
So, from the Queer Me Now site, “Jordan Boss Fucks Blayne Wilson in St. Patrick’s Day Porn” on 3/17/16:
It’s St. Patrick’s Day, of course porn studios are releasing St. Patrick’s Day theme porn videos. Gay Room just released this new POV video starring Blayne Wilson and former Sean Cody model Jordan Boss. Check out this video … where Blayne Wilson gets fucked by Jordan Boss.
(Note the shift in point of view: in the header, Boss fucks Wilson; in the text, Wilson gets fucked by Boss. The first is neutral reporting; the second adopts the viewpoint of a large part of the clientele for gay porn, whose desires incline to the receptive.)
From this video:
(#6) Blayne Wilson, happily lordotic in a green hat and beads
To wrap things up, an earlier posting on Patrick Porn, from 3/17/19 (“V me, I’m Irish”):
(#7) Knox’s half-smile of pleasure at having Rivers’s cock in his ass oh yes baby yes yes yes fuck me like that oh sweet jesus fuck (not an actual transcript)Four things: One, [in a St. Patrick’s Day sale ad:] Dakota Rivers fucking Liam Knox in Dick Danger 2: The Return of the Dick, and their facial expressions — in particular, Knox’s half-smile of pleasure in being fucked. Two, Kiss me, I’m Irish and playful variations on the catchphrase, including Fuck me, I’m Irish and Blow me, I’m Irish. Three, a note on the pleasures of being fucked. Four, some bilingual wordplay on Kiss me / Baise-moi.
Sadly, no green accessories for Liam Knox.