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Men swear about menswear
Today’s One Big Happy: (#1) Ah, a potential orthographic ambiguity, turning on word division: MENSWEAR as MENS WEAR ‘men’s clothing’ (what the store intends) or MEN SWEAR ‘men curse’ (what Ruthie...
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The Phantom of the jungle library
… and his servant Guran, in a scene from early in the 1996 movie The Phantom: (#1) Secure in the Chronicle Chamber within his jungle stronghold, The Phantom (Billy Zane) and his servant Guran (Radmar...
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The Bronzed Horseman
(Racy allusions, but nothing hardcore. Use your judgment.) Yesterday’s Daily Jocks ad (with a caption of mine): (#1) Pink X marks the Spot of furtive mansex in the Shadow of the highway, a dirty...
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The little kid (part 2)
Another set of photos of my family, this time a page of 6 shots of me as a little kid (age 4-7). Some notes on memory, clothing, and names for things. (#1) The top four are from the first house my...
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Chub and chums in the morning
Yesterday’s morning name was chub (the name of a fish), which led me to the rest of the bilabial-final family: chum, chump, and chup. (And that led to the velar-final family chug, Chung, chunk, chuck,...
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A pun with death, a dance on the beach
On Pinterest this morning, this Grim Reaper cartoon by Myke Ashley-Cooper (under the name Ashley Cooper): (#1) A pun on death/deaf or a mishearing, take your pick. This cartoon led me to...
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Is that a Paschal Peep in your pouch?
From Chris Hansen on Facebook, a late entry in this year’s Easter Peepstakes: a model who dreamt he played with yellow Peeps in his Aronik swimwear: (#1) About the company, its products, its models,...
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Friday word play in the comics
Two cartoons to end the week: a Rhymes With Orange with a four-word play and a Bizarro with a POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau): (#1) The Cantonese American dish moo goo gai pan ‘chicken with button...
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Appeal to base instinct
The Daily Jocks ad from the 25th, with an appeal to base, or low, instincts (of taking pleasure in viewing the male body); to the basic, or fundamental, instinct of sexual appetite; and ultimately to...
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Semiotics of dress: the Age of High Gay
From two different sources, trips back to the ’70s and ’80s and the expression of gay identities through dress. From my correspondent RJP, a link to a Tumblr site celebrating Hal Fischer’s Gay...
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blue jack
It started with my observing to a friend that a container in which a blue cheese had been stored can be used to start “blu(e)ing” any cheese, citing the blue cheddar I had recently created in my...
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Six mothers
A Zwicky family photo (from 1945 or ’46) showing Bertha and Melchior Zwicky (my Swiss grandparents), their five children, four of the five spouses (only my uncle Theodore Severin is missing from the...
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Fags Before Flags, and other in-your-face t-shirts
(Plain talk about men’s bodies and sexual practices, so use your judgment.) Thanks to Greg Parkinson for a link to this John Crisvitello t-shirt: (#1) The slogan is a send-up of the odious BROS BEFORE...
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Marco, Marco, Marco
(Men’s underwear, but nothing hard-core.) The Daily Jocks ad from the 9th, featuring the Marco Marco brand, with my caption: (#1) Maximum Marco in boxer briefs. Middle Marco in briefs. Minimal Marco in...
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“Farley”, the dog said, “get me a slice”
Three cartoons in today’s feed: a Bizarro with a talking dog; a One Big Happy with a slice that OMG might grow into a pizza; and a Zippy riff on Farley Granger and They Live by Night: (#1) (If you’re...
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Dressing for June
(Not much about language. Warning: eventually there will be hunky young men wearing virtually nothing.) As part of the run-in to Pride Month, the Out Magazine June-July issue has a page on clothes for...
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Arthur Laurents
Collecting material for Tuesday’s gay-interest posting on Farley Granger led me to Arthur Laurents (who I wrote a bit about on the occasion of his death in 2011). Yesterday’s posting in this run-up to...
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Flagging America
A recent Daily Jocks ad, with a N2N speedo-style Stars and Stripes swimsuit for Memorial Day, yesterday, also looking forward to Flag Day on June 14th and Independence Day on July 4th (with my...
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Pride Time #2: the rainbow flag doodle
The Google Doodle for today, viewable here, with this screenshot of the endpoint of an animation in which a gay flag is assembled from strips of material: (#1) (Hat tip to Ellen Seebacher.) Yes, eight...
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Pride Time #3: On the menswear watch
(Photographs of men in very little, but otherwise not alarming.) For a month that has both Pride events and Fathers Day in it, two extremes of clothing for men: (2) high-macho sexy bodywear and (3)...
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