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Meat shoes
From Ruth Lawrence on Facebook yesterday, a version of these meat-shoe photos, which had come to her on the net (the way things are customarily passed around, without sourcing): (#1) The meat shoes But...
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The eminence grise of underwear models
(Underwear model leaving only a bit to the imagination, with a sprinkling of the F-word in the text, so not to everyone’s taste) The story begins with 7/23 e-mail from Bill Stewart (a friend who...
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Four models and a film-maker
It begins with an arresting photo on Pinterest yesterday showing two beautiful young men in each other’s arms: (#1) From the Fashionably Male website, “STOP & STARE Alexan Sarikamichian New Work:...
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Former Frog in Fableland
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro, in which a prince grouses, over a tipple, about his amatory career, to a nobleman, one of his courtiers: It seems the prince was once a frog and could rake in the chicks...
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Timeless fashion for all seasons
For all seasons, Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky wrote me a little while back, in recommending a Wooly Mammoth fashion plate (in wool) from the “Autumn / Winter 300,000 years ago collection” by Ruby...
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I PAINT BOYS
(Talk about male bodies and sex between men in plain language, so, alas, not suitable for kids or the sexually modest) The artistic manifesto of Polish queer artist Wojciech Woś (now working in...
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The cob-canine corn dog
Steven Levine on Facebook on 8/23, reporting in from an enormously crowded Minnesota State Fair, posted this cartoon t-shirt from the fair, with a note of distress: (#1) SL: I find this t- shirt design...
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Leyendecker Labor Day
From Tim Evanson on Facebook this morning: It’s Labor Day in the United States. Here is a Labor Day image by J.C. Leyendecker, the gay illustrator who was probably the greatest magazine cover artist of...
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Queerios
9/8 , and it’s Antonin Dvořák’s birthday (in 1841); see my 1/27/24 posting “Spillville”, about Spillville IA and the Czech composer, with this note: let me recommend the Wikipedia article on Dvořák,...
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Phaethon, Sisyphus, Putin, Darwin
It started with this rich (but baffling) painting on Pinterest a little while back: (#1) A young boy, standing in a lake or river, holds up a fish he has caught on a line, while a band of intense light...
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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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Speeding into the 20th century
Encountered on Pinterest today, this cover of Collier’s magazine from 1/19/1907: an early J.C. Leyendecker work of gay soft porn in the style of classical sculpture (an art form that lets the artist...
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Eugene Daniels
A panel discussion about the elections on MSNBC. Among the panelists, the regular contributor Eugene Daniels, the White House correspondent for Politico: amiable, funny, sharp, passionate — a smart,...
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A Swiss philological moment
Wayles Browne writes from Cornell: you might spare a posting for Jacob Wackernagel, the Swiss philologist, who was the first to make sense of second-position clitics...
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Beau Butler’s shirt
(Waist-deep in gay porn, so it strays into sexual territory that’s definitely off-limits for kids and the sexually modest) A HuntForMen (from Falcon | NakedSword) membership ad — gay porn you can...
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A second look at a shirt-spreading Beau Butler
(Entertaining and enlightening, I hope, but definitely not for kids or the sexually modest.) Yesterday, in my posting “Beau Butler’s shirt” (about shirt-lifting as sexual invitation, and gay porn actor...
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Slip into a plush penguin
From Chris Ambidge (one of the Wardens of the Spheniscid Zarchives) on Facebook this morning: (#1) [CA > AZ:] Arnold! Have you considered … penguin slippers? Keeping Feathers McGraw underfoot might...
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The naked scribe
From Tim Evanson on Facebook yesterday, this cover art by J.C. Leyendecker (1874-1951): The Literary Digest of 6/12/1909: (#1) Homoerotic soft porn in the style of classical sculpture (complete with a...
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Fangs for the memories
Very briefly: in entry 5 in the Waynoratu Nosferamanteau marathon, today, two anti-establishment vampires greet one another: A 1960s-style hippie on the right (peace symbol, long hair, headband, etc.),...
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Hats off to the vampires!
For yesterday, 1/18, in Bizarro, the 6th and I suppose last Waynoratu Nosferamanteau: The male nosferatu (holding a wineglass of what is presumably blood, and chatting with his young female companion...
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