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Alan Ritchson (and Justin Hartley)
(Not about language, but about shirtless actors, mostly in underwear.) An episode of Smallville that came by in reruns this morning featured hunky actor Alan Ritchson as Arthur Curry aka Aquaman, a...
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Model cats
(Not much about language.) From Laura Staum Casasanto, a link to a site on “Cats that look like male models”. Pure silliness. Not all the men can fairly be described as male models; some are just...
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Yet another -kini
From Karen Chung on Facebook, this story from 8/21/12 (note the date), “The Latest Chinese Beach Craze – Face-kini”: A new kind of swimwear trend is sweeping the Chinese beaches in Qingdao in eastern...
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Shirtless hypallage
From recent postings on shirtlessness: I didn’t find really stunning shirtless photos of them [Riley and Xander] separately, but I did come across a manip … of the two of them in carnal congress (link)...
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Swiss shirtlessness
From Amanda Walker, this link to a piece from The Local: Switzerland’s News in English, on “In Pictures: Shock! Farmers in underpants are models!”. Ok, it combines Switzerland (one of my two ancestral...
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House men
(Not really about language, but just about popular culture on a Sunday morning.) Re-runs of House have been going past me this morning. On the show, from Wikipedia: House (also known as House, M.D.) is...
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More bottoms and tops
From Chris Hansen on Facebook, this new contribution to the clothing bottom/top thread: Previous installments, with explanations of the sexual senses of bottom and top: 7/11/11 “Active bottoms” 1013/11...
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This year’s Santa skivvies
(Not a lot about language.) Time for this year’s bulletin on the Santa Skivvy run in Boston: On the 2012 run, here and here. Not a lot to say about skivvies. From NOAD2: trademark underwear, esp. a...
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More Santa skin
Following up on Santa skivvies (here), here’s a Skintight Santa Costume on BoingBoing 12/16: Creepy.
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Eleganza
Today’s goofy Zippy: A grab-bag of stuff here, beyond the 60s clothes: the playful coolth (which has been around for some time) and Clauditude (certainly special to Zippy); the punning allusion to...
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Zippy on sleep, and more
Today’s Zippy (more or less about sleep), with a rich collection of references and allusions: (#1) Some cultural references, another diner, and (via the diner) country ham and beaten biscuit (“Food,...
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Today’s hunk
(Not about language, except insofar as the question of what constitutes genital nudity comes up.) From Max Vasilatos, this impressive hunk, from male photographer Jonathan Black’s book Idols: This...
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Lateral flash thong
(Mostly, but not entirely, about men’s underwear.) On Facebook, a link passed on by Matthew Melmon to a June 13th posting on the Metro (U.K.) website, “Amazing news! Now you too can own this...
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Cartooning at the diner
Today’s Zippy, with Zippy and Griffy on cartoon styles and men’s fashions: (#1) And, in the third panel, a diner — which turns out to be identifiable, and leads us to some surprising places (Mercury...
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Abs of the week
… plus a kilt and an implied (sort of) apology: (Hat tip to Paul Armstrong.) It’s been a while since I posted images of shirtless men with astounding abs (and pecs, delts, traps, and biceps, but oh,...
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The mysteries of desire
From Xopher Walker recently, this cartoon (of 1/11/90) from Matt Groening’s Life in Hell strip: (#1) Akbar and Jeff’s sexuality was the subject of a number of strips, including five posted here on...
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geosocial
It starts with today’s Doonesbury – (#1) and ends with shirtless lycanthrophy. In between: Roland Hedley, III, the apps Tinder and Grindr (with some shirtlessness), geosocial networking (aka...
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Homage to Marky / Mark
(The first of two postings with vanishingly little linguistic comment, but plenty of appreciation of male bodies, plus material on the projection of sexuality in photographs. Not technically X-rated,...
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Bromantics: Pine and Quinto, Kirk and Spock
(The second item on male homosexuality, gay-straight relations, acting, and the male body — following “Homage to Marky / Mark”. Very little of linguistic interest. Steamy, but not X-rated, images.) I...
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More television hunks: NCIS: Los Angeles
Yes, more shirtless men (following on Nick Jonas and Chris Pine, Zach Quinto, and Leonard Nimoy), but now with a semantic point, about systems of categorization, in this case a pop scheme of somatotype...
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