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Movies and tv: ethnic versatility (Savalas)
(Minimal linguistic content) Actors take on roles of all sorts, often adopting another ethnicity as well as another personality. Actors of Mediterranean ancestry, in particularly, are (within limits)...
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Movies and tv: Troy McClure, Troy Donahue, Robert Conrad
(Minimal linguistic content — but some homoerotic shirtlessness, if that’s your thing) Two comments on my Doug McClure posting: from Chuk Craig (“I always liked his cousin Troy”) and Christopher Walker...
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Dirk Caber
(Some frank talk about (gay) sex, but no X-rated images. Not a lot about language, but some.) Over on AZBlogX, I’ve just posted on cumshots (images of ejaculation) and (gay) cumfaces (photos of men...
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More pairings on AZBlogX
Over the years, I’ve posted (on AZBlogX and this blog) a number of paired photos, in several categories (some labeled as “bookends”), almost all supplied by Chris Ambidge. The most recent crop, on my X...
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Magnum
Just went past me on television: an ad for Magnum Ice Cream Bars: (#1) (from the Magnum Ice Cream site; “Magnum Ice Cream Bars are made with creamy Ice Cream and Belgian Chocolate”). The bars are big...
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The panda shirt
I haven’t been inventorying panda postings (penguin postings, yes), but I have two friends who fancy themselves as pandas, so this t-shirt (passed along by Steve Carter and Aric Olnes on Facebook)...
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Feuilleton: Simon & Simon
Caught in passing, in a NYT obit for Don Mankiewicz, a reference to his writing scripts for many tv shows, including Simon & Simon, which was a great favorite of my guy Jacques. On the show, from...
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Feuilleton: Allan Kayser
In a discussion of The Gospel Four (I Won’t Walk Without Jesus) on Facebook, things veered — don’t ask — onto the tv show Mama’s Family, which brought us to Allan Kayser from the show and led me to...
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Morning: Steve Burton Richter
This morning’s name was Burton Richter, the Stanford physicist. That led me to a photo of Richter with a quote from him — and Google then obligingly turned up a photo of soap opera hunk Steve Burton...
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The abs/junk buddies
(Not really about language.) For the holiday weekend, the Daily Jocks site offers a new Neon range from the Male Basics company. Neon Yellow, the seriously butch, threatening guy on the right, says to...
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The Diamond Sweat Short, with caption
The latest offering from Daily Jocks: the Diamond Sweat Short from SupaWear, now provided with a caption: Todd insists on the right Equipment for the job.
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Hunkville
(Not much on language, but some male eye-candy.) Just viewed on tv, a 2003 Smallville episode “Prodigal”, with an actor credited as Paul Wasilewski playing an intense Lucas Luthor. During the course of...
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Get ready for an ambush…
(On the underwear and gay sex beat, not much about language.) The heading on yesterday’s ad from the Daily Jocks people, with this arresting image: The ad copy: Presenting the all new Ambush Singlet...
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Movies and tv: Ian Anthony Dale
Caught two episodes of Murder in the First (set in San Francisco) on cable tv this morning and was struck by one member of the supporting cast, Ian Anthony Dale, playing Lieut. Jim Koto. Yes, despite...
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It just got bigger
From the Daily Jocks people, announcing a sale (the savings just got bigger) and also toying with the idea of penis enlargement. And then there’s a point about the semantics / pragmatics of just, which...
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Hecho en México
So it says on the hunky body of Mr. Mexico 2014, José Pablo Minor: (#1) (shown here in a body-display pose that emphasizes his torso, makes a V that points to his crotch, and stops just short of...
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Happy Ending
(On the language of sex — but with a fair amount of sex, so this posting might not be to everyone’s taste.) “Happy Ending” was the header on this e-mail from the Daily Jocks people yesterday,...
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Milo Ventimiglia
(Another in a series of postings about performers who have given me pleasure. Minimal linguistic content.) Seen on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit a few days ago: the episode “Escape” (season 5,...
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That goes without
From the June 14th NYT Magazine, a “First Words” column by Amanda Hess, “When You ‘Literally Can’t Even’ Understand Your Teenager”: A little paradox of Internet celebrity is that a YouTube personality...
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Initialisms, raunchy and not
An image posted by actor/director Chris Pratt on his Facebook page: (#1) The initialistic abbreviation BJ stands for Beijing here, but of course blowjob will come first to many people’s minds — even...
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