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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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Beanies, baby
three tigers for ultimate January, and a day continuing the theme of late-January early-death birthdays: Robert Burns, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Edward Sapir in an earlier posting of mine...
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The two ages of Interwoven sock ads
Bubbled up recently on Facebook and else, references to two chapters in the history of American advertising: Interwoven-brand stockings as icons of male sexiness, first in the 1920s and 30s, then for...
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Flagging DEI
(These are rough times, and I’m going to use some very rough language; I think the world would be a better place if we all just got comfortable with this language — and what it conveys — but I...
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