Three cartoons for 4/12/22
(Warning: as is my way, a soupçon of smart-ass street talk.) Two on gendered topics, plus another cartoon that’s incomprehensible unless you recognize one of its elements (and only incidentally has a...
View ArticleUnderwear model with tire
Today’s ad mailing from the Daily Jocks homowear company came with an artistic allusion (plus some fairly routine ad copy): (#1) [ad copy:] 20% OFF – FETISHWEAR Welcome to The DailyJocks Backroom, from...
View ArticleThe sequel to my allergic ass
pour le premier mai. A follow-up to yesterday’s posting “My allergic ass”, which was (mostly) about pronominal ass — possessive pronoun + ass, used of a person, to refer not to their buttocks but to...
View ArticleGetting him on the mat
Today’s e-mail ad for a Daily Jocks sale features an ornamental (rather than strictly functional) wrestling singlet — a striking piece of homowear — worn in a sexual (rather than strictly athletic)...
View ArticleRomper buddies
Taking off from a delightful ad for Romperjacks on Facebook back in November and December: Here I give you the ad photo, and inventory some of the things it inspires me to write about in future...
View ArticleIn the menswear ROJ
As in yesterday’s posting “Romper buddies”, about an ad for Romperjacks: not RAJ the land of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Andhra Pradesh, but ROJ the land of rompers, overalls, and jumpsuits....
View ArticleThe Stanford Dragfest
From the Stanford Events Calendar for 5/20: at 7 p.m. on Wilbur Field: (#1) The poster The announcement: Dragfest: Drag Show + Lip Sync Competition This season’s extraordinary competitors in RuPaul’s...
View ArticleWoolly mammoths in Birkenstocks
Knowing that the woolly mammoth is my primary totem animal, Anneli Meyer Korn has pointed me to this little slice of the University District in Seattle: (#1) The Woolly Mammoth shoe store, 4303...
View ArticleThe pansies and the birds will speak for us
About Paul Harfleet, who’s one tough pansy. Who I learned about from Richard Vytniorgu on Twitter (posted on 5/25): (#1) Re-reading Paul Harfleet’s beautiful picture book on bullying at school due to a...
View ArticleDusky Rose, I’m home again, Rose
The plants, the music, the clothing! There are three parts to this posting. Part 1 is about plants, specifically a Hydrangea macrophylla now blooming on my patio for the first time since 2017. Part 2...
View ArticlePride feet!
So announced Gwendolyn Alden Dean on Facebook yesterday, as she modeled her astonishing new Teva Rainbow Pride platform sandals (black straps, rainbow soles): (#1) The platforms are 2.5ʺ in the back,...
View ArticleFlagging day
(Well yes, holiday time, but it quicky turns to man-on-man sex in street language, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.) Yesterday, June 14th, was Flag Day in my country: “It commemorates...
View ArticleSmockery
Today’s morning name came to me not as I emerged from sleep, but as the first thing I saw on my computer: today’s Calvin and Hobbes blast from the past (from 6/23/92, summer time 30 years ago) with...
View ArticleUltimate Queen Day
. (That’s a ritual tiger-tiger-tiger for the last day of the month; details below.) Today is Ultimate June, the final day of a month packed with occasions of considerable emotional content, also...
View ArticleHey, buddy, we’ve been waiting for you!
(Symbolic allusions to men’s raunchy bits, so not to everyone’s taste.) Poolside image in a Daily Jocks sale ad in this morning’s mail, in which three men hawk Elia beachwear in gayboy-themed patterns:...
View ArticleOh, dem rainbow bones
(underwear, swimwear, plus references to men’s raunchy bits and one (edited, but decidedly hot) image of gay male pronging — so not for kids or the sexually modest) The day started with some Elia...
View ArticleZippy, Elia, and Vilnissimo confront their stress
(There will be a just barely not-naked moose-knuckled underwear model, plus references to male raunchy bits and man-on-man sex in plain terms, so, alas, not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.)...
View ArticleCodpiece swim trunks!
(Obviously not to everyone’s taste: consider the title and #1 below.) This morning’s genital surprise from Daily Jocks, the Alpha Swim Trunk for the alpha dog, the big dog on the beach: (#1) [ad copy:]...
View ArticleStilettoed on the balcony
The killing of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri by a targeted U.S. drone strike (taking him down as he stood on a balcony) over the weekend in Afghanistan was described by an MSNBC commentator...
View ArticleThe Joy of the Penis
(Well, yes, about — among other things — men’s genitals and the beauty of Black bodies, some of it in plain language, so not for kids or the sexually modest.) The Joy of the Penis: A Study in...
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