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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...
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Underwear 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...
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The 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...
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Getting 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)...
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Romper 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...
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In 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....
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The 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...
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Woolly 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...
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The 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...
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Dusky 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...
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Pride 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,...
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Flagging 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...
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Smockery
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...
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Ultimate 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...
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Hey, 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:...
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Oh, 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...
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Zippy, 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.)...
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Codpiece 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:]...
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Stilettoed 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...
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The 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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