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The fabulously successful idiot plot
I recently stumbled on the notion of an idiot plot on Facebook — a cultural category I had surely encountered before but must have forgotten about. In any case, I now had Wikipedia’s explanation, along...
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Sloths, penguins, and Buddhist joy
Birthday greetings: Slothful Salsa, the Penguins of Penzance, and zuiki. “Slothful Salsa”: the title of a Jacquie Lawson animated ecard, from R&T (Rod Williams and Ted Bush), celebrating my...
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All That Jazz
The song, from the 1975 musical Chicago, which has been in my head constantly the past couple of days, thanks to my coming across a vein of brief retro-choreography performances of it by the dance pair...
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Done with style
Back on 8/23, Benjamin Dreyer (long-time copy chief at Random House, now retired to the life of a pointedly opinionated public intellectual, and connecting with me on Facebook) celebrated the birthday...
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Diamonds, dildos, and in Seattle, clams
Acres, folks, acres. Diamonds and dildos got covered in my 8/26 posting “Acres of dildos”. Then from Wendy Thrash on Facebook the next day, more acres that I probably should have talked about in the...
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Free-range folklore
… Wayno’s title for yesterday’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro, with its excellent POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau) laissez-fairy godmother: (#1) laissez-faire + fairy godmother yields a hands-off mentor and...
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Angela goes to dance camp
(It’s the morning of Groundhog Day 2023. American families: do you know where your marmots are?) The late Angela Lansbury, starring in a glitzy television production as the introduction to the 1973...
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The fairy fan-flower
From Benita Bendon Campbell yesterday, a delightful plant, new to her, that had just come into her life. Her photo: (#1) A white Scaevola aemula cultivar, in a hanging pot; the plant grows as a garden...
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Gay flamenco day
(Naked male bodies — genitals concealed — and references to man-on-man sex, but nothing flat-out raunchy, so use your judgment) Midsummer Night (6/24, with fairies reveling in the woods) broke onto the...
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Between the glutes
(Some male body parts, depicted and discussed in plain, but not raunchy, terms. So not squarely in the Sex Zone, but not tasteful either. Caution advised for kids and the sexually modest.) For me, it...
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Ruthie misunderstands
Two One Big Happy cartoons recently in my comics feed. Originally from 1/29, a strip in which Ruthie misunderstands “Randi with an “I””, taking it to be “Randi with an eye”. And originally from 1/25, a...
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Celebrating Valentine’s Day 2: the gay porn actors
(This posting — with its depictions of and street-language descriptions of, sex between men — is totally unsuitable for kids or the sexually modest.) An ad, both very carefully and pleasingly composed...
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Oh Canada baby, ripple my maple leaves!
Today is Canada Day, Canada’s national day, celebrated in many ways, perhaps most remarkably in this display of national pride — “hot shirtless muscle jocks in Canadian themed pants”, according to one...
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The ballet of Mango Meshman
(Mango Meshman shows off his body, to the accompaniment of mansexually suggestive lyrics. Not for everyone.) (#1) The beauty of his buttocks And the juicy sweetness Of his secret parts We know him in a...
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Tsviki from Belarus
As I noted in yesterday’s posting “Das Wappen”, over the years, Zwickys have moved from Canton Glarus not only to all parts of Switzerland, and from Switzerland north and west in Europe (and then...
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Great twerks of the 19th century
In advertising for the Palo Alto Art Center’s exhibition Local Editions: A Celebration of Bay Area Printmaking 6/15/19 – 8/25/19, this arresting print by Judy Aoki: (#1) (She) Twerkin’, 2014 stone...
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The May flower
Yesterday, the flowers of the season were still yellow — les jaunes d’Avril — but today they are white — les muguets pour le premier Mai — also (on the plus side) delicately pretty and highly scented...
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V me, I’m Irish
(Men’s bodies and tons of mansex — anal, anal, anal — in street language. No actual penises on display, but nevertheless absolutely not for kids or the sexually modest.) Padraig porn for the day: (#1)...
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Jewish gay men
(Significant discussions of gay porn, men’s bodies, and mansex — definitely not for kids or the sexually modest.) In yesterday’s “Deviant Passover rites”, a section on gay Jewish guys partying at the...
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Annals of sport/art
Back on December 17th, my posting “Xmas follies 2017: the shirtless men of the season” featured (in #1 and #2 there) pole dancer Domenico Vaccaro, engaging in an activity that is both sport — there are...
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