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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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