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Chuck Tingle
From Gary R. Kelly on Facebook, a link to the Amazon site for the author publishing under the name Chuck Tingle. One of his books: The plots are preposterous, whimsically gay, and anally focused. For...
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Duane Michals
(Mostly on art, with some gay interest.) In the 2/19/15 issue of The New York Review of Books, an appreciation, “The Subtle Games of Duane Michals” by Jed Perl, on the occasion of two exhibitions at...
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Danny Pino
(Not really about language.) In reviewing my postings on “morning names” (now assembled here), I see that there are names I mentioned but didn’t post on — including the actor Danny Pino, whose work I...
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Hunky mysteries of identity
(Minimal linguistic interest, lots of male skin.) From Michael Nieuwenhuizen, with a gasp, this cock-tease photo: (#1) I dreamt I went on the internet in my Dolce & Gabbana briefs. Appreciative...
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From the Oscar watch
I don’t watch the Oscars shows, but you can’t avoid being exposed to information about them and images from them. So this shot of host Neil Patrick Harris (apparently in an allusion to the movie...
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Local pronunciations
Two notes on the pronunciation of proper names: on the city of Bangor ME and on the actor Ryan Phillippe. Bangor. From Karen Chung on Facebook a while back, this YouTube video on the pronunciation of...
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Hunks of CSI: NY
(Nothing much of linguistic interest here.) Watching re-runs of CSI: NY and appreciating three of the actors, who are notable hunks: Carmine Giovinazzo (as Detective Danny Messer), Eddie Cahill (as...
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Hawaii Five-0 hunks
(Not much linguistics here.) In the middle of the night on Saturdays here the TNT network shows re-runs of the current Hawaii Five-0 tv series, so I’m kept alert by acrobatic fistfights, exchanges of...
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Movies and tv: Doug McClure
(Beginning with this posting, a series of postings, some loosely connected to one another, on movies and tv shows and actors in them. Minimal linguistic content.) On handsome actor Doug McClure, whose...
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Movies and tv: ethnic versatility (Savalas)
(Minimal linguistic content) Actors take on roles of all sorts, often adopting another ethnicity as well as another personality. Actors of Mediterranean ancestry, in particularly, are (within limits)...
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Movies and tv: Troy McClure, Troy Donahue, Robert Conrad
(Minimal linguistic content — but some homoerotic shirtlessness, if that’s your thing) Two comments on my Doug McClure posting: from Chuk Craig (“I always liked his cousin Troy”) and Christopher Walker...
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Dirk Caber
(Some frank talk about (gay) sex, but no X-rated images. Not a lot about language, but some.) Over on AZBlogX, I’ve just posted on cumshots (images of ejaculation) and (gay) cumfaces (photos of men...
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Magnum
Just went past me on television: an ad for Magnum Ice Cream Bars: (#1) (from the Magnum Ice Cream site; “Magnum Ice Cream Bars are made with creamy Ice Cream and Belgian Chocolate”). The bars are big...
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Feuilleton: Simon & Simon
Caught in passing, in a NYT obit for Don Mankiewicz, a reference to his writing scripts for many tv shows, including Simon & Simon, which was a great favorite of my guy Jacques. On the show, from...
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Feuilleton: Allan Kayser
In a discussion of The Gospel Four (I Won’t Walk Without Jesus) on Facebook, things veered — don’t ask — onto the tv show Mama’s Family, which brought us to Allan Kayser from the show and led me to...
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Morning: Steve Burton Richter
This morning’s name was Burton Richter, the Stanford physicist. That led me to a photo of Richter with a quote from him — and Google then obligingly turned up a photo of soap opera hunk Steve Burton...
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Hunkville
(Not much on language, but some male eye-candy.) Just viewed on tv, a 2003 Smallville episode “Prodigal”, with an actor credited as Paul Wasilewski playing an intense Lucas Luthor. During the course of...
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Movies and tv: Ian Anthony Dale
Caught two episodes of Murder in the First (set in San Francisco) on cable tv this morning and was struck by one member of the supporting cast, Ian Anthony Dale, playing Lieut. Jim Koto. Yes, despite...
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Hecho en México
So it says on the hunky body of Mr. Mexico 2014, José Pablo Minor: (#1) (shown here in a body-display pose that emphasizes his torso, makes a V that points to his crotch, and stops just short of...
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Milo Ventimiglia
(Another in a series of postings about performers who have given me pleasure. Minimal linguistic content.) Seen on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit a few days ago: the episode “Escape” (season 5,...
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