Rocky Horror at 40
From the (UK) Daily Mail on the 6th, a feature on the Rocky Horror Picture Show, in “Let’s Do The Time Warp again! Susan Sarandon and Tim Curry reunite with Rocky Horror Picture Show cast for 40 year...
View ArticleAnnals of phallicity: nozzles (and glycerin, lubes, and posing oils)
(A posting drenched in the contemplation of the male body and man-man sex, but with linguistic points along the way. Use your judgment.) It starts with a Channel 1 Releasing (C1R) ad for their current...
View ArticleNumb3rs and a soap-opera-handsome hunk
(Mostly about tv and handsome men, rather than language.) Caught in a re-run of the tv series Numb3rs (season 2, episode 5, “Assassin”, originally aired 10/21/05), the soap-opera-handsome hunk Jordi...
View ArticleShirtless Mondays
Viewed yesterday on tv: episodes of the police drama Flashpoint, featuring (among others) the actor David Paetkau; the first Satisfaction show of the new season, featuring actor Matt Passmore; and the...
View ArticleFrom Shirtless Monday: Seann William Scott
Left over from my “Shirtless Mondays” posting, one of the three actors I showed shirtless there: Seann William Scott, grinning and showing off his really really ripped body, while doing a shirt-lifting...
View ArticleDepilation Row
Yesterday’s invitation-to-explore from Daily Jocks: (#1) Kev, they said, short hair and facial Scruff mean ‘butch’ to our faggot Customers, that’s good; and a Smooth, hairless body invites them to...
View ArticleMovies and tv: Grimm
(Mostly about the tv show, but with some linguistic digressions.) (#1) left to right: the characters Monroe, Nick, Hank From Wikipedia: Grimm is an American police procedural fantasy television drama...
View ArticleLes Danseurs
(Another posting about the male body, but with some fine photography.) From the models.com site on the 11th, a piece by Jonathan Shia, “Matthew Brookes’ Ballet Dancers”. Highlights: Flip through the...
View ArticleThomas Gibson
Another in a series of postings on actors, especially on tv, whose work I’ve enjoyed. Today it’s Thomas Gibson, currently playing the central character in the tv series Criminal Minds (which I’ve...
View ArticleSupernatural-medical in Toronto: three hunks
(Mostly about hunks.) I’ve been catching up on the Canadian medical drama Saving Hope, which features three hunks, very different in projected persona and body type, but all three given to...
View ArticleOn the shirtless hunk watch: the Skarsgård Tarzan
The illustration: (#1) From a piece in BuzzFeed yesterday, “the first images of the live-action film, The Legend of Tarzan, have been released and they are quite simply [hot hot hot]” by Kimberley...
View ArticleBrendan Fraser
Some time ago, the 2008 movie of Journey to the Center of the Earth (based on the Jules Verne fantasy) came by me. It’s a piece of fluff, a fantasy action/adventure film with comic touches, starring...
View ArticleAn eruption of bromanteaus
Just when you thought that the ship of bromanteaus and other brocabulary (involving the (North American) slang term bro ‘brother, buddy’, used especially as an address term) had long ago sailed into...
View ArticleSilver mammoth
By an odd and indirect route, I went searching on { silver mammoth } this morning, and found two items of interest: a Canadian coin and a Brazilian hard rock band. The coin: (#1) and from the band’s...
View ArticleMorning name: John Varvatos
The menswear guy, especially coats and footwear (shoes, boots, even Varvatos Converse sneakers — high end sneakers, at $100 to $140 each), though now he’s branched out in other directions: men’s...
View ArticleMore Cristiano Ronaldo
On Saturday I got a copy of GQ magazine — The Body Issue, for February — in the mail, with an announcement from Condé Nast that Details magazine had been closed and they were sending me GQ {for...
View ArticleFour mythic hunks
(Almost no language stuff: it’s about mythic, in one sense, performances by hunky men. Yes, I have my shallow moments.) The appearance on my cable tv menu of the playing of the 2012 Wrath of the Titans...
View ArticleManganiello. The Huge. The Body-Proud.
(Little about language, mostly about one actor and his body. Shirtless photos, but nothing racier than that.) It started with a Facebook posting about the new comedy film Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, with...
View ArticleJon Huertas
(Acting and a fine shirtless man.) Re-run today of a Castle episode — S3 Ep12 “Poof! You’re Dead” from 1/10/11 — prominently featuring supporting actor Jon Huertas, playing homicide detective Javier...
View ArticleMeteor Storm
About the 2010 film and the two lead actors, who were immediately familiar to me, though I couldn’t say from where. Ultimately, this posting is about “ordinary working actors” (the phrase is based on...
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