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Monday language comics
Two Monday comics on linguistic topics: a Calvin and Hobbes with an unfortunate ambiguity (pitch the tent), and a Zits with a portmanteau for a combo sport (dodgebowl): (#1) (#2) Pitch the tent. The...
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Ianto Jones: the shirtless sequel
A follow-up to my previous posting on Torchwood character Ianto Jones and the Welsh actor Gareth David-Lloyd, who portrays him. I’d found no shirtless photos of GD-L, but Chris Ambidge has used the...
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Give me some men who are square-jawed men
Taking a break from the almost unrelieved despair of two dark British detective series (Broadchurch and The Fall), I returned to more entertaining murders, in the Canadian series Murdoch Mysteries,...
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Holiday specials
A holiday comes around — this is Labor Day weekend in the U.S. — and everybody has sales, on every damn thing. Gay porn is no exception, but certain holidays lend themselves especially to the interests...
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The Mystery Man of Crotch Beach
(Some crude sexual talk, but some humor, too, and plants, several plants. Use your judgment.) (Notice: Prunella vulgaris and Orchis mascula are real plants, and what I say about them and their names...
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Beefcake on screen
(Little of academic or social significance, but mostly about shameless displays of the male body. Not, however, X-rated, either visually or verbally.) A while back, links on Facebook to Hollywood...
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A Euro-hunk
That would be Goran Višnjić / Visnjic (pronunced roughly like VISH nyitch), one of four character actors in the tv series Crossing Lines who especially caught my eye. Here’s a display of the main cast...
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Naming his Essence
(Sexually suggestive, but not explicit.) From Daily Jocks on 9/14, with its ad copy (which an Austraian friend found deeply embarrassing) and my caption: (#1) Aussie Essence captures the spirit of...
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Masculine jaws of Wyoming
About square-jawed as a (high-) masculine physical characteristic, last discussed here back in August (in “Give me some men who are square-jawed men”), with reference to actors in the tv series Murdoch...
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Naked boys playing at liberty
About male photography featuring naked men horsing around together, mostly at the beach. The (four) X-rated images are in a posting on AZBlogX; they’re there because they show penises, but in (I...
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Rising in the morning
I awoke this morning to an overwhelming swell of orchestra and chorus, in what I recognized immediately as the very ending (in the 5th movement) of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, the Resurrection Symphony...
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Le calendrier des agriculteurs
(About art photography and men’s bodies.) With an alert from Michael Palmer on Facebook, the latest of Fred Goudon’s calendars: (#1) Reported in “French Farmers Pose For Hot 2017 Calendar, And...
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Mac Daddy Santa
Exciting interest in the Twitterverse at the moment, this holiday tweet from Tiger Woods (the real Tiger Woods) yesterday: Xmas tradition that my kids love. Mac Daddy Santa is back! –TW A lot of people...
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Asian male muscle in fantasyland
(Male bodies and elaborate photographic fantasies, to inaugurate 2017, which is, by the way, a prime number.) From my correspondent RJP, a link to the work of the Skiinmode studio (supplying Asian male...
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Poplar Mechanics
Today’s Bizarro, with a parody of the magazine Popular Mechanics: (#1) The parody is something of a cross between Popular Mechanics and Men’s Health: (#2) (#3) Longer, Thinner Branches in 10 days! From...
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Geometric Joe
The most recent Daily Jocks ad, with a caption sexual fantasy from me: (#1) You can buy him, One trick a month – the Standard hour, providing Whatever you need – And with a rock-bottom Starter price of...
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Another tv hunk
(Another posting in a long series. Very little about language in this.) Cut to the chase, Brandon Quinn as Gabe Duncroft in the tv series The Fosters: (#1) A handsome man with a beautiful physique,...
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Chocolates for Valentine’s Day
(Very little of linguistic interest, beyond a penis joke in Spanish and a note on grammatical gender. Otherwise, it’s the massive Latino musclehunk “The Marvel” on display.) From my regular...
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Playing for laughs
… or, playing over the top, and in fact doing this knowingly while winking at the audience, so that you might want to say: camping it up. I refer to the Netflix version of A Series of Unfortunate...
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This weekend’s tv hunk
… hails from New Zealand. Pana Hema Taylor (or Hema-Taylor), who I recently watched in the first season of the New Zealand detective series The Brokenwood Mysteries, in which he plays Jared Morehu. The...
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