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Today’s morning name: Topher Grace
Who drags Ashton Kutcher along with him. Since I have my shallow moments, there will also be shirtless photos, of Grace, of young Kutcher, and of more recent Kutcher. But first, about the actors and...
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CK basks in Moonlight
For me, the main news from the Academy Awards last night was the triumph of the movie Moonlight, an innovative masterpiece that succeeded despite a tiny budget and a story situated amost entirely in a...
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In the West Wing
Having fallen into the world of American politics in viewing the documentary I Am the Ambassador (about Rufus Gifford, until recently the US ambassador to Denmark), I went on to doing the whole 7-year...
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Five tv hunks
… of very different body types. Things saved up for some time, now to put them out. Sage Brocklebank (Psych); Jordan Gavaris and Dylan Bruce (Orphan Black); John Wesley Shipp and Grant Gustin (The...
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Save a horse, ride a cowboy
(Sex talk, but in mostly academic style. Still, definitely racy; use your judgment.) This vision of shirtless high-masculinity turned up on Pinterest this morning: (#1) There will be another...
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JoBroButts, Hills Bros. coffee, and gaybros
It starts with this image from a “JoBros” Pinterest board (you post about a Jonas Brother, Pinterest knows where you’ve been and wants to take you back there): (#1) Nick, Kevin, and Joe, but especially...
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Michael Ontkean
(About actors, movies, and tv, with very little language stuff in it.) Watching Twin Peaks (the original tv series) on Netflix, and delighted to see Michael Ontkean (cute, amiable, and hunky) in it...
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Billy Zane
I first noticed him in some episodes of the tv series Charmed, playing a personable (and hunky) ex-demon named Drake. And now he’s coming past me again, in the second season of Twin Peaks, once again...
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The Phantom of the jungle library
… and his servant Guran, in a scene from early in the 1996 movie The Phantom: (#1) Secure in the Chronicle Chamber within his jungle stronghold, The Phantom (Billy Zane) and his servant Guran (Radmar...
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Friday word play in the comics
Two cartoons to end the week: a Rhymes With Orange with a four-word play and a Bizarro with a POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau): (#1) The Cantonese American dish moo goo gai pan ‘chicken with button...
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“Farley”, the dog said, “get me a slice”
Three cartoons in today’s feed: a Bizarro with a talking dog; a One Big Happy with a slice that OMG might grow into a pizza; and a Zippy riff on Farley Granger and They Live by Night: (#1) (If you’re...
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Arthur Laurents
Collecting material for Tuesday’s gay-interest posting on Farley Granger led me to Arthur Laurents (who I wrote a bit about on the occasion of his death in 2011). Yesterday’s posting in this run-up to...
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The Treasure of the Singlet Padre
Or: Happy Trails to You. It starts with a Richard Oliva photo in Steathy Cam Men on the 28th, with the caption “Hello, sexy daddy man!”: (#1) In leather singlet, displaying his furry pecs and treasure...
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From Tex-Mex to naked rugby
Yesterday’s morning name was the Mexican Spanish nickname Chuy (for Jesus). I’m pretty sure it got into my head from a friend who recently ate at a Chuy’s restaurant in Texas, so I’ll start with that....
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Electric charges
Earlier today, the posting “I sing the body elastic”, about Mikey Bustos’s parodic hymn to Speedos, the skimpy elastic men’s swim suits — with a title playing on “I Sing the Body Electric”, a poem from...
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Musical synchronicity
I spent much of Tuesday putting together material for my posting on Mikey Bustos and his parody “I Wear Speedos” of the hit song “Despacito”, by Puerto Rican pop stars Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee. That...
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From marbles and barbats to challah
… via Greek-American food in Old Saybrook CT. A Zippyesque journey in today’s strip: (#1) Marbles. Having all of them, lacking some, losing them. From NOAD2: noun marble: 3 (one’s marbles) informal...
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Male scale
Twice recently, I’ve been struck by a scale difference between male actors on tv shows (seen in reruns) — in each case, a difference between a hunky regular on the show and a very noticeably bigger...
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gruggerwear
(Hunky antipodal gay jocks modeling underwear, a bit of cheap language play, but otherwise not much to shock kids or the sexually modest.) From the Daily Jocks people today, Aussie gruggerwear (gay...
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Exercises in high macho style
Passing between channels on my tv on the 6th, I caught a moment from the show Mr. Robot (S3 E9) in which Terry Colby, an exec at the Allsafe Corporation, spins out a riff in high-macho figurative...
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