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A walk up Emerson St.
… in Palo Alto, this morning, for breakfast with Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky. Which took me past a fitness club that closed down a while back, but is now in the process of being replaced by an even...
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Control your johnson
(Lexicographic news for penises, but nothing more alarming than that.) From a friend in the lgbt precinct of Facebook on the 4th: Passed a Johnson Controls van on the way home from work. I’ve always...
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A coincidence of days
(Several shirtless people, in case that annoys or distresses you, but otherwise mostly about music.) According to my calendar, today is both World Naked Gardening Day and World Accordion Day, which...
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It’s come around again
(Consider the topic before reading on.) That would be National Masturbation Day, May 7th, today — launching National Masturbation Month, lusty May: (#1) From my 5/4/18 posting “Then, if ever, come...
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Annals of fruity goodness: the strawberry file
(Warning: It ends with indirect allusion to mansex and with two shirtless actors, arms around each other’s shoulders, showing their stuff in their underwear.) A recent posting in the My Home is...
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Follow-up: John Rechy
Yesterday’s posting “High 5 from a bison”, all about number(s), ended with some exposition of John Rechy’s 1967 novel Numbers, about a male hustler collecting lots of tricks — numbers of numbers — on...
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The Magnificent WaterSports
(Men’s bodies and mansex, not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.) In the Daily Jocks mailing yesterday, this heavily sexualized ad for WaterShorts swimwear (in black, aqua, lime, and coral), the...
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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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The hollow
In a comment on my 9/14/19 posting “Clavicular knobs” (aka Ricardo’s acromia), Robert Coren writes about “the hollow space above the inner end of the collar-bone”, and I confess to not knowing a name...
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Musclemen from Mars
(There will be rampant male shirtlessness. Just a friendly warning, or an invitation, depending on your tastes.) It’s a Zippy strip (today’s!). It’s another gender note (about masculinity). It’s yet...
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A man, his hands, his pants
(That’s AmE pants, roughly equivalent to BrE trousers. This posting is about men’s clothing and men’s bodies and gets fairly racy — it starts with a guy with his hands in his pants and sex on his mind...
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Revisiting 38: More male beauty
A return to the subject of my 3/10/16 posting “Male beauty”, on cultural categorizations of attractiveness and masculinity, primarily as evidenced in facial characteristics. Adding to the mix (a)...
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Two actor POP days
It’s Eva Marie Saint Lucy’s Day and, in today’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro combo, a Kurt Russell terrier bounds in: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbol in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there’s just one...
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The year in spam
The most recent posting on this topic: on 3/5/19, “Another 100k spams”, where I noted that the number of spam comments here (since the blog started in December 2008) passed 5,600,000 on 3/3. Some were...
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Golden jubilee
For gay men of Gen X now achieving their Golden Year: Surfing for Ulysses: Thing 1, at the top: from the Hawaii Five-0 logo. Thing 2, the centerpiece: Scott Caan (as Danno) and Alex O’Loughlin (as...
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Catalectic trochaic tetrameter in the political news
An exchange this morning on Facebook: Gadi Niram: I don’t know what the deeper meaning might be here, but “Klobuchar and Buttigieg” has the same stress pattern as “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern”. Arnold...
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Follow-up: John Rechy
Yesterday’s posting “High 5 from a bison”, all about number(s), ended with some exposition of John Rechy’s 1967 novel Numbers, about a male hustler collecting lots of tricks — numbers of numbers — on...
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In the political news: catalectic trochaic tetrameter
(This is a new posting, intended as a reconstruction of and replacement for a “Catalectic trochaic tetrameter” posting of 3/1 that was somehow destroyed by WordPress, in such a way that if you try to...
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Portrait of a man: the head and bare torso image
On HT (head + torso) images of men. In a painting, a drawing, a sculpture, a photograph: the face projecting a persona, an identity, a character; the naked torso presenting this character as a carnal...
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The measure of a man: HTC
(Scantily clad men flaunting their bodies, so not to everyone’s taste.) Two representations of the male body, head to thigh, celebrating masculine faces, masculine bare torsos, and the male genitals....
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