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I thought of you
Back on 3/16, I was honored by not one, but two, Facebook postings on the theme “this made me think of you”. From Michael Palmer, a flyer for the 1897 mammoth opening of the swimming season at the...
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SuperCamp penguins
I’m preparing to scan in a set of penguin-themed thoroughly XXX-rated collages in relatively large originals, but mixed in with these in my files are two entirely R-rated collages, SuperPenguin and...
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Another Spanish lesson
Left out of my AZBlogX posting of the 19th, “Spanish lessons”, was this item (#11 in the set), decidedly homoerotic but not actually X-rated: A Daddy-Boy scene, illustrating el papá. And ornamented...
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Five sets of gay collages
Continuing to scan in (mostly) XXX-rated collages, set by set. Five more AZBlogX postings in the last three days, in a variety of styles and tones: 10/17/16: “Baskets of Joy”: 2 sex-heavy collages...
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… and his fruit was sweet to my taste
A return, after several years, to posting my collages on this blog and on AZBlogX (depending on their X-ratings). Two inaugural postings: one already on my X blog with five collages in the Bangers...
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Dress for success
Another item unearthed today: a collage of sorts (well, an altered poster) from 1998, amended by Chris Ambidge in 2000: It’s all about clothing and displaying the body. Two ingredients here. One is the...
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Pasta fazool
Some time back I was assauted by the Dean Martin recording of “That’s Amore”, a hymn to love that includes the ugly lines When the stars make you drool just like a pasta fazool / That’s amore The word...
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Morning name: La Bayadère
Yesterday’s morning name, for a ballet. From Wikipedia: La Bayadère (en. The Temple Dancer) … is a ballet, originally staged in four acts and seven tableaux by French choreographer Marius Petipa to the...
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David Hockney
Having posted yesterday about, among other things, Pascal Blondeau’s photographic tribute to David Hockney and his pool paintings, I realized that although I’ve mentioned Hockney in passing several...
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Collage postings
Another set of Pages, with links to more collage postings. To the existing Page with academic collages (Collages: Academic), I have added two others: Collages: Miscellaneous, mostly with...
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No cultural clichés!
In a possibly apochryphal story, someone complains that they can’t appreciate Shakespeare’s plays because they’re so filled with clichéd expressions. Of course, those expressions were either...
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Banned comics
For this year’s Banned Book Week, the focus is on comics. From a story today on NPR by Lynn Neary, “Too Graphic? 2014 Banned Books Week Celebrates Challenged Comics”: Comics and graphic books are...
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Linguistic diversity among the nopalries
I’ve been reading through Amy Butler Greenfield’s fascinating A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire (HarperCollins 2005, paperback in 2006), which abounds in great...
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Red devil
(Not really about language. Warning: the image, involving a statue with prominent male genitals, might be offensive to some.) Bulletin from Vancouver BC, “Raunch Devil Statue Suddenly Erected Outside...
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Birthday presents
Among the presents for my birthday (on the 6th): a penguin, a spelling Owl, an Archie comic, and a rainbow cake. (At least one more to come, in a future posting.) The blue penguin. This drawing, on a...
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Greg Brown
In the (San Francisco mid-peninsula) Daily Post on the 3rd: “Mural artist Greg Brown dies: He brightened up downtown with his amusing paintings” by Elaine Goodman: Greg Brown, an artist whose whimsical...
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Jonathan Black
(About photography, in particular male photography, exploring the male body (in this case with a gay gaze). With some reflections on the aesthetics involved. No linguistic discussion, but on the other...
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Visual burlesque
From Xopher Walker recently, this image from the American Postcard Co. in 1995; design by George Costaldo, photography by Michael Huhn. One of a set of political leather images — involving Hillary...
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Hybrid art
From the MUU Galleria in Helsinki, Finland, this recent sculpture “My Little Tom of Finland” by Mari Kasurinen: The figure is a hybrid of two (very oddly assorted) creations from popular culture: the...
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Life among the artists
(Mostly for the silliness. Not much language-related here.) Today’s Zippy: First, the transformation into Rembrandt (admittedly, in a muumuu), then the appearance of the writer and art collector...
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