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Annals of verbing (and poetic meter)
(Some vulgar sexual slang from the world of gay sex, but nothing beyond that.) More drawers of my files moved from Staunton Ct. to Ramona St. (and into the oaken desk there). Almost all academic files,...
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True Confessions Ripped from the Tabloids
(Well yes, men’s bodies, and lots of gay innuendo, but nothing to frighten the horses.) Headline in The Gaily Male: “How Giacomo ‘Giacco’ Giaccone’s SuperSnapJock made me into a sniveling bitch” (#1)...
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Eliding the black penis
A remarkable long piece in the New York Times Magazine Culture issue on October 30th, by film critic and general cultural critic Wesley Morris, “The Last Taboo: Why American pop culture just can’t deal...
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Lukas is back!
(Underwear and raunchy innuendo, with a jock harness bonus, and some language stuff, but, yes, men’s bodies, so not to everyone’s tastes.) The latest Daily Jocks offering, with my caption: (#1) Lukas...
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Trisyllabic feet in tetrametrical orgy
(An assortment of linguistic points along the way, but a lot of stuff about the gay porn flick BuckleRoos (2004), with explicit discussion of men’s bodies and male-male sex, plus images at the...
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The superb object of his attention
(Hunky guy in underwear, somewhat suggestive caption, nothing to frighten the horses. But in case this isn’t what you want to see …) The Daily Jocks ad from the 14th, with a caption added by me: By...
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Swish Zwicky
A notification from Pinterest this morning of this pin by someone with the name “nelly zwicky”: (#1) Yes, a toy tank, German WW II vintage, I think — a seriously phallic replica, a butch plaything...
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Face work
(About semen and sex acts and facial expressions and slang and syntax — but, yes, semen is central to the posting, and there’s a lot of talk about sex acts in very plain terms. Only one photo, but it...
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Sperm, sperm, wonderful sperm, and all that jizz
(Some may find the topic distasteful; take the title as a gauge of the content to follow.) Another essay on the seminal-ejaculatory vocabulary of vernacular English, following on the discussion in my...
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Camping it up
The Steam Room Stories video of December 1st, “Camping It Up”, which came to me this morning, is all about performing effeminacy; you can watch it here. (Actors: Ray Tezanos, Evan Bonifant, Raif...
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The eyes reject
From a Facebook discussion between a black woman T, a white guy C, and me, over the interpretation of a baffling — because drastically poor in detail — news story involving two young black men, a set...
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Batty stuff
Over on ADS-L, there’s been riffing on batshit and other bat-crazy stuff. Which led things to the comic strip Shoe and its character Batson D. Belfry: (#1) Senator Batson D. Belfry, beltway blowhard,...
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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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Gay men on the new subway walls
Widely reported, in the middle of stories about the extension of the 2nd Avenue subway in NYC, a piece about Vik Muniz’s mural in the 96th St. station, with over three dozen mosaics of typical New...
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Meaty matters
(Mostly about language, but male bodies and bodyparts play significant roles.) Yesterday, a posting about a fantasy agency supplying male hustlers, featuring two meat + N compounds: meat market ‘sexual...
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Poppin’ Fresh in a pink dress
(It starts with dough and cross-dressing and eventually touches on several sexy topics. So: definitely racy, but probably not enough to frighten the horses in the street.) Today’s Rhymes With Orange...
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The rarest of slurs
Yesterday’s weird slur bulletin from Iowa (hat tip to LJ Yanney on Facebook): in the Des Moines Register, “Adel lawmaker accused of using gay slur” by Molly Longman: A central Iowa lawmaker has been...
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toonmanteaus
Two cartoons about/with portmanteaus: a One Big Happy and a Zippy: (#1) (#2) smad about having to dwipe. In #1, Ruthie invents portmanteaus to suit her condition: sad + mad, dust + wipe. The Zippy is...
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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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snatch
(Plain sex talk of several kinds, not for kids or the sexually modest.) Yesterday’s morning name, and it was clear to me when I woke up that this was the vulgar sexual noun snatch ‘woman’s genitals’....
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