A mailing today about the March-April 2019 issue of G&LR (The Gay & Lesbian Review):
The proposal is LGBT+. Just LGBT+.
Revisiting 26: LGBT etc. etc.
February 14, 2019Revisiting 25: Alligator Goodbyes, now in song
February 14, 2019Back on 6/4/11, in “Alligator Goodbyes”, a t-shirt with 14 instances
of a verse form that I’ll call the Alligator Goodbye, on the model of “see you later, alligator” (at the top of the shirt):
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Now, a much bigger assemblage of AGs — 27 of them — on the Language Nerds Facebook page, in b&w:
Mesh Man: Always Open for Business®
February 13, 2019(The Daily Jocks e-mail of 2/11/19 with a homowear offer from the Varsity company came with the header “NSFW: Boys in mesh”, so this posting will clearly not be for everyone. Seductively exposed buttocks, offered sexually, so not for kids or the sexually modest.)
With a brief caption of mine:
(#1) Mesh Man: Always Open for Business®
Ever at the ready, a
Marvel of receptivity
Mesh Man, always there for you,Mind reader and lightning
Provider of sexual
Emergency service
Allusions to titles past
February 13, 2019The Economist, wildly given to jokey headlines for its stories (and sometimes also their lead paragraphs or final paragraphs), performed a Proustian double play in its 2/2/19 issue: in two successive stories, headlines that are both plays on Proust’s title À la recherche du temps perdu, in two different English translations (both of them widely quoted in English).
on p. 21, about Facebook turning 15: “Remembrance of posts past” (Remembrance of Things Past)
on p. 22, about the consequences of the US government shutdown: “In search of lost time (and money)” (In Search of Lost Time)
Captain of our fairy band
February 13, 2019(Hot guys in very skimpy underwear, suggestive verse, but generally playful and not actually X-rated. Use your judgment.)
Today’s Daily Jocks sale ad, for Marco Marco Valentine’s Day homowear, with a caption in two parts, one raunchy doggerel, one Puckish:
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Lincoln Darwin Valentine
Is a cutup friend of mine
Loves the boys with all his heart
Loves them hard in every partAnd the youth, mistook by me,
Pleading for a lover’s fee.
Shall we their fond pageant see?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
individuals, people, persons
February 13, 2019From a mail pointer to a 1/30/19 article in the journal Psychological Science, “Similarity Grouping as Feature-Based Selection” by Dian Yu, Xiao Xiao, Douglas K. Bemis, & Steven L. Franconeri:
Individuals perceive objects with similar features (i.e., color, orientation, shape) as a group even when those objects are not grouped in space.
Point at issue: individuals rather than people, a mark of a consciously formal, “scientific” way of writing, appropriate (some believe) for reporting on research in psychology.
In the diaspora
February 12, 2019An announcement yesterday on the Linguistic Typology mailing list:
After three conferences in Bamberg [Germany] (2013), Mardin [southeastern Turkey, in Turkish Kurdistan] (2014) and Amsterdam [Netherlands] (2016), we are delighted to announce that the 4th International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics (ICKL-4) will take place at the University of Rouen (Université de Rouen) [France] on September 2-3, 2019.
Three meetings in the Kurdish diaspora, in the countries in Europe with the largest populations of displaced Kurds, plus one within Kurdistan itself.
Annals of sweevory food: my Japanese Valentine
February 12, 2019On the Japan Times site on February 9th, “Say ‘I love you’ a different way with Kourakuen’s chocolate ramen” by Patrick St. Michel”:
Age cannot wither them
February 11, 2019Today’s Zippy has Griffy and Zippy marveling, once again, that almost all cartoon characters, themselves included, never seem to age. In particular, Nancy and Sluggo are always and forever 8 years old — in Cartoonland, where age cannot wither them (nor custom stale their infinite variety). But in Ivan Albright’s art world, even Nancy, sturdy Nancy, grows old:
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The thinking condom’s typeface
February 10, 2019On Facebook recently, a plaintive scream from Tom Meadows (reproduced here exactly as in the original):
PLEASE LATEX LET ME BE FREE OF THIS PROBLEM WHY ARE YOU SO CRUEL
Typing the whole thing in ALL CAPS introduced an ambiguity that Meadows and his readers then exploited for playful purposes. The ambiguity:
reader EK: I feel like a latex problem is very different from a LaTeX problem
Tom Meadows: I have a latex/LaTeX merger – my condoms are now nicely typeset
