Variations on a theme

May 17, 2026

(by the time I’m just a bit of the way into revealing the themes of this posting, certainly once Jake Mathews appears, it should become entirely clear why this posting is not for kids or the sexually modest)

A follow-up to my posting “Taking Pleasure” yesterday (5/16), with scenes from two gay porn videos:

The two scenes have Mr Deep Voice (the screen persona of actor Thomas Johnson (TJ) ) and Andy Toro (AT) in a random hookup of complete strangers in a scene from Right Place, Right Time (Falcon Studios, 2026); and Tayte Hanson (TH) and Eli Bennet (EB) as step-brothers in (romantic) love in Big Bro Little Bro Raw (CockyBoys, 2021)

Right Place is a compilation video, of 5 Falcon Studios scenes in which chance encounters end in wild raw man-on-man sex: 5 variations on this theme, with different pairings of men, different tones, different stories. Some details below, because one of the pairings has the cute Mancunian muscle bottom Jake Matthews filled with Barcelonian dick and great pleasure, serving as a kind of sweet hero of bottoming, a model for men who love to get fucked (he also stars in gangbang videos, where he takes dick with intense enthusiasm; yes, it’s a performance, but he has fully mastered the Catamite genre, and I want to tip my hat to the maestro).

Big Bro Raw also has a series of variations on a theme, “big bros give it hard to their little bros’ tight holes”, as the Cocky Boys publicity has it. And then this video is the third in a series of “big-dicked tops showing their lil’ dudes how to take dick” (again from their publicity). That is, the last of three compilations of “a cast of men pounding young butts”, with different men and different young butts in each compilation. Yielding a sort of visual encyclopedia of this domain of sexual connection.

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Taking pleasure

May 16, 2026

(men’s bodies and sex between men, sometimes described in street language, so entirely unsuitable for kids and the sexually modest)

Two gay porn scenes in which the partners take evident pleasure in their sex, as shown by the exchange of broad smiles during their acts (of enthusiastic manual, oral, and anal sex); each is experiencing pleasure himself and the satisfaction of pleasuring someone else, and together they are sharing socio-pleasure, the enjoyment of the company of others.

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Zippy half-rhymes

May 14, 2026

Briefly noted: today’s Zippy strip has our Pinhead rowing to a half-rhyme:

Zippy is keen on spleen (‘bad temper; spite’ (NOAD)) and is happy to vent his in a half-rhyme. In particular, the feature rhyme of /strim/ with /splin/, m – n being the most common feature rhyme for consonants in English. On a lake, he could have displayed his hate (k – t).

 

 

Hang free or peter out

May 14, 2026

Today’s adventure in analyzing the jokey allusions in my postings. The target allusion is the one boldfaced in this passage from my posting yesterday (5/13), “The pocket bulge”:

[The DJX bulge booster] provides a soft but protective pocket in which a man’s package (of whatever size) can be unconstrained (hang free or peter out, as the slogan goes)

I explained half of the joke in a comment about my raw materials for this posting:

“Live Free or Die”, the official state motto of New Hampshire

But then there’s peter out, a verb of fading (before coming to an end), so ‘fade to death’ here, framed with a pun on peter, with a covert allusion to the penis hanging unconstrained within the bulge booster.

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“Internal” and “External” Evidence in Linguistics

May 13, 2026

From a symposium on “The Problem of Data in Linguistics”, Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Vol. 1980, Volume Two: Symposia and Invited Papers (1980), pp. 598-604

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The pocket bulge

May 13, 2026

Fresh news for male genitalia, in a Daily Jocks e-mail ad today (5/13): DJX Prime Enhancing Underwear: an instant bulge booster. Provides the illusion of great size, thereby addressing the American male obsession with genital size as an indicator of solid masculinity, power, and consequence (one big dick to rule them all, as the saying goes). Also provides a soft but protective pocket in which a man’s package (of whatever size) can be unconstrained (hang free or peter out, as the slogan goes). And of course it comes in fabulous colors, for the fashion-minded; the ads revel in pink.

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The gift of your body

May 12, 2026

(tales of man-man sex, some of it in very plain street language, so not for kids or the sexually modest)

A story from my times at the gay baths, this one not previously reported on. From 1980, at the Club Baths of Toronto, a night out during the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association in Toronto, at which I gave a paper (“Internal” and “External” Evidence in Linguistics) in a symposium on “The Problem of Data in Linguistics”, now viewable on-line here.

The story has a poignant sequel in my current life as a solitary 85-year-old gay man with a lifelong high sex drive, which I’ll put off for a later posting because this one will be lengthy.

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Two for May

May 11, 2026

Two cartoons from the May 2026 Funny Times, both with variants of familiar theme. Some Bizarro word play exploiting and extending on the similarity between names of diseases and names of flowers (commented on long ago by James Thurber); and a bob twist on Husband in Bed With Oh My God! (aka Honey, This is Not What It Looks Like).

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Latino meat baskets

May 10, 2026

Yesterday’s dinner order (big enough for that meal and today’s lunch): the Meat Basket Salad from Tacos El Grullense #1, in Redwood City:


(#1) The meat basket at El Grullense #1 (the Tacos El Grullense Grill in Redwood City is the first in a Bay Area family-owned chain of taquerias): beans, choice of meat (grilled chicken for me), rice, onions, cilantro, salsa, lettuce, tomatoes, guacamole, cheese, and sour cream in a crispy tortilla basket

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The chopped / shot reference

May 9, 2026

From Bethany “Bitty” Ramirez on Facebook on 5/8:

I chopped the rhubarb
But I did not chop the strawberry
— (#1) Ramirez

BR often writes (mouth-wateringly) about food and its preparation, but not lined out like this, and not with what looks like a reference to the song “I Shot the Sheriff” (in either of its two most famous recordings). Depending on your knowledge of popular music (which probably depends on your age), this is either an ostentatiously playful allusion — pretty much everybody of a certain age knows the song, so it leaps right out as the model for #1 — or an Easter egg quotation — a kind of hidden bonus for those younger listeners who happen to be familiar with the model. (More on OPAs and EEQs below.)

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