They are the (rainbow) penguins on a face mask from the Monterey Bay Aquarium — a gift to me from Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky, brought to me this morning by Opal Armstrong Zwicky (providing me with, oh fabulous delight, an actual visit from my grand-daughter, in my own house, where we could chat at length before she goes back to some version of her senior year in high school in western Massachusetts):
(#1)
(Elizabeth has my number, of course: penguins as a totem animal, rainbow as a gay symbol.)
As I side point, I note the wonderful sea otter mask that Elizabeth got for Opal from the Aquarium:
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Rainbow penguins. An occasional theme on this blog, for obvious reasons (well, I’ll pretty much do gay anything, because I think it’s very important that the queer presence not be concealed or elided, but instead celebrated; if that makes you uncomfortable, learn from it). Three relevant postings:
— on 7/11/19 in “Three Pride moments”: 5 different rainbow penguins, among them:
(#3) A rainbow penguin mousepad
— on 8/23/19 in “Penguins meet and greet”:
(#4) La Púrpura, a purple stuffed penguin; and Pingüino Gaudí, a rainbow mosaic figure from Barcelona
— on 4/25/20 in “The rainbow penguin of regard”, a drawing:
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