Just posted: “Hot wings on a paper plate”, about parodies of Joyce Kilmer’s “Trees”, but with a significant interlude into items of American popular culture, among them, those hot wings on a paper plate. I knew I’d mentioned the wings in several earlier postings, but as it turns out, just in passing. So now a note on hot wings, in their classic presentation in an Anerican fast food restaurant, on a paper plate.
Archive for July, 2020
Hot wings on a paper plate II
July 12, 2020Hot wings on a paper plate
July 12, 2020In my comics feed for the day, this One Big Happy from 6/15, featuring a Dad Tall Tale, DTT for short (here an elaborate poetic burlesque):
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The original: Joyce Kilmer’s famous (and famously sentimental) poem “Trees” — also famously parodied, most notably in Ogden Nash’s “Song of the Open Road”.
Hiding homosexuality: JCL
July 10, 2020Via Pinterest today, a story from the Messy Nessy site, “Hiding Homosexuality on the Cover of America’s Magazines a Century Ago” from 2/5/19, about illustrator and commercial artist J.C. Leyendecker (1874-1951), with more examples of his work beyond the ones that have already appeared on this blog.
Three steamy high-masculinity examples follow:
The teddy bears’ drink
July 10, 2020The coincidental juxtaposition of two things: yesterday’s Zippy strip about the drink Yoo-hoo; and the annual occasion, today, of Teddy Bear’s Picnic Day. Yes, one thing leads to the other, and the crucial link is the American baseball player Yogi Berra.
(#1) Zippy goes to his Kelvinator, and it calls “Yoo-hoo” to him
Midnight Tropics
July 9, 2020(Material in very plain language about men’s bodies and mansex, so not for kids or the sexually modest.)
This began as a brief follow-up to my 7/7 posting “Navy flamingos and roseate spoonbills”, about enhanced-cup swim briefs (seen in front view) from the Elia company, in the Navy Flamingo pattern: navy-blue with pink flamingos — but it moves into other territory (heavy on anal intercourse). In any case, yesterday the Daily Jocks sale offer featured the Elia enhanced pouch swim brief “Midnight Tropics” (in rear view):
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A handsome pattern, including the pink flowers (pink is a subtheme in Elia swimwear for men), and clearly designed to highlight the sexual desirability of the wearer’s buttocks (which, in this case, seem eminently pregnable already).
That 70s style
July 8, 2020In yesterday’s Zippy, Zippy and Claude celebrate the 1970s as the pinnacle of men’s fashions. Disco Duck, high-heeled disco dancing shoes, Bob Newhart’s collars (and more), the Bee Gees, lots of John Travolta (in and out of jeans), and the ubiquity of ripped jeans (more recently turned into an art form by Johnny Edlind).
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Navy flamingos and roseate spoonbills
July 7, 2020An excellent line of dactylic tetrameter — Navy flamingos and roseate spoonbills — featuring two strikingly pink birds, and these birds on fancifully patterned men’s swimwear and shorts. Then a bonus item that’s not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.
We begin with yesterday’s Daily Jocks ad, for the Elia beachwear company:
(#1) A not entirely human apparition on the beach, a superreal PlasticMan hunk, staring down fixedly at his big (artificially enhanced) package and at the wonderfully playful pink flamingos on his navy-blue swim briefs (note the typo flip fops, which I’ll get to in the bonus section)
Suicidal cats
July 6, 2020A brief cartoon cat note — I have been pressed with other things, and am just barely hanging on — starting from a FB re-posting of an old (9/15/12) Bizarro, in French:
(#1) Do not derange yourself; the original English version is soon to come
Budgies on the roadside
July 5, 2020Two cartoons from March — I keep telling you I’m not on top of anything in my life — a One Big Happy from 3/3, about Ruthie and the name budgie; and a Zippy from 3/25, with “On the Roadside”, a burlesque of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road.
Pretty, and sometimes protuberant, in pink
July 4, 2020(Largely about men’s bodies — not crudely, but the topic will be uncomfortable for some readers, so be warned that skin and bulges are on the agenda.)
From Romania, through the fabled sensuality of Greek islands in the Aegean, to you: men’s swimwear that embraces playful pinkness while pushing enhancements of male genitals forward. The Elia swimwear company, in a series of ads on the Daily Jocks site.
Starting with the DJ ad from 6/8, for the Kos Titan Swim Short in the Beach Unicorn pattern:
(#1) Real men flaunt their stuff in pink, with little ducks
