(Entirely inappropriate for kids or the sexual modest. Playful, but raunchy, really raunchy.)
The trigger is a cute “Horny for the Holidays” ad for a TitanMen 2020 sale on gay porn movies, for which I’ve supplied a song parody:
Archive for December, 2020
Hornydays
December 28, 2020The flannel guys
December 28, 2020It starts with a photo that came up in a slideshow of things from Elizabeth Daingerfeld Zwicky’s image trove: Steven Levine and me, both in flannel shirts, in a time and a place and on an occasion that neither of us could identify — and EDZ wasn’t any help.
(#1) The flannel guys
Steven put it at roughly 20 years ago, because the shirt he’s wearing is one that he wore lovingly to death some years ago (cue Donovan singing “I Love My Shirt”). I still have my shirt, however, because it was one of a set of 5 or so L.L.Bean flannel shirts I bought late in the last century and have been carefully rotating over the intervening years, to make them last through as many winters as possible (I do love those shirts; among other things, they are lined).
this
December 28, 2020A Boxing Day cartoon by Wayno (with Dan Piraro at Bizarro studios North):
(#1) Wayno’s title:”New Year, New Symbol: Introducing the Pipe of Ambiguity”
Here, this picks out, or points to, the image just above it, which is indeed a symbol. In general, this has no fixed meaning, instead gaining its meaning from the context it’s in.
Australian firefighters, the calendars
December 27, 2020From Ann Burlingam for Christmas, an Australian firefighters 2021 calendar, pairing engagingly smiling shirtless hunks with adorable animals, many of them native Australian wildlife. The images — both the faces and the naked torsos — are celebrations of rock-solid masculinity (firefighters are, by necessity, in extraordinary shape physically) which is, however, entirely sexually innocent — an effect managed via the open, welcoming smiles and, especially, via the presentation of the men as companions and protectors of those adorable creatures (plus the neutral appearance and backgrounding of such crotches as do appear in the images).
From Ann: “May 2021 be filled with sweet, smiling men cuddling cute critters!”
Reading my life
December 26, 2020Writing to friends recently about the course of my life and how to interpret it. It can be read as a litany of pain, loss and tragedy, or alternatively, as an account of great successes and recognitions. Both things are true.
Wigs and smog in Nevada
December 26, 2020Today’s (Boxing Day) Zippy cartoon takes us to commercial strips in Nevada and to a Woody Allen (comic) homage to German Expressionist film:
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(Remember that Zippy is a notably surrealistic cartoon.)
The Boxing Day special
December 25, 2020(References to male genitals and sex between men, in sometimes very plain language, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.)
A wonderfully lubricious Daily Jocks sale ad for Boxing Day, the day after Christmas, taking advantage of allusions to box in several different sexual senses:
Muscular glutes and a broad, somewhat goofy, smile. On a Christmas theme, without any actual underwear — just red DJX Football Socks (which are advertised as partywear).
long / tall
December 25, 2020A recent Strange Planet cartoon by Nathan Pyle has the aliens not quite getting the English distinction between long and tall:
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— while introducing the subsidiary theme of tall people graciously accepting the social function of fetching items for their shorter companions (as someone who’s lost 3 inches in height over the years, I am grateful to those who’ve been willing to take on this role).
Santa Psychiatrist captions
December 25, 2020In place of the usual last page with a simple captioning contest, the 12/28/20 New Yorker — the Cartoon Issue — has a cartoon by E. S. Glenn (a Santa Psychiatrist cartoon, for the season), with no fewer that 19 captions proposed by professional comedians:
Desert Island chat
December 25, 2020In the most recent (12/28/20) New Yorker — the Cartoon Issue — a Colin Tom Desert Island strip, in which the castaway is importuned by messages in a bottle:
Water, water everywhere
Nor any drop to drink;
Bottles, bottles everywhere
But nothing but a CLINK!
