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🐍 🐍 🐍 three snakes to welcome the new year in the lunar calendar and the year of the snake in the Chinese zodiac; today is the last day of a dragon year (I am a dragon), and tomorrow begins a snake year

As usual, there are many graphics for the new year, showing a variety of approaches to the theme, most of them in Chinese red (a color associated with the Chinese nation, the sun, and good luck; it has nothing to do with communism, where the symbolic value of red comes from the Red army (the victors) versus the White army in the Russian civil war of 1917-23). One graphic I like:

Graphic from Bridgetown Bites (a Portland OR food news outlet)

The years of the dragon and snake are the phallic portion of the Chinese zodiac, which we’re right in the middle of today. These are, of course, my zodiacally golden years, since snakes and dragons entertain me; actual penises, attached to male bodies, are central objects of my sexual desire, but detached penises just seem odd to me, and simulacra of penises strike me as silly — often delightfully so, by virtue of the distance between flesh and symbol, but still laughable. Which will bring me to my next posting for today, featuring giggly banana couches and the buffoonish Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.

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