(Towards the end, some coarse sexual slang referring to fellatio, which some readers will want to avoid)
After years of service on my bed, the delightful images quilt was sent off on Saturday for dry-cleaning and some stitching repair, and I got to contemplate the other three t-shirt quilts, which had been quietly stored away on a closet shelf that was inaccessible to me, but had been brought down to my level as part of the great project of dispossession. I decided that all four (made by friends as a gift to me) would have to move with me — a triumph of sentiment over practicality — and picked the queer quilt, the really in-your-face one, as its replacement on my bed.
Now, more of the story, with pictures.
“Quilted”. But first, about the title of this posting, which is a play on the 1954 song “Jilted”. From Wikipedia:
“Jilted” is a popular song with music by Dick Manning and lyrics by Robert Colby, published in 1954.
Teresa Brewer recorded the biggest-selling version on December 29, 1953. … It first reached the U.S. Billboard chart on April 14, 1954
(You can listen to the Teresa Brewer recording — another great song from my adolescence — on YouTube here.)
The text:
(#1) For the verb jilt, my title has the verb quilt — not the creation verb quilt ‘make a quilt’, but a nonce transfer verb quilt ‘give a quilt to’
The images quilt. The last of the four t-shirt quilts, with miscellaneous images that have pleased or entertained me:
(#2) On my blog on 12/15/19
Preceding this:
— on 12/11/19 “The linguistics quilt”, with t-shirts about linguistics
— on 12/10/19 “The university quilt”, with t-shirts bearing the logos of universities I’ve been associated with
And the queer quilt. From my 7/30/17 posting “The queer quilt”:
(#3) [The gift:] a 12-panel queer quilt (roughly 6 x 3 ft), made mostly of old queer t-shirts of mine (some political, some playful, some artistic), assembled into a quilt by Janet Salsman, with the collaboration of Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky and Kim Darnell
Especially notable here is panel 4.2 (the fellatio panel):
I ♥︎ 🐓 (conveying ‘I love cock’) t-shirt from CafePress. Other suppliers provide I ♥︎ Cock, I ♥︎ Dick, and I ♥︎ Penis shirts, even I ♥︎ Big Black Dick. Plus straightforward I Suck Cock and Cocksucker shirts (and rebus 🐓 🍭 ‘cocksucker’ shirts, with a lollipop, aka a sucker).
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