… among other things in the work of this assemblage artist. Both in one work:
(#1) rainbow lollipops
Hillman’s rainbow works are typically multi-color displays not necessarily organized into the conventional rainbow hues or arranged as in the Pride flag.
For St. Patrick’s Day, yesterday’s breakfast special at the Palo Alto Creamery. The name loco moco was new to me; the dish turns out to be 20th-century Hawaiian comfort food. Presented here with three conventionally Irish-American twists: corned beef , potatoes (in this case, hash browns), and green food (in this case, asparagus pieces).
A piece languishing in my posting queue since the beginning of December. The title alone should tell you that this posting is not for kids or the sexually modest. There will be plain talk about men’s bodies and mansex, and decidedly racy (though not actually X-rated) pictures.
Offered in two sales from TitanMen: the 2014 compilation Cumshots Vol. 1; and among several new releases, Muscle Daddies. So, in addition to notes on the gay porn flicks, linguistic notes about the compounds cumshot (ambiguous between reference to an act and to a depiction of this act in a photograph or film) and muscle daddy (referring to a gay sociotype, combining muscle-hunk and daddy).
As a bonus, a note on a cocktail called, among other things, the Cum Shot.
On the MillerCoors blog yesterday, “Henry’s Hard Soda unveils new television ads in time for summer hard soda spike” by Peter Frost:
(#1) Both ads can be viewed via the link
Yes, pork cloud. What the Bacon’s Heir company has re-named their version of chicharrones, aka (fried) pork rinds, which they believe are so fluffy that they have to be thought of as pork puffs:
We take fresh pork skin, melt off the fat, cure the skin in salt, and rapidly puff it in olive oil [so: pork skin puffs]. The result is so outrageously fluffy we had to change the name.
To my ear, the name is risible, very close to oxymoronic.
March 14 — 3.14 — is Pi Day, a day to celebrate the irrational number đťś‹. The usual pun for Pi Day is as Pie Day — restaurants have specials on pies — or some play on the adjective irrational — but the Mental Floss site has gone further afield:
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On February 24th, in the posting “Computer annals: Reyes Korzybski and the avalanche of spam”, I confronted thousands of spam comments a day from a single site, which used some huge database of names to concoct senders’ names on the spam. That posting was about the name Reyes Korzybski.
The avalanche of comments spam vanished not long after this, so for a period the flow of comments spam dropped to its customary hundreds a day. But then a few days ago a fresh spate began, bringing me (among thousands of others) the name Zane Grills.
Which suggested Zane Grey and grills of various kinds and led me to playful POPs (phrasal overlap portmanteaus) of a specialized sort: name chains (posting here). So I descended to the silliness of the Grey brothers: Billy Zane Grey, Billy Joel Grey, and Fletcher Christian Grey.
My portmanteau name for Totoro macarons — macaron cookies in the shape of the title wood spirit in My Neighbor Totoro, the 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
Totorons seem to have become a thing among inventive bakers:
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In today’s cartoon feeds, a new Bizarro/Wayno collaboration, with another Waldo strip, and a Calvin and Hobbes replay (from 3/5/88), with another in a series of sugar bomb cereal strips:
(#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 3 in this strip — see this Page.)
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Today’s Zippy, set in Hyde Park NY:
(#1) At the Eveready Diner in Hyde Park
(This strip has been cropped to remove political content.)
The building is a huge 1995 Paramount diner, a symphony in stainless steel and neon, designed to evoke classic diners of the 1950s.