(Men’s bodies and man-on-man sex, discussed bluntly, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest)
On Pinterest this morning, this painting by Polish queer artist Wojciech Woś (now working in Berlin):
Archive for the ‘Polish’ Category
Woś in blue
November 27, 2024Alberta’s gigantic dumpling (and its fork)
June 10, 2024Passed on by Lisa Cohen on Facebook on 6/2: a bulletin about the world’s largest perogy, in Glendon AB. From the Atlas Obscura site, in “Giant Perogy… Roadside tribute to a staple of eastern European cuisine”, published on 9/5/10:
In 1993, Glendon, a village in Alberta …, unveiled its roadside tribute to the perogy. The town’s [fiberglass and steel] Giant Perogy, complete with fork, stands 27 feet tall, weighs approximately 6,000 pounds, and is considered one of the “Giants of the Prairies,” a collection of massive sculptures that can be found across this geographic region of North America.
The fork was added to the sculpture so that people would have some idea as to what it was supposed to be. The first design, without the fork, left passersby baffled. “The first design wasn’t [with] a fork, but then people went by and they responded that it looked like a cow pie or something,” said Johnny Demienko, who dreamed up the sculpture when he worked as the town’s mayor and also a school bus driver.
Apparently, a Perogy Cafe, serving “Ukrainian and Chinese perogies”, was located next to the sculpture for some years.
To come: photos of Glendon’s Giant Perogy; the spelling PEROGY; for comparison to the Glendon dumpling, actual pierogies; the Giants of the Prairies.
The Pierogi Western
July 24, 2020Today’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro takes us to a campfire in the Old West:
(#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 4 in this strip — see this Page.)
A somewhat goofy variant of the Spaghetti Western, with a different starch — so Polish (or, more generally, Slavic) rather than Italian.