(Not about language.)
An arresting image posted on Facebook by Arne Adolfsen, from the Papacito site (a trove of steamy but not X-rated male photography; perfil dedicado a la belleza masculina… los mejores cuerpos, los más sexys y mucho chico guapo):
Arne comments:
This has got to be one of the funniest pictures I’ve seen in I don’t know how long. I would love to see what a semiotician makes of this since it’s such an over-determined photograph.
(Not about language.)
The third and last of the wedding gown collages, this time showing lesbo brides paired with New York girls (with a kinky bent).
(Not about language, except for the clipping of lesbian to lesb-, with the affective suffix -o added on.)
Continuing the brides collages, here are four collages from another series, Lesbo Brides.
(Not about language.)
More collages from some years ago, this time put together on backgrounds of photos from bridal magazines. Thanks to Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky, who saw the artistic potential of the material.
In this series, we see photos from Marla and Margo’s wonderful wedding day.
(Not about language.)
A day away from Halloween, and already Christmas items arrive in the mail. Some of them are sticky-sweet and earnestly celebratory, and invite subversion. Here are six I tried to collage into submission some years ago in a protest against holiday sentimentality. They range from mildly critical (a composition about “women’s work”), through varying degrees of outrage and menace, to a Father Christmas as a child molester. (You’ve been warned; these are on the dark side.)
(Not about language.)
The weekend’s background track while working and diversion from pain and discouragement was the Legacy Collection box on The Invisible Man, a collection comprising the 1933 original and four more on the theme — The Invisible Man Returns (1940), The Invisible Woman (1940), Invisible Agent (1942), and The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944) — plus some extras. Unfortunately, it lacks Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951), the most entertaining of the later spinoffs. But then the A&C is played for laughs, with only a hint of the Science Amok theme that drove the first Invisible Man film (as well as Dr. Moreau, Frankenstein, and Jekyll / Hyde from the great years of b&w horror movies); close to the end of The Invisible Man’s Revenge, we get the solemn pronouncement:
He probed too deeply in forbidden topics.
(Not about language.)
In a packet of film cards, this poster for Forbidden Planet (1956):
I was struck when reminded of the cast, and also tickled by the visual cliché of the young woman in the poster, hopeless in the arms of the monster, alien, brute (see King Kong), whatever.
(Not about language.)
A link from Arne Adolfsen on Facebook to this entertaining but somewhat disturbing photograph by David Blazquez, crossing the human with the inanimate:
A Human Furniture Photograph.
(Vanishingly little about language in this one.)
BuzzFeed Sports continues to use the Olympics for soft-core porn. This time it’s two postings by Matt Bellassai (yes, that is his name) appreciating the bodies of male athletes at the games.
(Not about language.)
In the NYT on the 21st, “Judith S. Wallerstein, Psychologist Who Analyzed Divorce, Dies at 90” by Denise Grady, beginning:
Judith S. Wallerstein, a psychologist who touched off a national debate about the consequences of divorce by reporting that it hurt children more than previously thought, with the pain continuing well into adulthood, died on Monday in Piedmont, Calif.