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Comic collages

August 18, 2025

I’ve lost faith in these offers reaching an audience. But just in case, I have a variety of framed / mounted comic collages, free for the taking (at my downtown Palo Alto condo). In three sets.

First set: eleven pieces of Barry Kite’s Aberrant Art (roughly 10.5 x 15 in. images, with generous framing white space), described in my 11/30/16 posting “Poet in Search of His Moose”; in general,

The collages are parodic or surreal, and quite funny, combinations of elements from art history and from popular culture, with wry titles. Like Bill Griffiths on art in Zippy the Pinhead, Kite shows great affection for the culture that he ransacks to create absurdist, countercultural works.

Second set: two similar works by a collagist De la Nuez (bought at a long-ago Palo Alto art fair; I’ve lost all information about him)

Third set: a large collection of smaller collages, by my hand: comic homoerotic (mostly XXX-rated) collages

Come by and browse; set up a time by e-mail to: arnold dot zwicky at-sign gmail dot com

 

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Playful offers: two bags of phallic figures

July 1, 2025

Things I can’t give away to local agencies as toys, because they’re adult toys, in particular figures whose reason for being is that they’re ostentatiously phallic. The figures are supposed to be funny rather than arousing, but there’s no denying that they’re displaying phalluses.

There are two bags, one of doubly phallic things in plastic, a whole lot of them; and one of gay male action figures (three of them, each paired with a superhero action figure — passion among the mighty). In detail:

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An offer: cufflinks

June 30, 2025

A small thing that’s turned up among the thousands of objects I need to abandon so that I can move, eventually, to an assisted care facility: a small circular leather box (under 3 inches diameter) with a collection of cufflinks in it. Lovely cufflinks, several sterling silver (including a tiny abacus that works), several with semi-precious stones, all from a long-ago life with my man Jacques. But I haven’t been able to deal with cufflinks for decades, so it’s time to find someone who would actually cherish this collection (the silver needs polishing).

The box is small enough to be not much trouble to mail (within the US) — I could get my grandchild Opal to do this —  though if you could pick it up in Palo Alto that would be even better. It would please me, and honor J’s memory, to send it to a good home.

Send requests by e-mail to: arnold dot zwicky at-sign gmail dot com

 

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Book offer: scholarly grammars of English

June 25, 2025

These can go to the Friends of the Palo Alto Library, but it occurs to me that among my friends and colleagues (I will also post this offer to Stanford Linguistics) there might be someone who would like a full set of one or more of these great scholarly grammars of English:

(paperback) Jespersen, Modern English Grammar (7 volumes), plus The Philosophy of Grammar

(hardback) Kruisinga, Handbook of Present-Day English (5 volumes)

(hardback) Poutsma, A Grammar of Late Modern English (4 volumes)

I don’t have the resources to mail stuff, so you have to be able to pick things up at my Palo Alto house (if you don’t live too far away, I have helpful family members who could deliver).

Arnold (there are other, less scholarly, offers to follow)

(inquiries to: arnold dot zwicky at-sign gmail dot com)

 

 

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A funny dirty book

September 18, 2023

A book of  XXX-rated comic collages. On offer for free (offer details later in this posting). Here’s the cover page for the book:


A book of 48 collages (8.5 x 12 inch copies on good stock, titled and signed by the artist), in pockets in the book; note all three descriptors — XXX-rated, homoerotic, comic (they’re all significant)

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Kentucky country ham on offer

April 24, 2023

That’s the lede: I have about two pounds of KCH — from a shipment that supplied me with very satisfying nostalgia for Easter but is way more than I can use myself, especially since I’m supposed to be severely restricting my intake of salt and fats. So I’m giving away the KCH  to good (local) homes.

Now, a reprise of the KCH story. And then the details of the offer.

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An offer: Orba 1

December 14, 2022

This is really about my daily life, but it’s also an offer of a sweet little — fits in the palm of your hand, just 3 inches in diameter — musical device, to go to a good home. The device is an Orba (specifically, the Orba 1) sold by Artiphon (link here):


[from the Artiphon site:] Orba is a handheld synth, looper, and MIDI controller that lets anyone make music immediately. With Orba’s integrated looper you can layer Drum, Bass, Chord, and Lead parts to create beats and songs on the fly. Play through the built-in speaker or use the ⅛” jack to connect headphones or amplifiers. Pair wirelessly to the Orba app to customize your instrument and share your creations with friends.

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Offersville

August 17, 2016

A new offer, of some male porno stuff unearthed in recent clearings-out. Plus a reminder about the DVD offers from the 10th, which expire on Friday the 19th. (You pay only the shipping.)

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Final DVD offers, #5 and #6

August 10, 2016

(I think)

Offers of DVDs, asking only for the mailing cost. To request an offer, E-MAIL ME at arnold.zwicky@gmail.com specifying what you are asking for and giving your postal address (Kim Darnell — drdcrunk@gmail.com — will then get in touch with you to make arrangements).

Offer #5: splendid miscellany. 16 discs, with comedy, documentaries, and a bunch of dramatic films

Offer #6: general films (comedy and drama both) on lgbt subjects. Two boxes, about 18 discs each.

#6A: Adventures of Felix and Bear City to Just Say Love and Locked Up

#6B: The Man I Love and Mulligans to Wedding Banquet and When Love Comes

You can ask for as many of these as you want. The offers will stand for about 10 ten days.

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DVD offers: second announcement, plus a new one

July 26, 2016

Offers of DVDs, asking only for the mailing cost. To request an offer, E-MAIL ME at arnold.zwicky@gmail.com specifying what you are asking for and giving your postal address (Kim Darnell — drdcrunk@gmail.com — will then get in touch with you to make arrangements).

I begin with the most pressing set of offers, XXX-rated gay porn DVDs. We have no other outlet for these, so the unclaimed ones will be junked. (The others can be donated to local agencies.)

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