Today’s Zits:
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Archive for the ‘Signs and symbols’ Category
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January 15, 2017The Christmas pickle
December 26, 2016The song for today: “Good King Sauerkraut look out / On his feets uneven / Beware the snoo lay ’round about / All kerchoo achievin’…” (discussion here).
There seems to be no end to the blizzard of holiday material that comes my way. Recently: the Christmas game of Hide the Pickle or Find the Pickle, which I don’t recall having heard about until about two days ago, when the topic popped up on Facebook. At the center is a Christmas tree ornament like this one:
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The advancing horde of shelf elves
December 21, 2016The most extravagant of the images I’ve collected on this topic — one that should serve as a warning about (some of) the content of this posting:
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Two things you need to know about to fully get this composition: the Elf on the Shelf figure; and the glory hole setting, with a candy cane (which often functions as a phallic symbol) standing in for a penis. (In a moment I’ll have more to say about the details of the composition.)
The Yule log
December 18, 2016It starts with another feature of cultural, as opposed to religious, Christmas, the Yule log. Moves to the cover of the current New Yorker (12/19&26), Ana Juan’s “Yule Dog”. And then, briefly, to sexy word play on the log of Yule log (with a digression on a vintage postcard with a gay Yule log joke). And culminates in an orgy of cake: Bûches de Noël, edible simulacra of the Yule log.
More news for cigars
December 7, 2016(Warning: some smokin’ m2m sex in passing. On the other hand, there’s some Elvis and some ZZ Top.)
Yesterday: a posting on cartoons from the 1991 book The World of Charles Addams, from a used copy recently acquired by Juan Gomez. In which was secreted a cigar-box label, all fresh and unused:
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Back to cigars (last visited on November 18th) and on to Las Vegas.
Penguins among the asparagus
December 6, 2016Two Charles Addams cartoons from New Yorkers of years ago: a penguin-themed one from 4/27/57 and an asparagus-themed one from 5/25/63:
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“You telephone ‘Better Homes & Gardens.’ I’ll start making the hollandaise.”
Swish Zwicky
November 25, 2016A notification from Pinterest this morning of this pin by someone with the name “nelly zwicky”:
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Yes, a toy tank, German WW II vintage, I think — a seriously phallic replica, a butch plaything (one among many) on nz’s board “pat”; nz’s other board is Endroits à visiter (‘Places to visit’). All of which conjures up, for me anyway, the image of a flamboyant, or even downright swishy, francophone Kiwi queer. But maybe nz’s a woman with a dykey bent to military personnel and heavy armaments. (I learn nothing on the net about who nz is, so I’m free to speculate wildly.)
This led me to an undoubtedly real Nelly Zwicky, a writer from — extravagant astonished gestures here! — the town of Mollis, canton Glarus, Switzerland. Where the Zwickys come from.
And it all made me wonder whether it was too late in life to take up a career as Swish Zwicky, the Divine Miss Z.
Two Stanford adventures
November 23, 2016Last week, the California: The Art of Water exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center, a fascinating show in an assortment of media (painting, drawing, photography, maps, video), of a just-right size (enough stuff to be engaging, not so much it was overwhelming).
Yesterday, a visit to the Cactus Garden. The winter rains started a while back, turning the golden grasses of the dry season to bright new green and also sending cactuses into abandoned blooming. Some had already bloomed, some were in bloom right now, some were in bud, about to bloom.
Fellatial publicity photos
November 22, 2016(About men’s bodies and man-man sex, in very plain talk, with only a little bit of linguistic interest — so not for kids or the sexually modest.)
What is this man so earnestly fixed on?:
A penis, which he’s about to fellate avidly. (The full picture, and some details, in #6 in the AZBlogX posting linked to below.)
Gluten log at the Bluebird Diner in Brooklyn
November 19, 2016Today’s Zippy takes us to the Bluebird (or Blue Bird) Diner in Brooklyn, where you can get a gluten log (or Lotto tickets, candy, cigars, newspapers and magazines, and who knows what else):
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