From Aric Olnes, a link to this entertainment on the Dangerous Minds site: “‘Sexy’ Knitted Elephant and Snake Underwear for Men” by Tara McGinley 4/13/16 (intended for a woman to give her man, but of course a man could get (or knit) them for himself or for his guy):
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The knitwear news for penises
April 14, 2016From the groaner annals
April 4, 2016The cover of the New Yorker for 4/4/16:
Getting ball park franks on board the plane. Cover by Jaime Hernandez, with the title (groan) “Bun Voyage” (bun – bon).
Back to Braunschweig
March 30, 2016Yesterday we went to a diner in Brunswick ME, rolled a few Brunswick bowling balls, looked in on the province of New Brunswick in Canada and various American places named (New) Brunswick, and had a taste of gam(e)y Brunswick stew from the American South — all a riff on the English name Brunswick derived from the German place name Braunschweig. A tour through lots of stuff, but I held back on digressing even further to a topic involving the place-name Braunschweig more directly, namely Braunschweiger sausages (of a number of dfferent types).
The Braunschweiger sausage of my American childhood, in a tasty sandwich:
[7/30/19: The photo of a liverwurst sandwich has been removed, in response to this message from the law firm of Higbeee & Associates:
We represent the photographer Adlife Marketing & Communications Co., Inc.& Communications Co., Inc.. Adlife Marketing & Communications Co., Inc.& Communications Co., Inc. is a professional photographer who licenses images to make a living. We noticed that the work of Adlife Marketing & Communications Co., Inc.& Communications Co., Inc. is being displayed on a website that we believe you either own or operate (See Exhibit A). Further, we could not locate any records that indicate that you have a license for such use.
… If you do not have a license, please contact us at […] or call us at […] to resolve the matter. … We need to know how the image(s) came to be on your website to discuss compensating Adlife Marketing & Communications Co., Inc.& Communications Co., Inc. for the time of infringement and costs that have been incurred as a result of the use of the image(s).
The Higbee firm has made something of a lucrative specialty of threatening lawsuits over the use of photographs on the net, requiring that the photographs be removed (as I have done here with the liverwurst sandwich photo) and then that the user pay a hefty fee for its appearance on the net. (I wouldn’t dare describe this behavior as a scam, because that of course would be actionable in itself.) This is not my first brush with them (see below), but this particular occasion has a certain onomastic charm to it, since the “professional photographer who licenses images to make a living” in question has the remarkable name “Adlife Marketing & Communications Co., Inc.& Communications Co., Inc..” I’ll bet their parents rued the day they chose that name out of the baby books.
In any case, the killer liverwurst sandwich photo came to me on a Pinterest board several years ago, posted by someone who got it from a 2008 WordPress blog posting about meat.
Then, from my 12/29/17 posting “News for penises: artwatch”:
(#1) Painting, signed by Carolina Falkholt, on Broome Street
[Photo of the penis mural removed. It turns out that it was from the NY Post, where it was credited to photographer William Farrington. Attorney Mathew K. Higbee is now threatening to sue me, on Farrington’s behalf, for large amounts of money for unauthorized use of the image… Part of my response is to remove the image.]
But they still demanded that I compensate the photographer. I did not. Now here we go again.
End of legal digression.]
(Ok, liverwurst by another name. Some people just hate it.)
The news for penises: a flower garden
March 25, 2016Ok, you never promised him a rose garden, but maybe you can give him a penis garden. From RJP, this fine throw pillow, on sale at a web gift site (for $28.90):
The news for penises: hot dogs for 5, carrots for 2
March 10, 2016Anahad O’Connor in an NYT Science Times story on the 8th, with this arresting graphic, a little festival of food phallicity:
“The Not-Now Diet: Intermittent fasting is gaining support among scientists and those struggling to lose weight” (in print); “Fasting Diets Are Gaining Acceptance” (on-line)
Double male proficiency
March 7, 2016Pinterest regularly shows me boards on all sorts of interesting topics. Today’s find: “sleeve tattoos for guys”, with astonishing intricate tattoos covering much or all of an arm, or an arm with an extension on to a pec (suddenly sexy). Gorgeous patterns, many in color, most abstract, but some art work depicting scenes.
And sprinkled in amid this field of body images, lots of pin spam: sites offering stuff for sale, all kinds of stuff: wallets, watches, shirts, throw blankets, … and a collection of hoodies and tees from zapbest2.myshopify.com, including this double entendre number in red:
A double appeal to male proficiency: to skill as a fisherman (wielding his fishing rod to pull fish in), to skill as a dicksman (wielding his meatrod to satisfy his partner, bring his partner to climax).
Comic consciousness
February 28, 2016The Scenes From A Multiverse from the 26th has Snake One suddenly, and comically, conscious of the limitations of his body for performing his duties under Snake Leader in the Spacespider Colonies :
(#1)
This casts Snake One into a downward spiral of doubt and confusion.
a katakana para
February 25, 2016A piece of silliness for Thursday that will take us to many far-flung places and cultures and bring us into contact with a wide variety of people and food.
a katakana para:
maranatha! patapan patapan, mahna mahnaafter a Panama caravan, Papa Salazar was away
at a Managua ramada with Capablanca aside a jacaranda;
at a Manama cabana gazing at Alana Blanchard atop a catamaran;
and clad in a black Hamas bandanna
from Gaza, at the Ramada in Pataskala;
mañana at a madrasa in Casablanca, Papa makes aloo
tamatar for Malanga and Zapata and Rafa Nadal, but today Papa
partakes of tapas, bananas, parathas, malangas, and
amaranth salad with his pata Chava Ayala —
and Bahama Mamas! and patatas bravas!Fuckin’ A!
Mid-February news for penises
February 19, 2016An accumulation of penis-related items to help fill in that celebratory gap between Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day. Meanwhile, mark your calendars: The annual Penis Festival in Japan will be held on March 15 (which is also the Ides of March).
A bit of musical foolishness, “The Pickle Man”. Then an (apparent) frat boy with a hunger for penis. And two captioned graphic images communicating something rather different from what their creators intended.
