Two recent items about great progress in the acceptance of lgbt people in my country, with an alarm bell in the second about grave threats to us. First, a posting about a piece in Out magazine. Second, a comment on the Queer Linguist(ic)s Network (QLN) on Facebook.
Great progress, grave threat
September 23, 2020Latinx
September 22, 2020
From the Vox site “Latina, Latino, or LatinX? Here’s how the term came about: The gender-neutral term that’s supposed to be for everyone, well, isn’t” by Terry Blas on 10/23/19
The occasion for this posting is a net conference yesterday on latinx — referring to an orthographic form; also to its various pronunciations by speakers of Spanish; and especially to its choice as an racial/ethnic/cultural (self-)descriptor.
Still life grotesques
September 22, 2020Thanks to my posting about a Stephanie Shih still life (on 9/13/20 in “Mid-autumn memento mori for the times”), Pinterest has been providing me with links to other modern still lifes (one posted about on 9/15/20 in “Modern still lifes: Darren Jones”). It turns out that there’s an incredibly rich vein of work along these lines, only a bit of which I can sample here. Today, it’s photographer Tara Sellios and her still life grotesques, in the tradition of Western vanitas paintings: reminders that in life, we are in death.
The Kentucky lawyer
September 21, 2020Adding to the roster of accomplished Zwickys (thanks to Google Alerts): Louisville lawyer Anna C. Zwicky.
From the website of the firm she works for:
Anna C. Zwicky is an associate attorney at Blackburn Domene & Burchett [in Louisville KY]. Her main practice focus has been the defense of long-term care providers in medical malpractice matters. She also has experience with bankruptcy, financial regulations, copyright and general insurance defense. Anna has advocated for clients in courts throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Her education: Georgia College & State University (in Millidgeville GA), B.A. in Political Science (minor in Economics), 2013; University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law; J.D., 2016
(I note that she’s two generations (about 50 years) younger than me.)
Mushroom days
September 21, 2020Some nice canned mushroom soup a couple of days ago [added 9/25: Amy’s Soups mushroom bisque with porcini] reminded me of Kennett Square PA, a pleasant little town in the land of mushroom growing that my family used to visit once or twice a year, to enjoy the extensive Longwood Gardens there and to have some mushroom dishes in the town (I always had brown mushroom soup, aromatic and tasty). Lovely memories.
(#1) In the Historic District of Kennett Square
A visit with Skyy Knox
September 21, 2020(An appreciation of gay pornstar Skyy Knox, so there’s plain talk about men’s bodies and sex between men — not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.)
The hard-core visual is off in my posting yesterday to AZBlogX, “Skyy Knox”, where it’s #1. That posting was motivated by Knox (who turned up in Falcon Studios Hunt ezine Issue 237 on 9/18) having a body type that’s especially pleasing to me, because it was my man Jacques’s: nicely muscled but lean, with a long torso — a “swimmer’s build”. Knox, with his dick cropped from the image (I’ll get to the dick in a moment):
(#1)
But then it turned out that there was a remarkable bonus, in a wonderful shot — deeply affectionate and extraordinarily sexy — from Falcon’s Head Play, with Knox paired with JJ Knight (also below). (Yes, I understand that this is all performance, not real life — intended to provide a fantasy that will be sexually satisfying to the viewer — but this is an admirable performance.)
The penis-anus nexus
September 20, 2020(Already you can tell that this posting is going to be about anatomical features and sex between men and is entirely inappropriate for kids or the sexually modest.)
Over on AZBlogX, a posting from earlier today, “Cocks and assholes”, about two different presentations of the engagement between a cock and an asshole: submissive receptivity in a Say Uncle ad; active enthusiasm in a Hot House Studio ad (featuring Marc Dylan in the video Pack Attack 6)
There are three images from these ads on AZBlogX, but there’s absolutely no way I could fuzz them out or crop them for this blog; the ads are crucially, and vividly, about cocks and assholes. All is not lost, however; I can at least show you the cover for Pack Attack 6, since it’s innocent of raunchy bodyparts:
A man and his gangbangers
And I can take you through the discussion from AZBlogX, because merely verbal offensiveness gets a pass (otherwise I couldn’t be reminding you every so often how much I used to enjoy getting fucked up the ass).
Annals of remarkable commerce
September 20, 2020(About anatomical organs and sex between men, totally not suitable for kids or the sexually modest)
On the Naked Sword site yesterday (9/19), this remarkable ad for Fort Troff BOOF CBD suppositories (“It’s like poppers for your ass”):
The mystery scribble
September 19, 2020I wrote about this on Facebook yesterday, but now (at Ellen Kaisse’s urging) I’ve managed to get an image of the mystery scribble to preserve in my WordPress archives.
The set-up: I sometimes jot down stuff from dreams during the night, usually just a word or two, but occasionally something longer. (Not infrequently this is pointless; because of my disabled right hand, I often can’t read my own handwriting.) A message from the middle of last night appears to say:
circuses engines — need recovery from moon craters
I am baffled. Don’t know whether that’s because I’m reading the message wrong, or whether the idea is just loony. (I also sometimes get hot inspirations about linguistics in my dreams, and these always turn out to be incoherent or stupid. No benzene rings for me. More detail below.)
Later: well, maybe “churches engines”; I reject “carcuses engines” (carcasses engines?), but none of the possibilities make any sense.