Just posted on this blog, this Zippy:
Zippy-God as the psychiatrist, a very Zippy-like generic Pinhead as the patient; he’s given the name Fenwick in the third panel. The artist is fond of Fenwick.
Just posted on this blog, this Zippy:
Zippy-God as the psychiatrist, a very Zippy-like generic Pinhead as the patient; he’s given the name Fenwick in the third panel. The artist is fond of Fenwick.
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… at King Features Syndicate, or so it seems. In my feed today, three cartoons (of my five regulars from King) with a psychoanalyst and his couch: a Bizarro/Wayno with an empty couch; a Zippy with Zippy on the couch; and a Mother Goose and Grimm with the dog Grimm on the couch.
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The 4/16 One Big Happy takes on the world of nicknames:
Cylene says: when you refer to my father, don’t say Billy (the nickname), say William (the full name).
Ruthie hears: don’t say /bɪli/, say /wɪljǝm/.
So Ruthie overgeneralizes.
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(Only the first image — daddy and boy in sexual medias res — is problematic; but it’s probably over the line for Facebook these days, and it might be for you too, even though it’s penisless. The penises are in an AZBlogX posting “Gay butterflies”, in three mansex collages with word play and butterflies.)
It started with a visual re-run yesterday in “Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar”:
A collage of mine (from my 10/21/16 posting “Another Spanish lesson”, with a Daddy / Boy scene illustrating el papá taking charge of the body of his boy:
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From Sim Aberson, on his Grand Tour of Iceland, this wonder from the Phallological Museum in Reykjavik:
An eyed dickhead, a red-caped shaft, and those ample balls. Elmo is ready to fly wherever he’s needed!
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(On the social and sexual lives of gay men, with photos, so not to everyone’s taste. Almost surely not to Facebook’s taste.)
Recent Facebook conversation, initiated by poster J1:
First time being called “Daddy” while playing with a guy at a bar. Bittersweet!
With a response from J2:
Yeah, I can see the bittersweet part, for sure. Heh. I remember you as a total twink.
And from me:
Ah, those days. For me, it was papacito from a cute server at a Mexican restaurant. I was charmed.
daddy here is the name of a social identity, a gay “type” (like twink, bear, muscle-hunk, or leatherman); and by extension, of a subculture of men of this type; and by a different extension, of a role or relationship between men, between an older and a younger man. Such identities, subcultures, and roles can intersect and combine, as here:
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(Talk about mansex in street language, so not for kids or the sexually modest — or, for that matter, Facebook the Prudish.)
From the TitanMen gay porn studio, for Mothers Day this year:
(#1) Cropped ad; the full ad can be viewed on AZBlogX, in the 5/12 posting “Mothers / Muthuhs Day 2018”
That’s Dirk Caber and Daymin Voss in New Rules: two hot muthas, and muthas — a variant of the vulgar slang mothers, a clipping of the vulgar slang motherfuckers, an epithet that can be either deprecatory or (as here) celebratory — is the link to Mothers Day.
So we end up with gay porn for Mothers Day — a holiday I’m now tickled to think of, alternatively, as Motherfuckers Day. Or, possibly, Samuel L. Jackson Day, for the great cinematic motherfucker-wielder.
As a bonus, half the men in the cast of New Rules are not only mothers / muthuhs, but also daddies, in one of the gay senses of daddy: ‘attractive older gay man’. In fact, they’re muscle daddies.
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(Underwear guy, allusions to sexual practices. Imbibe with caution.)
Yesterday’s Daily Jocks ad, an “X-rated Sale” for Mothers Day weekend, with a caption of mine:
drained from a
day in hard harness
sprawled half-conscious
tits jutting codpiece
glistening abs
huge elegant feet
hazy hint of that
hole of male delight
An odd sale offer for Mothers Day weekend, but maybe (as I’ll suggest in another posting) it’s really for Muthuhs Day. That would work.
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From Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky this morning, a little present from the workshop of artist and designer Ben Wagner:
(#1) ∞ + 🏳️🌈 – infinity sign (‘forever’) + rainbow flag (‘gay’)
(also available as a temporary tattoo)
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Today’s Bizarro/Wayno collaboration:
(#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 3 in this strip — see this Page.)
It all depends on your knowing the classic text, from the introduction to the tv show Adventures of Superman (1952-1958):
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