Dingburger faces and gestures
Today’s Zippy, in which Dingburgers exhibit an incapacity for conveying (very specific) meanings by facial expressions and gestures: Note the absurd specificity of some of these meanings: ‘I’m...
View ArticleAnnals of obscene gestures
From today’s Miami Herald, a story on the wages of disrespect: A woman facing a drug possession charge was sentenced to 30 days in jail for flipping the bird to a Miami-Dade judge. Penelope Soto, 18,...
View ArticleMore girlish chattiness
… in today’s Zits: This is a topic that Scott and Borgman (somewhat wearisomely) just can’t leave alone. I do like the economical communication of Jeremy’s nonplussed state of mind, though.
View ArticlePorn topics
Over on AZBlogX, I’ve been punching out a series of postings on gay porn, postings I hope to do more with now that the, ahem, raw material has been assembled. Here are pointers to three of these items....
View ArticleThe head tilt
Noticed in the NYT Magazine on Sunday, an ad for the “NYT Global Forum: Thomas L. Friedman’s The Next New World” (6/20/13, City View at Metreon, San Francisco), with photos of 10 of the 19 scheduled...
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Today’s Zippy: More meta-cartooning, with a text about cartoons and cartoon characters. In the last panel, Zippy becomes more cartoony by developing big eyes, like the cartoon animal characters...
View ArticlePenguin cartoons
Today’s cartoon crop includes a Tundra strip (passed on by Chris Waigl) with a penguin as the central character (and a pun and an implicature) and a penguinless one (today’s Pearls Before Swine) that’s...
View ArticleGestures and symbols
From many sources, in e-mail and on Facebook, this ad from the Family Research Council: (#1) “Oral Sex and Doggie Style! Family Research Council: Call 2 Fall Is Call 2 FAIL!” by Lisa Derrick 6/27/13:...
View ArticleAt the X line with remarkably named pornstars
(Warning: This posting has an image of man-man sex that is right at the X line — that’s one of the topics of the posting, in fact — and some frank description of gay sex, so it might not be to...
View ArticleHow do I look?
Over on AZBlogX, I’ve continued a series on facial expressions during gay sex with a report on some scenes from the porn flick Hole 1 (God knows how many gay porn flicks have hole in their titles). It...
View ArticleCaptioned croppings
(Warning: Very high (homo)sexual content. Not for everyone.) On AZBlogX, I’ve done a series of postings on facial expressions during gay sex (recently, Wagner Vittoria on Tiziano Fuentes in Lovers in...
View ArticleOdds and ends 8/16/13
Some more short takes, on a notable person, avoidance of non-taboo words, wordless instructions, typefaces, and a libfix. 1. John Lewis. In the NYT on the 14th, a substantial piece by Sheryl Gay...
View ArticleGiven over to desire
(Technically not visually X-rated, but very heavy in sexual content.) In writing about facial expressions during gay sex (especially, during man-on-man intercourse), I’ve remarked on an ecstatic...
View ArticleThe eyes reject
From a Facebook discussion between a black woman T, a white guy C, and me, over the interpretation of a baffling — because drastically poor in detail — news story involving two young black men, a set...
View ArticleNews for penises: notes on phallophilia
(This posting will go lots of places, some of which — a Greek military re-enactors’ group in Melbourne — you’ll find astonishing, but there’s no denying that, as the title suggests, it’s penis-dense....
View ArticleV me, I’m Irish
(Men’s bodies and tons of mansex — anal, anal, anal — in street language. No actual penises on display, but nevertheless absolutely not for kids or the sexually modest.) Padraig porn for the day: (#1)...
View ArticleThe taXXXman will come for you
(The TitanMen TaXXX Day special offer ad for this year is heavy with massive erections from the 2017 gay porn flick Taxxx, so that’s off on AZBlogX. What’s here is packed with crude language about...
View ArticleBriefly noted: the terror face emoji
Lauren Hall-Lew writes on Facebook: 2020 is here and #WWIII is the new Twitter hashtag. Crystal Patterson Muneau follows up: I need an emoji reaction button to indicate how terrified I am. You could,...
View ArticleAvant l’orgie
(Men’s bodies and references to mansexual orgies. So not for everybody.) Yesterday’s offering from Daily Jocks, for a Helsinki Athletica sale. With a bit of AZ free verse interpreting the image: (#1)...
View ArticleWhere is the fishmonger?
(On facial expression and gaze in sexual negotiations between men, definitely mansexually raunchy, so not for kids or the sexually modest.) Yesterday’s ad from Next Door Studios (specializing in...
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