The coming duodecfest
Not pocalypse, but fest / A day on which I’m blest: September 6th is the coming AMZ duodecfest, the celebration of my 84th birthday, 84 being the 7th — and therefore lucky — duodecade (a duodecade is a...
View ArticleA taste for snails
Nelson Minar writing on Facebook on 7/19 alludes to the controversial oysters vs. snails bath scene in the 1960 movie Spartacus: Facebook has now figured out that I prefer snails to oysters so it is...
View ArticleToto, Tonto, let’s call the whole thing off
Today’s Dan Piraro Bizarro, in three panels: an odd title panel that seems to be mostly about phallicity in the mythic Old West, and two Toto / Tonto confusion panels: the Lone Ranger and Toto (with a...
View ArticleWhat’s in YOUR holster?
By some odd accident, today has turned out to be Holster Day — it’s also, unrelatedly, the (96th) birthday of the late Bill Bright, eminent linguist and great friend — as the first panel in a Bizarro...
View ArticleI PAINT BOYS
(Talk about male bodies and sex between men in plain language, so, alas, not suitable for kids or the sexually modest) The artistic manifesto of Polish queer artist Wojciech Woś (now working in...
View ArticleThe anole of Palo Alto
three tigers for ultimate October, aka Halloween; by the pricking of my fingers, something wicked this way lingers Specifically, my fingers pricked out the name Anold for Arnold a little while ago,...
View ArticleStuck in the middle with you
- 2: 12/23, so it’s Festivus; the last day of Saturnalia; and now, according to a front page story in today’s New York Times (“In Some Parts, It’s Christmas Adam Before Eve: Churches Are Adding Day to...
View ArticleThe beefcakemeister
(all about an artist who celebrates male genitals and men sharing theirs with one another for fun and pleasure, whose work I will be discussing in street language, so this posting is totally not for...
View ArticleDragon welcomes snake
three snakes to welcome the new year in the lunar calendar and the year of the snake in the Chinese zodiac; today is the last day of a dragon year (I am a dragon), and tomorrow begins a snake year As...
View ArticleGiggly banana couches and the buffoonish Oscar Mayer Wienermobile
The news for (symbolic) penises, following up on my previous posting about the years of the dragon and the snake in the Chinese zodiac (which ends with a promise of giggly banana couches and the...
View ArticleSol is secretly queer
It’s Cinco de Mayo today, but this posting has precious little Mexican content; don’t let that keep you from your celebrations, whatever they are. I had intentions to cook up a homey Mexican pozole...
View ArticleAppliances in therapy
Today’s Bizarro is a Psychiatrist cartoon done with common kitchen appliances: a tea kettle and a coffee percolator sit on a couch in couples therapy, with a toaster therapist: (#1) Wayno’s title,...
View ArticleGigantic cylinders
(A good bit that’s totally unsuitable, in subject matter and language, for kids and the sexually modest) This posting started out on 5/21 as two separate postings, each about extraordinary size, about...
View ArticleA rose for Sharon
An occasional poem (in free verse) for my friend Sharon on her recent birthday, wrapped up in the calendar, the female body, and plants and their sexual symbolisms, with photos. The poem first, then...
View ArticleDoes your hot dog talk?
Today’s Zippy strip: (#1) I choose to understand hot dog in this context as a sexual metaphor, so I’m both enchanted and appalled by the idea of a world of talking hot dogs, all in conversations with...
View ArticleInto the world of toothed bodyparts
In human beings, the mouth is the only bodypart that comes equipped with teeth. Well, there are fables of the fearsome vagina dentata and even — top men, beware! — of the occasional anus dentatus. Now...
View ArticleGay banter: great big green beans
tiger tiger tiger for ultimate August, also (US) Labor Sunday (everything — September, Labor Day, even World War II, 86 years ago in Poland — breaks tomorrow); meanwhile, it’s all gay banter about...
View ArticleCartoons for 9/1/25
rabbit rabbit rabbit to bring September in (also to bring in the first fall month in the northern hemisphere) and, this year, to celebrate (US) Labor Day (recognizing the union movement and honoring...
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