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Big and Small
It started with an image passed on to me by Mike McKinley, of two young, lean buddies displaying their penises (at some sort of public event — it’s a puzzling picture): one small, the other about twice...
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Magnum
Just went past me on television: an ad for Magnum Ice Cream Bars: (#1) (from the Magnum Ice Cream site; “Magnum Ice Cream Bars are made with creamy Ice Cream and Belgian Chocolate”). The bars are big...
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Annals of phallic reference: a real fireman’s nozzle
Caught in a tv commercial this morning, for the Mighty Blaster Fireman’s Nozzle (“as seen on TV”). From the copy: Mighty Blaster Fireman’s Nozzle is the first-ever household sprayer with the power and...
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Hatch NM
Today’s Zippy takes us to Hatch NM, which is famous for two things: green chiles and giant fiberglass figures: (#1) The two are packaged together in this remarkable artifact: (#2) The current Wikipedia...
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Annals of advertising: patriotism, sex, and overwhelming mouthfuls of food
It burst recently (with actual fireworks) onto the American fast-food scene: the Most American Thickburger from Carl’s Jr. / Hardees: This clip doesn’t include the final tag, “Because America, that’s...
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Screaming for ice cream
On the front page of the July 2015 Funny Times, this cartoon by Mary Lawton: (#1) The visuals: a parody of Munch’s The Scream, in and around an ice cream truck. The text: the song/chant “I Scream, You...
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The news for penises, including accidental ones
First, a little more on sexual tube steak. Then a couple images of accidental penises. Tube steak. First to reminisce. From a 8/28/12 posting on “Gidget and her friends”: [Tubesteak Tracy:] a reference...
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The news for penises, Norwegian edition
Passed on by Chris Hansen on Facebook, this story of 6/23 from thelocal.no (“Norway’s news in English”), “Is this the worst summer job ever?”: A nineteen-year-old in Norway has been hired by a sexual...
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Embrace of the televised penis
American television has long been penis-averse, even on cable and web shows, where there’s no reason for this shyness — and this in a country that provides a mind-boggling amount of visual porn,...
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Outrageous art
Another discovery on my desktop, from who knows how long ago: a poster designed for the original album release (1985) of the Dead Kennedys Frankenchrist, a display of penises and vulvas, which of...
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Jeri Ryan and Luke Perry and more
I realize I should be out storming prisons today, but I seem to be caught up in actorly stuff again, so no Bastille action and also very little about language. In the past few days, it seems that every...
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Phallicity watch: the mushrooms
In the NYT Magazine on Sunday the 2nd, “The Miracle of Preserves” by Tamar Adler, with this illustration (photo by Grant Cornett): Mushrooms make a delicious base for vegetables à la grecque The recipe...
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Annals of phallicity: the hardness score
In the September 2015 issue of Out magazine (p. 20), Aaron Hicklin’s Editor’s Letter, “The Audacity of Cucumbers”, a rave tv review: If you are among the paltry 55,000 people that tuned in to Logo...
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Returning to your roots
From an old friend, on the occasion of my birthday (yesterday): Groping around for an appropriate photo to send, all I could find is this photo of a Japanese sweet potato. (#1) Last spring, I planted...
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Another medieval penis monster
From Rob Partington, another illustration from a medieval manuscript on the discarded image / discarding images site (devoted to medieval book painting): a dragon with a penis hat: Information on the...
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JockMan Admires MooseBriefBoy
(Mostly about men’s bodies, rather than language, and with phallicity bordering on X, so you might want to use your judgment.) From the Daily Jocks people today, a scruffy, abs-endowed model posing in...
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Two recurrent themes
… on this blog: unintended phallicity, penguins. Both encountered yesterday. Item 1: David Lebovitz on Facebook, saying: I posted this picture [“Paris parking”] on Instagram yesterday, and I must be...
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Annals of phallicity: nozzles (and glycerin, lubes, and posing oils)
(A posting drenched in the contemplation of the male body and man-man sex, but with linguistic points along the way. Use your judgment.) It starts with a Channel 1 Releasing (C1R) ad for their current...
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Sunday penis notes: #1 the morning moose-knuckle
A set of postings about penises, real and symbolic (with only a bit of linguistic stuff in there). To start with, a balletic moose-knuckle: The photo came to me (under the heading “Morning stretches”)...
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Sunday penis notes: #2 the news for penises
While looking for something quite different, I discovered that if you google for something to do with penises, Google offers you a list of recent “news for penis” items. Today’s crop, with five items:...
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