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Jock Robin
(Jockstraps and plays on cock ‘male bird’ vs. ‘penis’, but no more than that.) A note from the annals of (homo)masculinity, inspired by this Cellblock 13 Tight End jockstrap in robin’s egg blue,...
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Zippy exits, pursued by a board
(Warning: high fecality content, which some may find unpleasant.) Todays Zippy strip, in which Zippy is subjected to stoner / surfer verbal abuse: (#1) Zippy and his surf iron As usual, there’s a lot...
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Briefly noted: famous or heinous?
Caught in passing on tv, a reference to heinous crimes in which the /h/ of /hénəs/ was so brief that the pronunciation came very close to /énəs krájmz/ anus crimes. I reflected for a moment on what...
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Lupine Sapir-Whorf allusions
(That’s the adjective /lúpàjn/; the noun referring to a flower in the pea family is /lúpǝn/ — but this is not the Lupine Express.) Francis Barlow’s illustration of the fable, 1687 Today’s morning name:...
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My Lollicock has come home!
Lollicock, lollicock / Oh lolli lolli lolli (Look, this is going to be about startling pink dildos — but adorable! — and phallofellatial lollipop playfulness, in art and song, so it’s clearly not to...
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9/9: not a non-event
(Astonishingly, this silly posting will devolve into references to male pubes (NOAD entertains both /pjúbìz/ and /pjubz/ as pronunciations, by the way, so do as thou wilt) and photos of hunky young men...
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Cockateal crotches
(Male bodyparts, sex between men, visually right up against the line, so entirely unsuitable for kids and the sexually modest.) From yesterday’s “Materials for a blog”, reporting on my asking,...
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Powerfully eruptive, yet respectful of his anatomy
(Men’s underwear and its symbolic values, frank talk about male sexuality, but otherwise not over lines; use your judgment.) Powerfully eruptive, yet respectful of his anatomy: the vaunted twin virtues...
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He enjambed me
To end a difficult week — ending high with a new water heater (thank you, cute and earnest plumber!), after four days without hot water; disconcerted by those same four days of failing to capture and...
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Gilligan’s aisle
The 10/2 Wayno/Piraro Bizarro: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 4 in this strip — see this Page.) A pun on isle ‘island’ vs. aisle ‘a passage...
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A gruop of proofreaders
In The Guardian of 2/20/21: “Tom Gauld suggests some literary collective nouns – cartoon”: (#1) The last collective noun — gruop — excited a certain amount of appalled attention from some readers, who...
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A shot in the back
It’s November 5th: Guy Fox Day … um, Guy Fucks … Gay Fucks … Gay Folks … Gay Fox … oh hell, Gunpowder Day. Bang! For the day, a smoking-gun cartoon, by Frank Cotham from the 10/11/10 New Yorker: The...
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Four cartoons on familiar themes
… in recent days, covering a wide territory: in chronological order, — from 10/31, a Mother Goose and Grimm Psychiatrist cartoon with a Halloween theme and some puns — from the 11/1 New Yorker, a...
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Now we’re cooking with carrots
From Ann Gulbrandsen (in Sweden) on Facebook today, a wonderful still life of earthy carrots: Ann wrote (in Swedish; what follows is the Google Translate version in English, which is, um, flatfooted,...
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The shirt and the scent
Today’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro takes us to the Men’s Department, where a salesman of extraordinary style purveys clothing, shoes, accessories, and men’s fragrances: (#1) The striped shirt is a marinière,...
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Paisley weather
Today’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro, with weather forecasting in action: (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 3 in this strip — see this Page.) Ah, a bit of word...
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A collective cry
Monday’s (12/13) Wayno/Piraro Bizarro, with five crows — one of them speaking on a cellphone — in conference: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 4 in...
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Eye charts
Yet another cartoon meme, the Eye Chart, with an instance in today’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro, set in the fictive city of Metropolis: (#1) It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s Superman (If you’re puzzled by the...
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Eating like a Pygmalion
… Wayno’s portmanteauing title for yesterday’s (12/27) Wayno/Piraro Bizarro: (#1) A play on Shaw / slaw (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 4 in this strip...
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The teen fugue
Yesterday’s (1/10) Wayno/Piraro Bizarro revives plays on fugue and minor (exploited in a 2012 Bizarro), plus (in the title FUGUE IN A MINOR) a clunky play on A the name of a musical key vs. a the...
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