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But wait! There’s Balthazar!
(Definitely a Mary, Queen of Scots Not Dead Yet posting, signaling that I’m still here, after several deeply awful days of medical afflictions — an experience I’ll record in a separate posting, rather...
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Thai Tanic restaurants
From the annals of goofy commercial names, in this case a Thai restaurant name that seems to be intended to project both playfulness — the name is a pun — and power, as in the model for the pun, the...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Peanut
— a Wayno / Piraro Bizarro cartoon from 10/20/21, “Written by Goober Louis Stevenson”, according to Wayno’s title: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are...
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A fellatio-adjacent pitch for The Wiener the World Awaited
(This posting will quickly move to men’s genitals and various sexual acts, described in street language, so it’s not appropriate for kids or the sexually modest) Passed along today on Facebook by...
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This year’s wiener on wheels
Coming on the heels of my 5/18 posting “A fellatio-adjacent pitch for The Wiener the World Awaited”, Oscar Mayer’s heralding their new wiener on wheels, the Frankmobile. Here’s the story from the Out...
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Sausages, no preservatives
An extremely busy photo that my Peruvian colleague Ernesto Cuba took on 5/24 inside the St. Lawrence Market in downtown Toronto. The shop in the photo is offering sausages, no preservatives — innocent...
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Hordes of Norsemen insert themselves into a national holiday
(Packed with thrusting male genitals and hot man-on-man sex, dirty talk and dirty pictures, absolutely not for kids or the sexually modest. Well, there’s a lot of semen in Norsemen. Please don’t hit...
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Upsetting Balance of Nature
A second cartoon from today’s comics feed: today’s Doonesbury, in which Gary Trudeau (through his characters) savages the dietary supplement Balance of Nature (essentially, plant-based...
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Another new thing
On order via Amazon — and now, the tracker tells me, three stops from delivery to my house (along with a huge container of Tide free-and-gentle laundry pods, as I approach the end of the previous...
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Hot Dad 4 U
(This posting manages to (barely) skirt male genitals and man-on-man sex, without (almost any) street speech or explicit images, but the topic is daddy fantasies in gay porn, so it will not be to...
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The ultimate party jockstrap
(The title should warn you about what’s coming. There will be talk — in generally decorous language, but still — about men’s bodies as objects of sexual desire and about man-on-man sex, so not...
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Automotive mimesis
On my posting earlier today, “The Bulldog Café, a lost monument of mimetic architecture”, this comment by Robert Southwick Richmond: Mimetic vehicle design. Chicken Dinner candy bars were on the market...
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Taking it from the gang
(About men’s genitals and man-on-man sex, in street language, with an image that’s WordPressable only because I’ve fuzzed out a ton of penises — so entirely unsuitable for kids and the sexually modest)...
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The sea captain figure fantasizes in Cambridge MA
Today’s Zippy strip takes us to the Summer Shack seafood restaurant at 149 Alewife Brook Parkway, Cambridge MA 02140: (#1) The sea captain figure fantasizes about his Easter Island ancestry: Massive...
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The states of matter: coconut X
I discovered the melting point of coconut X several summers ago. My air-conditioning aims to cool things to 80 F, so when it gets hot outside, inside my condo the spreadable coconut fat (used for daily...
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Max and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcaftan
From Josh Brown on Facebook yesterday, passing on an ad he’d gotten: (#1) [JB:] Now THIS is targeted-Facebook-algorithm-marketing that I can get behind. My kingdom for a caftan! The Facebook ad...
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In response to my “DONUT BURGER” posting yesterday, Kyle Wohlmut wrote on Facebook: Isn’t that “just” a Lutherburger? (with a Wikipedia link) Well, screw you, Snark Boy; if I’d known about...
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The grand jury’s cough drop
The political / medicinal pun RICO Law / Ricola: on Facebook on 8/15, Kyle Wohlmut passed along — “meanwhile in Switzerland” — the 8/14 Mike Scollins titling RICO LAW of an image from the classic...
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The pumpkin spice of August
Retailers are rushing the season: while little pumpkins peek out from the ironweed and goldenrod of late summer, the scent of pumpkin spice suntan oil blankets the beaches, heralding a torrent of...
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Resist clever marketing
… the slogan from a Funny Times magazine t-shirt ($30): (#1) [FT‘s ad copy:] Embrace the sweet irony of this nostalgic candy-themed tee! It’s a Funny Times exclusive and perfect for thoughtful candy...
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