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The pizza boy as cultural figure
(Mostly cultural analysis, focused on gay porn. But plenty of very plain talk about men’s bodies and mansex, so this is not for kids or the sexually modest.) (#1) The pizza boy archetype, as depicted...
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A portmantriple
Tucked inside Reid Forgrave’s story in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine about the Boundary Waters area of northern Minnesota was an admirable brand name, an off-color portmantriple (boldfaced...
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Two actor POP days
It’s Eva Marie Saint Lucy’s Day and, in today’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro combo, a Kurt Russell terrier bounds in: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbol in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there’s just one...
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Holimanteaus and restaumanteaus
Two bulletins in the portmanteau news: portmanteau holiday names for combinations of holidays (especially in the December holiday season); portmanteau restaurant names for types of restaurants with...
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Humongous tops Adonis
Riffs on gay porn in difficult times. The penis portion of this presentation — with five stone-XXX-rated images — is in my AZBlogX posting “Humongous fucks Adonis”. This posting, further expounding on...
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coronteaus
… that is, coronovirus portmanteaus (where the underlined n is the overlap shared by the two contributing words). A modest collection from recent days. On the apocalypse / catastrophe front. The...
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Annals of advertising: the new normal for noses
A new tv commercial for Naväge (sometimes just Navage) touts it as just the thing for current times: Now is the time to make good nasal hygiene the new normal. The commercial doesn’t seem to be...
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Gender presentations in Oz
(Today’s posting showing that I’m Not Dead Yet. Tough day, the eve of my man Jacques’s death day, 17 years ago. Watching the funeral service for George Floyd. In a California heat wave.) Recently in...
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At the Paleo Cafe
Today’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro strip (Wayno’s title: “Farm to Slab”): (#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 combination...
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Towards the high end of the hardness scale
(All I need to tell you is that this posting takes off from a line of Cumdump jockstraps offered by the Breedwell company in deliberately provocative ads, and you should see that it’s totally not for...
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Christopher Robin Hood
Yet another Bizarro POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau) — Dan Piraro is very fond of them — from 12/22/19: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 8 in this...
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The croup
The One Big Happy strip from 8/21: Ruthie, faced with the unfamiliar medical term the croup, does her best to assimilate it to what she knows, namely the ordinary-language term for a physical...
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The gayguin
A delightful Christmas present (from Kim Darnell), only recently arrived: this t-shirt (which I am wearing as I type this): Gay Penguin Rainbow Pride Flag, from the teeherivar site gayguin is a pretty...
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Cure Bear
Today’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro, which can be understood only if you know about two (hugely distant) bits of popular culture: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says...
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The octocrat
Yesterday’s (2/8) Wayno/Piraro Bizarro, with a pun on autocrat: octocrat, itself a portmanteau of octopus and autocrat: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there...
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Three remarkably named men’s fragrances
First, to announce a new Page on this blog listing my postings about men’s fragrance. Then, to continue some recent postings on notable names for men’s fragrances, a look at Fucking Fabulous and two...
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leprobates
Today’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro (Wayno’s title: “Mythical Miscreants”): (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 6 in this strip — see this Page.) leprobate, a...
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A jointed-limb portmanteau and a sugary front-clipping
Two recent Wayno/Piraro Bizarro strips, from the 15th and (for St. Patrick’s Day) the 17th, both of linguistic interest: among other things, the portmanteau arthropodcast in the first; and the...
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Zippy’s pod-ophilia
In today’s (4/25) Zippy strip, our Pinhead — no podophile ‘foot fetishist’ — instead celebrates the linguistic formative pod — as a word, in one of its many meanings (here, its ‘small building’ sense);...
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A POPular cartoon
The Wayno/Piraro Bizarro from 5/4 (which was, appropriately, Star Wars Day): (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 5 in this strip — see this Page.) It’s been...
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