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Two notes on gay moral purpose
One inspired by Aaron Broadwell, one by Steven Levine; I get a little help from my friends. Broadwell. First, a shameless exploitation of a friend’s life story to make a point. On Facebook yesterday...
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Reptilian fruit couplet
Accompanying this hazy snapshot posted on Facebook on 12/22 by John Wells — Juicy scavenging on the green slopes of (I assume) Montserrat, in the Leeward Islands; the fully ripe fruits fall to the...
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“As the Mind Spins”
The title (taking off on As the World Turns) of today’s (10/27/25) Zippy strip, in which Griffy and Zippy balance the pros against the cons for our planet: (#1) Griffy sez: what makes the world go...
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Background: scam round 1. From my 9/29/25 posting “Today’s scam”: Let’s summarize. Copyright Agent (CA for short) assumes my blog is a company, with a staff. They refer to an image on an...
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The view from the troubled fringes
From the New Yorker issue of 10/13/25 (which has not yet arrived at my house), on-line on 10/5, “Takes: Rebecca Mead on Mary Ellen Mark’s photo from the Puerto Rican Day Parade” — from the New Yorker...
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It was already a difficult day, and then in my mail: To whom it may concern at Arnold Zwicky’s Blog, Copyright Agent US, Inc. works with professional photographers and leading image agencies across the...
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To Survive on This Shore
From one of my crew of transgender friends, family, students, and colleagues, a pointer to the book To Survive on This Shore (Kehrer Verlag, 2018): (#1) Cover of the book; from photographer Jess T....
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From the annals of remarkable commercial names
Briefly noted. From Randy McDonald on Facebook yesterday, a nighttime-atmospheric photo of the Chew Chew Grill / Chew Chew’s Diner, 186 Carlton St., Toronto ON (open 8 am to 4 pm): All-day breakfast,...
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A dog and his boy
Found in a mountain of boxes full of photos from all of my life, this sweet photo that I’m sure I haven’t posted before: of a fine collie (Blaze, by name, according to the note on the back) and Blaze’s...
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Skyparty
In the latest (8/25/25) New Yorker, a Jeremy Nguyen cartoon in which some construction workers party in the sky: (#1) A play on the well-known “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” photo originally taken in New...
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Socialist Park
When recent chat with my childhood summer camp / Princeton / Wyomissing PA (now Golden CO vs. Palo Alto CA) friend Bill Richardson (William F. Richardson, hereafter WFR) turned to about politics in...
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i just gotta be me
This is stage 3 in the history of pop-cultural affirmations of individuality; it came to me in a framed version of the photo below, an image that’s graced a wall close to my worktable for many years,...
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Vending-machine objects of desire
[Naked men making love, so not to everyone’s taste (but so carefully done it can appear on a book cover, so no alarm bells)] Briefly noted: a clever photo (attributed on Pinterest to male photographer...
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Fortuitous soup
This is a third Kharkiv Opera posting, about a pleasant, playful, joyous event staged in the face of terrible times. Previously on this blog: — on 3/9, “The dandelion caper”, about the enjoyment of the...
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Arbeit macht frei
International Holocaust Memorial Day today: 80 yrs. since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp (worin Arbeit wird freimachen) by Soviet soldiers. That was in January 1945; in April of that...
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Dylan by Smith
I guess because of the success of the 2024 movie A Complete Unknown (about Bob Dylan’s early career), the video of the crowning piece of the Dylan Nobel Prize ceremony popped up on Facebook recently:...
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From my e-mail: two male nudes
tiger tiger tiger for ultimate December; it’s New Year’s Eve, so tomorrow’s rabbits will accompany the enfant terrible 2025, while my end-of-the-year e-mail brings me two male nudes, of very different...
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SoCal lads with spread-lip smiles
… and boy-foot bear with teak of Chan … no, no, Kent McCord and the Nelsons’ Rick, that’s the ticket. (Tales of male-male desire and sexual acts — so this posting will be edgy for some readers — but...
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Penguins, on the ice and with a cocktail
From the squadron leader of the AMZ Penguin Patrol, Michael Palmer, two recent items I’ll package together: a real-life penguin on ice in a delightful photo; and a collection of penguin simulacra (in...
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Put on some pants, ranger!
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro — Wayno’s title: “Forestry Union Negotiations” — plays with the homophones bear and bare in a fresh way, turning on the fact that Smokey the Bear (in those American...
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