Arnold Zwickys Blog | A blog mostly about language

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From Joelle Stepien Bailard on Facebook, this wonderful 1878 painting by Gustave Caillebotte, The Orange Trees, or The Artist s Brother in His Garden: (#1)It s like a snapshot photo people caught in the midst of going about their day while being carefully composed formally (the dog lying on the path is an important feature in the composition) and combining highly realistic elements (the metal chairs, in particular) with some impressionist elements (the flowers, in particular). Complex and satisfying.Then an exchange with Joelle:Arnold Zwicky: Caillebotte is underappreciated, I think.Joelle Stepien Bailard Arnold Zwicky: I agree. I often feel he was too sophisticated to be properly appreciated in his own time.As it turns out, his time eventually came, but that was in the 1960s, long after he died, young, in 1894. Read the rest of this entry (Men s bodies and sex between men, in street language, totally not for kids or the sexually modest.)He s never early, he s always lateFirst thing you learn is that you always gotta waitI m waiting for my man(from Lou Reed s I m Waiting for the Man )Today s Daily Jocks ad, for a jockstraps sale, has yet another model posed as offering himself for anal intercourse, something of a DJ specialty; these ads show really handsome male buttocks, minimally clothed, and right up against the line with porn. In today s case, I ve chosen to spin a whole sex story (in free verse, as a caption) about the man in the ad. Under the fold. Read the rest of this entry (Well, it s Tom of Finland, so it s all about men s bodies and mansex, and not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.)On the Advocate site on 9/14, Happy 100 Years: The Tom of Finland Biography , on a new book on ToF: (#1)ToF is flagrantly about huge penises and muscular buttocks, and about intense sex between men, but (more important) also about the emotional relationships beween those men. It s all extravagant fantasy, but also a celebration of gay male desire and affiliation in all of its forms, and so it has provided reassurance to untold numbers of gay men who scarcely resemble the fantasy sexually heroic figures of ToF we are, variously, indetectable in the straight world and effeminate and dorky and little-dicked and horse-dicked and insecure and out-and-proud and full of shame but can find in these figures validation of their desires and practices (notably, receptive anal intercourse: Real Men Take It Up the Ass). Plus, a lot of it is funny. Read the rest of this entry Now visible on tv and on the net: Manly Bands, wedding rings and engagement rings for real guy guys: deeply masculine bands that avoid the mere prettiness of so many of the usual rings (and any possible associations with femininity)  and are advertised with over-the-top testosterone-steeped prose.An ad from the net:Need a wedding band that’ll make you wanna run up a flight of stairs to the Rocky soundtrack? These bestsellers’ll do the trick.The content is about achieving great physical prowess, emulating a winning prize-fighter. The style of the text is studiously informal (that ll, wanna, bestsellers ll) and slangy (do the trick) guy talk.The copy on the company s site is in fact much more elaborately gendered as masculine than this.And then there s the name Manly Bands. Read the rest of this entry 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 condition, the creeps. But this time, she guesses that croup is a portmanteau, of group and creeps. Read the rest of this entry This time from two of the three Burlingham sisters, Kathryn and Ann. Kathryn s was probably not intended as a birthday present, but it arrived at the right time, and it was certainly a present. Ann sent a koala surf rescue birthday card (from the La La Land company in Australia) saying nice things about me, and then separately a package of three raw milk cheeses from the East Hill Creamery in Perry NY (Ann gets around). Read the rest of this entry

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