A blog mostly about language
No, not hand grenades, but (portmanteaued) fag frats, sexually specialized college fraternities. A topic that sprung out of my Sundance interview posting, in a comment by Gijs Doorenbos: F.A.G. fraternity -> ΦAΓ ? (Should be available as a T shirt somewhere) And then we strolled down fraternity row. My response: — AZ: Lovely. No t-shirt […]
Now, a piece of my life story you have heard about from my side of the event the first meeting of Ann Walcutt Daingerfield and Arnold Melchior Zwicky (which happened in the bowels of the Firestone Library at Princeton University) from Ann s viewpoint, as rehearsed in e-mail yesterday from our old friend Benita [ ]
It s all about men s crotches, but it s not actually X-rated; but, but it is about crotches and their contents. Adam in a jockstrap, Adam in a rubber. Adam in a jockstrap: the jock with ribbed pouch. The Daily Jocks mailing of today (8/15): (#1) 40% off DJX Luxe [style name] ribbed jocks (in black, [ ]
an arresting dictum from Sundance Kidd, in my short story The interview (from my XBlog on 3/15/11 edited from several 1996 drafts); the piece serves as a kind of vertiginous magic-realist summary of my Sundance and Butch saga (Sundance denies that his book is magic realism, but this isn t that book, although it [ ]
(frank discussion of sex, of various kinds, some of it in street language so not for kids or the sexually modest) 1 is about the Bloomsbury artists Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell; 2 is about affectionate relationships between gay men and straight women; 3 is about me and my wife, Ann. Prolegomenon 1: Grant [ ]
(warning: raunchy vocabulary, but surmounting the raunch is the point; still, over the line for kids and the sexually modest) Well, a two-word phrase. Which I very carefully framed in yesterday s posting Getting picked in this passage: I’m a whoring faggot in deep disguise — also a lot of other, socially more decorous, [ ]
They bring me reference volumes for work in progress, allowing me to hold them open on the lectern itself. My reference works are mostly big heavy volumes, very hard for my disabled hands to cope with at all. Lifting them is a problem in itself. Then I used to have a space on my worktable, [ ]
The Wayno / Piraro 8/12 Bizarro: The Metromorphosis : metro- [the libfix, representing the noun metrosexual] + metamorphosis [the abstract noun meaning transformation ] = metromorphosis transformation to metrosexuality (if you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Wayno says there are 4 in this strip — see this Page) Two contributors: metro . From NOAD: noun metrosexual: [ ]
Coming up in about three weeks, my birthday of doom: 2026 1940 = 86. A bad omen. As in NOAD: verb eighty-six (also 86): [with object] North American English informal 1 eject or bar (someone) from a restaurant, bar, etc.: they were accused of cheating, and eighty-sixed from their favorite casino. 2 reject, discard, or cancel: the passwords will be [ ]
The gay sex news from 60 years ago. It started with an e-mail exchange with my first male lover (Larry Schourup) about the course of our relationship back then. I m pleased at having dredged up so much, but it is of course largely imaginative reconstruction, fictobiography, not bald narrative I post often about the [ ]
It s happening again. The staff where I live now have mostly taken to addressing me as Mr. Arnold because to lots of Americans (of whatever origins), Mr. Zwicky seems to be simply unpronounceable, a hurdle too high. This produces a twinge of sociolinguistic distress in me, because of the regrettable history of the American [ ]