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Danny Pino
(Not really about language.) In reviewing my postings on “morning names” (now assembled here), I see that there are names I mentioned but didn’t post on — including the actor Danny Pino, whose work I...
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Morning name: Dana Delany
Monday’s “morning name” was Dana Delany. From Wikipedia: Dana Welles Delany (born March 13, 1956) is an American film, stage, and television actress, producer, presenter, and health activist. Delany...
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Cops and DAs
(About performances rather than language.) Another note from the Oscars: on J.K. Simmons, who got an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (in Whiplash) I recognized him immediately as a regular on...
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Morning: Cybill Shepherd
Cybill Shepherd was today’s morning name. I remember her especially from two television shows in which she was a central character (Moonlighting, Cybill) and one in which she was a supporting character...
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Two obits
In my print copy of the NYT yesterday, two notable obits, for Ralph Sharon (the musician) and Richard Dysart (the actor). Ralph Sharon. In the Times, “Ralph Sharon, Jazz Pianist Who Accompanied Tony...
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Luis Valdez
From a server at Reposado recently, a recommendation that I should look at the work of the Chicano writer Luis Valdez (whose name was unfamiliar to me); I recommended to him the work of the Chicana...
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Monster Mash
In today’s Mother Goose and Grimm, a mash-up of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (the folk rock group) and Young Frankenstein (the movie), in a phrasal overlap portmanteau (POP): (#1) It’s a Monster...
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Homoerotic horror
Comment from a Facebook friend on my posting about the tv series Saving Hope, with three acting hunks featured, Kristopher Turner being the youngest: I thought I recognized Turner! He spent many scenes...
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The Ascent of Bruce
In the February issue of Funny Times, this cartoon by political cartoonist Taylor Jones: The third figure in the progression is Bruce Jenner, the fourth Caitlin Jenner. Some words about Caitlin Jenner,...
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Getting Go
A wonderful gay-themed 2014 movie — sweet, very hot, touching, and funny — from the same people who brought us Were the World Mine (posted on here) back in 2008. Getting Go was done on an even more...
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Sex in the shadows
(There will be stuff about music and some incidental stuff on translation, but there’s also crude mansex in very plain language, so this is certainly not for kids or the sexually modest.) The latest...
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binge-bingeing
The wonderful creation of Pierce in Zits: binge-bingeing is the PRP form of a verb to binge-binge, which is an instance of one or the other of two different compound V constructions of the form to N +...
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Trapped in the morning duff
Morning names from the 9th: a pair you can get stuck in (the Great Grimpen Mire and the La Brea Tar Pits) and the noun duff referring to decaying vegetable matter. The mire. We travel first to Dartmoor...
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Moonlight
… the recent movie. Which I saw on Monday and am still in the grip of. A stunning film, tracking its central character from a small, weak boy (in black Miami) to a big, hard man (in black Atlanta), as...
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The Magnificent WaterSports
(Men’s bodies and mansex, not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.) In the Daily Jocks mailing yesterday, this heavily sexualized ad for WaterShorts swimwear (in black, aqua, lime, and coral), the...
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This isn’t hospitality, this is animosity
Today’s Wayno/Piraro collabo, on the opposition of hospitality and animosity, which I take to be an homage to Terry Jones (of Monty Python’s Flying Circus), who was released from life’s afflictions...
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