It's raining men

In only the past few weeks:

Senator Larry Craig (R-ID), caught cruising the tearooms, somehow "mistakenly" pleads guilty.

David Vitter (R-LA) admits hooking with hookers.

Ted "I'm completely heterosexual" Haggard is asking for money.

North Carolina Republican lawmaker and Christian Action League president, Coy C. Privette also guilty in pay-for-play.

Mark Foley, back in the news, won't turn over his computer to investigators.

State representative Bob Allen (R-FLA), caught offering to give an undercover officer twenty bucks and a blow job.

Schadenfreude dissolves into pity. Such is life on the banks of de Nile.

Bill Kaulitz,
It's raining men.
About two.

It's Raining Men! Hallelujah! - It's Raining Men! Amen!
I'm gonna go out to run and let myself get
Absolutely soaking wet!

Linky to:
Pam's House Blend.

And more Gloria Gaynor here at Dirty John Bonny.

Boy butts

Here is my journey's end, here is my butt.
And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.

-William Shakespeare, Othello, act four, scene two.

I'm not quite sure how I got myself into this series (a better question would be how to get the hell out of it), except that running jokes and memes can be viral.

You can't tickle yourself, but you can make yourself laugh.

Picture

Boy butts #6.

Titian
Venus with a Mirror,
c. 1555.

Tiziano Vecelli (c. 1485 – 1576), known as Titian, was a painter of the Italian Renaissance in Venice. He studied under Bellini, and taught Tintoretto and El Greco. He's best known for his use of color, especially rich reds and blues, so this may not be the ideal example.

But it does have a boy's butt in it.

That putto is Cupid, who is often depicted, as here, with his mother Venus.

Cupid, at Wikipedia.

A Cupid by William-Adolphe Bouguereau,
c. 1880.

Comments

With permission and thanks to Girla Obscura.

Let's see if this is fixed.

Hey,

this blog thing works in both directions, you know.

Image credit at Indiana University.

I see you in the logs.

So I hate to whine, and act all needy, but comments are cherished. Even a "Hi," or a "Fuck you."

I can see readers from all over the world (even Oklahoma - hello, Oklahoma!) and some who even bother to dig through the archives. What were you doing here? Fair trade: If you liked anything, stroke me back.

There's a clicky-thing below.

I know commenting is a bit of a hassle, since you have to pass a bit of a test to show that you're a human being (and you oughtn't be ashamed of that), but I have to require that so that I don't get robot-generated spam.

[Update: Damn, this is why we love Blogger - the comment link has mysteriously disappeared just when I post about comments. Makes one inclined to imagine conspiracy theories or something. I'll fix it, but there's an e-mail link on the left in the meantime.]

Nerd nostalgia

This is damn clever, and if you're of a certain age, will make you either laugh or cry.

Flash video by Albino Blacksheep.
About two and a half.
Cick through.

All of the sounds are from Windows 95.

Picture

Another pirate

With permission, and thanks to susantk98:
"My son, Austin, says 'Cool!'"

Near Hatteras Village, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina:

When we boarded the boat for the Pirate Cruise, everyone was given a sword, an eye patch, and a squirt gun.

Aye, that's the recipe.


All children, except one, grow up.
- Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

Picture

Boy butts #5

Thomas Eakins
The Swimming Hole

Thomas Eakins was an American painter, photographer and sculptor (1844 – 1916). His realism and uncompromising celebration of nude figures was controversial in Victorian Philadelphia, and cost him professionally but garnered the approval of many, including the poet Walt Whitman.

The very formal, triangular composition focuses on, well, the point of interest. It all looks - especially the background - like it's derived from Renaissance influences from Leonardo da Vinci. But I've read that that's not so much chiaroscuro as dirty varnish. Still, the foreground is exuberant American realism.

The painting was based on photographs of Eakins and his (ahem) students at a creek near Philadelphia.

Unfortunately, there's not a good, high-resolution image of this anywhere on the web. The painting is in the collection of the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.

Thomas Eakins at Wikipedia here.
An essay about The Swimming Hole at Traditional Fine Arts Organization.
The Amon Carter Museum.

Romeo

Another lion

Romeo.
Used with permission.
Thanks to kefski.

Again. See above.

Via Flickr, at the animal rescue foundation The Ridge in Malibu, California.

Friends from Amazing Animal Productions had rescued Romeo and brought him for a visit.

And a cuddle. I'm just squirming and squealing with envy: "Oh my gods, a real lion!"

Linkys:
The Ridge
Amazing Animal Productions
Lions at Dirty John Bonny.

I won't

I won't grow up.
About three.

'Cause growing up is awfuller
than all the awful things that ever were.
I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up!
No sir,
Not I,
Not me.
So there!

And Never Land will always be
the home of youth and joy and liberty.
I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up.
Not me.
Not I.
Not me.
I won't.
No, sir.
Not me!

Via email and with thanks to the YouTube poster art john:

That this musical is, for many, the definitive Peter Pan, has much to do with the fact that it was broadcast many times on American television, therefore probably reaching an even larger audience than Disney had done in 1953.

Peter Pan ran at the Winter Garden Theatre for 152 performances, and following the closing night the sets were moved to a studio in Brooklyn and adapted for television. It was there that the cast performed the show once again, on March 7th, 1955 for instant transmission on NBC.

Kent Fletcher, who played Michael, was my same age and probably my first crush even though I had no idea what a crush was at the time.

I remember opening a newspaper and reading of his untimely death in a car crash in the early 1970's.


Peter Pan at Wikipedia.

Full text of the original novel at The Literature Project is here.



"You always know after you are two. Two is the
beginning of the end."
- Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

Nerd overload

Found while I was looking for something else, this video, like the Hokey-Pokey, is what it's all about.

The Machine is Us/ing Us.
About four and a half.
Click through for bigger and credits.

There's a blog born every half-second. There are billions of click-throughs every day. Hello Ahoy world.

Wow. Just wow.

Lions

A roundup from Dirty John Bonny

Chapman Stick

Taking time off from penises and free-associating with sticks instead.

One Cloud.
Turn it up.
About three and a half.
Click through for credits.

This is a rare and very difficult instrument. Sort of like an electric guitar, but with twelve strings. Merely fretting the string produces a tone, and a player can do melody and rhythm two-handed at the same time - sort of like a piano. I can't imagine how you wrap your brain around all that.

I first saw and heard one in a live concert by a friend - he did an arrangement of Aaron Copland's Hoedown from the ballet
Rodeo - you know, the beef-its-whats-for-dinner theme song.

It has a lush, rich sound.

You might find more here at YouTube. See this, especially.

Chapman Stick at Wikipedia.

Mull of Kintyre

Via my friend Steve. This just pegs my urban-legend-detecto-meter, but I couldn't resist an opportunity to write about penises. So here it is:

The Mull of Kintyre test was said to be a guideline used by the British Board of Film Classification in the United Kingdom to decide whether an image of a man's penis could be shown.

The board would not permit the general release of a film or video if it depicted a penis erect to the point that the angle it made from the vertical was larger than that of the Mull of Kintyre on a map of Scotland.

OK, so you can show a penis, but not if it shows any interest in the proceedings.
Best if it's somewhere really boring, like a salad. Wilts like lettuce.

Mull of Kintyre
Paul McCartney & Wings
Almost five.

Penis evolution by PZ Myers at ScienceBlogs - with tumescent turtles.

There are multiple hypotheses about the exact order and pattern of descent of the penis ... but one of the striking things about this pattern is how lineages, such as the birds, can so blithely lose their intromittent organ. ... Think about that… it hasn't been at all uncommon for female vertebrates to be untroubled by the absence of a penis in their mates, and apparently have preferred it that way.

[Update:
More about hydraulics at The Physics of Sex (you just knew there'd be a nexus of the nerdy and the prurient out there).
]

Mull of Kintyre Test at Wikipedia.

Boyfriending

This is so very sweet.

Via AmericaBlog comes this story of a YouTube romance.

About one minute.

So I've got a crush; a big one.
...
See, there's a lot of guys out there, subscribing to his videos and leaving him cute little flirty comments?

Back off!

Chris, in New York City, wooed Nick, from Iowa over YouTube. Nick flew to New York to meet Chris and go out on a date.

The story continues here.

Related:
Cute, at Dirty John Bonny.
Boys Kissing, at Dirty John Bonny.

These kids these days. What they can do with these computers and Internet Tubes!