Category Archives: GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc…

Bug splats: strange sign at a gas station

Posted on July 27, 2011 by | 1 comment

Bug splats. Seen about 45 min north of Seattle on the 5. I have to say, their drawings aren’t terribly accurate…
-AidanAbroad

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Today in Phallic Architecture: Lincoln’s own Penis of the Prairies!

Posted on July 27, 2011 by | 1 comment

Penis of the Prairies - State Capital Building, Lincoln Nebraska

The Penis of the Prairies! That’s what locals call the State Capital building in Lincoln, Nebraska. It is easy to see why, and (oh so) very hard to miss! Not the first time political power has been represented by a monumental erection,  nor will it be the last. From paleo to techno, the metaphor holds. More soon.

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Posted in Architecture, History, Nebraska, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More.

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Should People Receiving Entitlements Be Allowed to Vote?

Posted on July 27, 2011 by | 7 comments

Should People Receiving Entitlements Be Allowed to Vote? I get the sense that whoever made this sign doesn’t think so. Seen on the side of I-5 in Washington state.
-AidanAbroad

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Posted in Road Trips, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Signage, Washington state

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Vader Ryderwood

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Ryder Vader’s wood?
Interesting road sign in Washington State.
-AidanAbroad

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Cloud reflections

Posted on July 27, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Cloud reflections on the car, at our campsite in Kalama, Southern Washington, at sunset.
-AidanAbroad

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Wanker’s Country Store

Posted on July 27, 2011 by | 1 comment

Want me to pick anything up for you at Wanker’s, honey? This is a real sign – seen in West Linn, OR. My local friend says the Wanker family has lived there for years, and the locals didn’t think it was nearly as funny or remarkable as we did.
-AidanAbroad

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Words, words, words…are always written on context-sensitive paper. (Homotextual Slide Show!)

Posted on July 25, 2011 by | Leave a comment

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In a paraphrase of the Bard’s famous tale, the Queen asks the Prince: “What are you reading, Hamlet?” and he replies:  “Words, words, words…” 500 years later the gay literary great William Burroughs said “Language is a virus from outer space.” Well…that would certainly explain a lot!

More Homotextuality here, here, and here.

Photos: Gay Highwaymen 2011.

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Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Literature, Photography, Signage, Street Art, Grafitti, etc., Subcultures

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Ahhh…Sand! Microphotographer sees a Universe of Small, Hard Beauty Underfoot

Posted on July 25, 2011 by | Leave a comment

photo: Gary Greenberg

Sand…those little rocks on the beach. Sand…in the 19th century, it was just one more slang term for testicular fortitude. Because you can never have too many ways to say it! Rocks, gravel, sand, guts, nuts…he’s got some set of balls on him! But back in the day, they used to say: “He’s got sand!”

Gary Greenberg, a biomedical researcher from University College London, has recently published A Grain of Sand, a book of close-up photographs of sand. He sees the big picture in the little picture. He’s not the only one.  Way back in the 18th century, proto-homosexual poet William Blake wrote:

To see a world in a grain of sand,

And a heaven in a wild flower,

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,

And eternity in an hour.

More on Dr. Greenberg’s microphotography  here. More on seeing the Universe in unexpected places here.

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Posted in Art and Artists, England, Photography, Scholarship, Spirituality

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GEAR UP! (New Gear Men host Old Leather in Cali’s Saratoga Springs)

Posted on July 22, 2011 by | 1 comment

Photo and Design: Gay Highwaymen 2011

Old Leather; New Gear. Same fucking twisted kinky throbbing bobbing dripping ass-kicking mind-bending challenging pervert stuff as always. Of course. Style changes but stiff pricks and throbbing balls always rise to the particular season’s occasion. It’s about what got us hot and hard when we were young, and what does it now. N’est pas? See-see bone! Leather? Kevlar? Rope? Metal? Crazy new materials fresh out of R/D labs? All the wonders of modern technology? Or go way old school: kidnap a willing victim to the woods for some paleo-punk action in private. Way past medieval. Lots of room to get lost. Or…show off under the spotlight. Or…or…or. Sure. Why not? If it gets you hard and he’s game, have at it! Do the hokey-pokey. Because that really is what it’s all about…

Gear Up! is a Mens weekend party/run happening this weekend at Saratoga Springs. (The Cali Stagecoach Stop not the NY Resort!) This is the run’s first year and it is “geared” towards the younger set, to the post AIDS-crisis generation of men who lost most of the Men who would have been their generational elders and mentors – had more survived. Thankfully, some did! So…it’s a mixer. As the GearUp guys say: “amid open playspaces and numerous educational workshops, GearUp brings together the open-minded beginner with the trustworthy player.” Sounds like a plan! For more information on GearUp click here. More on Saratoga Springs here. Plus…if you are at the run and want a cool opportunity for a little silence and solitude in the midst of so damned much hotness, check out the Nishikigoi (Koi) Pond, here. Oh, oh oh, ommmm….!

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Posted in AIDS, Leather, Nishikigoi, Northern California, Photography, Spirituality, Subcultures

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Rural Dungeon Still Life…

Posted on July 21, 2011 by | 1 comment

…often occupied. Momentarily empty. The space used to be a goat barn. Now it is a dungeon. The focus of the photo is a piece of classic dungeon furniture known in the scene as a St. Andrew’s Cross. Site of many a spiritual journey…et cetera.

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Posted in DIY and Maker Culture, iPhone, Leather, Mendocino County, Northern California, Photography, Spirituality, Subcultures

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