Some prefer it wet. That’s true. Funny condiment pic via pal of this site, Jake Hale.
Category Archives: Signage
A Treat for your Meat! Delicious and Nutritious…
Want to see Jeremy Novy’s Beef Noodle?!
Novy’s cool take-off of a Warhol soup can is on display with a lot of his other stencil work at Tough Love. They are scattered throughout the show here and there: a nod to the furtive nature of street art. And these three are installed over the Exit sign…another Art World in-joke for those who know why museums always make visitors…exit through the gift shop!
Shock Top Reflection
What’s a Shock Top? One who’s Awful, too? Here he just sells beer, quoting the Mohawk warriors – who were said to have plucked their heads clean hair by hair, and that only after having proved themselves by shedding blood. Cahto and Pomo and other California 1st nation people were historically more peaceful. And more prosperous. Fancy that.
Happy Dore Alley weekend to Mohawk and other hair-wearing Fair attendees! Tops: please don’t be too shocking. bottoms: don’t be awful at all. Everyone: play hard, have fun, take good care of one another.
Big Ass Lumberjack
This big guy is the sculptural mascot of the Lumbermen’s chain of restaurants in Northern California. This one is in Willits. The view is better than the food. Competitive Timbersports on the video monitors…
Retro gym boy seen in Jim’s Gym
Nice slab of abs, boy. Not sure you should sleep in the tanning bed, though. Poster circa late 1980s. Seen in Jim’s home gym. More here.
Rural Mural: Saddle Bronc Champ
Don Coleman. Circa 1930s. Cowboy. Silent Movie Star. Rancher. Saddle Bronc Champ. And local boy. Mural in downtown Willits. Mendocino County in Northern California. For a real cowboy in Willits, click here. For an even older cowboy, here.
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., History, iPhone, Men, Mendocino County, North America, Northern California, Photography, Rodeo, Signage, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.
Tagged Art, Bronco, Country, Cowboy, Gay Gaze, Mural, Sexy, Willits
Gets the Job done! Autoerotic Chevron Techron…
This dude seems to have a thing for his car, and it appears to be mutual. Is it an autoerotic bromance? Or more? We recently saw a TV show about “Strange Sex” that featured a man who considered his VW his lover. He’s got a Bug. Is this a trend? An auto trend? Hey…nice nozzle. You know where to put it.
Hump(ing) Make Art…
Sign seen in the back patio of the Lone Star Saloon on Harrison in San Francisco. Three stickers complete the modification. Hump becomes humping, of course. Two little mens room guys hang in the capital P. Yes…in the pee. And for the finish: Make Art. Paint Things. Be Awesome.
Sounds like a plan…the Lone Star also features stencil-and-spray artist Jeremy Novy‘s cool nishikigoi (koi) swimming perpetually around the pool table. Novy will show an example or three of his Leathermen series at Tough Love, an exhibit of hard homoerotic work that will open at the Center for Sex and Culture in September.
Jackhammer Bear
Bear friend shot in Mendocino County. Vintage T-Shirt from the former Jackhammer bar in San Francisco.
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Tagged Bara, Bear, Beard, Gay, Gay Bar, iPhone photography, Jackhammer, Leather, San Francisco
Wag More. Bark Less.
Good words for today. Or any day…woof!
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Dogs, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Human Animals, iPhone, Mendocino County, North America, Northern California, Photography, Signage, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.
Tagged Culture, Gay, Hippie, iPhone photography, Mendocino, Peace, Signage
The Gay Highwaymen 