Occupy Mordor! “Because One Ring Should Not Be Allowed to Rule Them All.” via Juventud Sin Futura – and friend of this site Guo-Juin Hong.
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#OccupyMordor, porque no podemos permitir que haya un anillo único para gobernarnos a todos
New Jojo Mendoco Gay Cali Manga! The Rapture of Sister Merci Killing…Leather Nun!
Carried away on the shoulders of the Swiss Guard…and available to Los Angeles area collectors. Check out the silent auction at the Eagle LA on Friday October 21 at the Mr. Sister Leather contest. For more Catholic fun from JoJo Mendoco, click here. For his take on war, here. And for some S/m, here and here.
Gruesome Groceries
Rainbow Grocery, my local worker-owned co-op vegetarian grocery store, has a reputation for being a little bit alternative, in every way. It’s the polar opposite of a cookie-cutter Safeway – the heavily tattooed guy with pierced cheeks who helps me find bulk maple syrup, the fact that it HAS bulk maple syrup (and bulk Hawaiian black salt, mesquite flour, and Inca berries, among other things), the lengthy co-op meetings debating whether they should carry Israeli products in light of the Palestinian genocide. I also love the irreverent and also hilarious descriptions of their various products on their handwritten labels. So in light of all this, I guess it’s not too surprising that that Rainbow is celebrating Hallowe’en this year with a candy display featuring lifelike dismembered limbs and body parts. I was quite impressed…and though I’m not sure what this says about San Francisco or our expectations of Rainbow, it’s worth nothing that none of the other shoppers seemed to give the display a second look.
-AidanAbroad
Posted in Food, Northern California, San Francisco, Strange Holidays, Subcultures
Tagged co-op, Grocery, gruesome, Halloween, holiday display, Rainbow, San Francisco
Hot Revolutionaries #OccupyWallStreet – Sexy Slide Show!
We are living in interesting times…
Photos via Getty Images and David Shankbone.
For naked artists on Wall Street, click here.
Posted in Activism, Crime, DIY and Maker Culture, History, New York, Photography, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Signage, Strange News, Subcultures, Surveillance
Tagged 99%, Activism, Corporate Crime, David Shankbone, Occupy Wall Street, Photography, Revolution, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Sexy, Signage, Surveillance
More Sausage Racers
Our correspondent AidanAbroad blogged about Milwaukee’s strange tradition of Sausage Racing at Brewer’s games. Check it out here. His iPhone couldn’t get a good zoom, though. A quick trip around the internet solves that. Here are the sausages getting ready to…uhhh…race!
Posted in Baseball, Comics, Food, Photography, Subcultures, Travel, wisconsin
Tagged Baseball, Brewers, Comics, iPhone, Mascot, Milwaukee, Photography, Sausage Race
Art Crime: Naked Artists Occupy Wall Street in Ocularpation
Ocularpation is a project of New York artist Zefrey Throwell. It started in San Francisco in 2008, and has apparently found a plum context in the ongoing occupation of Wall Street. The image here is from an August iteration of the project, before the current occupation got under way. Throwell says of the neologism and the project: “Ocularpation is a new contraction. Its root comes from occupation, with the dual connotation of both a job done for money, as well as a military or strategic encampment. Ocular, or pertaining to the eye, cements the meaning of the word in a visual context. This is an act of optical guerilla office bivouac.” In short, miming office work in the buff in some of the major financial centers of the world. Of course, some of the naked artists have been arrested. Throwell bails them out. But what about the real criminals…? More Ocularpation here.
Happiest Place to find Hung Unicorns in San Francisco…
Founded in 1974 by Harvey Milk, the Castro Street Fair is always on the first Sunday in October. Music, art, food, men, hung unicorns…all good, all happening all day in San Francisco’s Castro District. Party in the village! More here.
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Comics, San Francisco, Sexy Holidays, Signage, Subcultures
Tagged Castro Street Fair, Comics, Culture, San Francisco, Sexy, Signage, Unicorn Penis
Men of the Stacks! The 2012 Hot Librarians Calendar is Out!
Hot slim word nerds in glasses, brainy bears, bubbling bibliophiles, old-school Dewey decimal dads, and more. Who? What? What?!
They say: “We are educators, programmers, project managers, entrepreneurs, program coordinators, contractors, consultants, and speakers. We are academics. We are authors, diversity officers, historians, administrators, deans, professors, and researchers. We are creatives. We are musicians, bakers, painters, and storytellers. We are athletes, yogis, gym-rats, runners, and hikers. We are passionate. We are dog-lovers, radicals, conservatives, Christians, and Buddhists. We are in our twenties. We are in our forties. We are in relationships. We are perpetual bachelors. We are privileged beings who try to use their advantages to better the lives of others.
Who are we? We are The Men of the Stacks” Get the calendar here.
Posted in Activism, Photography, Scholarship, Subcultures
Tagged 2012, Art, Calendar, Culture, Gay, Male Librarian, Men of the Stacks, Photography, Sexy
Leather Week in SF ends…all quiet in the Village
Via friend of this site SMG. The Leather flag replaces Gilbert Baker’s Rainbow flag that normally flies above the Castro District.
Posted in Leather, Photography, San Francisco, Sexy Holidays, Strange Holidays, Subcultures
Tagged Castro District, Culture, Flag, Gay, Leather, SanFrancisco
Shirtless Quiddich at Cal
I happened upon a Quiddich practice at UC Berkeley last Sunday. Did you know they had a team? Many college campuses are now forming teams to play this increasingly popular sport, invented by author J.K. Rowling in her Harry Potter series.
This team may not fly on their broomsticks, but their semi-shirtless practice sure attracted plenty of spectators.
-AidanAbroad
Posted in Berkeley, Sports, Subcultures
Tagged athletes, Cal, college sports, Harry Potter, J.k. Rowling, Quiddich, Shirtless, UC Berkeley
The Gay Highwaymen 