Arnold Zwicky's Blog » Social class

First came the moral monster Don Giovanni being dragged down to hell for murder and a career of sexual imposition, with a restorative operatic appendix in which the people of Seville sing to his ...

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2024/02/19/the-overture-to-mozarts-marriage-of-figaro/

Two chapters in this story. One from 7/13, the other from yesterday, 7/19. Chapter 1: the stopped-up drain. In the morning of 7/13, I scrubbed my face clean, but the rinse water didn’t drain, j...

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2023/07/20/annals-of-home-upkeep-again-the-plumber/

As in yesterday’s posting “Romper buddies”, about an ad for Romperjacks: not RAJ the land of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Andhra Pradesh, but ROJ the land of rompers, overalls, and j...

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2022/05/15/in-the-menswear-roj/

On 8/19, a posting about the novelty song “Harry’s Jockstrap” from 50+ years ago — a jock that’s pale blue, suggesting that Harry is a fairy: Harry’s jockstrap, Harry’s jockstrap It...

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2021/08/22/but-what-does-his-chest-hair-mean/

(Little kids, but I pursue them into the weeds of sexual anatomy, though without the photos or raunchy talk. Take appropriate cautions.) The One Big Happy cartoon from 2/9: (#1) Once again, about...

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/03/15/higashi-day-cartoon-5-hoods-and-newts/

Today’s Zippy takes us into the world of soap-opera comics, specifically those by Nick Dallis (with various collaborators): (#1) Realistic cartoon characters from three Dallis strips: Rex Morga...

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/09/15/segregation-in-the-soapy-comics/

Identify that Artwork, 6/28/19: a piece of conceptual art (what I’ll call Skylunch III) taking off on a sculpture (Skylunch II) reproducing a photograph (Skylunch I) showing construction worker...

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/06/28/todays-art-quiz-skylunch-iii/

(A version of things I posted on Facebook earlier today about my life, with glancing allusions to various phenomena of social life. Posted here to have a more permanent and accessible record, on ...

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/03/07/the-cable-gremlins/

… plus two grandmothers. A bit more for Fathers Day, with photos from back in the day, more Alpen-Flora, and some reflections on social class. Starting with these photos: (#1) On the left (#1a)...

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/16/father-and-grandfather/

(About video mansex, so not for kids or the sexually modest.) On the 24th, “A day with Danny Vox in the ultimate fantasy t-room”, an appreciation of the actor Danny Vox in Joe Gage’s Titan ...

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/01/28/joe-gage/