OVER . . . EXPOSED?

Lest he be out done, BSD Reader Trenton sent one final Xmas present, "Over Exposed: Perverting Perversions" by Sylvère Lotringer.  Lest I be over-exposed, I felt it prudent to keep my cock under wraps for this one:

PARTS AND LABOR

One "beard in the bush" is worth how many in the hand?  How about my severed penis?

Wait no further.  It's now for sale!!!

If you need more information before you can commit to such a luxurious stocking stuffer this holiday shopping season, consult my recent interview with Huffington Post "Gay Voices" contributor Philip Miner (although I think "Huff Po Hos" sounds better in my case). 

Photography courtesy of the incomparable Daniel Jack Lyons.  It's amazing what you can do with a ficus bush outside the New York City courthouse on a crisp afternoon in November.

HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU

Before my big shave on Wednesday, I had the great privilege and honor to sit for photographer Kelly Grider, who took several dozen large-format portraits of me, including several with two different Cold War arial spy lenses: one from the United States and one from the Soviet Union.  The US lens actually leaves a mildly radioactive signature in the room.  The Soviet lens offers a mesmerizing iridescent sheen on its surface (particularly mesmerizing at the end of the photoshoot).  It also takes much better images and was made without the help of nuclear trace elements.  Feel the glow:  

TAP MY APP

A swipe to your right.  

A swipe to your left.  

Keep your forefinger thumbing (and your forethought at bay) and the fine young gentleman above will grow in size right before your very eyes!  Finally an app for erection fanciers like myself.  I'm not about to recycle my old stack of EFQs, but I like the idea.  Any young aspiring sepia-tone directors want to help me film my own?  With a happy ending this time?  Sadly, artist Dani Ploeger's interactive video "Ascending Performance" is only available on the Android adult app market MiKandi.  

Sadly (and thankfully) because a kindhearted friend took pity on the poor this past weekend and donated me his old iPhone, my first!  Not an Android, but as good an excuse as any to toss my old Nokia block phone back in the garbage bin of techno-history.  Maybe now people will stop accusing me of being a drug dealer (and asking me to join Instagram).  

In the spirit of Ploeger's app, my first smart phone selfie, "Descending Performance, Shaved", 2013:    

BONERS FOR BOOKS: TWOFOR

It felt right to include both of these books in the same "Boner for Books" post, partly because they both came in the same box, and two big books in one small box is one of my favorite things.

A special thank you to BSD reader Chris, who sent both books as part of a much larger Xmas present: "Architecture and Capitalism, 1845 to Present", and "Demanding the Impossible" by Slavoj Žižek, philospher provocateur de rigueur.

BONERS FOR BOOKS: ANIMAL SPIRITS

This time I'm the doppelgänger-- a dead ringer for "Bloody Bill Anderson Balaclava" 2006, by Adam Helms, the cover model of Animal Spirits, a catalog of drawings that accompanied a show by the same name at the DESTE Foundation Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Hydra last September.

From the introduction (translated from Greek):

"Animal Spirits" references a concept coined by the British economist John Maynard Keynes, who argued in his 1936 book, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, that animal spirits -- emotional factors that cannot be modeled or quantified, and are thus often played down by economists -- are in fact very important to the understanding of economic dynamics.  Keynes believed that business cycles are driven by basic instincts.  Operating on the basis of trust, confidence, desire for fairness, bad faith, and awareness of corruption, these instincts can generate spontaneous optimism or corrosive pessimism.  Using the same Keynesian language in 2008, Italian social researcher Matteo Pasquinelli drew a provocative conceptual bestiary unleashing a politically incorrect grammar for the coming generation."

 A big boner "thank you" (and spiritually animalistic growl) for BSD reader Trenton.

"Futures and Options" by Matteo Pasquinelli:

PIECES OF EIGHT: COMPASSION

A rose by any other name. . .

Tis the season I suppose.  "Compassion is Love for Others".

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