There’s some kind of RugbyWorld Cup going on. Which wouldn’t really stand a mention, except the other day I was on a train whooshing through a station and the most beautiful advertising image sort of subliminally flashed into my brain.
I can’t seem to find a tidy version of it online to post here – but if you click you will see an animated version on the right. Worth it.
ETA: I just realised that if I was going to mention rugby I really ought to mention Dieux du Stade. Especially considering the cover of their 2008 calendar was made especially for me.
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September 8, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Jones, you and your love of blood! I suppose the increase in Hepatitus and HIV is especially hard on someone with your tastes. I stay away from it as much as possible myself, and obviously my blood is only allowed to be donated to people over legal drinking age.
Rugby is a brilliant game, although I hope the tournament means more than just providing you with an opportunity to see big men taking beatings. I shall miss much of it unfortunately as I am leaving the country. Apparently I have a house in Spain I brought some time ago and it seems I must liquidate any assets I have left to meet my margin calls. It also means I will be unable to read your blog, so save the good stuff for when I get back.
September 8, 2007 at 2:08 pm
I will miss you Toni. I don’t think any of my other regulars could pull off the phrase “Apparently I have a house in Spain” in quite the way you do.
Although, you know, I think they have the internet in Spain now.
September 8, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Also, there’s this very masculine and a bit homoerotic rugby photo. Mmmmmmm. Rugby.
September 8, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Ha! Yes. I’ve seen that as well. Mind you I prefer the explicit pain and bondage of the other two.
Those guys are just having fun!
Also, uh, Aaron: A *bit* homoerotic! I think perhaps you meant, unbelievably homerotic in the way that only really butch men snogging each other can be. Or perhaps porn has made you jaded.
September 8, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Ha. I have been collecting images for a possible post on Dieux du Stade. Hadn’t heard of it until recent publicity about the 2008 calendar. You can imagine, I’m interested.
I love blood sports, even if I’m not all over the actual blood. (Hockey. Hockey is my rugby.)
September 8, 2007 at 3:56 pm
I wish you lived next door. I would invite you round for a good look at the Dieux du Stade coffee table book.
September 8, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Bitchy, this picture appears to have been made just for you.
I showed the Dieux du Stade image search to May. His response? “What’s the point without bondage?”
September 8, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Very nice.
Sometimes I just imagine the bondage. Sometimes I just ask him to imagine the bondage. Sometimes I print the picture out and draw the bondage on with a Biro.
I’m resourceful! I’ve had to be!
September 8, 2007 at 5:11 pm
If I lived next door, I’d be coming ’round for a good look of you and Jack.
Screw the book.
September 8, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Heh. Well. I don’t blame you Jack is cute. And he sorta makes me look cute.
But actually – Oi! – I do not do the in public thing!
Okay, we did do a slightly in public sorta nipple clamp thing last weekend – but, uh, only in a teeny, tiny very hidden way. (It was hot as hell.)
*draws curtains*
September 8, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Um, is there a chance could you possibly tell us more about the public/private/slightly hidden moment?
Of course, this would be strictly for science. (coughs)
September 8, 2007 at 6:09 pm
We were just in a place – a club – where we could get away with him having his shirt open and sitting with me on a sofa (there were much dirtier things going on around us) and me putting clamps on him and taking them off, comparing my pair with his pair (which are much kinder – so got used much less).
I like that kind of close intense face-to-face thing. Jack does wonderful reactions. I need to see faces almost all the time at the moment. I want to feel the way his breath catches on my own skin.
It was nice. Sort of dreamy and late at night. (We used the gf/bf words. *Shush*)
September 8, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Now, I’m not much of a one for rugby, but that is a nice image.
Also Aaron’s incredibly homoerotic link.
I have seen the Dieux de Stade book. It was – quite interesting. Ahem.
September 8, 2007 at 6:16 pm
I love it so much. The big manly hand holding the flower so tight. The supa-macho oblivious to pain thing.
Guh!
September 8, 2007 at 7:00 pm
OOOO bf/gf words, big step! how does that make you feel? things going well…those words when said either make me feel twelve or make me blush. I would say you’re blushing
I checked out that calendar, I want.
September 8, 2007 at 7:07 pm
12 *and* blushing.
He reads this, you know
September 8, 2007 at 9:01 pm
My rugby-mad brother is staying with me this weekend. I keep looking over his shoulder at these towering heaps of manflesh and licking my lips. There’s that French player with the tattoo on his thigh – he’s not pretty from the neck up, but more players should have tattoos on their thighs, definitely. You can just think about those shorts rucking further and further up…
*goes off to type ‘rugby slash’ into lj interests search*
September 8, 2007 at 9:10 pm
http://wanadoo.aol.ou.free.fr/dieux_2007/5.jpg
-oh my *god*.
September 8, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Last time there was a world cup in Paris I lived there.
Off topic I know, but sometimes you just gotta!
September 8, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Vicar! Hi.
Oh yes, and Thene, Dieux du Stade. What left to say? Specially nice
September 8, 2007 at 9:56 pm
*Guh*, indeed!! Not just the lovely calendar, but your lovely life. Face to face……sigh………
September 8, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Thanks.
Good luck with the science
September 8, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Mr.April seems ready to suffer some more wounds…
http://wanadoo.aol.ou.free.fr/dieux_2007/4.jpg
September 9, 2007 at 9:21 am
I like the sexy Dieux du Stade photos. Thanks for pointing to them! For all I care, they wouldn’t actually need to play any Rugby…
September 11, 2007 at 7:45 am
oooh…. those are some pretty men. And every rugger I’ve ever known has been a bit of a masochist. Google Image Search, here I come!