The Leveret

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Mountain Hare in Winter Landscape

Image: Margaret Parsons.

See also the previous posts:
• Winter Hare
• The Ghostly Mountain Hare
• The Mystery of the White Hare
• In Winter Field
• Winter Rest

Thursday, January 18, 2024

Men Amidst Flora IV

Images: Subjects and photographers unknown.

See also the previous posts:
• Men Amidst Flora | II | III
• Going Floral
• The Art of Travis Chantar
• The Art of Vilela Valentin
• Afternoon Light
• Bel Homme – August 22, 2015
• Bel Homme – April 22, 2013
• Bel Homme – July 5, 2012
• Bel Homme – June 2, 2012
• All the Time
• The Divine Masculine Principle
• Spring Bouquet
• Burgeoning Life Force
• “Hail to the Seasonal Prince”

Sunday, January 14, 2024

Winter Hare

Image: “Running on Snow” by Lennart Frisk.

See also the previous posts:
• Winter Hare 2023 | 2020 | 2017 | 2016 | 2014 | 2011
• Hares in Winter
• Wintry Scene
• Sub-Zero
• In Winter Field
• Winter's Herald
• Snow Is in the Air
• Across Winter Fields
• The Winter King
• In the Winter Garden
• Winter Rest
• Hare in Snow
• The Promise of Imbolc

Monday, January 8, 2024

Year of the Phoenix

Here at The Leveret, 2024 is the Year of the Phoenix.

No, not the legendary bird of mythology, but the adult film star, dancer, and model Phoenix Fellington.

I’m going to focus on Phoenix as I find him to be a particularly beautiful man. Plus I appreciate how, as a gay man, he is a “versatile” – meaning he’s okay with (and good at) both fucking another man and being fucked by another man.

And so throughout this year I’ll be periodically sharing images of Phoenix, born Tre Laron Fenderson on October 18, 1994 in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, U.S.A. I’ll also endeavor to share some excerpts from articles about him and interviews with him.

Today, though, in this first “Year of the Phoenix” post, I introduce the beautiful Phoenix Fellington to readers of The Leveret by sharing the following images. Enjoy!

Monday, December 25, 2023

Christmas Phallus

See also the previous posts:
• Phallus
• The Divine Masculine Principle
• Spiritual Phallicism
• The Sacred Phallus
• “Downtown Heaven”
• Hard
• Not a Weapon or a Mere Tool
• Reaching Out
• Buddies | II | III | IV | V

Image: The Leveret

Sunday, December 24, 2023

Bel Homme

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

See also the previous posts:
• Bel Homme – December 24, 2021
• Bel Homme – December 24, 2015
• Hare Décor – December 15, 2018
• Hare Décor – December 13, 2012
• Christmas Hare
• Hare’s Christmas
• Christmas Hare and Moon
• Festive Hares
• The Christmas Leveret

Thursday, December 21, 2023

Happy Winter Solstice!

See also the previous posts:
• Winter Solstice
• The Return of the Sun
• Honoring the Darkness While Remembering the Light
• Let the Spiral Turn and Turn
• Winter Solstice Blessing
• Light-Bearer
• Sol Invictus
• Winter Hare
• December Hare

Image: Artist unknown.

Thursday, December 7, 2023

Mascot

The hare mascot for the Wild Moon Morris Dancers.

Image: Photographer unknown.

Thursday, November 30, 2023

Bill

Bill Cable (born William Laurence Cumpanas; May 2, 1946 – March 7, 1998) was an American model, actor and stunt performer.

Notes Wikipedia . . .

From 1970, Cable was a model for Colt Studio Group, a producer of gay male erotica and pornography, where he was photographed by Jim French. He was also photographed by Bob Mizer for the Athletic Model Guild. During this time, he used the alias “Stoner.”

Cable later posed for the book More Nudes, photographed by Kenn Duncan, whose collection was donated to the New York Public Library by Kenn Duncan's brother and sister in 2003. He was also photographed by Tommy Marshall, Ray Allen, Robert Scott Hooper, Dave Sands, Jeff Dunas and for Playgirl by David Meyer, Raul Vega and Mr. Blackwell. He also appeared in straight softcore pictorials, published in Hollywood Hotline, Star Nudes, and Hollywood Rated X in the 1970s.

Photos of Cable have been published in many magazines, including Vanity Fair, After Dark, Honcho, Manpower!, Blueboy, Drummer, Q International, Torso, Olympus (first edition in January 1972) and Mandate (first edition in April 1975).

Through his associations with the gay erotica scene, Cable found work in both straight and gay erotic films (both softcore and hardcore), as well as a stunt performer and body double in mainstream productions.

His first appearance as a whip-wielding leatherman in Bijou (1972), was directed by Wakefield Poole. Cable starred in the short erotic gay film Cooling It in 1973. Though he appeared in several hardcore films, Cable rarely, if ever, performed in the unsimulated sex scenes, which were performed by body doubles (including John Holmes) via insert shots.

Cable made a handful of mainstream acting appearances, including in Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) and Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988). His best-known role was as rock star Johnny Boz in the Paul Verhoeven erotic thriller Basic Instinct (1992), where he is memorably murdered in the opening scene, mid-coitus, with an ice pick.

. . . He married Shirley Cumpanas in Nevada in 1985 and she had an affair with Christian Brando, son of actor Marlon Brando, which led to their divorce. . . . He was later in a relationship with Cassandra Peterson, better known as Elvira.

. . . In October 1996, Cable was involved in a motorcycle accident in Laurel Canyon in which he sustained a fractured vertebra in his neck, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down. Cable died of these injuries on March 7, 1998, at the age of 51.