Later, as John Mayer launched into a blues instrumental version of the Jackson hit Human Nature, a concert image of Jackson with arms raised in a pose straight from a crucifixion painting, and light pouring out from behind him was projected on the overhead screen.
Turning to look at me in an alluring, come-hither pose straight from the Totally Hot album cover, she asked, "So Ray, which of my old songs would you want to hear in concert?" Without question, I said, Have You Never Been Mellow.
"Get the hotel in the picture," one young man said in Hindi as he posed, straight-faced, for a photographer.
That's one of the questions posed by Straight, D C Moore's entertaining rewrite of the 2009 US Indie movie, Humpday.
It's about a dashing gay 1920s movie star who is run out of the business when he refuses to pose as straight by marrying some starlet and giving up the man he loves.
Try the following yoga pose: Stand straight on the yoga mat with legs slightly apart from each other.
In yoga, this means stretching a certain muscle just a little bit more each session, getting better at a pose, getting straighter, deepening a stance.
Pop culture site the Mary Sue added that "anyone familiar with pornography knows this pose … ripped straight from the fantasy medium", pointing out its similarity to one Manara had already drawn in an Italian erotic comic.
Every one of us is implicated in it, too, because no matter what it's offensive: pretty-on-purpose poses are dumb; straight-ahead all-smiles security-pass-style retreats from the ego-strokes of good angles are dumb; photos of somebody else entirely (like, say, Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose picture is my current Facebook profile pic) is dumb.
