Thursday, March 30, 2000
A Page From Emmett's Daily Diary
Curious writes: This is an actual page out of Emmett's Daily Diary. You tell me if he's obsessed.
7:00 am Children were fighting at the breakfast table so I admonished them, "Would Lexington Steel approve of your behavior?" Children settled down immediately. The force of Lexington guides me.
9:15 am Pulled over for speeding. Mentioned that I was a friend of Lexington Steel, but still received speeding ticket? Police Officer must be queer.
10:35 am Reprimanded at work for changing my company email address to www.sexylexy.com Don't these fools recognize Lexington Steel's aura?
12:00 pm While at Chinese restaurant I could not decide between moo goo gai pan or garlic chicken. Ask waitress which platter she thought Lexington Steel would prefer. No response from waitress. Proof she is a lesbian.
1:45 pm Receive yet another restraining order from Lexington Steel. Oh that kidder! He won't fool me with his legal shenanigans. Send another cum - soaked fan letter to my Lexington.
4:15 pm Physically ejected from adult book store for snatching Lexington Steel video from another customer. He was definitely not cool enough to rent a Lexington Steel movie!! What was that clerk thinking?!?
5:10 pm Get cold look from coworker when I refer to him as "Afro-American". Hmmmm. Will try calling him "Darkie" tomorrow inorder not to offend him. He is black. Could he be related to Lexington Steel? I wish!
6:30 pm Announce to wife at dinner that I am quitting my job and moving the family to Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky. A place unafraid to name itself after the world's greatest porn star. Wife exits dining room crying. Why? What the hell did I say? Women! 6:31 pm Wife announces she wants divorce and is taking the children to live at her mother's house. Stupid Bitch! She forgot that our prenuptial agreement gives me sole custody of all Lexington Steel videos. Ha! Ha!
7:00 pm Feverishly type left handed diatribe to www.l-keford.com while furiously pumping my lubed cock with my right hand all the while my mind filled with thoughts of sweet, sweet Lexington Steel. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Luke replies to Curious: He doesn't seem obsessed to me.
Something Weird Video
John writes on RAME: I recently ordered five vhs title from something weird video after perusing their impressive catalog. It promised movies from the storefront theaters where I spent many a happy hour in my youth. What better than a chance to recapture a bit of teenage excitement. To my great disappointment each movie showed the same over zeolous editing. one remarkable movie Titled" Ape all over"{I believe is Dog walker"with Harry Reems} one sex scence is reduced to six secounds of unidentifiable body parts than jump to a unreferenced penis spurting, all passion or vigorous movement seems to have been edited out. The question is why?. In light of the kind of sex acts routinely encountered on the shelves of even the smallest Mom and Pop vid store, and is there anyone who sells movies that I would describe as B" movies unedited from the hippie era.
Craig Vasiloff Parts Ways From FANtastic
The creative head of FANtastic, Craig Vasiloff, has apparently parted ways from his investors.
Craig (xxxgen1@hotmail.com) says: "There is some confusion as to the ownership and ongoing status of FANtastic! and XXXGeneration Magazine. Due to constant struggles with my current investors who have entered into a material contract breach with me, I have decided to excercise my right and nullify my relationship. Currently I own 100% of all intellectual and property rights free and clear of any claim by said partners. Until I either enter into a new relationship to continue the magazine, or settle with current partners, or until further notice from me - XXXgen and FANtastic are my exclusive property."
FANtastic's investors dispute this. They say Craig is no longer with the company and that I should disregard what he says.
I suspect that Vasiloff is looking for another set of investors. He probably wants to be bought out.
Earlier this week, Rob Spallone kicked Kendra Jade and her crew from his shooting house in Sunland. They were shooting a movie for XXXGen.
Kevin Blatt Resigns From YNOT
Kevin writes: Kevin Blatt has resigned his position at The YNOT Network. Blatt was VP of Marketing and Sales. The reasons cited for his sudden defection were dissatisfaction with the new parent company Flying Crocodile, and the direction in which the company was going.
Flying Crocodile is the parent company that owns SEXTRACKER, SEXLIST, XXXCOUNTER, and the newly formed YNOT. The CEO is Andrew Edmond, a 26 year old online Svengali.
Per his agreement with YNOT, Blatt cannot disclose his settlement or the reasons specifically why he left. However, he did say that Flying Crocodile has promised in writing that neither party will disparage each other, or disclose any further details concerning them not seeing eye to eye.
Blatt, you’ll remember was the “key” factor in the brokering of the deal between former Online Imaginations President Rick Muenyong and Andrew Edmond for the acquisition of YNOT. Blatt’s brother D-Money sits on the newly formed Board of Directors of YNOT, as well as the ultimate sponsors panel that Edmond is putting together to unite webmasters.
Blatt came to YNOT a year ago when the fledgling company had been reeling from defections of key posters to Netpond. Blatt’s creative marketing, coupled with the contacts he has in the porn business, is what had turned YNOT around in the past year, so much in so it attracted the attention of many buyers.
While Blatt is entertaining a myriad of offers, he does want to stay in the adult online business. “ The people I have met in this industry are the most genuine people in the working world, and some of the most generous, It has been an honor and a privilege for me to have been so warmly received in the adult community” says Blatt.
For now, Blatt is entertaining many offers especially from the video side of the business, but he plans to take some time off to relax and reassess what he wants to do in the online business. You can reach Kevin at kblatt@san.rr.com to send your well wishes, or you’ll find him at Torrey Pines Golf Course for the next couple of weeks.
Luke Gets Mail
Steve Neece (SNeece1234@aol.com) writes: Well,Luke,despite being ensconced in Australia your columns are among the most interesting to date. First off,the lady that criticized your description of "homo pornographer" was right,especially as you were reporting his murder.It cheapens his life and his death.You seem to have grown more anti Gay of late.Am I right? If so,what is the reason for this?
As for the Taliesin /Patrick Riley debate, I have to side with Taliesin. Having come of age in the 60's(I'm 55) ,I have fond memories of that time and bitter regrets at the subverting of its aims and goals. As for swinging being counterproductive to marriage,my personal experience does not confirm that.AT lifestyles conventions I have observed any number of couples who have been swingers for 25,30 years and more and are still happily married.By the way they are now called lifestylers, not swingers.As they themselves say,lifestyles will not save an already bad marriage but it can make an already solid one even better.It is probably beyond most people who are too selfish and insecure to make it work.It will probably remain an elite activity in the forseeable future.Most successful couples in the lifestyle see it as a shared adventure that they can relate later.As they say,"I feel secure because I know at the end of the evening/weekend,no matter who they have been with,they are going home with me." This is their recreation and they have the support of a network of likeminded people. Spouses or significant others are known as 'primary partners' and some refer to themselves as poly-amorous or poly-amorists.
They seem to cut acrossall economic and political lines. In fact,during the 60's & 70's right wing Orange County in southern California was known as the swing capitol of the country and the subject of many jokes on that account.In fact,there is heated debate as to whether known right wing politico's that are lifestylers should be outed,as they are enjoying the lifestyle yet are alligning themselves with political parties that would threaten this.One such,and his wife,were outed before the 1996 presidential election and it didn't exactly help the Republican party. Also, Pat I have encountered any number of second generation lifestylers and there are probably 3rd generations out there.
As far as your debate on porn, the greed and misogyny have long since triumphed over idealism and a few idealists have sold out over the years,just as in mainstream society. Yes, you have attractive,career oriented and smart businesswomen in porn today(the current elite) but few if any are at all idealistic. They just want a piece of the pie and don't care if the pie is poisonous.Off the top of my head the only exceptions I know of are Chloe and Rayne. However you may disagree with them (I don't),you cannot deny that Veronica Hart, Annette Haven, Kay Parker, Gloria Leonard, Annie Sprinkle, Hyapatia Lee, Ginger Lynn etc. passionately believed in what they were doing and beleived they were MORALLY in the right. As Veronica Hart recently observed to me"I don't think they(todays performers) enjoy sex as much as we did." My own opinion is they have become interchangable and dehumanized. Rent most vids from the Golden Age and it is like watching real people have sex,at least until the money shot. Todays are depressingly mechanical for the most part.
To Chaim; Annie may be a secular Jewess but she is also a passionate goddess worshipper. Yes,she has added some pounds over the years but she is still recognizably Annie and still exotically beautiful to me. I think you misunderstood her.She was not defending pimps but merely saying that a proposed law would make male friends and lovers liable to be charged as such if they accepted any money she gave them under any circumstances,even if it took the form of a gift or a loan that was freely given. Her kindness sometimes borders on naivete' but she is a woman of courage and principle that is constantly evolving and freely admits to past mistakes.
To Lynne. Do not sell yourself short.The few pics I have seen on Lukes site show an attractive and vital woman in early middle age. I find it ironic that the tall blonde goddess is pretty much the creation of Jewish Hollywood and Madison avenue starting in the 1930's to maximize profits.They unwittingly made their own women appear less desirable.Ironically,a disproportionate number of those women in vaudeville,theater and early movies of the 19th and early 20th centuries that were considered the most desirable were of Jewish backgrounds.Again,ironically,the onlywoman in the first batch of the 26 Legends of Erotica that fit the Blonde Goddess Image was Seka and to a lesser extent Amber Lynn(who is said to be of Jewish background).Marilyn Chambers and Ginger Lynn were the girls next door and while Annette Haven,Veronica Hart ,Kay Parker,Sharon Kane and Georgina Spelvin come from that stock none of them are blondes.Anyway, Lynne once again wish you the best and feel free to get my email address from Luke if you wish to correspond.
Europorn
Peter Hayes writes from London: Inflagranti of Berlin has just directed its first interactive porno. Customers dialled up the site and gave directions about what they wanted to see as the film was made. The event was covered on the German Channel Wahre Liebe. Director Rolf Schmidt directed a bit of outdoor sex at the Berlin love parade and almost got himself arrested. The site is available on www.inflagranti.de However the site is only available in German - but anyone can look at their picture gallery. Anorther interesting site was the Marbella nightlife site that tells the user all about sex on the Spanish party island. This includes quite extreme clubs, including some live sex shows. This is available in a variety of langauges including English. Find it on www.marbella-party.com
Free Mumia Or See Annie Sprinkle?
As Luke walks through Brisbane, he sees lots of signs about protest vigils to free murderer Mumia.
Chaim Amalek reports:
Decisions decisions. The other evening I was walking through Washington Square Park in the Village to attend a talk at NYU by [ex-porn star] Annie Sprinkle (nee Ellen Steinberg - secular jewess). I was no more than 50 feet from the place where she was scheduled to speak when I was approached by some earnest folk seeking my help in the struggle against the death penalty in general, and in support of convicted cop-killer and death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal in particular. While I am in favor of killing as many murderers as the electrical grid will allow, the pro-Mumia crowd included lots of earnest, brainy young commie-type gals, so I was really conflicted about where to go. Still, remembering the Annie Sprinkle who explained the trickle down theory of economics in the pages of the National Lampoon with Irwin Correy, I crossed the street to see some flesh (but not before grabbing a copy of the Socialist Worker).
Ellen/Annie appeared before a crowd of about 250 NYU students, including lots of lesbians (Annie says she switched sides a few years ago), virtually no black or asian people (of which there are many of the latter at NYU), and lots of jews. (Seriously, it seemed that half the women present looked like they could be first cousins, so similar were they in appearance and dress. You know - short, black hair, generally mousey looking. Typical New York Jewesses.)
Sad to report, Annie has really packed on the pounds. Her body is almost completely axially symmetrical, extending front to back about as far as it does side to side, with little variation in between (her belly matching her bust). Still, she did show a compilation tape from her days as a young (18 - 20) porn star. Ah, those were the days. No one around like her anymore. But then she killed the moment by showing a video entitled "Eleven Pussies" that ran for about 11 minutes, which consisted entirely of extreme close-ups of same, sans dialogue. So repetitious were the eleven scenes that watching it all reminded me of any orthodox shabbas service, where the same thing is said and done over and over again. When she launched into an impassioned plea for tolerance of prostitution, I was still with her - but once it appeared that this feminist was including pimps in her plea as well ("To think that just because I gave some of my money to my boyfriend, he could be arrested was so unjust!"), I left and crossed the street to learn more about Mumia.
Really interesting crowd. First of all, it was truly inter-racial, the first inter-racial crowd I had seen in New York voluntarily gathered together in one place other than the subway. And I got to learn all about anarcho-syndicalism, and the International Socialist Organization - a splinter movement that broke off from the mainstream Trotskyite group. But here is the shocking thing - only 25 folks turned out to attend the anti-death penalty rally, on a campus where capital punishment is generally opposed. At the same time, and right across the street in plain view, Ellen /Annie attracted 250 attendees who had to pay money just to be there. Considering the jewishness of that crowd, they likely included lots of high I.Q. folks who, had they crossed the street, might well have had an impact on Mumia's life prospects. But they were drained away by the pull of Annie's "herstory." So you see, while she did not intend it, by luring so many jews to her talk on that critical night, Annie Sprinkle may well have helped assure the execution of Mumia. The moral of the story is that not everything about porn is bad.
This Lynne woman advised you that "you must offer your precious seed to as many Jewish women as possible, to create as many Jews as possible." If the porn industry has taught us one thing, it is that sperm is very cheap; eggs, on the other hand, are expensive. Just compare the cost of obtaining an egg from a healthy tall smart nordic women vs. purchasing sperm, and you will see what I mean. Also, while I mean no disrespect to either of you, the truth is that you do NOT have any jewish genes in you. That does not make you any less jewish than the average secular jew or mean that your genes are bad, just that insofar as there is a racial component to being jewish - and there is, just as there is a racial component to being white - you do not have it. Anyway, if she really were your friend, she would pimp for you women willing to accept your seed to bear your young. But then, talk is even cheaper than sperm.
Chaim Amalek (The Hardest Working Man on l-keford.com)
RugPony writes: Have you ever noticed how intellectually sloppy those Free Mumia people are? They claim to be protesting the death penalty yet assert that Mumia should be freed because he was not guilty of shooting a cop. While I share your enthusiasm for the death penalty, I've never urged that innocent people be put to death. Hell, if he's innocent (which he isn't, of course), I'm all for letting him go.
Lynne writes: It occurred to me yesterday that, in addition to the education of women impacting the Jewish birthrate, we also have the problem of our most eligible Jewish men consorting with non-Jews. There's a list for you to compile, Luke -- male Jews who have chosen to procreate outside the Jewish race because Jewish women aren't "fashionable" or appropriately attractive "trophy wives." How many supermodels and actresses are of Jewish blood?
Anyway, Chaim, a child born of a Jewish mother is a Jew regardless of his male parentage, no? All children Luke fathers with Jewish women are considered Jewish and, if he commits to raising them as Jews, he's done his procreative part to encourage continuation of the race.
I am unfortunately at least three-quarters pure genetic Jew and share many of the racial characteristics of my people, making me exceedingly unattractive per modern standards of beauty. My childbearing years are almost over and I have not been selected to make a contribution of my genetic heritage toward the future of Israel. I would still welcome stepparenting or adoption but, given my age and appearance, hardly expect those options, either.
As a non-genetic Jew, Luke is rather attractive and, in person, much smarter than his writing skills would suggest. He certainly does not need my help obtaining women, Chaim. He has more "dates" than time. Luke himself has a preference for women who are of Jewish heritage but who don't appear Jewish. These women are the most desirable Jewesses and the competition for their domestic services is stiff but, at 33, Luke has no education, no financial resources, no wardrobe and no furniture, making him unlikely husband/father material even before the ladies learn about his involvement in pornography. (Jewish women could overlook the pornography if Luke were making oodles of money at it.)
Anyway, that's what I learned in Sociology of Gender class yesterday: men are judged by what they have, women by how they look.
Chaim, I am Luke's friend and would be happy to serve as an unpaid yenta toward his Jewish reproductive needs (pimps get paid for their services) or even as a vessel for his child, but he will have to upgrade his standard of living to an appropriate Jewish upper middle class level and learn to deliver his seed more effectively all by himself.
Shawn writes: A few years back a Minneapolis Adult bookstore flew in Cristy Canyon to basically autograph one of her videos that the boostore was selling for under $10. Over 500 people showed without mainstream media advanced publicity. As for Mumia positive media coverage pretty much tanked with the growth of the internet. This tends to be due to "Yahoo full coverage". Go to yahoo.com and type in "Mumia" (or other high profile scoundrels)and the first link is for "Yahoo full coverage". Click on that and you get assorted stories plus opposition links, most notable being dainelfaulkner.com by supporters of the cop Mumia was convicted of killing.
It is my experience in recent dealings with another high profile "scoundrel" that most mainstream journalists are getting on line (or having their kids look up stuff). Thus the huge decline in the pro-mumia mainstram media stories. Another interesting thing at yahoo is the "legal defense funds". This lists a variety of legal defense funds including the white supremicist stormfront.org I don't know how stormfront is doing but generally online legal defense funds don't rake in the buck. One I am watching has only raise $1,000. Kevin Mitnick at last update was only around $7,000. The one reported exception was When Ho Lee. A while back I read that he had raised $200,000.
It's a lot of work setting these up, the Matt Drudge fund is probably the model but if some lawyers would do the setup pro-bono a Luke F-rd legal defense fund might be viable especially if we can pay with plastic and have our identities remain ananomous. It wouldn't be tax deductable but I'd tan the plastic a bit. You wouldn't need yahoo since the key market would be people who read your site so a link there would do. Just an idea. Note Luke: The short yahoo legal defense fund list includes saraolsondefense.com, that's Kathy Soliah, she legally changed her name to the alais she was using as a fugitive.
Luke, just to show how the left tends to be clueless about how the internet works here in the Twin Cities the local PBS station has a public affairs show "Almanac" where local mainstream media people get to do "serious" guest appearances. They open the show with a local noted "expert" doing a monolog. On March 10 a woman who works at our world renoun Minnesota State Epididimology (sp) department mildly dissed Soliah in the opening monolog. The Soliah defense sent off two missives and posted them on the defense website. This minor dissing would have died out had they not publicised it which caused our side to publicise it. Thus we have a major first amedment row where many more times will see the monolog than would had they not publicised their complaints. I did a page where I linked the Fallwell versus Hustler and linked everything else. To put a human face on things "During the Mark Wallice is HIV postive stage" she was my "off the record" epididimology source. I heard from other people that she perodically checks soliah.com and is a fan of it. The page is at http://members.xoom.com/soliah/almanac.htm
Fred writes: Does Lynne really think that Jewish men gravitate out of marrying within the faith because they seek "trophy wives" and that shiksas are, on the average, better looking than Jewish women?
Are Jewish women any less likely to gravitate out of the faith to seek a mate? Is that because they seek "trophy husbands?" Or do they do it because the exodus of Jewish men leaves them no other choice?
What do you think, Luke? Are shiksas better looking than Jewish women? What about shigitzes? What does NJG think?
(I can't think of any Jewish super-models either. The only Jewish beauty contest winner I can think of is former Miss America Bess Meyerson, and that was a long, long time ago. I suspect that one reason for the dearth of Jewish beauty contest winners and/or models is is that Jewish females tend to be feminists, and feminists rebel against being feminine. See, for example, a picture of Andrea Dworkin. Of course, on the other hand, pseudo-intellectual feminist Naomi Wolfe is one hot babe.)
Luke: I do not see Jewish or non-Jewish women as better looking. But what happens when you belong to a group, is that sometimes you get the feeling that the grass is greener and more beautiful on the other side of the fence. When you are not bound to an ethnic or religious community, you can choose to mainly associate with people based on your values, such as beauty.
Louis: Lyne asks in regards to interfaith marriages: How many attractive model/actresses are of Jewish blood? Assuming I guess that Jewish women are less attractive then non-Jewish women. The following women, most of whom are considered exceedingly beautiful are 1/2 Jewish or full Jewish: Gwynneth Paltrow, Wynona Ryder (real last name is Horowitz), Alicia Silverstone, Goldie Hawn, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Julianna Marguiles, Sarah Michelle Gellar aka "Buffy", Yasmine Bleeth, Shoshanna Lonstein (Seinfeld's old girlfriend), Jane Seymour, Cindy Margolis (the most downloaded model on the internet, full Jew), Shalom Harlow, etc. etc. Methinks the Jewish religion doesn't have to worry about beauty. Most Jewish girls I've known/dated have been pretty damn hot too. Perpetrating the stereotype that Jewish people are less attractive is just silly.
Michael Freedman writes Luke: I think you are just sick And stupid antisemite !!! You offence jewish people and make us like some bad phenomena!!!STOP THIS YOU ARE SICK!!! YOU TALK LIKE SOME STUPID HITLER!!!!!!! YOU ARE SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Supreme Court Rules On Nude Dancing
NPTrist@aol.com writes on RAME: The fight for federal constitutional protection of totally nude dancing was all but lost today. In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a local government can completely ban nude dancing and require that the dancers wear g-strings and pasties. City of Erie v. Pap's A.M., 00 C.D.O.S. 2443 (March 29, 2000). Although the opinion has a few potential loopholes, legal protection for the right to see your favorite adult video actress in all her glory will now have to be sought primarily under state law.
In the early '90s, the number of nude clubs in Erie, Pennsylvania, increased, causing much distress and hand-wringing among the goodwives and burghers. The city council amended its old anti- public nudity ordinance, making it clear that the prohibition against total nudity applied in "enclosed places . . . open to the general public" (that would be strip clubs) and applied to persons who exposed their genitals, buttocks, female nipples, pubic hair, natal cleft, perineum anal region, or pubic hair region (that would be strippers). The ordinance thoughtfully exempted children under ten and women breastfeeding children under two. (The record does not state whether a local entrepreneur opened a lactation-themed club in response.)
The Erie city council didn't hide the fact that censorship was its intent -- it exalted in the fact. The ordinance stated that it was being passed "for the purpose of limiting a recent increase in nude live entertainment within the City." All of the city council members who voted in favor of the ordinance stated on the record that their intent was to ban nude dancing at strip clubs.
So this seemed like a simple case. Eight members of the U.S. Supreme Court had earlier held that nude dancing, while at the outer edge of protection, was in fact protected by the First Amendment. Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc., 501 U.S. 560 (1991). And, prior to that, the Court had held that, while adult movie theaters could be forcibly dispersed, they could not be banned. Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc., 475 U.S. 41 (1986). So, by mixing these two precedents together and adding a dash of clearly expressed censorship of private communicative activity by the government, striking down this ordinance and sending it the way of the Fugitive Slave Law seemed a no brainer. It was to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
The Supremes in Washington disagreed. In today's fractured opinion (more on that later), the court upheld the ordinance on the following grounds:
First, nude dancing is expressive conduct, and conduct -- as opposed to the ideas expressed -- can be regulated so long as the regulation is designed to stop the harmful "secondary effects" of the expressive conduct. In the most famous case of this kind, the Court held back in 1968 that Congress could prohibit the burning of draft cards because Congress wasn't banning anti-war expression, it was banning a specific activity that mucked up the administration of the war. So nude dancing can be banned if the city council's intent is not to ban nude dancing but to combat secondary effects like prostitution and crime by, as it happens, banning of nude dancing. If you can follow that logic, you are ready for law school.
(Wait, you ask, didn't a majority of the Erie city council say outright its real goal was to ban nude dancing? Yes, and the Supreme Court plurality opinion makes like Nancy Kerrigan and skates right over that fact.)
Second, the local government does not have to prove that its community is actually suffering from any "secondary effects." The legislative staff can review studies conducted in other cities or just read court opinions on the topic. Then they can draft laws which ban nude dancing in order to combat harmful effects that there is absolutely no proof are occurring. In his dissent, Justice David Souter gets especially worked up over this ludicrous rule.
Third, while a dancer could not express herself quite so well with g-strings and pasties as she could nude, any effect on the overall expression is tiny. Therefore, the restriction passes the legal requirement of not being too great.
Now, you and I know this is nonsense. That's why we drive across town to an all-nude club and rarely step into the topless or go-go place down the street. And, to their credit, Justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg (the old chick Clinton appointed) said exactly that.
So there you have it. If harmful secondary effects could result (no proof needed), nude dancing can be banned, and federal law will not intervene.
There are a few rays of hope. This is a plurality opinion signed by less than a majority of the justices and therefore lacking the binding force of law. It is however _extremely_ persuasive, and federal courts will almost certainly follow it. (Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas concurred in the result but for different reasons.)
The studies of other cities' secondary effects must be "reasonably believed to be relevant to the problem." This means that a First Amendment attorney can argue that it was not reasonable for the government to believe that a study from the 1970s about conditions in the Baltimore Block, the Boston Combat Zone and old 42nd Street would be relevant to a nude club with lighted and secured parking located by its lonesome off the 5 near Fresno. And a local government's findings of fact can be challenged.
Finally, but fundamentally, there is state law. State constitutions can confer greater freedoms than the federal constitution, which only establishes a minimum level of protection. My guess is that state law will represent the next campaign of this war. The battle for protection under federal law is essentially lost.
Crying in his $25 "lady's drink," I am, N.P. Trist.
Opherian@aol.com writes: The Rabbi Stiffkugel, after a quick consult witrh his pederast uncle, the High Justiciar of the Isle of Fleis (as in Heidi), counsels that all is not lost. The plaintiff presented no actual evidence concerning the so-called secondary effects, and so Madame Justice Bluenose O'Connor concluded he had waived his right to do so. That being the case, the town council's purported reliance upon it's own bogus "expertise" was all there was left, and lo, it was sufficient. In the next round, the club owner will have to marshal some actual evidence. Since the truth is that most strip clubs do *not* have a negative impact on the surrounding area ( a redneck beer bar would have far more) this should not be hard. The RS has dealt with this problem for years by telling Sharpton to keep his action out of the Temple Beth Porno, and any club owner who does the same should be fine.
Fame
Louis Scorbick (Galifrey@aol.com) writes: Reading all this recent hulabaloo about the merging of porn and rock and the increased mainstream acceptance of porn-stars as just another form of "celebrity", and especially the comments by porn stars that porn is just another "stepping stone" I'm beginning to wonder exactly where these so-called "stepping stones" are meant to lead?
Or is fame itself the only justification. If Monica Lewinsky is a celebrity for blowing the President (on the cover of this month's Jane Magazine like she's any other famous person), if you, Luke, unabashedly admit you chase fame at all costs, if people will do whatever it takes to grab a moment in the spotlight (take that sham marriage on Fox), and no one even cares anymore WHY the fame exists, or in what more framework it presides, then what does this say about our cultural paradigm? Are we really this rootless in the 21st Century? Did it not used to be that fame existed based, in some part, on accomplishment? Or has Kato Kaelin changed all that? Is it now enough merely to be involved in noteriety? Is John Wayne Bobbitt really a celebrity? And if so, how many others are willing to cut their penises off to achieve that same desperate momentary fame? Even after all the episodes of VH1's "Behind the Music" and "Where are they Now?" showing the destruction to lives that undeserved celebrity can cause, do people still see "fame" as the end all be all of existence? Is it due to where we are today in America in 2000 -- the lack of war, political struggle and societal injustice that we have turned all our attention to the consumption of insta-celebrities, regardless off worth? Has this process become a modern day Gladiator epic, in which we cheer the lion killers, and laugh and berate those who get eaten, except in this case, people are begging to be let into the Lion's den just to hear a moment of applause? Is having millions of pairs of anonymous eyes staring at you worth anything, at all costs?
Getting back to Porn: Originally porn stars were famous in the 1970's for attempting to liberalize a puritanical America's shame and fear of sexuality. Sure they were kinda sleazy too, but they were actually making movies, with plots, and exploring erotic terrain not before touched upon. Many went to jail. So what is Kid Vegas? What is that Matt Zane guy? Famous for being famous for being famous, the endless all consuming viscious cycle of MTV post-modern Real World people watching people, watching people... etc, ad infinitum... where does that leave actual achievement? Where does that leave accomplishment? Completely irrelevant? Is the "why" no longer asked of our celebrities? If someone's desperate enough and goes to enough lengths to get us to watch them for a moment, is that really all there is to the process? Is this a mantle we pass blindly as a sort of "catch the potato" game of chance? It certainly appears that way to Darva Conger. Who cares why? Get the Barbara Walters interview, get the jokes made about you on Leno. You've MADE IT! That's what America's all about today. Jay Leno laughs and smiles and winks and everything's okay. Who cares what you did, who cares whether it was right or wrong, what was important was you "entertained us"!
Yea! And Porn has followed suit. So Dyanna Lauren proclaims she's a musician, but if she was "gonna get screwed, she wanted to get paid for it." Any path to fame. Sex, music, it's all the same. There's no artistic interest in the actual creation process. It's about the fame, baby! Who cares why you got there? Fame is the ultimate goal. Whether you deserve it? Irrelevant. There is no net worth in the process today. It's a mad scramble for fool's gold -- and even after decades of seeing the ultimate fallacy of this desire for undeserved celebrity, people still want it desperately. And they'll do anything to get it. Even though, nine times out of ten, it destroys them. Why? Like the Talented Mr. Ripley, they'd rather be an evil somebody, then a rightous nobody. Why? Because Leno will think it's funny, wink, wink, and everything's okay... until they're gone and the next sucker comes along to grab the societal zeitgeist for their fleeting moment of desperate fame... Keep that revolving door rotating.
Luke Arrives In Tannum Sands
Wednesday morning, I took the Tilt Train to Gladstone, in central Queensland, a journey of 300 miles covered in six hours. The train, at times, exceeded 150 kilometers per hour. My brother, his Japanese wife and their two kids met me at the railroad station and took me to their home in Tannum Sands, by the ocean.
We piled into his 1980 Commodore, made by General Motors. I learned to drive on the car when I spent a year after high school with Paul (6/84-6/85). I dented it a few times, even going off the side of the road once when I pulled out to pass and in the middle of my overtake, I spotted another car coming straight towards me.
Three months after returning from Australia, I ran my VW Bug into a parked school bus, sustaining about 50 stitches to my head.
My sister Elenne prompted me to buy something for my two nieces, so Thursday morning I bought them some chips in downtown Gladstone on Goondoon Street. We drove past the local newspaper, the Gladstone Observer, where I once worked (1984) as a substitute sports writer.
Disgust And Deviance
Taliesin writes on RAME: And, Patrick, my friend, in describing me as a 'New Age anachronism from the 70s' you seem to get what I'm about; you just don't seem to like it. I have to say that I think that the sexuality and the sexual attitudes of the sixties and seventies are very much what the spirit of porn is about. Sex, rebellion, free love, communal values, openness, questioning authority, etc. These are good things to my way of thinking. How do you see them? And how is it that you can disagree with the spirit of that era? What, then, is porn to you? What is it about?
Patrick Riley: What is it supposed to be about? Just asking. Immediately after the initial success of Deep Throat in NYC and after his glowing review (both totally unjustified IMO) Al Goldstein gave an interview in which he said (as near as I can remember) "Within a couple of years porn is going to disappear". He didn't mean that explicit sex in movies was going to be wiped out but rather that mainstream Hollywood was going to start building it into their movies so instead of going to see a porn movie you'd go to see a regular movie at your local normal cinema and there on screen would be the mainstream actress taking a real dick in the old wazoo. Of course Al and lots of others in the industry were obviously hoping that most mainstream actresses would balk and the companies would turn to the porn industry and people such as Harry Reems, Andrea True, Kim Pope, etc. for an insert or even to play a role. Damiano and Spinelli would become household names like Scorcese and...um, who else was current?...maybe De Palma.
Although one might think this an unrealistic pipe dream, it wasn't so far fetched then as it sounds today. Linda Lovelace and Harry Reems were both the darlings of the mainstream media and even Al himself was basking in the spotlight. And the mainstream movie business was moving. Nudity was becoming more frequent and violence, another no-no under the Hayes office, was showing up in lots of movies. Easy Rider and Midnight Cowboy both received X ratings and seemed to survive so how far further was the step to put maybe a very-close-to-explicit sex scene with one of the more daring mainstream performers? And then after a few of those...the real thing.
Not waiting for mainstream to act, the porn industry tried to spruce up its image with near-mainstream quality 3.A.M., Wet Rainbow, Marriage And Other Four Letter Words and similar. So if mainstream wasn't going to do it, the porn industry would move upscale. Eventually the two would converge...or so the thinking went.
This is what I want to see--what porn should be--but unfortunately I'm still waiting 28 years later, like I'm still waiting for the females to start asking the guys out.
However, there are some excesses of the sixties/seventies that can't and couldn't continue: swinging, orgies, key parties, cults, encounter groups, etc. From both a fictional viewpoint and a real-life perspective these violated fundamental rules of existence of society and most people gave them a passing glance and rightly rejected them. Even Rimmer, who's generally one of your touchie-feelie lot, recognizes that the likely result of such activities is divorce with the consequent bad effects on the family and children in particular.
Sex in movies should deal with the young and attractive going through a succession of serially monogamous relationships in search of the pair bond and later in life perhaps showing an affair on the side but one that doesn't threaten the constancy of marriage. In the first case the viewer is seeing a fantasy of how his life could have been and in the second a fantasy of a forbidden and unattainable momentary thrill. A little like dreaming about owning a Ferrari. You'll notice that much of plotted porn today and all mainstream follow these lines. Porn is not--and shouldn't be--the search for a hedonistic-at-all-costs empty physical pleasure at the expense of longer term relationships. When or if you try to do so, you alienate me and I feel certain, most of America.
Slightly tangentially, you'll notice on Luke F-rd's site a few days ago an interview with an ex-stripper (Cindy Plenum, I think) who talks about the exploitative nature of the nudie bar and makes the point that the habitues of those establishments are looking for wives, not really just casual sex. This is not the first time this sort of comment has been made and of course is borne out by the phenomenon of the slavering fan boy. IOW even the hardened raincoater, despite his overt misogyny, is deep down looking for love. A very natural human reaction and considerably at variance with your hedonistic and anachronistic values.
Becky writes on RAME: TT Boy admitted that some of the girls he's worked with will warn new girls to avoid him because he's too rough. Luke F-rd interviewed him and every other word TT said was "f---". In that same interview, TT said "What the f--- is RAME?". My answer to him: Your worst nightmare.
Lysa Goes To The Oscars
Lysa Stone, head of sales for Astral Ocean, writes to her friends about her night at the Oscars:
Hi Friends. Had a good time, wish you were all there.
Fun Things We Did
1. Hired a limo with a cute driver named Paolo who gave us a tour
of downtown LA so we wouldn't be early.
2. Posed on the Red Carpet with Winona and Queen Latifa
3. Posed in a picture with Chloe Sevigny (sort of)
4. Kissed Roberto Benigni and talked Italian to him
5. Flirted back with Don Rickles
6. Congratulated Topsy-Turvy people on their Oscar.
Silly Things Lysa Did
1. Practiced saying Pedro Almodovar's name for 5 minutes so I could
congratulate him. Christy refused to let me since I never mastered
it.
2. Used English accent to talk to preening women in the bathroom.
3. Clapped during the clips of Star Wars: Phantom Menace. Alone.
4. Tried to pay for drink during free cocktail hour.
5. Saw Keanu arrive on big screen and ran down 3 flights of stairs
in heels to intercept him. (no go)
6. Inexplicably thought Garth Brooks was Dwight Yokam Star That Was
A Mile Taller than I thought: Cameron Diaz (6'5 or something...)
Star That Needs a New Stylist Immediately: Catherine Keener
Number of Times I Ran into Chloe Sevigny: 7
Ickiest Celebrity Couple: Jack Nicholson and Lara Flynn Boyle
Couple Everybody thought was Icky But I Didn't: Angelina Jolie and brother Jaime.
Part of Show I was Desperately Happy to be at the Bar: Gloria Estefan singing
Most Inane Conversation:
Producer Guy: Hi, what do you do in this business?
Me: I work in Film
PG: Oh, Production Assistant?
Me: No Director of Sales and Marketing
PG: OH! For whom? Didn't you just graduate college?
Me: Astral Ocean Cinema, I graduated college 10 years ago.
PG: What do you guys make, underwater films?
Me: No we import European films.
PG: You make important films?
Me: No, IMPORT films from other countries. Bye!
Number of Oscars I got to Hold: 1 (Best Documentary)
Number of times I whispered under my breath for Warren Beatty to shut up already: 25
Number of Post-Oscar Parties We Went To: 0
Number of Post-Oscar Parties We Had Paolo Drive by to Scope the Street Action: 3 (Mortons, Elton, House of Blues)
XXX writes: Gays made sweeps at this years Oscars. Both American Beauty and Boys Don't Cry dealt with homophobia and homosexuality. Backstage at the end of the awards with all the cast of American Beauty, it was intersesting to see the producers, actor and director all hugging and kissing, of course the producers did not mind kissing and hugging each other, but Kevin Spacey seemed hesitant to be caught in flagrante probably due to his recent denial and anger at the public for asking about his so called gay life.
Emmett On Lexington Steele
Emett replies to Curious: Modesto if I did not talk about Afro-American porn stars like Lexington Steele, Obsession, and Mocha, then nobody else will. Every time I come to Luke F-rd site, I read about everyone and everything except for Afro-American porn stars. Lexington Steele has won an AVN and I basically see or read nothing about it. I never see or hear anything about performers like Cinnabunz, Mariah, Chocolate, Chasisty, Aria, Desiree, Venus, etc,. If you choose to be ignorant that is your business but I will mention Afro-American stars every time I don't see enough of info about them. Which is basically every day! I just hope people will just ignore your silly comments and stick to the facts. You just want to steer people away from the truth and down the road to Assholeville where you must be the mayor.
Curious writes: Emmett I have no problem with people of color being involved in porn. My problem is with you constantly going on and on about your imagined boyfriend, Lexington Steel. You think he's great! We know!! So shut up!!! You sound like a giddy little school girl. By the way, the term "Afro-American" is so out of date. Try African-American.
Curious A/K/A The Mayor of Assholeville
Done writes: emmet has always been on Lexington Steeles dick. Now he is going as far as to say that he has single handedly increased the popularity of porn. Gimme a f---ing break.
I'm all for emmet wanting to talk about black porn, the Lexington is God and Savior part is old though. I agree, some of the hottest chicks in porn are black. Obsession, Mariah, these girls are the s---. And I would say that one of the hottest series in porn is Black Cheerleader search. But just like the rest of the porn world these days, black porn is bogged down by too many horrible titles, too many bad directors, too many subpar performers. This is porn as a whole though. I would love to see a readers poll of what the hottest companies and series are in the fans mind.
Can anyone confirm that TT Boy is a viagra user? I have heard this lately and in watching a recent performance of his, he came, and then they edited in another scene with him shooting another nut. I never knew TT to be a two nut guy. Are these rumors I am hearing true or false.
Emmett writes: I have never heard anything about The Troy Boy using viagra but if he did, it would not matter to me. As long as he performed well. Speaking of The Troy Boy, I have not seen T.T. Boy receive much work now. Probably because of his reputation of being to sadistically rough with the women. But the only series I see him now in is "Black Street Hookers". That series only show fresh, one time black girls. I guess since they are new they have know clue about T.T. Boy. So they work with him. Usually the women appear to be depressed and annoyed with T.T. Boy's brutal ramming. Probably why the Afro-American performers do not come back in that series. By the way these sultry, afro-American, highly-underrated, porn stars URLs are....
Obsession: http://www.eroticobsession.com/
Diana Devoe: http://www.dianadevoe.com/
Another hot porn star who I don't hear and read enough is Suzi Suzuki! She is super hot! And also very creative during her shows. She maybe retired from porn but she hasn't lost her sexiness! Her URL is http://www.suzisuzuki.com/ I sure would love to see Suzi back in action. Especially with Metro.
Correction; African-Americans are Africans that have just received their citizenship in this country. Afro-Americans are descendants of Africans that were born in this country as well as themselves. So actually you're wrong. But that's okay . . . most ass-holes usually are. But enough with the banter... Mayor Ass-hole why are still avoiding the topic? True, I talk about Lex a lot but that does not mean I am wrong. Done concurs with me as well, even though he made a crack at me. Why can't you just admit black porn stars just do not get recognized in the porn industry? Only a very few Afro-American porn stars receive attention and when they do, it is still not to a great degree as other porn stars. All every title out there has into include "black this, black that" with poor graffiti type box covers.
Swedish Maids Protest Porno
Updated 12:01 PM ET March 27, 2000 STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A group of Swedish chambermaids are seeking protection from male hotel customers who become "over-excited" after watching pornography on television.
In an article published in Saturday's Aftonbladet daily, the group, members of the Swedish Hotel Workers Federation, called for the maids to be given alarms to use in case of attack. "Chambermaids are always having to come face to face with over-excited guests watching porn movies," they said, demanding the maids be allowed to work in pairs.
The group said their work had become physically disgusting since hard-core pornography was shown in hotels. "We have to dry off sticky television screens and clean stained sheets as well as picking up used tissues thrown under beds," they said.
Lord Peter Luther Christian
Lord Peter Luther Christian writes: Dear Luke:
Well, good morning again! I am all the way out west - in Perth - attending a conference on internet prayer. It is fascinating stuff. The idea that we are trying is to unite people from every time zone in planet-wide intercessionary prayer, simultaneously over the internet. There is a school of thought that prayers uttered in unison across the globe resonate in the ears of the Lord with great power. I suggested that for our first efforts, the power of planetary prayer be tested against the commercial fornication industry. Jesus wants you and Lynne and Brandy and Bianca and all the commercial fornicators of the web, Luke. If this works, you folks and we will be on the same team!
Of course, I have been playing the role of tourist as well, taking in the sights and dipping my toe in the Indian Ocean, too. I had a very enjoyable time the other day at the local memorial to the honored dead of the Great War (the significance of the day should be obvious to you as you are a son of the Southern Cross). And this evening I shall be dining at an ethnic restaurant. We wish you were here with us!
Yours in Christ,
Lord Peter Luther Christian, OBE
Luke F-rd - Poster Boy For Mental Health
Alan Watts writes: Hey, Luke, if you're looking for a grandiose mission in life, try championing mental illness. Come out of the closet, and admit you're mentally ill, and then publicize your journey back to health. The theme: a mentally ill man, Luke F-rd, running his own website. You'd make a great poster boy! You're a perfect fit!
Rumdar writes: Luke... I wish you would loose that Alan Watts guy. His shtick is morbid and depressing. To make matters worse he has usurped the name of the real Alan Watts. Alan Watts the late, somewhat great, British Zen philosopher were he alive today, would be pro Luke. He had a sense of humor and intelligence which would have meshed perfectly with your crypto Hebrew slant on love, life and porn. Perhaps I can suggest a new name for this new creepy Alan Watts? Change it to Curtis Le May. Curt as you may recall was the vice presidential running mate of George Wallace. He wanted to bomb Hanoi. His famous quote was :"If you got atomic weapons, use em"....This guys bombs in your column every time he turns on his computer. Go away Curtis.....Go away..........................................rum
Peter Hayes replies to Alan Watts:
Can I thank him for raising my status to that of "hero", but I fear that he flatters me somewhat. However certain things have to be said in order that my silence is not taken as approval. The article on the Scotsman makes a good point about gossip - newspapers tend to stay away from comments passed by those without obvious intimate knowledge or those that have no track record of reliability.
Internet gossip columns go where others fear to tread. They are sure to stumble across a few gems and hot potatoes - but most of it is mud, slush and stones.
I still do not know whether Luke wants to get better at his job. He doesn’t say. He occasionally writes back thanking me for my copy, nothing more. Certainly I doubt that his work engenders many work offers from other parties, especially if fact checking and other checks-and-balances are not part of his daily routine.
To state the obvious rule of "imbalance", people change when they really want to change. My best guess is that Luke doesn’t want to change, so history will keep on repeating itself. People writing in - such as me - pointing out inconsistency and lack of moral integrity will be ignored.
When we (everybody that writes for gain) hits out at somebody or something we have to take the risk that the other party will hit back. Sometimes the people will hit back with more armoury than we have. If George Harrison is not safe behind his barbed wire, cameras and security fence in Henley-on-Thames (just outside of London) how safe is Luke?
LF is a nice looking guy and (in my judgement) so-so smart, but has found a niche that is not always good for him. It is so easy to knock porn actresses, after all they have - as part of their work - to have sex with people that they neither know nor care for. To the vast majority of the population this is unthinkable. As even good old XXX acknowledges, "people knock porn because they haven’t tried it..."
That is my basic problem with judging the industry, commercial sex might well be better than working as a waitresses or flipping burgers to the XXX’s of this world. Perhaps having a stranger’s sperm splash on your face is not too bad when you get used to it. Perhaps there are devices to make rough anal sex less painful than it appears. The industry is based on one simple equation - the people involved like the money more than they dislike having sex with strangers. The more unsociable the act - the higher the pay.
In my 34 years on this planet I can count three or four girls that like having sex with total strangers without commercial gain. Not enough for a house party no matter an industry. Incidently one of them was mentally ill and noticed that men would only talk to her if she let them have sex with her. She dressed up as a school girl - despite being 30+ - because that helped her find men. For all I know men are still taking advantage of her now - I truly hope not.
Alan also needs to acknowledge that it is time to move on. He has said his piece, we have all listened, now it is time to sit down. From the basic literacy of his letters I presume that he has a life outside of writing letters. To throw in another constant of journalism - it is important in life not to keep on repeating yourself, especially without having a clear commercial interest in doing so.
Dossman writes: i am much like yourself in that I am a self-centered person. However maybe through your website you can become less narcissitic,or maybe it just increases it.
Luke F-rd - Sperm Bank For Israel
Lynne writes: Luke, your role in saving the Jewish people is clear: you must offer your precious seed to as many Jewish women as possible, to create as many Jews as possible. You are already thoroughly guilty of the sin of onanism, so a little more won't hurt you especially since the cause is noble, and women obviously find you desirable, so you must find a Jewish sperm bank, and offer your mentally and physically superior Jewish splooge to all interested Jewish women. You must personally impregnate as many Jewish women as you can, as often as possible. Follow the Mormon example and build a large family with multiple wives. All will be forgiven in service to God. This will, of course, take a great deal of time and energy, but it is far more important than commenting on pornography. Use your talents (communication and masturbation) for the good of your people. Make babies for Israel!
Wallowing In Lukey
From PornGossip.com: A source at XXXGen says that Craig Vasiloff
wants to disassociate himself from l-keford.com, because of all the
negative impact and publicity. Of course, we don't know how true this
is. It could all be a ploy for attention on Luke F-rd's part, given
how Ford loves attention. Luke the self-centered prick. However, if
it is true that Vasiloff wants to disassociate himself from l-keford.com,
it would be a wise move and would improve his standing in the Adult
Industry. Leaving this sick, attention-grabbing, narcissist might
be the best thing for Craig's Adult ventures. Being associated with
Luke F-rd must be like wallowing in Luke's miasma of self-pity and
loathing, every bloody day.