Once upon a time, there was no sex in America. Really. I shit you not. There was no sex in America. “So how did we get here”, you ask? Well, if you were a kid growing up in the 50’s and early 60’s and you asked your mom/dad that question, you would have seen your parental authority figure in no particular order turn beet red, stammer, stutter, and either say something like “oh honey the stork brought you,” or; “Ask your (insert other parent here) when you are older.” That was our enlightened society in the 50’s and throughout much of the 60’s.
The TV show ‘I Love Lucy’ was the big hit on the tube back then. Lucy, Vivian and all the other women that ever appeared in the show wore either baggy pants or long, ankle length dresses. Ricky and Lucy slept in separate beds. In fact, you never saw couples in the same bed, either in movies or on TV. And adult bookstores??? What, are you nuts? What little porn existed back then was like drugs are today. Very underground, with draconian penalties for both sale and possession. All that was about to change….
Because in the early 50’s a magazine had been born, which first featured Marilyn Monroe on the cover. This magazine went along, breaking ground, until 1963 when it then published shocking, groundbreaking full nude pictures of Jane Mansfield. The creator and publisher of Playboy, Hugh Heffner, was then arrested on federal obscenity charges…and acquitted when a jury could not reach a verdict. At that moment in time, visual adult entertainment began to enter mainstream America. And Hugh Heffner blazed the trail for everything that followed. It was the Playboy First Amendment Center that virtually single-handedly fought obscenity laws across the land, and I’m sure you know what a so called ‘marital aid’ is, correct? You can just walk into any adult store and buy one, right? You can thank Hugh Heffner for that. More so that anyone or anything , it was his magazine and his battles with the oppressive powers that be that gave consenting adults the freedom to enjoy themselves behind closed doors. And it was the lifestyle expounded within the pages of Playboy that directly led to the swinger and fetish clubs we now take for granted in many places. Not to mention the so called Strip Clubs. While there are many who gnash their teeth about all of this, the rest of us understand that this has made us a more enlightened and open society.
Nowadays, Heff is a recently turned 85 year old….”geezer” as many call him. And I suppose that’s fairly accurate for a guy in his mid 80’s, especially in this time of increasingly seemingly to worship the young. The social media fishbowl we live in makes his personal life public, and makes him the butt of many jokes of the late night comedian circuit. Of course, what Leno and Letterman do not tell you is that, way back, when they were pimply faced kids, they were Jacking their dicks to their prized possession; a well worn, sticky copy of the forbidden, taboo, Playboy…secretly stashed where Mommy would (hopefully) never find it. The newer guys, Fallon, Conan, etc take their porn for granted, of course. Don’t we all? But while we enjoy ourselves, lets not forget that it was that old “geezer” who made it all possible, and guys, ya gotta admit…when you are 85, wouldn’t YOU want to have had the life Heff has enjoyed ? I thought so………
Knowing me, I’ll bet if I dug back into my blogs I could find one where I raved about the Iron Maiden concert that I went to in Auburn Washington back in ’08. Being the lazy sort, I could then just cut and paste it here, clever me! But even that would be too time consuming for the internet wastrel, so I will just write anew about the Iron Maiden concert that we went to this past weekend at the St Pete Times Forum in Tampa. The place was packed, I don’t know what the capacity of it is, but there was not an empty seat in the place and the floor was at least ¾ full as well. As in Washington state, the crowd cut across all gender and age groups, literally 8-80…ok, maybe 13-65 is a bit more accurate, but you get my drift. These guys are living legends, they have been out there for 30+ years and their fan base reflects that. You have kids that listen to Dads old albums and CD’s and YouTube keeps all the old classics they have belted out over the years out there as well. What I find really amazing is how they can keep going the way they do, and still be so fucking active each and every show. I saw these guys in the mid 80’s, and Bruce Dickinson has not slowed down a step, I shit you not. He still leaps 6 feet in the air and lands like a damn cat. Four screaming guitars by true rock and roll veterans lay the sounds down right. Defiantly a time warp experience of heavy metal the way it was meant to be played and performed…Loud and a bit Rowdy. Btw…if perchance you do not know about Iron Maiden, get the “Rock in Rio” DVD…my personal favorite..also extremely great is “Live after Death” classic, vintage Maiden there…..and do I really have to tell ya to turn it up LOUD??
I’ve always been a bit of a fan of Donald Trump…aka, “the Donald”. He seems to be just about the best people person I have ever seen. I don’t know about you, but aren’t you mildly irritated by those stories that go something like; “…..And, even though he is worth 20 billion dollars, Hiram Walker still drives his 20 year old Buick and brings his peanut butter and jelly sandwich to work every day, where he has not taken a day off in 30 years.” Really? Is that the reward? Pinching every dime, are you going to be buried in a gold casket lined with diamonds?? Or have some huge building named after you? Fuck that!!!! Piss it away, spend it, it just comes pouring in anyway, right? I think the appeal of Trump is that he lives the way we expect a Billionaire to live, we like to see 500 dollar lunches, gazillion dollar yachts, jets with solid gold toilets, trophy bimbo’s, all of that shit. Wrenched excess, like the horsepower of Steve Kinser’s 410 Sprinter, THAT’S what I’m talking about! And….you do not get to amass that much dough by being an idiot. That’s why I am so disappointed in his recent behavior. Because I fucking KNOW Donald Trump is not stupid enough to be a birther loon, there is no way in hell he believes that shit that was hatched up by the bitter, lying wingnut loons that populate the sewer of the internet. It does not make a lick of sense, why bother pandering to the tiny handful of kooks that always vote for the nuts in the Republican primary? I know what Trump has said before about the current president, the tax rate, our position in the world, global warming, George Bush, etc. So what did, or is he making up…what he said then…or what he is saying now? And why? He can bankroll whatever he wants, why not run as an independent? I have a theory…and I am going to share it with you, if for no other reason to be able to say..”here is it, I told you so.” What if Trump really wants to SAVE the country, and his party, because he is a good Republican and a better American; from the birthers and craziness of what is increasingly the Republican party nowadays? If he stays in this, he will split the Republican party for sure. And splitting the party will do to Republicans what Ralph Nader did to the Democrats back in 2002. Assure the election of the other candidate. And finish the birthers once and for all. Like I said, Trump may be many things, but he is not an idiot. He does not do anything that he has not thought completely through. So put it all together….hey, I don’t know, I’m just sayin’, mind you!
Ok, time to get some meaningful work done around here, with no further ado, I shall TTYL…bye for now.
He’s a bit on the Dom side and I do enjoy that! All in all, should be a nice evening……
