IT'S TEA TIME!

TODAY- 6PM

MARY'S MAD HATTER TEA PARTY

tea from the charleston tea plantation, (the only tea plantation in america)

duck egg salad sandwiches

homemade scones

desert

mint juleps

live DJ - radioactive dick- spins 45 records!

live performance by andrew burnette

vintage porn

BYOH- (bring your own hat)

$15 cover

6pm

antebellum

1643 n las palmas ave

hollywood, ca 90028

323 856-0667

www.antebellum.us.ms

antebellum@earthlink.net

"I'M NOT A VAMPIRE: I'M A BISEXUAL BITCH"

Noted Bisexuals: Villains of the Metal Gear Universe

"I'm not a vampire; I'm bisexual, bitch!"

for all you gamers. check out the 2001 release Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. series creator Hideo Kojima brought in a character called: Vamp.Vamp looks like a vampire, has fangs like a vampire, and is seemingly unkillable (like a vampire!). However, during a CODEC sequence between the game’s star Raiden and another character, it is revealed that Vamp was not given his name because he’s a vampire, but because he’s bi.

for more info- saturday@explogamer.com

HULALAND

SHE-IS-COMING- JULY 26TH- hollywood bowl- AMAZING

WHAT A DICK

LEAVE IT TO BUNNY, (LADY BUNNY) ... check out these wigs on dicks.

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WHAT THE FUCK?!

1-AD-MJ

A BLAST FROM THE PAST- NOW A TRIBUTE

DEATH MARCH

the throngs of tourists, passerby's & mourners continued throughout the day- today- june 26th, 2009. day one after the passing of the KING OF POP- (1-AD-MJ).

all day long traffic was backed up 5 miles back and helicopters flew overhead. these images from MICHAEL JACKSON'S star on the HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME- hollywood boulevard, are 3 blocks from ANTEBELLUM GALLERY.

OK.. THIS IS HOT.....

SIMON DEXTER makes our willie's rise...

check him out-

Photos by Paul Reitz, NY,

check out his blog- simondexter.blogspot.com

i wanna "link" up with him.

THE MAN WHO CUMS TO EARTH

OUT OF THIS WORLD

THE VISITOR- new porn flick starring- LOGAN MCCREE!

MAN IN THE MIRROR- A REFLECTION

1-AD-MJ

this live grammy performance now takes on a whole new meaning.

ANDERSON COOPER FINALLY COMES OUT AS MICHAEL JACKSON'S DATE..... BACK IN 1979

1-AD-MJ

ANDERSON COOPER has a flashback of going with michael jackson to STUDIO 54

OUR FIRST PRESS COVERAGE

we've only been up for one week and already we have press!

LA METABLOGS

New blog about sex, etc. from Antebellum Gallery

By Chal Pivik

June 19th, 2009 @ 1:17 PM Fun, Life, Online

Antebellum Gallery, the Hollywood fetish gallery owned by photographer-director Rick Castro, has entered the blogosphere. Surprise-surprise, it’s for adults only.

Keeping track of sexuality (and sex) in all of its permutations as it is represented in popular and fringe culture, Castro’s blog might just be a perfect addition for the enlightened age that Obama’s presidency seems to be struggling to usher in. (Now if Obama would just grow a pair.)

Recent posts have been about the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce’s 2010 list of honorees who will receive stars on The Walk of Fame, this Sunday’s celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Tom of Finland Foundation at Faultline Bar and reaction to the latest sexually-charged Calvin Klein ad campaign.

My favorite post so far: One Straight Guy’s View of Bisexuality– a video by Minneapolis Youtube star Rocci Berrini, who espouses about topics of the day from a slacker’s POV. And his seemingly clueless, common-sense, pro-gay marriage stance is actually one of the best (and funniest) arguments yet against the right’s clueless bigotry. Fight fire with fire, I say.

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FETISH BECOMES FASHION

check out the catwalks of milan...

the men of spring/summer 2010, look straight out of a leather gay bar from 1980.

the eagle

brown is for bottom

village person

leather daddy

backroom @ slammer

the faultline- beerbust

I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS

FETISH IN THE MAINSTREAM

caged shoes make a comeback for spring. no longer popular on hollywood blvd and vegas brothels, caged shoes will be on the most fashionable feet this summer.

once again fetish has become co-opted and mainstreamed. As with the best fashion trends in the last 20 years, look to streetwalkers and dominatrix's to see what the real housewives will be wearing next season.

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UPDATE!- THE KING OF POP IS DEAD

MICHAEL JACKSON

IS DEAD

Posted Jun 25th 2009 5:20PM

Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We're told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.
Jackson was dead when paramedics arrived.
Once at the hospital, the staff tried to resuscitate him but he was completely unresponsive.
We're told one of the staff members at Jackson's home called 911.
La Toya ran in the hospital sobbing after Jackson was pronounced dead.
Michael is survived by three children: Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince "Blanket" Michael Jackson II.
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antebellum blog will now reference time as- AD-MJ,(after-death-michael jackson) or BD-MJ, (before- death-michael jackson.

UPDATE- Madonna 'Can't Stop Crying' Over Michael Jackson

The sudden death of Michael Jackson jolted his friends and family, a second blow to the entertainment world after it lost another icon, Farrah Fawcett, just hours earlier.

"I can't stop crying over the sad news," Madonnasays. "I have always admired Michael Jackson. The world has lost one of the greats, but his music will live on forever! My heart goes out to his three children and other members of his family. God bless."

Lisa Marie Presley, who was briefly married to Jackson in the mid-1990s, says, "I am so very sad and confused with every emotion possible. I am heartbroken for his children, who I know were everything to him, and for his family. This is such a massive loss on so many levels, words fail me."

"My heart is overcome with sadness for the devastating loss of my true friend Michael," adds Brooke Shields, who raised eyebrows when she briefly dated Jackson. "He was an extraordinary friend, artist and contributor to the world. I join his family and his fans in celebrating his incredible life and mourning his untimely passing."

Elizabeth Taylor, one of Jackson's closest and longstanding friends, was "too devastated" to issue a statement, her rep says, while Quincy Jones, who produced Jackson's biggest hits, says, "I am absolutely devastated at this tragic and unexpected news. For Michael to be taken away from us so suddenly at such a young age, I just don't have the words."

Neil Portnow, president of the Recording Academy, which honored Jackson with 13 Grammys, says, "Rarely has the world received a gift with the magnitude of artistry, talent, and vision as Michael Jackson. He was a true musical icon."

MICHAEL JACKSON GOES TO THE HOSPITAL

Michael Jackson rushed to hospital

2:06 PM | June 25, 2009

Pop star Michael Jackson was rushed to a hospital this afternoon by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics.

Capt. Steve Ruda said paramedics responded to a call at Jackson's home around 12:26 p.m. He was not breathing when they arrived. The parademics performed CPR and took him to UCLA Medical Center. more to come!......

THE LOSS OF AN ICON

Farrah Fawcett dies, our

CHARLIE'S ANGEL is now one.

10:12 AM PDT, June 25, 2009

Farrah Fawcett, who soared to fame as a national sex symbol in the late 1970s on television's campy "Charlie's Angels" and in a swimsuit poster that showcased her feathery mane and made her a generation's favorite pinup, died today. She was 62.
Fawcett, whose celebrity overshadowed her ability as a serious actress, was diagnosed with a rare anal cancer in 2006, died about 9:30 a.m. at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, said Paul Bloch, her publicist.

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DISEL AD- BANNED IN AMERICA, OF COURSE

THE BEST COMMERCIAL WE'VE SEEN IN AWHILE

XXX - Diesel Commercial - For more funny movies, click here

LASERIUM REOPENS IN THE HOOD

Laserium finds a vintage Hollywood home.

Ken Hively,

The Laserium show will feature new 3-D effects at the old Vine ST. THEATRE, right down the street from Antebellum gallery.

WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD- The rocking light show is revived at the Vine Theatre after its long Griffith Observatory run ended in 2002.

Marla Maples has what appears to be an extremely bright green mole on her cheek. Actually it's just a benign laser beam, straying onto her features as she stands inside the lobby of Hollywood's venerable Vine Theatre. Technicians are hurriedly turning the 1937 movie house into the new permanent home of Laserium, which is returning to Los Angeles beginning Friday after seven years of being officially unplugged.

Originally hundreds of thousands of people saw the laser light show in during its 1973 to 2002 run at the Griffith Observatory's planetarium. Laserium has a former reputation as L.A.'s most infamous stoner rite of passage.

Laserium founder Ivan Dryer admits there was a tacit understanding in the old days that some patrons might arrive already lit up. "I mean, I used to tag our ads 'Be Prepared,' " he says, quoting a vintage 1970s catchphrase that didn't necessarily refer to Boy Scout-approved prep. "But I think that there's less consciousness now that that's a necessity to be prepared for a Laserium show. We've always had G-rated shows, and we've always had a lot of family attendance, so we intend to push that as part of the nature of our brand." It doesn't hurt that Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and the Beatles -- the mainstays of the new venue's initial rotating shows -- are now considered family heirloom hand-down material and no longer the stuff of head shop soundtracks.

If the wink-wink motto of the old Laserium was "Be Prepared," at the new location they'll be counting on impulse business from a lot of patrons who couldn't come less prepared: the thousands of foot tourists who cross Hollywood & Vine every day, whose eyes may be caught by the beckoning outdoor beams that will soon dance across a curved portion of the old structure's facade. "We'll certainly get a lot of walk-ups here that we couldn't get at the Observatory," Dryer says. "You couldn't walk up the hill in Griffith Park as a casual thing."

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A PEARL NECKLACE GETS TOSSED AROUND

WHO'S YOUR DADDY?!

who's your daddy? the now classic video from gay-rock-hope- NICK NAME- back in 2006

rick castro photographed him exclusively for BLUE magazine the same year.. photos to be posted soon.

EDWARD SCISSORHAND'S- HANDS GARNER A PRETTY PENNY

FETISH IN THE MAINSTREAM

At the last Christie's auction, Edward Scissorhands' scissorhands sold for $16,000.



The original prop, composed of steel, leather, painted rubber and foam-latex, was created for the now classic TIM BURTON film in 1990.

THE BLACK CAT IN SILVERLAKE WAS THE ORIGINAL GAY UPRISING

Sunday the 28th is the anniversary of Stonewall riots.
To commemorate STONEWALL on June 28th meet @ 9PM @ LE BARCITO- the location of theoriginal gay riots 2 years before stonewall.


How it went down in 1967 in Los Angeles.

Today june 16, 1967- Los Angeles citizens appeared in court (Div. 59) to enter pleas to charges resulting from a police mass arrest at a bar called THE BLACK CAT, (now LE BARCITO) located at 3909 Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles. The bar has been open approximately 2 months. The arrests took place New Year's eve (January 1, 1967) and were made by a large goup of police officers. About 12 vice-squad officers (plainclothesmen) started beating patrons to the floor about 5 minutes after midnight. They did not identify themselves except by their weapons. After beating the patrons, the 16 to be arrested were laid face down on the sidewalk outside the bar. 5 patrol cars, containing 2 uniformed officers each, were brought from a near-by side street where they had been parked for sometime and the individuals arrested were taken to the newly opened Rampart St. Police Station. 3 bartenders were among those arrested.

Officers then went to a second bar, at 4001 Sunset Blvd., attacked the lady bar owner and the bar's manager and bartender, who came to her aid. The owner and manager were not arrested, although the manager was left on the sidewalk bleeding. The bartender was so badly beaten that he is still in County General Hospital, where he has undergone an operation to remove his ruptured spleen. He had gone 2 hours before being sent to the hospital. He was finally booked on a felony charge of assaulting an officer.

Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 9:00- 2:00am
Le Barcito
3909 W. Sunset Boulevard
Silverlake, CA
323 580-4447

IMPEACH OR ABORT

Newly Released Tapes: Nixon Said Abortion Necessary "When You Have A Black And A White"

the "DICK" NIXON thought abortion was advisable for miscegenation.


WASHINGTON — On Jan. 23, 1973, when the Supreme Court struck down laws criminalizing abortion in Roe v. Wade, President Richard M. Nixon made no public statement. But privately, newly released tapes reveal, he expressed ambivalence.

Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster “permissiveness,” and said that “it breaks the family.” But he also saw a need for abortion in some cases —" There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white,” he told an aide, before adding, “Or a rape.”
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PERHAPS TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE?

144 YEARS LATER THE SENATE APOLOGIZES FOR SLAVERY



SENATE APPROVES RESOLUTION APOLOGIZING FOR SLAVERY

Resolution acknowledges the wrongs of slavery but offers no reparations
House must vote again because members have changed since resolution passed
Measure is nonbinding, does not need to be forwarded to president
-- The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a resolution apologizing to African-Americans for the wrongs of slavery.


The nonbinding resolution sponsored by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, is similar to a House resolution adopted last year that acknowledged the wrongs of slavery but offered no reparations. The House will have to vote on the issue again because the composition of that chamber changed after last November's elections.

now if we go by this timetable.... i'm wondering if the senate will apologize to gay people in the year 2153 for it's appalling stance on marriage equality, gay rights, don't ask don't tell, and the mistreatment of gays by the clergy.

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COMING SOON- PORNOGRAPHY

check out the trailer for David Kittredge's upcoming PORNOGRAPHY,


a thriller about an MIA porn star whose disappearance sparks an obsession with both a writer and a fellow adult film star. The film even stars real porn stars, including Dylan "AKA Brad Benton" Vox and Bret Wolfe.

PORNOGRAPHY premieres this summer.

FETISH BOOK CLUB

announcing the return of the FETISH BOOK CLUB, (FBC) a monthly meeting for kinky bookworms, and Rick Castro's personal favorite event @ antebellum. we are now reading- MERV GRIFFIN: a life in the closet. read it now, come to the FBC and discuss on july 17th.

MARY'S MAD HATTER TEA PARTY~ JUNE 28TH

ANTEBELLUM is once again having it's summer tea party.

hot tea with be served direct from the charleston tea plantation. (the only tea plantation in america) along with duck egg-salad sandwiches & fresh made scones by alesia. all this followed by mint juleps.

JOHNNY DEPP DOES IT AGAIN

Johnny Depp As Mad Hatter- it's tea time!

The Tim Burton 3-D flick doesn't come out till spring 2010, but film fans now have their first look at Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen and Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen from the upcoming "Alice in Wonderland."
The lead role of Alice will be played by 19-year-old unknown Mia Wasikowska from Australia.
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THE END OF ANOTHER ERA

Kodak's Kills Kodachrome Film

In this photo taken on Sept. 15, 2008, a roll of Kodachrome 64 is seen in Tonawanda, N.Y. Kodak announced Monday that it is retiring its most senior film because of declining customer demand in an increasingly digital age. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
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— Sorry, Paul Simon, Kodak is taking your Kodachrome away.
The Eastman Kodak Co. announced Monday it's retiring its most senior film because of declining customer demand in an increasingly digital age.

The world's first commercially successful color film, immortalized in song by Simon, spent 74 years in Kodak's portfolio. It enjoyed its heyday in the 1950s and '60s but in recent years has nudged closer to obscurity: Sales of Kodachrome are now just a fraction of 1 percent of the company's total sales of still-picture films, and only one commercial lab in the world still processes it.
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CRYSTAL CASTLE

A CHANDELIER WE CAN LIVE WITH

GAG ME WITH REALITY

IF THE FBI HAD IT'S WAY, DEEP THROAT WOULD'VE NEVER BEEN RELEASED

FILE - In this May 31, 1980 file photo, protesters picket the theater where the film "Deep Throat" is being shown, near Times Square in New York. FBI files released in June, 2009 to the Associated Press show agents across the country and at the highest level of the agency investigated "Deep Throat" _ the 1972 porn movie, not the shadowy Watergate figure _ in a vain attempt to roll back what became a cultural shift toward more permissive entertainment. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff)

MIAMI — When the FBI investigated the landmark 1972 porno movie "Deep Throat," the case touched the highest levels of the FBI, even its second-in-command W. Mark Felt, the shadowy Watergate informant whose "Deep Throat" alias was taken from the movie's title.
The FBI documents newly released to The Associated Press reveal the bureau's sprawling and ultimately vain attempt to stop the spread of a movie some saw as the victory of a cultural and sexual revolution and others saw as simply decadent.

Agents seized copies of the movie, had negatives analyzed in labs and interviewed everyone from actors and producers to messengers who delivered reels to theaters.

"Today we can't imagine authorities at any level of government - local, state or federal - being involved in obscenity prosecutions of this kind," said Mark Weiner, a constitutional law professor and legal historian at Rutgers-Newark School of Law. "The story of 'Deep Throat' is the story of the last gasp of the forces lined up against the cultural and sexual revolution and it is the advent of the entry of pornography into the mainstream."
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