6/13/11
SUPPORT FOR BRADLEY MANNING
Jacob George of A Ride till the end-
"Rally for Bradley" at Ft. Leavenworth, KS on June 4, 2011. Pfc.
BRADLEY MANNING of Oklahoma has been in US military custody without formal charges for over a year.
Manning allegedly leaked US secret diplomatic cables to Wikileaks.
more info-operationawareness
TOM'S BAR HITS- 20 YEARS!
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THE 20TH ANNUAL TOM'S BAR
Our 20th Annual Commemoration of
TOM OF FINLAND
JUNE 19TH
Sunday from 2 - 7 PM
Donation $10 —
TOM's Men Contest
Something brand new this year. Come as your favorite TOM's Man!
ARTISTS IN ATTENDANCE:
RICK CASTRO
AXEL
WIM GRIFFIN
MICHAEL KIRWAN
DOGSPUNK
HECTOR SILVA
STEVEN GARCIA
TOM's Gallery- REX
Meet artists & view their artwork
Silent Auction
Everything you MUST have!
Parking Lot Party
Lots of room to cruise!
Tawdry Talent Contests with Prizes!
Can you top this? Can you bottom this?
Eats, as always
Party all day... and into the evening!
Drawing Workshop
Hot models for your enjoyment!
Horny, Happy Hunks!
Why break with tradition?
Proceeds Used To Benefit The Tom of Finland Foundation
FAULTLINE BAR
4216 Melrose (at Vermont), Los Angeles, CA 90029
· 323.660.0889
WELL THAT LEAVES A GOOD 10%
NINTY PERCENT OF PETRAEU'S CAPTURED "TALIBAN " WERE CIVILIAN
By Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON, Jun 12, 2011 (IPS) - During his intensive initial round of media interviews as commander in Afghanistan in August 2010, Gen. David Petraeus released figures to the news media that claimed spectacular success for raids by Special Operations Forces: in a 90-day period from May through July, SOF units had captured 1,355 rank and file Taliban, killed another 1,031, and killed or captured 365 middle or high-ranking Taliban.
The claims of huge numbers of Taliban captured and killed continued through the rest of 2010.
In December, Petraeus's command said a total of 4,100 Taliban rank and file had been captured i
n the previous six months and 2,000 had been killed.
Those figures were critical to creating a new media narrative hailing the success of SOF operations as reversing what had been a losing U.S. strategy in Afghanistan.
But it turns out that more than 80 percent of those called captured Taliban fighters were released within days of having been picked up, because they were found to have been innocent civilians, according to official U.S. military data.
READ MORE-
By Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON, Jun 12, 2011 (IPS) - During his intensive initial round of media interviews as commander in Afghanistan in August 2010, Gen. David Petraeus released figures to the news media that claimed spectacular success for raids by Special Operations Forces: in a 90-day period from May through July, SOF units had captured 1,355 rank and file Taliban, killed another 1,031, and killed or captured 365 middle or high-ranking Taliban.
The claims of huge numbers of Taliban captured and killed continued through the rest of 2010.
In December, Petraeus's command said a total of 4,100 Taliban rank and file had been captured i
n the previous six months and 2,000 had been killed.
Those figures were critical to creating a new media narrative hailing the success of SOF operations as reversing what had been a losing U.S. strategy in Afghanistan.
But it turns out that more than 80 percent of those called captured Taliban fighters were released within days of having been picked up, because they were found to have been innocent civilians, according to official U.S. military data.
READ MORE-
6/12/11
RICK CASTRO & ASSISTANT
.... IN THE ANTEBELLUM MOTEL ROOM @ THE DIRTY SHOW LA- 2- LAST NIGHT!
photo courtesy- gregory frilotte- west hollywood/antebellum corespondent
photo courtesy- gregory frilotte- west hollywood/antebellum corespondent
A DIRTY SECRET NO MORE
THE DIRTY SHOW LA 2- was so much fun!
for the last 2 nights I was hosting my ANTEBELLUM MOTEL ROOM @ THE DIRTY SHOW LA 2.
here's some highlights... more to come!
photos courtesy colin duerr & jerry vile- detroit/antebellum corespondents
photos courtesy- gregory firlotte- west hollywood/antebellum corespondent
THE LEGEND OF GILLES DE RAIS
GILLES DE RAIS
(1404–1440) was a Breton knight, a leader in the French army and a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc.
He is best known as a prolific serial killer of children.
A member of the House of Montmorency-Laval, Gilles de Rais grew up under the tutelage of his maternal grandfather and increased his fortune by marriage. Following the War of the Breton Succession, he earned the favour of the Duke and was admitted to the French court. From 1427 to 1435, Gilles served as a commander in the Royal Army, and fought alongside Joan of Arc against the English and their Burgundian allies during the Hundred Years' War, for which he was appointed Marshal of France.
Gilles de Rais has had some cultural impact and is one among several candidates believed to be the inspiration for the 1697 fairy tale Bluebeard by Charles Perrault. His life is the subject of several modern novels, and referenced in a number of rock bands' albums and songs.
Gilles de Rais was born in late 1404 to Guy II de Montmorency-Laval and Marie de Craon in the family castle at Machecoul.
He was an intelligent child, speaking fluent Latin, illuminating manuscripts, and dividing his education between military discipline and moral and intellectual development.
In 1425, Rais was introduced to the court of the Charles VII at Saumur and learned courtly manners by studying the Dauphin.
In combat at Saint-Lô and Le Mans between 1427 and 1429, Gilles was allowed to indulge his taste for violence and carnage.
He was young, handsome and rich with companions-in-arms of his own stripe about him.
From 1427 to 1435, Rais served as a commander in the Royal Army, distinguishing himself by displaying reckless bravery on the battlefield during the renewal of the Hundred Years War.[16] In 1429, he fought along with Joan of Arc in some of the campaigns waged against the English and their Burgundian allies. He was present with Joan when the Siege of Orléans ended.
On Sunday 17 July 1429, Gilles was chosen as one of four lords for the honor of bringing the holy ampulla from the Abbey of Saint-Remy to Notre-Dame de Reims for the consecration of Charles VII as King of France.
On the same day, he was officially created a Marshal of France.
In May 1431, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake; Gilles was not present. He was more than likely engaged in private raids, holding local merchants for ransom, entertaining lavishly, or patronizing the arts.
In 1434/5, Rais gradually withdrew from military and public life in order to pursue his own interests: the construction of a splendid Chapel of the Holy Innocents (where he officiated in robes of his own design), and the production of a theatrical spectacle called Le Mistère du Siège d'Orléans.
The play consisted of more than 20,000 lines of verse, 140 speaking parts, and 500 extras. Gilles was almost bankrupt at the time of the production and began selling property as early as 1432 to support his extravagant lifestyle. By March 1433, he had sold all his estates in Poitou (except those of his wife) and all his property in Maine. Only two castles in Anjou, Champtocé-sur-Loire and Ingrandes, remained in his possession. Half of the total sales and mortgages were spent on the production of his play. The spectacle was first performed in Orléans on 8 May 1435. Six hundred costumes were constructed, worn once, discarded, and constructed afresh for subsequent performances. Unlimited supplies of food and drink were made available to spectators at Gilles' expense.
In June 1435, family members gathered to put a curb on Gilles. They appealed to Pope Eugene IV to disavow the Chapel of the Holy Innocents (which he refused to do) and carried their concerns to the king. On 2 July 1435, a royal edict was proclaimed in Orléans, Tours, Angers, Pouzauges, and Champtocé-sur-Loire denouncing Gilles as a spendthrift and forbidding him from selling any further property. No subject of Charles VII was allowed to enter into any contract with him, and those in command of his castles were forbidden to dispose of them. Gilles' credit fell immediately and his creditors pressed upon him. He borrowed heavily, using his objets d'art, manuscripts, books and clothing as security.
It was during this period that, according to trial testimony given by Rais and his accomplices, he began to experiment with the occult under the direction of a man named Francesco Prelati, who promised that Gilles could help him regain his squandered fortune by sacrificing children to a demon called "Baron".
In his confession Gilles maintained the first assaults on children occurred between spring 1432 and spring 1433.
The first murders occurred at Champtocé-sur-Loire; however, no account of these murders survives. Shortly after, Gilles moved to Machecoul where, as the record of his confession states, he killed, or ordered to be killed, a great but uncertain number of children after he committed sodomy upon them.
Forty bodies were discovered in Machecoul in 1437
The first documented case of child-snatching and murder concerns a boy of about twelve years old called Jeudon, an apprentice to the furrier Guillaume Hilairet. Gilles de Rais's cousins, Gilles de Sillé and Roger de Briqueville, asked the furrier to lend them the boy to take a message to Machecoul, and, when Jeudon did not return, the two noblemen told the inquiring furrier that they were ignorant of the boy's whereabouts and suggested he had been carried off by thieves at Tiffauges to be made into a page.
In Gilles de Rais's trial, the events were testified to by Hillairet and his wife, Jean Jeudon and his wife, and five others from Machecoul.
In his 1971 biography of Gilles de Rais, Jean Benedetti tells how the children who fell into Rais's hands were put to death:
"[The boy] was pampered and dressed in better clothes than he had ever known. The evening began with a large meal and heavy drinking, particularly hippocras, which acted as a stimulant. The boy was then taken to an upper room to which only Gilles and his immediate circle were admitted.
There he was confronted with the true nature of his situation. The shock thus produced on the boy was an initial source of pleasure for Gilles."
Gilles' bodyservant Étienne Corrillaut, known as Poitou, was an accomplice in many of the crimes and testified that his master hung his victims with ropes from a hook to prevent the child from crying out, then masturbated upon the child's belly or thighs. Taking the victim down, Rais comforted the child and assured him he only wanted to play with him. Gilles then either killed the child himself or had the child slain by his cousin Gilles de Sillé, Poitou or another bodyservant called Henriet.
The victims were killed by decapitation, cutting of their throats, dismemberment, or breaking of their necks with a stick. A short, thick, double-edged sword called a braquemard was kept at hand for the murders. Poitou further testified that Rais sometimes committed his vices on the victims (whether boys or girls) before wounding them and at other times after the victim had been slashed in the throat or decapitated. According to Poitou, Rais disdained the victim's sexual organs, and took "infinitely more pleasure in debauching himself in this manner...than in using their natural orifice, in the normal manner."
In his own confession, Gilles testified that “when the said children were dead, he kissed them and those who had the most handsome limbs and heads he held up to admire them, and had their bodies cruelly cut open and took delight at the sight of their inner organs; and very often when the children were dying he sat on their stomachs and took pleasure in seeing them die and laughed...”
Poitou testified that he and Henriet burned the bodies in the fireplace in Gilles' room. The clothes of the victim were placed into the fire piece by piece so they burned slowly and the smell was minimized. The ashes were then thrown into the cesspit, the moat, or other hiding places.[29] The last recorded murder was of the son of Éonnet de Villeblanche and his wife Macée. Poitou paid twenty sous to have a page's doublet made for the victim, who was then assaulted, murdered, and incinerated in August 1440.
Some hold that Gilles de Rais was framed for murder by elements within the Church as part of an ecclesiastic plot or act of revenge, with the Duke of Brittany giving permission to prosecute Gilles de Rais and receiving his lands after the conviction. Title to the lands was ultimately transferred to the Duke, who in turn divided them among his nobles. The guilty verdict was based on the detailed eyewitness accounts of his confederates and the testimony of his victims' parents.
However, since confessions in cases of heresy and witchcraft were often extracted through torture, similarities in confessions do not of necessity imply truth or accuracy in the content of the confessions. While none of the parents claimed direct knowledge of the crimes, spectral evidence and hearsay were not barred from consideration, as they are in most modern justice systems.
Anthropologist Margaret Murray and occultist Aleister Crowley are among those who have questioned the account of the ecclesiastic and secular authorities involved in the case. Murray, in her book The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (p. 173–174), speculated that Gilles de Rais was a witch and adherent of a fertility cult centered on the pagan goddess, Diana. According to Murray, "Gilles de Rais was tried and executed as a witch and, in the same way, much that is mysterious in this trial can also be explained by the Dianic Cult.
Many historians reject Murray's theory. Norman Cohn argues that her theory does not agree with what is known of Gilles' crimes and trial. Historians do not regard Gilles as a martyr to an antiquated religion; recent scholars tend to view him as a Catholic who descended into crime and depravity.
On 15 May 1440, Rais kidnapped a cleric during a dispute at the Church of Saint-Étienne-de-Mer-Morte.
The act prompted an investigation by the Bishop of Nantes, during which evidence of Gilles' crimes was uncovered. On July 29, the Bishop released his findings, and subsequently obtained the prosecutorial cooperation of Rais's former protector, Jean V, the Duke of Brittany. Rais and his bodyservants Poitou and Henriet were arrested on 15 September 1440,[47][48] following a secular investigation which paralleled the findings of the investigation from the Bishop of Nantes. Rais's prosecution would likewise be conducted by both secular and ecclesiastical courts, on charges which included murder, sodomy, and heresy.
The precise number of Gilles' victims is not known, as most of the bodies were burned or buried. The number of murders is generally placed between 80 and 200; a few have conjectured numbers upwards of 600. The victims ranged in age from six to eighteen and included both sexes.
On 23 October 1440, the secular court heard the confessions of Poitou and Henriet and condemned them both to death, followed by Gilles' death sentence on 25 October. Gilles was allowed to make confession, and his request to be buried in the church of the monastery of Notre-Dame des Carmes in Nantes was granted.
Execution by hanging and burning was set for Wednesday 26 October. At nine o‘clock, Gilles and his two accomplices made their way in procession to the place of execution on the Ile de Biesse. There, Gilles addressed the throng of onlookers with contrite piety, and exhorted Henriet and Poitou to die bravely and think only of salvation.
At eleven o'clock the brush at the platform was set afire and Rais was hanged. His body was cut down before being consumed by the flames and claimed by “four ladies of high rank” for burial. Henriet and Poitou were executed in similar fashion; their bodies however were reduced to ashes in the flames and then scattered.
In literature, Gilles de Rais (under the name Gilles de Retz) is the villain in the 1899 novel The Black Douglas by S.R. Crockett. The novels The Life and Death of my Lord Gilles de Rais by Robert Nye and LÃ -Bas by Joris-Karl Huysmans are among the works which retell his life. H. G. Wells also makes extensive reference to Gilles de Rais in his works
. The novel Gilles & Jeanne by Michel Tournier covers his campaigning with Joan of Arc. This relationship partly informs David Rudkin's play The Triumph of Death. Gille de Rais's worship of Barron, and that creature itself, form the backdrop to Shaun Hutson's 1991 novel Renegades. Gilles is one of the main characters in Valerio Evangelisti's 2002 novel Mater Terribilis. He is also the main character in the short story Rumfuddle by Jack Vance.
The shock/thrash band GWAR mentions Gilles in their song "Blimey", from the album America Must Be Destroyed. American surrealist black/death metal band Sangraal released Unearthly Night, a concept album based on Gilles de Rais, in 2005. British extreme metal band Cradle of Filth released Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder (subtitled The Life and Crimes of Gilles de Rais), a concept album based on the life of Rais, in 2008. Avant-garde legends The Residents included a narrative about Gilles' life on the track "The Beards!" from their 2006 album River of Crime (Episodes 1–5). American death metal band Cannibal Corpse include a quote Gilles de Rais in the insert of their 1991 album Butchered at Birth, giving an account of his methods of murder. Another American death metal band, Brodequin, produced the song "Gilles de Rais" about crimes of de Rais on their Festival of Death album.
Antebellum artist- EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH, (he also wrote the forward to my book- 13 years of bondage) wrote- THE DARK PAGENT: A NOVEL ABOUT GILLES DE RAIS in 1977.
In Luc Besson's The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc Gilles de Rais is played by Vincent Cassel.
REBUTTAL- GILLES DE RAIS WAS INNOCENT
It is now very widely supposed that the trial of Gilles de Rais was a miscarriage of justice. He was a great war hero on the French side; his judges were pro-English and had an interest in blackening his name and, possibly, by association, that of Jehanne d'Arc. His confession was obtained under threat of torture and also excommunication, which he dreaded.
A close examination of the testimony of his associates, in particular that of Poitou and Henriet, reveals that they are almost identical and were clearly extracted by means of torture. Even the statements of outsiders, alleging the disappearance of children, mostly boils down to hearsay; the very few cases where named children have vanished can be traced back to the testimony of just eight witnesses, which is not that many to suborn. (I am indebted to the scholar Kathleen Lehman for her painstaking examination of the trial records for this latter point). There was no physical evidence to back up this testimony, not a body or even a fragment of bone. His judges also stood to gain from his death: in fact, Jean V Duke of Brittany disposed of his share of the loot before the trial was over.
In France, the subject of de Rais's possible innocence is far more freely discussed than it is in the English-speaking world. In 1992 a Vendéen author named Gilbert Prouteau was hired by the Breton tourist board to write a new biography. Prouteau was not quite the tame biographer that was wanted and his book, 'Gilles de Rais ou la gueule de loup', argued that Gilles de Rais was not guilty. Moreover, he summoned a Court of Cassation to re-try the case, which sensationally resulted in an acquittal. As of 1992, Gilles de Rais is officially an innocent man.
He was certainly not the basis for Bluebeard, this is a very old story which appears all over the world in different forms.''
MISS GAY HANDICAPPED- 2011
and the winner is- THE GODDESS BUNNY!
photo courtesy- lawrence elbert- west hollywood/antebellum corespondent
photo courtesy- lawrence elbert- west hollywood/antebellum corespondent
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS- THEN & NOW
here is a visual of what non-existent guns laws will do to a person, their carreer and life.....
In an interview published this week in the Arizona Republic, GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
Chief of Staff, Pia Carusone made clear that Giffords remains a shadow of her former self as she has difficulty stringing together sentences and relies heavily on gestures and facial expressions to communicate.
She also faces some difficulty in expressing bigger, more complex thoughts, Carusone said.
The newly released photos, shot by Tucson photographer P.K. Weis
just before surgery on her skull, provide a much clearer image.
Since the shooting, Giffords has made remarkable strides, requesting her favorite foods, singing her favorite songs, and relearning how to walk and talk, although she struggles to string sentences together.
Carusone also said that if Giffords' recovery were to plateau now, "it would not be nearly the quality of life she had before."
READ MORE-
In an interview published this week in the Arizona Republic, GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
Chief of Staff, Pia Carusone made clear that Giffords remains a shadow of her former self as she has difficulty stringing together sentences and relies heavily on gestures and facial expressions to communicate.
She also faces some difficulty in expressing bigger, more complex thoughts, Carusone said.
The newly released photos, shot by Tucson photographer P.K. Weis
just before surgery on her skull, provide a much clearer image.
Since the shooting, Giffords has made remarkable strides, requesting her favorite foods, singing her favorite songs, and relearning how to walk and talk, although she struggles to string sentences together.
Carusone also said that if Giffords' recovery were to plateau now, "it would not be nearly the quality of life she had before."
READ MORE-
6/11/11
6/10/11
DIRTY SHOW IN THE LA TIMES!
CHECK OUT OUR WRITE UP IN THE LA TIMES!
The curtains are pulled back on the world of underground erotica as
"THE DIRTY SHOW" comes to town.
Merging highbrow erotic art and popular peep show, the exhibition features rooms of erotic art, as well as a pop-up version of
Rick Castro's Antebellum Gallery.
City Center Motel. 1135 W. 7th St. 8 p.m.-11 p.m. Fri. and Sat.
(213) 627-2581. citycenterhotellosangeles.com
The curtains are pulled back on the world of underground erotica as
"THE DIRTY SHOW" comes to town.
Merging highbrow erotic art and popular peep show, the exhibition features rooms of erotic art, as well as a pop-up version of
Rick Castro's Antebellum Gallery.
City Center Motel. 1135 W. 7th St. 8 p.m.-11 p.m. Fri. and Sat.
(213) 627-2581. citycenterhotellosangeles.com
HAPPY BDAY- TONY WARD
IN HONOR OF TONY WARD'S 48TH BDAY-
I PRESENT AN ANTEBELLUM BLOGSPOT EXCLUSIVE-
TONY WARD AND HIS NEW SON-
ANTHONY BORDEN WARD & AURELIUS BALTHAZAR WARD
photo exclusively shot for antebellum blog by tony ward- london/antebellum corespondent
I PRESENT AN ANTEBELLUM BLOGSPOT EXCLUSIVE-
TONY WARD AND HIS NEW SON-
ANTHONY BORDEN WARD & AURELIUS BALTHAZAR WARD
photo exclusively shot for antebellum blog by tony ward- london/antebellum corespondent
ETHAN MCCORD
tonight i went to a riveting presentation by a former U.S. solider-
ETHAN MCCORD,
who spoke very candidly about the july 2007 attack that took place on iraqi civilians. it is this event and release of film footage that eventually made julian assange, (wikileaks) and bradley manning- "enemies of the state."
after mccord's presentation,(very hard to watch) there was a very spirited debate about the military, the "war on terror," and the draft. i promised i would do what i could to get the word out, so here is the info.. please repost, share and blog.
An Evening with ETHAN McCORD:
Truth Teller & War Resister
Thursday, June 9th, 7 PM at
Revolution Books / Libros Revolucion
Featured in Tribeca Film Festival's Best Documentary, Incident in New Baghdad,
ETHAN McCORD enlisted in the US Navy in response to 9/11. Wanting to be closer to the action, he moved to the Army, and in 2007, found himself in the middle of the ground war in Baghdad.
Ethan literally walked onto the scene filmed from an Apache helicopter just after 12 Iraqi civilians had been shot to death 1.5 miles away. He can be seen in the Wikileaks film Collateral Murder, released one year ago, rescuing two children who survived the attack.*
Ethan's story of coming to grips with the Army's rules and the loss of civilian life brought him to say, "the thing I couldn't live without in Iraq was my own humanity." Ethan will share his story. Students especially invited.
*Collateral Murder, a 15-minute film, will be screened at the beginning of this program.
Co-hosted by World Can't Wait and Revolution Books
6/9/11
IF YOU'RE FEELING DIRTY...
CHECK OUT THE DIRTY SHOW LA THIS FRIDAY & SATURDAY ONLY!
please join RICK CASTRO @ HIS ANTEBELLUM MOTEL ROOM @
THE 2ND~DIRTY SHOW LA 2011
here's the info-
DIRTY SHOW LA-2011
City Center Hotel
1135 West 7th Street, (approx 6 blks east of alvarado)
Los Angeles, CA 90015
This exhibit will be legendary.
Not just a return to the same motel, but a genuine Bienalle.
It will be room after room of fine-art as we transform the entire east wing of the hotel into one of the largest exhibitions of erotic art in LA history.
Featuring all new art, loads of steaming hot erotica from new artists, and brand spanking new submissions from our LA favorites, we are blown away by who is in this show. There will also be exhibitions-within-the-exhibitions including-
GROUP SEX, some interior insanity by BUGHOUSE, world-renowned artists from across the seas brought to you by the
MUSEUM OF PORN IN ART, and we are engorged with anticipation of the ANTEBELLUM MOTEL ROOM orchestrated by February's Dirty Show® guest artist and fetish guru, RICK CASTRO.
We are kind of keeping this on the down low, so let your friends know about it
(please help spread the word, as it is not being advertised).
Friday & Saturday June 10-11, 2011
The show opens at 7pm ends at 11
$15 at the door.
Bring loads of cash- all art is for sale - except performance art.
You must be 21 with valid picture ID.
NO CAMERAS ALLOWED!
(There will be plenty of cameras and video; if you do not wish to be documented,
please wear a mask)
Come fashionably early - there is no better way to start your evening.
Do not park in the Hotel parking lot.
Enter through the back alley.
please join RICK CASTRO @ HIS ANTEBELLUM MOTEL ROOM @
THE 2ND~DIRTY SHOW LA 2011
here's the info-
DIRTY SHOW LA-2011
City Center Hotel
1135 West 7th Street, (approx 6 blks east of alvarado)
Los Angeles, CA 90015
This exhibit will be legendary.
Not just a return to the same motel, but a genuine Bienalle.
It will be room after room of fine-art as we transform the entire east wing of the hotel into one of the largest exhibitions of erotic art in LA history.
Featuring all new art, loads of steaming hot erotica from new artists, and brand spanking new submissions from our LA favorites, we are blown away by who is in this show. There will also be exhibitions-within-the-exhibitions including-
GROUP SEX, some interior insanity by BUGHOUSE, world-renowned artists from across the seas brought to you by the
MUSEUM OF PORN IN ART, and we are engorged with anticipation of the ANTEBELLUM MOTEL ROOM orchestrated by February's Dirty Show® guest artist and fetish guru, RICK CASTRO.
We are kind of keeping this on the down low, so let your friends know about it
(please help spread the word, as it is not being advertised).
Friday & Saturday June 10-11, 2011
The show opens at 7pm ends at 11
$15 at the door.
Bring loads of cash- all art is for sale - except performance art.
You must be 21 with valid picture ID.
NO CAMERAS ALLOWED!
(There will be plenty of cameras and video; if you do not wish to be documented,
please wear a mask)
Come fashionably early - there is no better way to start your evening.
Do not park in the Hotel parking lot.
Enter through the back alley.
BABBLE
BABBLE was a weekly fagzine in chicago, IL, from 1992 thru 2000
the free zine listed all the trendy wendy events and chatted about local topics relating to homo's in the windy city.
the pubisher & editor was MALONE SIZELOVE.
i had the pleasure of photographing many covers for babble.
it was a fun time. i hope to go back to chicago soon.. do you think they'll remember me?
HERE'S A COLLECTION-
I'VE SUGGESTED TO MALONE TO HAVE AN EXHBITION OF MY BABBLE COVERS...
WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED? FEEDBACK PLEASE..
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