11/07/07 11:48 - 37ºF - ID#42026
burlesque as nerdrotica
I wasn't saying that antique porn was more intellectual, I was saying that the current revival in antique pornographic art forms (i.e. burlesque) was spearheaded by intellectuals.
And this article explains it better than I ever could.
"Burlesque revival: more nerdy than sexy?" reads the headline.
""The base level of IQ is decently high," said James Habacker, 42, owner of "The Slipper Room," a burlesque-themed New York club that hosts Weldon's salon. "Even in the last year the supertalented old school have really stepped it up.""
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11/06/07 08:41 - 39ºF - ID#41997
meditation on an autumn commute
I had good music on the iPod, and it just felt like it was the opening credits of a movie. The sky was dark and dramatic, light from the sunrise coming through banks of dark clouds in black and gray lined here and there with a strong pale silver light. I saw both a pickup truck with a plow on it and a bicyclist riding to work, at the same time; the leaves are changing but the grass is bright green and flowers are still blooming. It was a very Buffalo scene.
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11/02/07 11:22 - 33ºF - ID#41939
this is only a test
Also it's an excuse to post the photo (e:zobar) just sent me.
He captioned it:
"self-explanatory and inexplicable all rolled into one"
It's a styrofoam coffee cup bandito and when I asked him what a styrofoam coffee cup bandito was, he sent me that photo.
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11/02/07 10:31 - 33ºF - ID#41938
just wondering...
Crap.
So hi, to my sort of boss, if you're reading this, and I swear, my older entries aren't interesting at all and do not contain possibly objectionable photos.
Actually I don't think I've blogged about my new job here at all. Now would be an absolutely genius time to start.
No, I'm not writing this at work!! I wrote this earlier and the server's timestamp is off!!
Oy. Oh well, I already sent him the link. We'll see how much of a detective my sales manager is. ;)
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11/01/07 11:00 - 42ºF - ID#41928
captain oblivious
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I haven't noticed yet.
I feel very sad and ungrateful. There are all these things I was like oh yay i'll use that all the time...
I kind of, well, just haven't.
I am a wannabe computer geek but I don't have the attention span. Boo.
In other news I totally downloaded that update to the flash thingy thing mahoo and yet haven't actually installed it because I am so lazy. Boo!
Also I think I am getting sick. I don't want to get sick. Unless maybe I get sort of just sick enough to be able to stay home from work with a cup of hot chocolate, and play with the computer, and pet the kitty, and then I feel better by the evening and can do fun stuff. That would be OK.
God I'm such a goldbricker.
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Category: porn
10/31/07 07:04 - 62ºF - ID#41911
Long-awaited. I am not *just* a tease.
The site is called DeltaofVenus, deltaofvenus.com-- I'm not linking directly unless that autoformats into a link.
It's mostly images/videos of women, girl on girl, and straight sex, though in several of the films and a number of the photos, there's homosexual sex just thrown in there casually for good measure-- obviously the divide between straight and gay porn was narrower. Last week they uploaded a video that was of two chicks and a dude-- and the two chicks actually had more enthusiastic sex with each other than either of them did with the dude. (The film dates to the 1920s.
So obviously cultural norms were different. And a lot of the erotica was attempting to avoid censorship by categorizing itself as "references for painters"-- hence a lot of artistically-posed female nudes. On the whole the "tone" more often aspires to be higher, simply because any photographer had to have invested pretty significantly into the equipment-- but there isn't actually a whole lot of coyness. The fuck pictures are pretty straightforwardly shots of people fucking, etc. Some of the photos even look candid, which is amusing.
The standards of beauty are somewhat different, but one thing I have noticed: Nobody is fat. People are un-toned, sure; there's lots of pasty droopy flesh here and there. But the people are skinny. The obviously low-budget ones with amateurs mostly feature chicks with unexceptional, slender figures. It's only in the later sections of the archives that you start to see any kind of impressive breasts-- it's fair to guess that nobody working in porn before about 1935 had boobs over a C-cup.
People are bigger now. Taller, more muscled, and fatter.
I knew this already, and more than academically, because my parents are historical re-enactors. In his social group, my father was much sought-after for events because he has retained his 29-inch-waist, and so can fit into actual period garments. He is six feet tall and 140 pounds-- and so he can wear antique military uniforms.
But enough talking. This is enough text, I think, that nobody's going to get an eyeful of antique erotica that isn't prepared for it. ;)
The photos get more explicit as you scroll down. They're not chronological, but I bet you can tell which ones are later just by looking-- the hair, the undergarments, the setting, and most tellingly of all, the actual shape of the people.
Sure, she's untoned, but she's not fat.
She's pretending to be an artist's reference. Maybe she really was.
There's no nudity in this one, but it's more explicitly erotica than the one above.
I love this woman's expression.
Whoa! Boobs! This one is obviously the 60s.
I just love the posed coyness.
This one is modern enough to have color. Shocking!
This is totally just for painters to use to pose the female form. Actually this woman is hella toned-- and shaved! I don't know what year this one is.
Aaaand.... sex! I think this is meant to be a Parisian cafe. It actually might be-- France was a hotbed of the early porno industry.
Another amusing thing is how damned *early* many of today's porn cliches started. Here, it's the delivery boy. I've also seen a movie dated to the 30s of a dude boning the hot secretary. And there's a great one of "nurses gone wild" that's probably pre-1940.
Threesome!!! Mostly I just love the chick's stockings. OMG. It's not a sock fetish if I just want them for myself, is it?
There are several in this photo shoot and I just crack up-- they're all, OK, now it's time to assfuck the man! There's a lot of that. He's like, Uh, ok?
Yes. This is two chicks. You're not just mis-led by the low resolution. That is two chicks, one dressed unconvincingly as a man.
Sacrilicious! Lesbian crucifixion! But what's really great is the seated woman's expression.
This one is so totally candid. Also, is the standing woman pregnant? At least she looks amused. Also I love the stockings in this one too.
Fucking! Most awesomely, the man is wearing sock garters, while the woman has removed her garters and is letting her stockings roll down. THe porno cliche of leaving your shoes on was well in force by the time photography was perfected.
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10/31/07 12:17 - 46ºF - ID#41897
vintage erotica
But then I was like, no man, no. I should do reproduction vintage erotica. That would be so rad.
I should probably address the whole burlesque-is-geek-erotica thing. There is this motion lately to reclaim the erotica of less-jaded (theoretically) historical periods, and it's more intellectual than sexual for many-- burlesque and pinups are the province of nerds, and are done not only for getting one's rocks off but also out of notions of feminism and identity etc.
So anyway.
Bandwagon-- am I on it? Hell, I AM it-- roller derby is another version of this, reclamation of former exploitation as new empowerment.
Anyway.
This is a somewhat ill-considered rant. So instead I am going to post some images that are vintage erotica. [...]
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Yeah, I've restarted Firefox several times and I can't post anything, can't upload any media.
(e:paul), the Upload Media button, I can say pretty certainly, doesn't work in Firefox on the new release of Apple.
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10/29/07 10:23 - 34ºF - ID#41856
roller derby info
If you are interested in skating with us, either to be a referee or to skate on a team, come to one of our practices. They are from 8:30-10:30 on Tuesday and Thursday nights, and 8:30-10:30 Sunday mornings. It is best, if you have any protective gear, to wear it-we have some we can loan out, but it may or may not fit you or be any good.
To skate with us in drills, we do ask that you wear kneepads, elbow pads, wrist guards, and a helmet. Some drills also require a mouthguard but you probably will want to just observe those for your first couple of practices.
"But I'm a good skater," you may say-"I don't need kneepads."
Yes you do-a lot of our drills involve falling deliberately, and our style of skating is predicated on frequent falls, deliberate or otherwise. Even our refs wear kneepads at least. You'll just be happier in protective gear.
Also we wear quad skates, not inlines; quads are required, and you can rent them, though you could probably use your own inlines for the first few practices to get a feel for whether you're interested in joining us more permanently.
Do people get hurt doing roller derby?
Bruises are frequent, usually arm bruises from blocking, and leg bruises from falling not-quite-properly. Collisions happen, though they're fairly rare and usually minor. Falls are frequent, but we practice falling to ensure that these are rarely painful.
More rarely we do have muscle pulls and sprains. In a year we have had probably 5 relatively serious knee injuries-two girls had pre-existing knee conditions that worsened from skating, and three girls tore their meniscus or ACL in falls while skating- of these three, one required surgery to fix it, because she KEPT SKATING after she was injured, and fell twice more. One girl fractured her leg very badly in a freak incident during practice last year. We also had several other somewhat-serious injuries-concussions, sprains, twists, cracked tailbones-but nothing that incapacitated anyone permanently. One girl broke a rib, but not so badly that she could not skate later that month. (In fact she didn't stop skating that night, and skated another bout the week after heavily bandaged, though that was largely because she's a total badass.)
My point? For the most part, it is reasonable to assume that you will be sore the morning after many practices. There is a risk of something worse, but it's uncommon. People get hurt worse playing hockey, more often-collisions in hockey are often head-on, while in roller derby everyone's moving the same direction.
So we do require that you have primary health insurance in order to join the league.
We have open recruitment until December. November 11th is our draft-we may not have another draft this year, so to get onto a team you'd have to have joined the league by then and pass your skills assessment. But we will have places for skaters who are not on a team, so it's not that we're turning anyone away.
And most importantly: ROLLER DERBY IS FUN. It is the most fun it is legal to have. Also it's an entirely volunteer-run organization, involved in the community, by and for women. It's a great networking opportunity and also is way cool. At my tenth high school reunion no one cared about my crappy job and unimpressive life-they just all thought it was so cool that I skated on a roller derby league.
Oh-(e:Vincent) was asking about my wristguards:
I'll blog about the party later, I just wanted to write that up while I was still thinking of it. My obligatory roller derby pitch!!
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10/27/07 08:53 - 58ºF - ID#41831
Titsmas
And now to your regularly-scheduled post:
Halloween is a very special holiday to me. As a possessor of a ginormous rack, and an appreciator of the human form in its many complexities especially the more rounded (or smooth, for that matter) ones, I love the fact that people, mostly women but also certain demographics of usually-pleasingly-shaped men, tend to use Halloween as an excuse to Release Their Inner Ho-Bag.
Last night we had a party at the Knockouts' team captain's house wherein we drank beer, swapped iron-on letters, and cleaned our skate bearings. (The bearings are the little thingies that make our wheels turn, and most of us have no more idea of how to maintain the things than we know how to fly a plane. One of our OCD teammates, who can be relied upon to know how to clean anything [and also is a teacher and thus can be relied upon to explain things clearly], gave a little seminar on cleaning them.)
At this party one particular teammate was talking about how she'd helped her friend with her costume. This other girl was going as Amy Winehouse, and my teammate was in charge of Sharpieing the tattoos on. My teammate took it upon herself to take over design of the costume. The wifebeater was too conservative, so she cut it. The bra was white-- no, that could not be, so she ransacked the girl's closet and chose another one. "That bra is really hoochie," said the costume-wearer. "And it shows now that the shirt is ripped."
"You have to commit to your character!" my teammate said. "What would Amy Winehouse do?"
"You're right," the girl said. "You're right! I have to commit to my character!"
Apparently the tattoos were spot-on by the end-- even smudged a little to mimic how awful Winehouse's real tattoos are. ("Why are you licking me?" the girl asked as my teammate used her dampened thumb to smudge the ink. "Commit to your character!" my teammate snapped back.)
She stood back and admired your handiwork. "Girl," said my teammate, "you are going to make out with somebody tonight."
I think this is the spirit of Halloween. You dress up as somebody else, expose parts of your body you normally wouldn't (but, hopefully, should), commit to a character and do your freaky thing.
I do sympathize with (e:hodown)'s weariness with girls whose idea of "costuming" is to put "slutty" in front of any other word and run with it-- most of the girls who do this have no fucking imagination, so the end result winds up being alarmingly tedious. (I say alarming because it seems terrible to contemplate a situation in which a chick revealing most of her body is tedious, but then you remember that in essence, most humans are idiots, and idiots are tedious no matter what they're wearing.)
So I'm looking forward to tonight-- most of my roller derby leaguemates are anything but tedious, and all are more than moderately hot. Many of them have promised either boobs or ass tonight in their costumes. Given that my impression of the hotness of most of these people was formed during long sweaty baggy-shirt-wearing interludes of getting my ass handed to me, I am anticipating a great deal of awesome.
I'm not saying that this event is a gross ogle-fest, I'm just saying, I appreciate me some scenery and also I look forward to having my boobs ogled over. It will be fun. Also there will be roller skating.
And then I will come to the (e:strip) party and maybe I'll still be on roller skates! I cleaned my outdoor wheels' bearings so I can skate fast in them. :D
And now for something completely different:
This is Chita's favorite hang-out spot. This may become my new userpic. I love the Tits-N-Pussy theme.
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10/07/07 12:44 - 62ºF - ID#41533
annnnd... more roller derby
October 27th, the Queen City Rollergirls are hosting an open skate, Halloween-themed: Goths and Ghouls!
Come in costume, we'll have a bake sale and a merch sale, and we'll have a DJ and we'll be here in costume as well, on skates. This is your only chance to skate with the rollergirls!
And we'll go easy on you, because we won't be in our protective gear either and we may be hardcore, but we're not crazy-- we're just there to party. Open skate, bust a move if you got any, otherwise totter around in a circle and we promise we won't hit you.
(If anyone wants to borrow kneepads or wristguards I have extra, by the way.)
Skate rental is included with admission, I believe.
Please come support us and also if you come I'll feel less silly showing up late to the (e:strip) party in an undead-rollergirl costume.
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In terms of what porn puts down women I can't really say cause I'm not a women. From what i have heard the dirtier the Scene the more money it pays in general. I think that woman and guys also should only do stuff they are comfortable with. But I'm sure women get pressured into things some times that they don't want to do. Or might say I really don't want to be splurged on by 3 guys but if I do I'll get so much money, ah ok. That is why I think it is good that there are some women who run porn now. I also think that the buiness kinda exploits guys compaired to the women. Men are paid less and then when it is time for them to get off (most of the time) the girl doesn't suck them off or jerk them off they do it them sleves they also have to be able to cum on cue where as women can fake an orgasim and it is fine.
This is the part where some people won't like what I say. There are a lot of gross sex acts and what each person finds hot and gross are different. but that being said there is a market of every fetish known to man and if it sells then someone needs to do it. Ok needs to do it isn't the right term. For example bondage lots of people are into it but would never admit it so they go buy a bondage DVD. What if none of the actresses who didn't really like it wouldn't do it anymore or people who did decided to keep it in there private life. Then what will the people who only get off to that do? I'm not saying 12 guys should tie up a Japanese School girl and cum all over her then another girl should come in and lick it off of her (ok as wrong as that sounds it does sound kinda hot to). But there is a market for that. I think that no one should be forced or made to feel like they should do a scene like that. But I do think that people who don't have a problem doing that should do it.
On a side note does the writers being on strike effect porn movies, I wonder? Sorry if I took this post with this comment in another direction that wasn't my aim. On a side note the stripteasers do have a myspace page and used to have a webpage you could get to from roxy's website also.
And they're very much of the political-activism-in-burlesque school of thought-- much lesbian content, as in actual genuine lesbians not straight chicks petting one another for the amusement of straight guys (they're heavily affiliated with Roxy's, which is a dyke bar), and a lot of feminist type commentary in it.
That's the kind of sexiness I really enjoy. I like porn where the sexuality of the participants is very empowered, where you get the idea they're really getting off on what they're doing as much as you are. Even porn that's ostensibly *about* degradation-- typical porn subject matter-- can be empowering if done properly. It's not that I only want to watch pornos about strong women being empowered, is what I'm trying to say-- I just want to watch porn that has an empowered/empowering kind of vibe to it. The unashamed vibe, maybe, is what I want to say?
I was reading the blog of a porn affiliate at one point and he recounted how through pressure of his affiliate network he convinced a major porn network provider to stop filming certain types of scenes that were degrading to the women participating in them, and it actually worked-- the site didn't take down existing content, but stopped doing those things in future photo/video shoots. (Things like writing "SLUT" on the women's foreheads in indelible marker, making them brush their teeth with cum, disgusting things like that that are becoming trendy in porn of late. The site insisted the women hadn't objected, but the affiliate marketer said he found it disgusting and couldn't believe the women enjoyed it, and would stop sending them business unless they desisted.)
-Dita Von Tease is amazing, oh yeah
-With burlesque it about the show not the nudity and some groups don't do nudity, hence the name tease
-There is burlesque group in Buffalo are The Stripteasers the only ones though?
- I don't know much about burlesque other then it is different than going to see some young lady show her tits and pussy and quick as possible
I hope some one else chimes in on the comments other then just me.