Elsewhere I mentioned looking at vintage porn and (e:vincent) was like, 'Uh, from the 70s?' and I realized I haven't blogged about it here. I am totally considering going into porn to support my novel-writing habit. I initially considered big-breast-fetish porn because well duh (there is a touching story about how I first became inspired to not be self conscious and defensive all the time about my boobs and to actually figure out what size bra I should really be wearing after I saw a bunch of softcore porn shots of a 34F chick and realized I was bigger than her and there she was making a living off her boobs, holy shit).
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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(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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10/31/2007 00:17 #41897
vintage erotica10/29/2007 10:23 #41856
roller derby infoSomeone had questions about roller derby and now I don't remember who it was:
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!!
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!!
lizabeth - 11/01/07 04:32
Heh. So I'm definitely in the league that's started up here in FL (Broward County Derby Grrls - we're on Myspace: :::link::: ), and since I've been skating a lot and we've been doing a few no-contact drills (not everyone has all their equipment yet), I already know a lot of what you said in this post. But I've been perusing some of your derby-related posts here and on your livejournal, and it has all been really helpful to me in terms of seeing how a league grows up from nothing, and how one can develop as a skater. Thanks for posting all that stuff! :)
I am actually a little bummed right now with derby - I feel like I have hit a wall with my skating, and I am not making any improvements, and I'm not adjusting to my new skates as quickly as I'd like, and everyone on the team is getting better way faster than I am, and I feel like I can't keep up. I think this feeling will go away a bit when we get our private-rink practices going (allegedly they're going to start in a couple weeks!), but in the meantime, I feel like I should be doing like, endurance or strength training outside of the skating rink. :( I dunno - I just need to push through this, I guess. At least I don't need to worry about being cut from the team, at this point!
Heh. So I'm definitely in the league that's started up here in FL (Broward County Derby Grrls - we're on Myspace: :::link::: ), and since I've been skating a lot and we've been doing a few no-contact drills (not everyone has all their equipment yet), I already know a lot of what you said in this post. But I've been perusing some of your derby-related posts here and on your livejournal, and it has all been really helpful to me in terms of seeing how a league grows up from nothing, and how one can develop as a skater. Thanks for posting all that stuff! :)
I am actually a little bummed right now with derby - I feel like I have hit a wall with my skating, and I am not making any improvements, and I'm not adjusting to my new skates as quickly as I'd like, and everyone on the team is getting better way faster than I am, and I feel like I can't keep up. I think this feeling will go away a bit when we get our private-rink practices going (allegedly they're going to start in a couple weeks!), but in the meantime, I feel like I should be doing like, endurance or strength training outside of the skating rink. :( I dunno - I just need to push through this, I guess. At least I don't need to worry about being cut from the team, at this point!
10/27/2007 08:53 #41831
TitsmasOne last plug: Tonight from 9 pm to midnight is the Goth N Ghouls open skate prom at Rainbow Rink in North Tonawanda. It's $7 to get in which includes skate rental. Come in a crazy costume, buy merch and bake sale items, skate around, ogle some rollergirls' tits, and then go to the (e:strip) Halloween bash-- it's a great way to get additional mileage (literally!) out of one costume, and also you can support Crisis Services, to whom we're donating part of the proceeds for the evening.
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.
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.
metalpeter - 10/27/07 14:21
I will admit that if it wasn't so cold out and I had the body for it I might try to be one of the sluty male costumes. I will admit my costume is going to be lame if I could do it right it might be cool but maybe not also. At least I will kinda look different then I do sometimes. I also admit that the Skating thing sounds like a lot of fun, I don't even think I can roller skate to be honest, nor do I have any way to get to that part of town. I think you should come in roller skates and skate all over (e:pmt)'s and maybe even bring another rollergirl or two with skates on also.
To (e:jenks) at least no one tried to water you, cause that would be gross. If that is the dress I'm thinking of it was pretty good. That being said it there is nothing wrong with being naughty cause it is in a good way where as there usaly is no good meaning behind the term slutty but that isn't always true.
I will admit that if it wasn't so cold out and I had the body for it I might try to be one of the sluty male costumes. I will admit my costume is going to be lame if I could do it right it might be cool but maybe not also. At least I will kinda look different then I do sometimes. I also admit that the Skating thing sounds like a lot of fun, I don't even think I can roller skate to be honest, nor do I have any way to get to that part of town. I think you should come in roller skates and skate all over (e:pmt)'s and maybe even bring another rollergirl or two with skates on also.
To (e:jenks) at least no one tried to water you, cause that would be gross. If that is the dress I'm thinking of it was pretty good. That being said it there is nothing wrong with being naughty cause it is in a good way where as there usaly is no good meaning behind the term slutty but that isn't always true.
jenks - 10/27/07 11:43
Yeah.... I too hate the "slutty ___" instant costume concept. Naughty nurse, slutty teacher, sexy devil, etc. Blah.
So last year I was a christmas tree. As I was "decorating" my dress, and trying to decide which ornaments to put on it, I decided to tone it down and keep it simple. White lights and little red and gold ornaments, that's it. I said that instead of being "slutty" I was going for "classy".
Needless to say, I was referred to as "naughty christmas tree" all night long.
Yeah.... I too hate the "slutty ___" instant costume concept. Naughty nurse, slutty teacher, sexy devil, etc. Blah.
So last year I was a christmas tree. As I was "decorating" my dress, and trying to decide which ornaments to put on it, I decided to tone it down and keep it simple. White lights and little red and gold ornaments, that's it. I said that instead of being "slutty" I was going for "classy".
Needless to say, I was referred to as "naughty christmas tree" all night long.
10/07/2007 12:44 #41533
annnnd... more roller derbyI know this is the same night as the (e:strip) Halloween party, but this is a really good way to get two uses out of one costume.
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.
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.
10/07/2007 12:36 #41530
chita recoversWe got Chita spayed on Friday. I had been nervous about it basically since we got her, though friends had reassured me-- most said oh you Do Not Want to Deal with a female cat in heat, but I still felt guilty about life-threatening surgery that is, in essence, entirely elective. Until another friend pointed out that she'd felt like me and had just kept her female cats indoors and not spayed them, and hadn't had much trouble dealing with them going into heat-- but then the 12-year-old one nearly died of pyrometria. Apparently female cats don't have self-cleaning uteruses the way humans do! So if they don't have the occasional pregnancy to clean things out, their uteruses can become infected! Years and years of accumulated infection nearly killed the older cat, and the 7-year-old also had an infection brewing.
So I felt much better.
We got Chita back yesterday. She was yowling and kicking up a racket in the back when we got there-- "Yes, that's her," the vet tech said, "she's the only cat here," but apparently she was just upset at being left alone, because the tech had been petting her and talking to her all morning. So we felt better.
Kenmore Animal Hospital, on Kenmore Ave nearish to Colvin-- they're really sweet people, and not real busy so you can usually get an appointment without waiting too long, and the vet himself, Dr. Malo, is a Zen-like, mellow dude, kinda looks like Steve Wozniak but hotter and younger-- just this big bear of a guy who talks quietly and says nice things. He's thrice-diagnosed Chita as being among the cutest of kittens ever.
And her stitches look good-- well, they're ugly, but you know what I mean.
And she's running around like an idiot. She was a little subdued yesterday, but not as much as I would be after an ovo-hysterectomy. Hell, she was less subdued than I was, and all I had was a bad case of menstrual cramps.
Anyway-- obligatory cat update. And here is a photo of the two of us sharing our Female Troubles in our new bed, which I don't know if Z has blogged, but we have a new Big Grown Up bed and Chita takes up most of it.
So I felt much better.
We got Chita back yesterday. She was yowling and kicking up a racket in the back when we got there-- "Yes, that's her," the vet tech said, "she's the only cat here," but apparently she was just upset at being left alone, because the tech had been petting her and talking to her all morning. So we felt better.
Kenmore Animal Hospital, on Kenmore Ave nearish to Colvin-- they're really sweet people, and not real busy so you can usually get an appointment without waiting too long, and the vet himself, Dr. Malo, is a Zen-like, mellow dude, kinda looks like Steve Wozniak but hotter and younger-- just this big bear of a guy who talks quietly and says nice things. He's thrice-diagnosed Chita as being among the cutest of kittens ever.
And her stitches look good-- well, they're ugly, but you know what I mean.
And she's running around like an idiot. She was a little subdued yesterday, but not as much as I would be after an ovo-hysterectomy. Hell, she was less subdued than I was, and all I had was a bad case of menstrual cramps.
Anyway-- obligatory cat update. And here is a photo of the two of us sharing our Female Troubles in our new bed, which I don't know if Z has blogged, but we have a new Big Grown Up bed and Chita takes up most of it.
jenks - 10/07/07 18:07
hey did I see you at David Sedaris the other day? The girl that I thought was you had her nose pierced, and I don't remember you having your nose pierced. But then I saw Holly a few feet away, so maybe it was? In any case, if it was indeed you, sorry for not saying hi!
hey did I see you at David Sedaris the other day? The girl that I thought was you had her nose pierced, and I don't remember you having your nose pierced. But then I saw Holly a few feet away, so maybe it was? In any case, if it was indeed you, sorry for not saying hi!
I study antique porn because i find it hot not intellectual. Thats all I'm saying. If someone were to give me a History lesson about porn I would like that too. I find vintage porn exciting because at that time it was more forbidden. It makes it extra erotic.
I'm uploading some now that I know how to do it.
No my point wasn't that vintage porn *was* intellectual. At the time, it was no different than porn is today.
But for someone *now* to study antique porn, that has a veneer of intellectualism, at least. I have to look up the article I read about modern burlesque being for nerds, but I know the catchphrase "nerdrotica" wasn't originated by me.
To be honest I don't think we can really say things about vintage porn and really be sure. The reason is that when you look at things from the past you look at them based on today as opposed to how they where then. But also back then there where different standards of what could be shown publicly. That being said there are things that people think are sexual and really aern't. For example go-go dancers dance in cages but often just dance and don't strip or get naked. From what I have heard real show girls do go topless but it is about the dancing. If I go to a strip club it is cause I want to see a girl get naked and see her tits, ass and pussy. But if I watch a burlisque act it is about the act itself and then maybe some nudity at the end. Do some stippers work in great dancing yes, but that isn't why we go see them. So i guess it is more complicated then I thought. In any event I hope you can get the multiple upload working I all ways like porn pictures.
Wow that is a tease. I was so ready to see. So do you really think vintage porn is more about intellect rather than just getting off? I do like vintage porn but never thought it was about intellect.
We should totally do that.
But I need more costumes.
(e:matthew) suggested eBay for vintage undergarments but, uh, I'm not exactly a standard size.
That sounds like a lot of fun. I am an amatuer photographer. But I don't do people and haev never done a photo shoot. But that sounds like the most fun photo shoot.
Best of all, with me you can guarantee that I wont say creepy things to you.
Well, I might, but they would be more dead-puppy-in-a-cheese-mold creepy rather than hey-baby creepy.
I know!!!! I am so bummed. I'd gone through my whole collection to find the good ones!
yeah, you're right, that was a total tease. you need to figure out what the problem is and POST!