Convinced that former Extremester Van Damage did gay porn, Rob Black went on an exhautive hunt for a video title in question. Black says the search ended we got sent a catalog from a San Diego-based company called The Body Shop.
Black: "What I have in front on me is the Body Shop catalog: 'Welcome to our new videos. Body Shop videos, gay, with a nice military guy pointing. The Fleet is In- 90 minutes, VHS action - 5 jackoff action scenes, authentic military. Okay. I'm looking to the right and I see Ty, the Navy SEAL [reputedly Van Damage]. We've got somebody working on letting us secure like two minutes of footage, and that's when we're going to start The Damage Is Done of Van jerking off and talking to the camera and asking if they'd like to suck his cock because he loves to have things up his ass. This is the hidden past. At the end of the video we're going to run where he's cumming all over himself and rubbing it on himself. Now you can back up some of the supporting allegations.
Mad Jack reports that he's starting up a new video company, Graybar Productions.
Mad Jack: "For the record, things are going great. I sold the shoot I just did. Kevin Beech bought it for Midnight. We're going to call this one Mad Jack Presents: Mila's Vegas Fucking Madness. I'm shooting again this coming week with Harley Rain, J.R. Carrington - I'm pretty sure we're going to shoot her and two brand new girls. I'll probably use Hank Armstrong and I'm not sure who else. We'll probably shoot at Wild J's. I'll be out from under the federal thumb in about two weeks.
"I went out on RAME one time months ago. I looked at the Where Are They Now-thing, and they have things on the porn girls and death and suicides. They had listed my ex girlfriend, Linda Wong as a suicide. I corrected that. I emailed back saying that it was an accidental overdose. I was there when it happened.
"I'm going ahead and calling my company Graybar Productions. I was going to use Slam-Her, but it would be more for the feminists to jump on.. I want to come out to the summer Adult Expo and promote my product. I give Kevin first shot ay anything I do because he's done me nothing but favors for the last bunch of years. But to make any kind of money I have to shoot on a weekly basis.
Some stuff which accidentally bit the dust in a 5/20 posting:
Moffitt Timlake writes: "Greetings Gene, I just read Kulkis' brainteaser of a rebuttal to the Timlake Bros vs. Kulkis anecdotes as recounted to you in Cancun. Correct me if I'm wrong but does he not simply paint himself in the light that Farrell and I did? In response to his first quote, I would think that any psychologist, child or other, would stamp an inferiority complex on any adult that chooses to make fun of another man's name in any manner or for any reason. Perhaps it was the burden of so many unsettling career mishaps [5 or 6 job changes in a year? Is he a writer or a director or a foot fetishist?] that propelled him to such juvenile, base behavior.
As for the "super-genius" reference in his next quote, while I did graduate from Exeter Academy and Stanford University, I make no claim to be a "super genius", nor can I completely comprehend what the fuck he was trying to say there. However, I do know that my comprehension level expands well beyond the horizon of Dr. Suess and Willy Wonka, a level that seems to be somewhat of an obstacle for young Mr. Kulkis. I think any child psychologist would concur." Moffitt MacRae Timlake.
Mark Kulkis responds: "If that's his middle name, I really feel sorry for him."
Besides being a world-renown authority on Bettie Page, Ira Levine [known as Ernest Greene to you bondage mavens] takes over the editorial hotseat at LFP's Taboo magazine.
Levine: "This isn't the first time I've been an editor of a magazine. I was the editor of O Magazine for awhile. That was about five years ago. I have a lot of editorial experience. I was a magazine editor back in Denver before I ever came out here. I have more journalism time in than video time overall. Denver is where I grew up, and I edited Denver Magazine, the yuppie magazine of Denver. That was 1981 to 83. I've been a contributor to Details Magazine for six years. I've written intermittently for Rolling Stone. [Levine's piece on Page helped kick off a Bettie revival.] Unless I see a revised masthead, executive editor was the word that was used to describe my new title. I do know that I'm nominally in charge. I've been contributing to this magazine virtually since Day One about a year ago. I was always interested in it. It's obviously, right up my alley.
"I've had a column running in it for about the last half-dozen issues. It was kind of the personal adventures of Ernest Greene type-of-thing- the spicy personal life of Ernest Greene. There's enough stuff stored in the memory to bring forth those recollections forth as needed. I've also provided what I'll call fetish-support for photo shoots where I've done some styling for bondage. I've had a friendly relationship with the magazine from its inception and always had an interest in participating. When the position became open, I was right there ready to take it. I really had the desire to get back into publishing and journalism. At the magazine I think we're going in a good direction. I think my main job is to provide the focus that comes with a long extensive background in a variety of different kinds of fetish-related erotic material. My guess is that we'll continue to go as we have been going.
"One of the reasons I was attracted to coming here is that there was a clear editorial stance in a direction that I wanted to go. It was a very easy matchup. I don't envision vast changes, here. What we're going to do is look at the stuff that we've had that's good and works well and continue with those artists, photographers, models and writers and reach out to my contacts in the fetish-alternative-S/M communities and bring in new people with new perspectives. That's a priority for me here. There's some great, talented, creative, incredible people out there with tremendous amounts of artistic creativity in the community and I want that in here. I came here with my rolodex under my arm.
"I can do videos if I still want to, it's just a question of time. This is a pretty all-involving job. I have weekends and evenings if I want to do video, BUT video is the kind of gig you can do weekends and evenings. And I don't intend to quit doing it. I intend to keep a hand in there, depending what the opportunities are. But now I can afford to be selective.
"I have a project in the works that I've worked on with John Stagliano and Tristan Taramino based on her Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women. We're in the final stages of editing. That will certainly constitute a blockbuster. It was a joint directing job, and the result is a picture we call the 'Anal Ben-Hur'. This picture has so much good material that the editing has been a pleasant chore but a chore trying to decide what to weed out. In the fetish realm I continue to shoot for Bizarre.
"These days I'm mainly interested in fetish-oriented projects, but if somebody has other kinds of projects, all they got to do is call.
"Compared to video, journalism of any kind is a very genteel pursuit. Jodie Foster said it just right. It's [directing] an extremely well-compensated form of blue collar labor. It's nice to be at a job where I don't have to dress for a bar fight every day. I wouldn't call it [editing] relaxing. The deadline pressures are powerful. But it has a regular rhythm unlike video which seems to hammer you to pieces. If you're at the age where you like a certain measure of consistency in your life, this is obviously a much easier thing to deal with.
"I'll probably still want the occasional rush of terror when I'm making a video and the deck starts making a funny noise. God knows I'll miss that. Overall, this is a pretty congenial gig."
Summer Knight, recently married, is starting to do fetish and softcore work again. Summer says her hubby is a great guy, not in the biz, but not prejudiced against it, either.
