Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday commemorates the last day of freedom for Jesus Christ. The Man from Nazareth spent his final hours of liberty with his apostles and at this Last Supper the Messiah predicts his betrayal. The date for Holy Thursday has been argued by scholars for centuries, but is generally conceded to have occurred between 30-36 AD in the Jewish month of Nisan, which would make it in April. According to Wikipedia Annie Jaubert argued that the Last Supper took place on the evening of Wednesday 1 April 33.

There was no April Fool's Day back then.

April Fools Day 2021

My older brother was born on April 1. His profession is the Law.

Five years ago he told my sister, also an attorney, that he would have no problem defending Satan or any other client as long as they paid his fees. My nephew was in an Ivy League. His tuition cost more than I earned last year. My brother needed clients and a lot of them, including the Devil and the Brockton Police, who were more wicked than sin.

This morning I phoned his office to wish him 'happy birthday, but couldn't resist playing a prank.

"Can I speak with one of the partners? My name is James Steele and I represent Phillip Morris."

No one is more evil than the tobacco companies, except the CIA torturer Jame Steele.

The secretary transferred the call and my brother came on the line.

"Your brother lost a court case against our firm. He didn't even bother to show up for the trial."

"Trial for what?"

"Copyright infringement." My brother had no idea about my business in Thailand. "The judgment was $550,000."

"What does this have to do with me?"

"Well, it's your birthday and I thought I'd give you a scare."

"Being my age is scary enough." My brother finally recognized my voice and cursed me out. "Happy fucking April Fools Day."

Actually some of that story was true as are the best lies.

A little true and a little not and you have an April Fools prank, of course no one in America can explain why 4/1 was a day for stupid pranks. Some people theorized that after the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar April 1 was the day designated for planting your crops. Anyone doing so before that date was an 'April Fool'.

April 1 had also been the first day of the year in France.

Back in the past people had to depend on kings and priests for the right dates.

And there was no trusting those higher-class types in the Dark Ages.

Not now either, which is why each year I mark the calendar for my brother's birthday.

He's a year older too.

13 months to be exact, but who's counting.

Certainly not this fool.

Friday, March 26, 2021

MY LIFE WITH A PORNO STARLET #1 by Peter Nolan Smith

NEW YORK 1978

That winter I entered the Victory Theater on 42nd Street to view THE VIOLATION OF CLAUDIA. A friend had recommended the hour-long XXX film about a housewife lured into prostitution, saying, "There's not much of a story, but the skinny actress has no breasts just how you like your women. A little boyish."

I sat in the middle of the theater. There wasn't much of an audience. The lights went down and my friend was right about the slender brunette with the shag cut. Sharon Mitchell performed sex acts with a wanton enthusiasm set ablaze by the director saying, "Lights, camera, action."

None of the men on the screen could handle her succubus. The director was so transfixed by her libertine performance that he only shot one take. Sherri understood the limited width of the camera’s vision and remained within frame for seven solid minutes.

Releasing Jamie Gillis' cock, she glanced over her shoulder at the camera. A pink tongue licked at bruised lips, then her hands parted her asscheeks and Sharon moaned, “Oh, yeah, fuck me, baby!”

I had my zipper down and cock in hand mimicking Jamie Gillis' each thrust. Every man in the theater stroked in unison like the Harvard crew and we arrived at the finish line seconds ahead of the actor spattering the money shot over her flawless ass.

After leaving the theater I unsuccessfully searched the porno shops for any magazines featuring Sharon Mitchell. A middle-aged clerk sadly shook his head.

“I know exactly who you’re talking about. I got nothing. That’s her first film, but trust me we ain’t seen the last of her yet.”

Since the porno industry was centered in LA, I figured my chances of meeting the actress were nil.

I was dead wrong.

Three weeks later I was playing the pinball at the Nursery, an after-hour club in the East Village. My fingers twitched over the buttons and my hip banged SLASH, as the ball defied Newton’s Law on Gravity and the numbers whirled on scoreboard. I was heading toward history, then someone bumped into the pinball machine to tilt my game 50,000 short of Highest Score.

I turned to the right, fists clenched, but my anger evaporated upon seeing a miracle.

Sharon Mitchell was the offender.

“You____” Her flimsy lingerie hid little skin and stiletto heels gave her another three inches of height, as she imperiously asked, “What are you looking at?”

“You t-t-tilted the machine,” I stuttered, but before I could tell her how much I enjoyed her film, she snapped her fingers loud enough to be heard over the Ramones and two gnarly Hell's Angels tossed me onto the sidewalk.

Adam, exiled from Eden and Eve.

Several thieves lurked in the shadows, ready to pounce on a hapless drunk. I scrambled to my feet to show that I was not worth the trouble. Skanky whores lined Third Avenue and junkies popped into the fleabag hotels for a quick shot. The arctic wind sent a shiver through my body, for I was wearing a thin leather jacket, a tee shirt, and torn jeans. Snow drifted in the air.

I didn’t care about the cold, for Sharon exited a five seconds later.

Alone.

A tight-high rabbit fur coat covered her near-naked body. A gust of chilled wind blew the bangs off her face. She stepped forward and pressed her fatless body against mine.

“Well, where we going?”

I looked across the street to the Victor Hotel. It was a flophouse, but close. She smiled lewdly, “How romantic!”

“You have a problem with it?” I asked, twirling her ingrown nipples to erection.

“If it was warmer, I’d fuck you right here in the street.” Her hand crudely rubbed my crotch, telling me neither of us should confuse this moment with love. We didn’t speak crossing the avenue or climbing the hotel’s creaking stairs to room 33. The 40-watt bulb hanging from the ceiling was enough light for the sordid room

Sharon shrugged off the coat and dropped dropped to her knees. Her hands expertly undid my zipper and withdrew my iron-hard cock. One hand gripped my balls. Hermouth slithered onto my shaft like a snake swallowing its prey, proving the scene in the film had not depended on special effects. Normally I would have shot a load right then, but she fell back onto the soiled bed.

“Get naked!” the brunette commanded, then swiftly stripped off her bra and slipped out of her panties. Her hands reached down to her vagina.

My jacket hit the floor. I threw my tee shirt in the corner. My pants dropped down to my knees and I shuffled across the dusty floor to the bed. Kneeling between her legs, I wrestled off my boots and jeans.

“Suck me!”

Someone had said that line recently. I didn't care who. I was living a dream.

My tongue ricocheted off her flesh. Each time I pressed the flat of my tongue to the coppery pucker, her body flexed in jerks. “Oh, yeah, suck it! Suck, my dirty asshole! Only your tongue. That’s all I need.”

Every word echoed from a recent memory and I lapped at her asshole. Her fingers blurred on her clit, as she called out, “Oh, yeah, fuck! FUCK! FUCCCCCK!!!”

I had heard those words before too.

Her back arched with her spine cracking in unison and she came with a vengeance. I half-expected her to spend some time regaining her breath, instead she rolled onto her stomach and begged, “Fuck me like a mercenary!”

That phrase also sounded like deja vu.

I stabbed forward and buried my cock, till the head reached her cervix. I had never felt so big and she moaned, “Oh, yeah, fuck me, baby!”

It all came to me at once. That line came from THE ABDUCTION OF CLAUDIA. In fact every word out of her lips was from that movie.

I looked for a movie camera, but there was only a cheap lightbulb in the room. I didn't care if it was all an act and fucked, until a geyser of sperm boiled from the soul of my balls. She sighed slavishly, as my lungs suck air and my heart pounded in my chest. She slithered next to me and whispered “You’re sweet. My name’s Sharon.”

“I know. I saw your film ABDUCTION OF CLAUDIA.You were great.” I squirmed, as she pinched my nipple. I returned the favor, as she squealed, “I bet you say that to all the girls in fuck films.”

“Yeah, all the time.” I wished it was true, but she was the only woman I had ever met who performed sex on film. We fucked two more times before I crashed out between her thighs. When I woke, Sharon was dressed and at the door. I asked, “Where you going?”

“I got to shoot a film.” She posed like a tart, sticking out her ass before throwing on her coat.

“You need any money for a taxi?” I sleepily reached for my jeans, which seemed farther from the bed than I remembered.

“No, I’m good. We’ll see you around.” Sherri blew me a kiss and the door slammed shut before I could ask for her telephone number. I lay back in bed, then picked up my Levis. Going through the pockets I discovered why she hadn’t needed taxi fare. Sherri had ripped me off for every dollar.

Almost $20. Pulling on my jeans and boots, I swore madly, then ran out into the street and up the 3rd Avenue. The winter sun was coming up over Brooklyn and good citizens were walking to subway. They took one look at me and hurried on their way. Across the street the dregs of the evening were stumbling out of The Nursery.

I supposed I could have gone inside to find her, but confronting Sharon in a drug-maddened den of iniquity was more than dangerous to my health. She had fucked me and fucked me good, so I called it a night and walked home, thinking that she had gotten what she deserved. Next time I would have to make sure it was vice versa and next time wasn’t a long time coming, wasn’t a long time coming, because Sharon was like me.

We got around.

Billy's Topless

New York was a different city in the last century. Neighborhoods were populated by native New Yorkers. Stores served their needs. Bars dotted the avenues as a refuge from the daily wear and tear of urban living. One of my favorites was Billy's Topless on Avenue of the Americas.

The cozy strip club had been opened by Bill Pell in the heyday of the Sexual Revolution and the girls were our friends trying to make a dollar by showing their breasts to working-class drinkers. The music came from a jukebox and the bar treated its guests to free food, while they watched the dancers. There was no cover charge and drinks were cheap as befits a true dive bar. None of the girls had breast implants and few of them gave lap-dances, since lap-dances were a thing of the future in the late-1970s.

The hated Mayor Guiliani waged a war against sleaze. The realtors raised the rents of porno parlors in Times Square and his police enforced a no-nudity ordinance of establishments within 500 feet of a school or place of worship. Billy's second owner fought the forces of good by having the girls wearing bikini tops, but the time of wickedness had passed for New York.

Billy's Topless is gone, but not forgotten by those people in love with a Babylon lost to time.

Times Square Babylon Then

Rent boys.

Hookers on the Strip.

Flesh peddlers.

Martinis at Hojos.

Now Babylon is no more.

But Times Square was something else in the 1970s.

And anyone who wandered that chasm of sin knew that all too well.

Thursday, March 25, 2021

The Last Days of Babylon from missrosen.com

The Last Days of Babylon
July 12, 2013

Throughout 70s and 80s the Times Square was a haven for XXX theaters, go-go girls, pimps, whore houses, rent boys, hustlers, thieves, dealers, and lowlifes on the make. Police and city authorities had declared the area as DMZ for crime and sex. The 1977 debut of Show World across 42nd Street from the Port Authority Bus Terminal was the high-water mark for Times Square’s Era of Errors. It was bereft of class.

Successive mayors attempted to purify Times Square without success, for the Mafia-owned establishments were protected by the First Amendment. Finally in 1995 Rudy Giuliani enacted adult zoning laws to end the magnificent wickedness and the following year every XXX theaters and porno shops closed on a rainy afternoon with the moving crews loading salacious merchandise into trucks, as the tearful afecionados of sleaze chanted on the sidewalk, “Fuck Rudy G.”


All along the Minnesota Strip pimps in fur coats hijacked teenage runaways straight off a bus from the Midwest and slick hustlers struck cowboy poses on the street corners, while dope-hungry muggers trailed unsuspecting hicks down dark streets. The action should have tapered off Christmas Eve, except the players on the Strip were dedicated to acting naughty and not the least bit nice. Tonight was no exception.

The glowing marquees and flashing neon billboards camouflaged the lurking danger of Times Square. On the sidewalk two young boys were rummaged through a fallen man’s pockets. No one interfered with the robbery and few people made eye contact, unless they loved trouble.

A brutish bouncer stopped a young blonde girl before the go-go lounge, then she produced an ID and danced a seductive Watusi as an audition. The doorman waved the teenager inside the Dollhouse, as Times Square swallowed another runaway faster than a starving shark.

The Dollhouse’s DJ segued from RING MY BELL to BROWN SUGAR and on stage the naked redhead cupped her breasts before a middle-aged man. The plaid-suited businessman was bald and overweight, but the $20 in his hand transformed him to Robert Redford, as he slipped the crisp bill beneath teenager’s G-string.

Times Square’s best pinball wizards gathered around the ‘KISS’, as the champ bumped the machine with his groin and they nodded each time the scoreboard tocked another free game. The champ was on a roll, then the arcade’s front door opened for a frigid draft and a deathly thin player commented, “Damn, one of them Minnesota girls has come in from the cold.”

The go-go girl hooked her arm inside the punk’s elbow. He wasn’t her type, but a woman on her own was a walking target on the Strip and even after 2am Times Square wasn’t ready to call it a night.

Men crowded into a theater featuring the hit XXX film BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR and a pimp strutted across Broadway with two teens in skimpy silks. After midnight on 42nd Street everyone was working overtime.

Artwork by Jane Dickson
Text by Peter Nolan Smith,
from THE LAST DAYS OF BABYLON

see

https://missrosen.wordpress.com/2013/07/12/the-last-days-of-babylon/

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

MAUVAIS MECS by Peter Nolan Smith

That year winter had been mild in Paris.

Farther to the North snow covered Germany and I was glad to have been detoured from Berlin to Paris by an urgent phone call.

Vonelli was in trouble.

When I got off the train in Gare Du Nord, no one waiting at the station, which was a good sign, since not everyone in Paris was my friend.

The taxi ride to Bastille took fifteen minutes. The driver didn't say a word. At 51 Rue Basfroi I climbed the stairs to Vonelli's apartment.

"Thanks for coming on such short notice."

"You caught me between jobs."

The art dealer knew well enough to not ask about those jobs.

Vonelli was a tough guy, so I wasn't ready for his collapse.

"She's gone." His head rested in his hands.

"Who?"

"Bella and she won't be coming back, unless I give someone something I can't give them."

"Who's them?" I was starting to sound like an owl.

"Kroutchee."

"I know the name." The exiled African prince was an expert at low-level kidnappings and never demanded more in ransom than what the 'sucker' could afford to lose, however Vonelli was no 'pigeon'. He knew 'people'.

"Snap out of it." I yanked Vonelli to his feet. "You have a photo of Bella?"

Vonelli pulled out a naked shot from the Piscine Deligny. The girl was pretty and young, but his being with her wasn't a crime in France in 1984.

"I got another from Kroutchee." He handed me a picture.

Bella was prettier in lingerie.

"She's not scamming you?" I trusted no one.

"No, she loves me." Vonelli trusted his heart more than me.

"And how much does Kroutchee want?" This deal was a question of easy math.

Vonelli said a number and gave me an address where to get the cash.

2 Avenue Gabriel.

"Really?"

"You think I have that kind of money?"

"No." I muttered a swear and left the apartment.

I hated the US Embassy and Vonelli's team was happy with the shortness of my visit.

They were still fighting the Cold War and picked up the case. It was light, then again, $50,000 US doesn't weight much in hundreds.

I conceived a plan.

Kroutchee operated with a tight crew; two tough mecs and a blonde model. One man carried a gun, but they preferred to drug their victims.

I needed back-up and phoned Brial. The music producer came from the South of France. He knew how to keep his mouth shut and I told him to meet me in the Marais.

"How you like my car?" It was a T-Bird

"A little too obvious."

I sat down at the cafe and order an expresso.

When I mentioned 'Kroutchee', Brial said, "I know where they hang out. The Chat Noir."

"I know it."

In fact everyone in Paris knew the popular cafe on the Boulevard St. Germain.

"So?"

Just hold the money. Half is his. The rest is ours, if everything worked out in the end.

"And if it doesn't?"

"We'll burn that bridge when we get to it."

Afterwards I went to a pistol booth in Bastille. Marcel asked if I want 'un flingue'. "Non." Guns complicated matters. "But thanks for offering." I called the number Vonelli had given me. A Swedish girl told me to go to Le Privilege. Someone named Black Jack would meet me at the bar.

"Cool." Le Privilege was the chicest club in Paris.

Black Jack was waiting for me. I ordered a gin-tonic. The bartender poured a double. Claude liked me the way most men like him liked men like me.

The entire crew was at the table; Kroutchee, the blonde and a Finnish tough guy, plus a junkie.

"Where's the money?" Kroutchee cut the chase.

"Where's the girl?" My drink went down smooth.

"She's safe."

"I bet." I eyed the blonde. She was out of her depths, but men like Kroutchee were good at getting women to do what they didn't want to do.

"Not with your life." Kroutchee snapped his fingers for another drink.

I had eyes in the back of my head.

Black Jack poured something into my drink.

A knock-out punch.

I hoped it was nothing pharmaceutical. I liked to be drugged by dope.

Kroutchee's tough Ulf was a pretty Finnish boy.

My head lowered to the table.

Whatever they had given me was good.

Ulf's laugh was the last thing I heard over Chic at the Privilege.

I sort of remembered Ulf and Black Jack carrying my body up stairs.

Three flights and they didn't drop me once.

Someone stuck a needle in my arm.

After that more blackness.

I woke next to a warm body.

Bella was better in real life than photos.

Then Kroutchee entered the room.

"Where is the money?"

"What money?"

"The money to keep me from doing bad to Bella."

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"You will soon."

Ulf liked a knife. Black Jack came from a northern ghetto of Paris. His eyes said that to him this was only a job.

Neither of them noticed Brial at the window, as Kroutchee shrieked at me.

"I am a piano player. I will play you a tango."

Ulf lifted me to my feet.

Brial jumped through the window.

The fight lasted a few seconds.

I caught Ulf on the stairs. He asked for mercy. I didn't like having a knife to my neck and kicked him down the stairs. He made it to the ground floor without stopping on the landings.

Black Jack I gave a free pass.

Kroutchee wasn't as lucky.

I told him to play Mozart.

He hit a High C when I closed the cover on his fingers.

Brial got rid of the blonde. He liked ice queens.

I freed Bella.

She was very grateful.

"Anything you want."

I could think of one thing, but said, "Get dressed."

Vonelli was a friend and friends didn't collect rewards from the girlfriends of friends.

Brial drove us to Rue Basfroi.

Bella asked me up.

I said, "Maybe another day."

"What about the money?"

I gave Brial half.

$25,000 was reward enough for me.

And I ma

de my train at Gare Du Nord.

Like all the trains leaving from that station it was heading North.

FOTOS BY ARTHUR GORDON 1985