MAG HAG
Just Blaze posted an old Penthouse cover on his blog and my mind is blown. 1987 was a crazy year, que no? Not just cause of the line "Rapping it Up with Run-DMC" or the cover subject's proto-Bjork neon fashion style - but at the features: AN ANDREA DWORKIN INTERVIEW IS THE TOP STORY?! Also includes a piece by Joyce Carol Oates on Boxing, two AIDS/condom stories, and a race-riot inciting bit about Bernhard Goetz's "heroism." WHO WAS EDITING PENTHOUSE THEN? Fascinating.
Ooh, I wonder what the United Nations Condom Controversy was all about...
Ooh, I wonder what the United Nations Condom Controversy was all about...
I think there was a writer (Celia Farber?) who bugged out of Spin around the time who was invested in AIDS counter intelligence. Who jumped to Penthouse. But I could be wrong. Way back in the day they had Robert Palmer and Nick Tosches and oh man I can't think of her name but she was a great feminist humorist, and yada yada some really good writers with smart things to say and more edge than you'd ever expect and that you'd never get now, hardly even anywhere ... {sigh}