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10 July 2007
Weird day at the office See this story? I was the "witness" to the phone call that prompted Vitter's press conference.
(The whole Hustler office is cheering and calling out every outlet that picks up the story. It's kinda odd.)
Well, I work for Barely Legal and Taboo, which shares an editorial office with Hustler.
And what's Larry really like? He's really, like, ensconced on the 10th floor, so I've never met him. We just occassionally get weird decrees like not to flush paper towel in the toilets, signed by Larry Flynnt (though I assume that's some secretary).
Oh yeah, that took me about a day and a half. Sometimes the porn's still hot, but most of the time it's "Goddamnit, they didn't attach the right 2257 form so now I have to call the fucking Czech Republic and see who I can rouse in the middle of the night."
Sounds just like production night at the magazine I used to work for. Only nakeder. (Although if we were running an article on say, self exams for testicular cancer, I might get treated to an intriguing diagram or two.)
Huh. Back in the 80s, the only job offer I ever turned down was an Accounting job with a San Fernando Valley porn distributor. I didn't have any 'moral' qualms about the business, but it seemed too risky. Reagan & Company was threatening the x-rated industry so I wasn't sure if the company had a future AND the ownership was dicey - organized-crime-connection-wise (many legal pron businesses at that time were doing 'money laundering' for other mob enterprises and my job would've been in Accounting). I ended up taking a job with a financial firm that went under on Junk Bonds four years later (I've told stories about THAT before), and the pron house is still in business. So much for judgment.
I believe we were a party on the FOIAs over the phone records; I know that there was no plan for Vitter to give a press conference yesterday at 5pm EST (when we called), and once they figured out who was calling and what it was about, we got a mighty stonewall from a flustered secretary. And this morning, the AP, ABC and a handful of other outfits have been jamming our phone lines trying to figure out what we knew. (There's a little bit more, but I can't tell y'all— partially because I don't know all of it, and partially because we're gonna go to press with it).
Oh yeah, turns out that we got his direct antecedent in the House, Livingston, for essentially the same thing. Hustler busted him in 98 when the Clinton debacle was on.
Eh. If this guy truly repented, he'd have remembered that Christianity requires service and charity toward those you consider the lowest of the low, not agitating for further persecution. Vitter's been a shit in the Senate for a while, and though it might be a bit of the ol' True Scotsman, I have a hard time believing that a real Christian would act like he has.
If you're feeling this jaded looking at the stuff, I wonder how jaded the actual participants get. I mean, most people go off to work 9-5, get home to their honeys and make a little love. Now, porn stars, on the other hand, what do they do for fun when the shift is over?
Do they go home and play endless rounds of Scrabble?
Why is it that whenever these so called Christians get caught doing these things, they say that they’ve “asked for the Lord’s forgiveness AND that he’s ‘forgiven them’”. How the hell do you know if the Lord’s forgiven you? What, do you have a direct line to GOD too, other than prostitutes?
How the hell do you know if the Lord’s forgiven you?
I suppose if they're operating under the premise that god can and will smite those on his shitlist... if they ask for forgiveness and do not get immediately smotten, then they've obviously been forgiven. Or something.
Why is it that whenever these so called Christians get caught doing these things, they say that they’ve “asked for the Lord’s forgiveness AND that he’s ‘forgiven them’”.
Yeah, I always think it's a little rich that they claim to know their god's mind.
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