In my life
I thought we could generate a million dollars for the company and reach a million people with the extraordinary story of Playboy and its impact on the world of literature, design, ideas and art, says Christie Hefner, chairman and CEO of Playboy Enterprises, the founder's daughter. We know we have collectors, so we thought that instead of engaging in private negotiations to sell part of the collection, we would have a public auction, where anyone anywhere can own a piece of Playboy. Source: http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-ca-emerling14dec14,1,4718901.st ory?coll=la-home-style During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the consolation of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it. Source: http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch01.htm#s1
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FWIW, Christie Hefner graduated from my high school when I graduated (and Hugh showed up at our graduation), though she was known as Christie Gunn back then and I didn't know her very well. She changed her last name to her biological father's and then got the big money. Jim I thought we could generate a million dollars for the company and reach a million people with the extraordinary story of Playboy and its impact on the world of literature, design, ideas and art, says Christie Hefner, chairman and CEO of Playboy Enterprises, the founder's daughter. We know we have collectors, so we thought that instead of engaging in private negotiations to sell part of the collection, we would have a public auction, where anyone anywhere can own a piece of Playboy.
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FWIW, Christie Hefner graduated from my high school when I graduated (and Hugh showed up at our graduation), though she was known as Christie Gunn back then and I didn't know her very well. She changed her last name to her biological father's and then got the big money. Amazing. I didn't know that. And was she a Gunn ? I have never met her personally, I just pasted up a lot of Playboy pictures in the hallway and toilet of my flat, as a sort of wallpaper, as an 18 year old. A friend of mine had this wallpaper in her loo, that consisted of pages out of an old book glossed over, and then, being a bit drawn to the surreal, because of the way my life had gone, I thought I would do something like that, but with Playboy and Penthouse pictures. But most people didn't appreciate it, either I was being too avant garde or too backward in my thinking or both at the same time, and thus missing out, and I took it off again. I didn't know much about women (still don't in many ways) but I was grateful to Playboy for giving me something to look at in a sensitive state. The first article I ever read about Fidel Castro was a story by Tad Szulc, in Playboy or Penthouse. But I didn't know much at that time about how softporn magazines really function, I was a bit naive like that. J.
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J wrote: The first article I ever read about Fidel Castro was a story by Tad Szulc, in Playboy or Penthouse. Playboy deserves a rightful place in Yanqui social liberation history. The interviews were remarkable. As a lad, I was obviously attracted because of beautiful females. And we males can't help that, being hard wired as such. But there were these incredibly intelligent dialogues I would be exposed to. I wonder which was the most subversive: the gals or the guys with typewriters. There is a huge chronology of American social history in there... Ken. -- The only true exploration, the only real Fountain of Youth, will not be in visiting foreign lands, but in having other eyes, in looking at the universe through the eyes of others. -- Marcel Proust
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Hi Ken, You wrote: Playboy deserves a rightful place in Yanqui social liberation history. The interviews were remarkable. As a lad, I was obviously attracted because of beautiful females. And we males can't help that, being hard wired as such. But there were these incredibly intelligent dialogues I would be exposed to. I wonder which was the most subversive: the gals or the guys with typewriters. There is a huge chronology of American social history in there... That's a good comment. Some of the gals were subversive, others were sucked in or just went for the money. Personally, I was given a classic old Remington portable by my Granddad when I was about 10 years old, I have typed since that time. The way I grew up, I was a bit cagey about girlie magazines as such, and I never had many of them, apart from a bit of humour and a bit of exploration about what I feel or like (as against what somebody else says I ought to feel or like). I just liked specific photo's, that is all, in fact, one day, I am going to track down a specific photo that captivated me. The Royal Dutch Library has a collection that could have it, they collect those mags. Many of the articles were tremendously useful and interesting to me, real eye-openers, and I would read a lot, because otherwise I got bored or feel lonely. The funniest thing though was, that after I moved out of that house in 1978 into another one, I met a woman I became amorous with, and she would actually clip pictures she liked from the mags, and stick them into a personal photo album. I worked as part-time photographer for the suburban papers at that time, and I remember asking her one time how can you reconcile that with your feminist beliefs ? but she just laughed, and replied that of course women were entitled to do that, why shouldn't they be ? I don't really know enough about the real US culture though, I have only been there a couple times so far. There often seems to be a big difference between media projections of America, and what Americans really think. The attraction of the USA used to be that you could take a subject, and take to its full potential, or at least explore the limits of it, in a free way, as long as you did it with integrity. But I'm not sure that culture still exists, other than commercially, in the contemporary mood of rheumy conservatism, where people are often more interested in regulating, limiting, ordering and repressing, rather than think through cultural issues seriously and propose alternatives. We are supposed to know everything already these days anyway. And there are many more financial pressures, there's more mediation in everything you do. But maybe that culture just exists in a different way, maybe I just don't know where it's at these days. When a culture runs out of ideas and lacks a perspective on the future, typically it begins to recycle stuff from the past, a sort of reticular activating system or rumination. It doesn't bother me too much, because I'll just think my own idea anyway, but it isn't very conducive to a creative politics. Well, I go into the past too sometimes, to recover what it was that really excited me or motivated me, or a bit of soulsearching, but I am not pretending to be innovative in doing that, that's all. To be innovative takes a lot of hard work. J.
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