PFG

Drunk kinky daddy decadent new world aristos in silk smoking jackets. This is my design. Return to tradition.

It doesn't contain a lot of surprises for BDSM writing of the time, but it is still quite funny and surprisingly sweet at times. The nice engravings came from a slightly later edition.

...a libertine on a plantation where she is forced to punish slaves as the mistress of the house. Many orgies and detailed discussions of corporeal punishment ensue. During the war, she's gangraped by bushwhackers and then becomes a madam during the Reconstruction era.

Just finished reading The Memoirs of Dolly Morton (1899), a pornographic satire of a slavery abolitionist during the Civil War. Hugh Rebell wrote it under the pen name of Georges Joseph Grassal. Rebell was a supporter of Charles Maurras and Oscar Wilde. Written by a Frenchman...

TGIF

...comedy, and set to Japanese rockabilly music, it seems to be some statement about intergenerational degeneracy and the influence of American pop culture or something. Whatever it is, it manages to be charming and depressing at the same time.

In pinku Hard Scandal: Sex Drifter (Noboru Tanaka, 1980), a teen runs away from his swinger parents, stalks and rapes a random dressmaker, and then becomes her lover. She turns him into a tranvestite and he's gangraped by bikers. Told in the fashion of a coming-of-age teen sex...

1976

The Genoa City yoga industry continues trying to push the accordion players out

1988

1964

Having a dream about an alternative reality is pretty common on soaps (usually for the holidays), but I've never seen it done as badly as they just did it on BTG.

1987

1955

Resurfaced episode of early Y&R (1978) with John McCook, Jaime Lyn Bauer, and Hasselhoff, complete with original commercials. youtu.be/v0vx3yWwsA8?si…

...continues to terrorize the wealthy family to disrupt the wedding, with bloody results. Containing no real explanation for anything and consisting of a set of nightmarish and memorable set pieces, it achieves something unique even if it's not good.

In the baffling pinku Midnight Fairy (Noboru Tanaka, 1973), a young man who resents the rich tries to shame an affluent woman out of marriage by raping her in front of her parents. When that fails, he teams up with an idiot girl who is being pimped out by her sister and...

Craig disappears after Julie lashes out at him for his betrayal; Hillary and Carrie trick her shrink into exposing that he's been drugging her to be his sex slave; Adam tells Grayson he wants Monique, but she ends their engagement; and Eric becomes Joan's kept man.

Three hundred and twenty-eight weeks into self-isolation.

...mixing that with doses of comedy. The cast is filled out with colourful performances, and there's a strong use of silence and perspective, plus some really great handling of fire.

Randolph Scott gives his usual shaded performance as an outlaw tempted to redeem himself in Fritz Lang's Western Union (1941). The telling is complicated by becoming a romantic comedy for the first third before lurching into what was fairly brutal violence for the time and...