Viva La Blog
Mainstream media listens to the little folks whether through that obsolete medium called newspapers or now through blogs because basically they try to reflect the concerns of the average person.
I am but a little creature.
Everything I am therefore forces me to have no room for bullshit of deceit. I am the embodiment of who and what we bloggers really are. I am a minority of the big population but a true reflection of real feelings and real people.
In being a chip off the rock of the mass media I am the essences of truth with the utmost fidelity through my feelings and the world I view. The advantage of the blogger such as me is that we are not guilty of pretense or affectation. We bloggers are but the people who hold up a mirror that reflects the world around us. The popularity of blogging and bloggers such as me is the lack of dilution of seeking approval of the many. Whether I am right or wrong at least I am not an actor speaking the lines of others but rather an authentic voice reflecting the world around me. This is the essences of the popularity of sites such as Booble and the voice of an Al Goldstein.
In the 37 years and 1800 editorials I wrote for screw I never sought that kind of honesty or even knew it existed. But now, alas, we have an alternative language to explain the world we live in.
Though I hate all streaming video porno sites because they lack honesty and uniqueness at least I have an avenue for expression for myself and exploration of the many roads available for us to travel.
It was the novelty of the internet that put Screw into bankruptcy. There was a technological breakthrough of a new voice and a new stage to view the world around us. Newspapers are like stagecoaches and have been replaced by the quicker and more immediate ways of delivering the message. There is a new purity for our voice and it is as radical as the cavemen thousands of years ago who invented the wheel and created fire so that they would be able to cook raw meat. It is ironic that sushi has brought us back to raw food. Although, in spite of these improvements I am still nostalgic of pen and paper and the snail like ways of 40 years ago.
41 Comments:
Al,
It is an honor yet again to leave the first comment on this, your latest blog post.
I believe you could restart Screw magazine by publishing it online. It could be done at a fraction of the cost of paper and the web is a richer media.
You are like a god to me. While growing up in San Francisco, your magazine kept me on a heterosexual path throughout puberty. For that, I will be forever grateful.
Mitch Haase
Screw magazine is already online, but it's not the same thing. Al could certainly start his own magazine online though. I have question al, if you had the internet back 1968 when you were starting screw, what would you have done differently from all the other porn sites that are out there?
Just as a quick side note: According to an article I read online porn seems to be in decline, probably for the reasons al stated in his blog.
It's nice to hear that Al has gotten onto more lighter topics. In the last decade, the world wide web has served two main purposes.
1. It is the main source of free information unbeholden to elite corporate media bias that helped shead light on the truth about 9/11. Since fascist govt. powers that be have been exposed, they hate the idea of net neutrality.
2. It is an open source of free entertainment that cheapen mass media because what you can get for free you won't pay for. And what makes matters worse, is that the current crop of ageist kids who now run Hollywood have no imagination or talent to compete with the glorious past. This is why old school media is missed and all you see today are remakes.
I say that Al should remake Screw into a new cyberspace incarnation. Just call it SCREWED, in reference to his many marriages, the sad demise of the old mag and the dawning of a new era in media. If you make a comeback, people will cum. And I'll offer to write for you.
Or maybe he could be the national spokesman for Senior Citizens sexual health and well being....
I know my grandma needs to get laid...the dirtiest she ever got involved a red ribbon
~shiver..ughh~
Hey Al!
Have you ever thought of running for President of the United States? Think about it! You could give countries like Iraq the finger on TV, and Ron Jeremy could fund your campaign.
anonymous @9:19am -
Are you Asian? Just trying to read you post.
//Guu ruck Al!!
Al,
Glad to hear about you and your son talking now. Read the book and loved it. As others have said, you should consider starting a website, kind of like of Screw for the 22nd centrury. You could be innovating the porn industry again if you put your mind to it!! There are many higher-speed broadband technologies that are going to be very available and cheap soon to the home user. Porn got the old-school mainstream in a sense. OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS.
C. P. Smith
**Last sentence was supposed to say "Porn got the internet into the mainstream in a sense years ago."
Mitch Hasse, Send me $100K and I will start Screw online and I am prepared to perform cunnilingus on your wife and girlfriends and let you take notes.
Screw online being different? Meet with me, invest some big bucks and let’s do it together.
Hank Rose,
You are 100% correct. The internet buried me and made everything too accessible and nothing is unique or novel.
Godless Whore,
Go out and rent Al Goldstein and Ron Jeremy get screwed and you will see how a senior citizen does it. Would you be interested in a toothless, silver haired senior citizen going down on you?
President,
That is the type of dumb question that a man with too much time on his hand thinks about. I am not black or "clean" like Obama and was not married to bill so I would probably have no chance.
What you drones dont seem to realize, is that right before SCREW was bought out of bankruptcy by Al's own staff, Al was NOT writing his editorials.. he would outline them, and then his very savvy edior created his "editorial" of course with Al approval. But Al was too involved spending away his pain, with AMEX bills coming in at 50 to 60 grand a month. Readers, take it from someone who KNOWs and has worked for Al for many years. YES hes talented, Yes he is a maverick in this industry, and yes, he has been brushed aside in this industry woth out his due recognition, but in the end, he only had to blame himself. There was an office meeting where we warned him of two employees who were bery big liabilities.... his "attorney" and her daughter... he refused to listen.. why you ask? she was his ex fiance.... so .... whose fault is it really?
That's interesting. Please tell us more.
Annonymous,
So do you mean that the very employees that in his rants and book says that he shit on over and over~ actually own his company? As in he can't boss anyone around? Priceless
What a slap in the face!
Al, you keep saying the pussy is the almighty delicacy...it seems to me to be the beginning of your demise.
Will you ever learn?
Hell hath no fury......
I can't wait to here al's reply to all this, there are two sides to every story.
We like to think Booble, in its humble way, is written in the same sexual, satiric, and iconoclastic style as Al's original Screw (we have a better graphic designer). If Al were my age, he would have done Booble, instead of me ;)
Al, we are proud to host your online home, may you blog forever!
Poor Al!
Ron Jeremy has now added reality tv to his repetoir. He has moved on to other things. Why don't you do the same?
dear old employee,
you are right. i was wrong. there is no need to defend myself. it was just one of many, many mistakes i've made.
al
godless whore,
the only thing i hold ahead of pussy is a pastrami from katz's. please give me the opportunity to go down on you.
al
dearest bob smart,
it's been a pleasure working with you and i am totally proud to be a part of the team.
sincerely,
al
ron fan,
i do not belive in reality and in fact my own mind is flim-flam and pure imagination.
al
Al,
It seems like I am really missing something at Katzs'.....
you tell em, clown prince of porn!
Al your blogs posts are gaining in eloquence, and you seen to have recently obtained astonishing wisdom - almost, dare I say, serenity. I have two questions for you: 1) who is the new editor and (2) what is your exactly persciption combination, so I can mix some up for myself. (kidding about that last part)
Al,
I just finished your bio "I, Goldstein" and it was awesome. Read it right on the heels of Legs McNeil's "The Other Hollywood", another great book. Anyway, I'm commenting on your post and statement that the internet brought Screw down. C'mon Al. I love ya, but even you state that it was Screw's neverending legal battles, you're uncontrolled spending, and your numerous divorces which caused your downfall. Don't get me wrong man...yours is a twisted, tragic tale. I have the utmost respect for your perverted pioneering.
Peace.
Al, you should have named your autobiography, "THE CURSE OF GOLDSTEIN"...I'll be in NYC 6/3-6/19...will make lunch date with you before I leave. Moose
G-spot fan,
My blogs are a reflection of me being 71 years old and being the foremost porn publisher of the past 40 years. I have learned from all my excesses including marriages, nastiness and grandiosity and a general feeling that the only person that counted in the world was me. I have been humbled by my many mistakes and errors. If there was mistake a human being could make, I made it. At my current age I have come to realize that the greatest sadness in the world is loneliness and that I wish I could connect with people and once more be part of the human race.
Al
Hypno,
I am guilty of all you charge me with. My addiction to pussy and a fear of being alone which lead to five marriages led me to making bad choices. My immaturity in running a business and my taking for granted my success and the meaning of friendship. Let us not forgot that a truly healthy human being would not have become a pornographer at the age of 32. I was an unstable man in a quasi-legal business who would do anything to have his name in print.
Al
Moose,
I look forward to seeing you and fulfill my lifetime fantasy of having you chomp on my Jewish dick. I want you to gag on my erect two inches and my sperm that will remind you of godiva chocolate. I want to thank you again for your financial contribution and friendship and I will never forget it. I am even willing to descent to that labyrinth called your pussy and become entangled in the vines of your vulva.
Love,
Al
Al, why do you say that "a truly healthy man would not become a pornographer at the age of 32"? That kinda hurts my feelings - are you saying that I'M NOT HEALTHY!!! Not normal, maybe, slightly wiggy perhaps, an iconoclast, to be sure, but not healthy? Seriously.
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