sex clubs and the media

the owner/operator of the Blu Lounge in Arden, NC was basically arrested for allowing sex acts to be performed in the night club in which he owns and since that establishment sells alcohol, he was arrested. what happened with the media may have even trumped what happened in charlotte about a month or so ago. channel 13 news, wlos-tv, had a reporter on the scene with search warrant in hand standing outside in the parking lot of the Blu Lounge night club warning viewers that if they had young children they may want to get them out of the room for the next couple of minutes while he reported this story. he told of the charges levied against the owner, what allegedly transpired inside the club, and then they cut away to the house beside the club that could vaguely be seen through a patch of trees from the parking lot. they interviewed the owners of the house who were playing with their children in the swimming pool. the reporter was trying to illicit some kind of response of outrage from the owners of the house for what was going on next door but i don't remember him reporting that it took place in the parking lot and their children having a front row seat to the "sex show". if it did transpire, it took place inside the club behind closed doors between consenting adults. the reporter promised that he would be reporting from the club with more this weekend. that was sensationalistic journalism at its finest. he didn't illicit the desired response from the owner of the house. she kind of laughed about it. it showed her sitting in her swimming pool. there was alot of kids that didn't need to see that but there was wlos-tv's camera and microphone shoved right in her face. i also heard ALE mentioned so i don't guess it is just the clubs in charlotte. i didn't hear of anyone at the club complaining so it should be a non-issue.

the charlotte observer must be in league with the CMPD. the charlotte observer jumped all over the six misdemeanor arrests of the entertainers in charlotte, posting their pics, which club they worked at, with follow up articles and interviews of the club owner of the paper doll lounge. one night last week i read with interest that a 15 year old in charlotte had been shot in a drive by and three arrests followed. if i remember from my pre-law days, a shooting offense is a felony. no pictures of those arrested were posted, no follow up stories or interviews were posted. nothing. as a friend of mine so eloquently put it " i guess you have to flash some pussy in charlotte to get your picture in the paper." sad but true.

i went over to a friends house last night to watch ufc 116 and the main event between brock lesnar and shane carwin. every fight on the card was pretty good which, in my experience, is unusual but lesnar-carwin was the one that was hyped and the one i was waiting on. the longest fight carwin had ever been thru had been 1:27 and i was interested to see how both of them would handle it if it went beyond the first round. they came out kind of slow but carwin immediately took it to him. he hit lesnar with a left and lesnar went down against the cage and immediately "turtled". he tried covering his head and his face as best he could and offered nothing in the way of defense. carwin tried his best to put an early end to and hit him repeatedly. lesnar was battered and bloodied and any defense he did offer was very feeble. in my opinion, if that would have been another fight the referee would have stopped it. he finally made it to his feet and his next line of defense was running like a girl. he made it through the end of the first round and i was wondering if carwin had wore himself out trying to finish it. the second round started out very slow but lesnar bull rushed carwin and got him on the ground and within a minute he had him in a choke hold and carwin tapped out. lesnar won that fight by brute force and strength alone. lesnar put him in a submission hold that he had probably been doing on wrestling mats since junior high school. the bottom line is that lesnar won. it really doesn't matter how. he just won. i came out and checked espn.com and the punch stats tthey had listed were mind boggling. lesnar attempted 2 power strikes and carwin attempted 78. lesnar attempted 1 submission hold and it was successful and carwin didn't attempt any. i still believe that in any other fight, the ref stops that fight in the first round. but this wasn't any other fight.

book review of big hair and plastic grass

every once in a while a baseball book will come along that is not only stats and history but is all encompassing and entertaining as hell. dan epstein has achieved that in "Big Hair and Plastic Grass" a book about major league baseball that covers the entire decade of the 1970's. i first started following baseball religiously in 1976. i was 10 years old and became a devout los angeles dodger fan mainly because my dad was one. i was always hearing stories about sandy koufax, don drysdale, and claude osteen as well as stories about the brooklyn dodgers. my favorite player was ron cey aka "the penguin" because of his running style and his physical stature. i really started following baseball thru beginning my collection of baseball cards. my hometown newspaper only came out three times a week (monday, wednesday, and friday) at that time and this was way before espn and other sportscasts so dodger news was very slow in coming. the only games on tv were on saturday afternoon's game of the week and monday night baseball. i also caught this week in baseball narrated by mel allen as often as i could. dan epstein filled alot of those gaps and ron cey even got a mention. the dock ellis throwing the no-hitter under the influence of lsd and i never knew don sutton's nickname was almost "pussyface" (that explained alot) and other great stories are sprinkled throughout the book. i do remember the mark fydrich monday night game against the new york yankees. it brought back alot of good memories from my childhood as i lived it through baseball. it is a great read and entertaining as hell and i would suggest it for anyone both baseball and the non-fans out there.

booze, broads, and bullshit

the title of this blog is a quote attributed to harry caray. the entire quote says "booze, broads, and bullshit. if you got all that, what else do you need?" i have enough of all of that in my life to make it complete so now its time for me to write about it. me and my friend myran first started going to strip clubs in the mid-1990's at the old Diamonds in greenville, sc. the first one i ever went to was thee dollhouse in raleigh, nc in the early 1990's and i don't even think its there any more either. now i probably go to one or two a month most of them centered around charlotte- leather and lace south and the gold club on old pineville road- are my usual stops. i'm not exactly like norm from the television show cheers but quite a few of the strippers do recognize and some have even managed to become friends over the years before they have moved on to bigger and better things or have gotten married and have digressed into more drama and lower lifestyles. i have learned alot about human nature over the years but i kind of doubt that the strip club scene is a microcosm of life in general. myran and i have always referred to the world of the strip clubs as "the abyss" paying homage to 1980's music icon rick james in the process. when the insanity was raging all around us we just kind of took it all in with a smile on our face and a sense of wonderment. the stuff we have seen and experienced is stuff movies are made of but it would be more like a movie along the lines of american pie or animal house. we also have a cast of characters-steve, craig, john that are the most regular ones- that sometimes come along for the ride and enjoy the show. some of my favorite times are sitting around myran's living room on a saturday morning laughing about what went on the night before. its all about the ride for us and not about the destination. in my mind, thats the way it should be. we are enjoying one hell of a ride.