Whole Earth Extended

In the last issue I wrote about the Whole Earth Catalogue. Since then I have come across one of the supplements to the Catalogue. It is a sufficiently useful extension of the Catalogue to warrant a few more words. To start with, the full title of the supplement is ‘The Difficult But Possible Supplement to [...]

The Case

The case is complicated by the fact that it is composed of two elements one of which is simply the confusion the other has got itself in. A piece of string coming from nowhere and going out of sight has got itself into a fantastic knot called ‘the present situation’. It is this that the [...]

Diversification seems

down of hard-core pornography. There are the inevitable pages of personal ads collected under a section called ‘Baubles and Balls’. The paper also acts as a vigilant watch-dog against shysters and fleecers who con any of their readers into buying lousy goods or joining non-existent clubs. There is no hesitation in criticising a product that [...]

Is London missing anything by not seeing Screw?

Al Goldstein is a paunchy 33 year old with a goatee beard. He once worked for schlock magazines like the National Enquirer—the sort of tabloid that has headlines like ‘Why I turned My Twins into Hamburger Meat’. Jim Buckley is 25 and his background is the New York underground press. He was heavily involved in [...]

Pornzina Fun City, USA

Flesh meat hair pink orange more hair plastic skin coy smiles pyramids singles twos and three-somes -all around Times Square and the neighbouring streets it’s Freedom Land! The emporia of porn­ography are doing a roaring trade. Inside the shops customers with their brief-cases are urged to buy, buy, buy. B Line Boys One sign reads [...]