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Issue 45

This has been a hell of an issue to put out.  It seemed like every photographer we have come to rely upon is off dancing around the world.  Though I am happy for them I am sickened with envy.  My mundane existence behind this desk is destroying me.  I am becoming a total sack of shit sitting here day in and day out.  I yearn to get out of the confines of this dark and freezing box and go somewhere, anywhere.  I need to see something new.  There is a great tour story waiting to happen in this magazine for any company that wants to pay my way on to a tour.  If it is not my writing you are after, perhaps I could just be a friend and offer moral support.   I am an awesome cook and I am a master when it comes to local dialects.   Make no mistake; I’d be a great addition to any tour roster.   It’s summer in the Southern Hemisphere right now, anyone up for a trip to Australia or New Zealand?  How about Peru or Brazil?  
            Though this issue had its obstacles, I have to say it was quite fun to put together in the end.   It’s hard to call researching weird fetishes on the Internet work (Page 42). There are some seriously disturbed people on this planet and few of them like to ride skateboards.  What started out as an interview with AZ skater Jarred Saba unearthed a sorted tale of a crew of skaters known as The Wet Boys (Page 36).   This queer little gang has included in their initiation rituals some of the weirdest shit I have ever heard of.   One word of caution: if you are easily offended or the least bit squeamish, put this magazine down now.  If this issue leaves you a little nauseated, I am right there with you and I am sorry. 
-Migdol

Stone Division Skateboards

The few times I had seen Andrew Pott, it alwaysappeared to me that he was a nice unassuming young man, perhaps even a bit on the shy side.  This image I had of him was completely destroyed when I went and checked out his Myspace profile.  What I found was a player the likes of which have yet to be seen.  Andrew is a young pimp that could give the famous pimp Don Magic Juan a run for his money in the pimping department.  You’ll have to read it for yourself, therefore I give you Mr. Andrew Pott in his own words...
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“There is nothing either fundamentally good, nor anything fundamentally evil; everything is relative, relative to our point of view.  It is extremely possible that something, perfectly indifferent in itself, may be indeed distasteful in your eyes, but may be most delicious in mine; and immediately I find it
pleasing, immediately I find it amusing, regardless of our inability to agree in assigning a character to it.
Should I not be a fool to deprive myself of it merely because you condemn it?”

 - The Marquis de Sade.  Excerpt from The 120 Days of Sodom (1784)
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By Jay Riggio           

Adopting a fetish takes time, dedication, a good hiding spot and above all, balls.  Lots of them.  Once you’ve begun to drop your hard earned cash on weird apparatus, you’ve basically subscribed to a life of what the authorities refer to as, a sexual deviant.  It sucks because if you happen to get into a bit of trouble with the law, any charity work you might have done for the retarded won’t mean shit.  That is once a garbage bag filled with ball gags, serrated butt plugs and a bunch of other weird stuff you’ve welcomed into your sexually sick mind is presented in court.  But don’t worry, because daddy Riggio has figured out a way to avoid that entire shit storm of a mess.  If you’re a skateboarder, you basically have every sex/fetish toy known to man at your dirty disposal.


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Everybody’s seen the movie, Fight Club.  It was about a weird, cult-like, group of dudes who hung out together and hurt each other; all the while simmering with suppressed homo-erotic desire.  The first rule of fight club was “Don’t talk about Fight Club.”  The second rule, of course, was also, “Don’t talk about Fight Club.”  The Wet Boys have a lot in common with Fight Club.  They’re based around the same precepts, are composed of a pretty wide range of guys, and are secretive about their actions.  But, their rules vary a bit.  The first rule of Wet Boys is to talk about the Wet Boys, at length, to a person who’s stated purpose is to write an article about the Wet Boys.  However, the second rule is to then call up that same writer and demand he doesn’t print any of what was told to him.  When ever you encounter this (XXXX) it means the Wet Boys didn’t want you to see the one word beneath it.
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TOP Ten Countdown of world’s most bizarre fetishes

The human animal is a strange creature, the strangest of all the animals.  To prove how twisted man is we’ve decided to compile a countdown of the most bizarre deviations imaginable.
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For weeks Tadashi has been hitting us up to do an interview with this kid Joseph Mairena.  For the life of me I couldn’t figure out why.  Tadashi had argued that Joseph had really good photos but we had “really good photos” of other AMs.   I had sensed that there was something more going on. In an editorial meeting Tadashi suggested he make a collage dedicated to Joseph just like a little girl would do when caught up in the passion of her first schoolgirl crush.  Tadashi, in fact did make a beautiful collage but we couldn’t run it because I was afraid of getting sued for copyright infringement (he had cut out pictures from other magazines).  Joseph got his coverage because I was totally intent on finding out why Tadashi was so in love with him.
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