Thursday, August 5th, 1999

Buck Adams Blows?

A source: "Buck Adams - performs fellatio on 2 guys in back of a van in Van Nuys shopping center parking lot in exchange for 10 grams of crack."

Buck Adams says the story is preposterous.

Ford on KLSX

Luke F-rd appears on the Conway and Steckler show on Los Angeles radio station KLSX FM 97.1 tonight at 8:45 to talk about his new book and the lawsuit against actor Charlie Sheen by Charlese L'Amour and Teri Star. Read up here on Teri's colorful past. Rumor has it that some of the industry's heavy hitters will be calling in to blow me away.

The lead headline this evening on geneross.com is "Ford Scam Conway and Steckler." Ben Siegel replies to AVN: "Hey, Gene, before you get on your high horse about Ford cribbing from your site on the Charlie Sheen/porn starlets dust-up, take a look at yourself, pal. What you reported on your site was itself cribbed from Richard Johnson's "Page Six" gossip column in the New York Post. You barely changed the wording. You're not exactly the only Californian who reads it, you know."

Jeane MacIntosh from NY Post's Page Six writes Luke about Jared Paul Stern and the Krash story below on Darren Star. "Not that I care what you print on your website, but you might want to fact check first. ``Krash's'' second graf, ie, ``Jared Stern labors as an occassionally bylined assitant, blah blah blah'' is already wrong [Jared does not get bylines]. And the director wasn't Darren Star. This "Krash" guy has him mixed up with another director. Just a heads up."

Mark Cromer devotes part of his column in the September issue of Jail Babes to Luke F-rd:

"As dusk settled over Sunset Boulevard that night [of the May 27 Hustler Jail Babes party at the Rainbow], I stepped out to the patio to work my beer, when in between the parade of gleaming cleavage, fishnets and Armanis, I noticed a familiar figure skulking behind a telephone pole across the club's driveway, dressed in a suit and holding a mini-cam behind a newspaper as if on some half-assed undercover stakeout. Ah yea, our old friend Luke F-rd, on-line porn gossip columnist and perpetual pariah to the adult industry.

A few of the people milling around the front of the club seemed truly disturbed that Ford was even within eyesight, as if he were some cyber-sniper ready to give them a Lee Harvey Oswald makeover on his web page.

I decided to take my beer down to the street and have a chat with him. Ford flashed a sheepish grin as I approached, shaking his hand and asking him if he was going to come into the party or just watch other people arrive.

"Well, I guess I've been banned from all HUSTLER events," he said, explaining that he had been accused of misquoting a high-ranking Flynt employee. "As soon as they told me I wouldn't be allowed in, I decided to come right down and have a look."

I told him I didn't think it would be that big of a deal if he came in for a drink, but I don't think he ever made it inside the Rainbow, perhaps afraid he'd run into some of the competing porn journalists he's sparred with during the past year.

Still, it may have been for the best that Ford kept his distance from the soiree, as watching him get demolished at the bar by an enraged mob of porno "insider" would have been too ugly and violent a scene for even me.

Photos from page seven of the September issue of Hustler Jail Babes.

Cat Fight Videos

C1Steph@aol.com writes: "Dear Luke, I am an European TV-producer and I wrote you a couple of weeks in regards to a story on "Cat Fight Videos". You suggested to contact AVN. I did so by sending several e-mails plus a fax. Unfortunately no response. I also found a compamy called "Napali" which is a large producer for cat fight videos in the US but my request to do a story was declined. Any ideas what I could do, who I could turn to? Any hint or suggestion is greatly appreciated."

British Porn Stars

Producer David_adler21@hotmail.com writes: "I'm looking for British porn stars (the British thing is preferably but not absolutely necessary) who are at some sort of crossroads in their life. This "crossroads" could involve plans to leave porn, moving back with the folks, becoming an internet banker, etc.

"Do you know of any LA based British porn stars who lead dual lives? (Dual in the sense of glamorous porn star on screen/charming tax accountant off screen)"

Bunny Ranch Blowout

Heaven Leigh's hubby tells Gene about his wife's feud with Kendra Jade: "The Bunny Ranch said they went on Luke F-rd's site, and what they read was all bull. Luke F-rd blew this whole thing out of proportion. The bad part is that he sucked me and Heaven in one night and got us to believe a lot of crap. Mike Albo has more brains than Luke F-rd on any given day.

"The thing that really upsets me is that Rob Spallone is like getting on the phone with Luke, 'Yeah, we'll see who's staying and who's going.' Rob knows Heaven. He's known her longer than he's known Kendra. Let's look at everything Kendra's done in this business, what she's done to you, what she's done to John T. Bone, she's burned so many bridges it's unreal. Then she wonders why nobody likes her. That whole bulls--- about the bribe-thing. Kendra left a message one time with Heaven and told her everything she did to you. She admitted that she was Luke F-rd's little snitch..."

Bunny ranch owner Dennis Hof told Gene Ross: "Kendra said that Heaven Leigh's old man told her that Heaven and Candy were going to jump her. He got Kendra all wound up and scared. That's why she didn't get on the plane. Heaven's old man needs to shut the f--- up. All these girls want to do is make money. And for these girls to be talking to Luke F-rd, who the hell is this guy?"

Erotica LA Halloween Party

Ron Miller, who put together the last three Erotica LA shows, has organized this year's big porno Halloween Party, taking it out of the inept hands of AVN who've muffed the show the last few years.

Just compare the overflowing crowds at Erotica LA to the handful who attended the AVN Expo a month later.

The Halloween show will be on Halloween, Sunday, October 31st, at the Universal City Hilton Hotel and Tower (same site as last year's show).

Ron Miller spoke exclusively today with Luke: "The ballroom is 16,000 square feet. And we've got another 6,000 square feet in foyers and anterooms... We'll have a VIP room limited to sponsors and their guests...and a green room where we'll invite you to stop by and get the real good shots in... I like to keep that [flashing] off the floor for everybody's wellbeing, including the wellbeing of the industry. I encourage the girls not to flash. Don't give it away. That keeps all of us going. It keeps my business going, your end of things...

"I'm hoping to finalize things with Bill Margold to host the FOXE Awards at our show. The Le Sexe Shops, Jill Kelly Entertainment and Wicked have already signed on as sponsors.

"Last year I did the Halloween Party in conjunction with AVN. I don't think either of us, either AVN or Erotica LA, were terribly pleased with working together. I wish AVN nothing but the best in their ventures and I hope they feel the same way towards me... But it would be like trying to combine Erotica LA with the AVN Expo...

"I chose not to combine with the VSDA. AVN did [with the AVN Expo]. The industry can be the judge [at how favorably Erotica LA compared to the AVN Expo]. AVN is a hands on company. They operate differently than I do. I like to be able to have direct contact with every aspect of what I'm doing and any time I relinquish any part of that... Last year I ran the party itself and AVN took care of advertising and ticket sales and distribution... I think it could've worked better for both of us if either I had been a sponsor of a party that they did or they were a sponsor of a party that I did...

"I had a friendly meeting with Paul [Fishbein, AVN publisher] and Darren [Roberts, AVN VP]... I discussed Halloween with them and the consensus was it would be best for all concerned if we maintained our own businesses... I welcomed AVN to come on board as a sponsor and they elected not to this year. I don't know if they intend to resume their own Halloween parties... Competition is the American way. If they chose to do a party, I wish them the best. I went to the VSDA. I was there to support the industry as I would at any other industry event.

"I left my meeting with Paul and Darren with a handshake and we all agreed that we are all in this for the good of the industry...

"Sponsorships are still open for the Erotica LA Halloween Party... LFP, VCA, Deja Vu, Atlas Multimedia are all discussing with me who will sponsor... I will probably limit it to six sponsors... We're creating a poster for the event featuring Jill Kelly, Devon Davis, Felicia and Brooke Hunter [Ron Miller's girlfriend]... The names of the sponsors will go across the bottom... I think this poster will be a collector's item for fans..."

Luke: "Many people try to put on adult parties, how are your operations different?"

Ron: "Rather than approaching individuals in the industry and saying, 'do you want to come to my party,' I work directly with the companies like Wicked (Steve Orenstein and Joy King) and VCA (Kylie Ireland). The companies then schedule the entertainers... This insures that the talent will be there...

"For the fans it is a party, for me it is a business. It happens to be a business that I love..."

Luke: "I find Halloween disturbing. It's become particularly big in the last few years. Halloween seems to glorify death."

Ron: "I have a different view of Halloween and why I think Halloween is a perfect holliday to do anything connected with adult entertainment... Halloween is a time for kids of all ages to come out... You can put on a mask or a costume... Dr. Smith does not go to a party as Dr. Smith but as Count Dracula. I don't think Dr. Smith is glorifying death or glorifying a vampire. I think Dr. Smith is taking an opportunity to step out of who he is in society's eyes and those of his friends and family, and he can run and kick up his heels, because he's really not Dr. Smith, but Count Dracula.

"I look at people at Halloween and I wonder, is this guy dressed up as Judy Garland because he really wants to dress as Judy Garland every single day of his life or is he dressed as Judy Garland because it's Halloween. I remember going to a Halloween party years back and seeing a professional man get out of the back of a limo... First I saw fishnet stockings and spiked heels on feet the size of mine, and I'm a size twelve. And as this person emerged from the limo, I saw thigh high stockings with a garter belt, and then a priest's frock and the round priests hat like Franciscans wear... And I thought, is this a Halloween costume or is this what happens when the doors close? It really doesn't matter. It's a time when people can go out and express themselves.

"So, I think the original association of Halloween being the night before All Saints Day, when this was a celebration of the dark side, that this is about as significant [religiously] as Christmas... I'm a first generation American Jew. I'm East European. My father, may he rest in peace, was born in Romania. He didn't come to this country until he was a teenager. My mother is a Russian Jew who came here as an infant... I've been raised as a Jew and lived my entire life as a Jew, and proud of it... Despite my tattoos...

"I direct you to the first volume of the Great Jewish Book of Why, where they address the issues of tattoos [forbidden by Jewish religious law]. God says in the Torah [five books of Moses, the Pentateuch] that you should not mutilate your body... The way tattoos are done today, it is not mutilation...

"I was raised Conservative [a moderate branch of Judaism, Orthodox is the most strict and traditional] and have drifted towards Reform [a more liberal and less religiously demanding form of Judaism]... I take my Judaism seriously and with my kids... We've always celebrated Hannukah but there was a great deal of confusion [Jewish holidays like Hanukkah are based on the Hebrew lunar calendar]... Some years it would fall near Thanksgiving... And if the children are given their gifts each night of Hanukkah [it runs eight days] while their Gentile contemporaries are getting their gifts a month later, there's a rift...

"So Christmas, Santa Claus, decorating your house, Christmas trees, etc, have absolutely nothing to do with the New Testament and Jesus..."

Luke: "Did you have a Christmas tree [usually a big no-no in Judaic life because it is a symbol of another religion]?"

Ron: "I have... And I explained to my kids that this is a non-religious holiday that we're celebrating... It has no religious significance. My kids are very comfortable with it, with getting all their gifts at one time... They don't care as much about why they are getting them as why they are getting them. My children also recognize the first two seders [special festive meals at the springtime Jewish holiday] of Passover even if it means I have to go to a commercial seder... The last two years I have not been able to have a seder in my life...

"My kids searching for the matza and ransoming off the matzah... [for more info go to www.aish.org]... I do a very Reformed seder [abbreviated]... My kids have a sufficient base in Hebrew that they can follow basic prayers..."

A few thoughts on prayer from www.aish.org:

PRAYER: Connecting to G-d through speech

The [Hebrew] word Tefillah, or prayer, derives from the Hebrew word "to focus." It is the act of focusing on what is truly significant and important. What is the "service" that G-d demands of us? Clarity and Focus. The Amidah is the standard prayer that stands at the center of every Jewish prayer service. It is structured to include three sections. A set of opening paragraphs where you recognize before whom you stand, a set of closing remarks where you express gratitude, and a central section targeted at the special needs or purpose of the day. The purpose of prayer is not to mumble incoherently nor is it to request favors from a Celestial Busboy. Prayer is designed to help you focus your will.

Jews pray three times per day. You should stop every morning and ask yourself: "What am I trying to accomplish with my life, and what am I going to do today to make progress?", in the afternoon you should stop and ask "How am I doing today?" and every night you should reflect "How did I use today?" The men of the Great Assembly fixed the specific language of prayer not to limit you but to help guide you. Prayer focuses you on what you want out of your life. In designing the specific blessings of the Amidah, the Sages sought to give you guidance as to what you should want out of your life.

As we will discuss at length in later Mishnahs, Judaism does not believe in a remote deity or Celestial Watchmaker Who created a universe and walked away. We believe in an engaged G-d Who is the source of all goodness and blessing in the world. At every instant, G-d is aware of who you are, what you are working on, and what you require. You focus your will, and G-d responds to you. As the Ramchal describes, the gifts of life are more precious if you realize that you want them. Prayer helps you connect to G-d by helping you focus on Who He is, what you need, and the gratitude you should feel for all he has already given you. The Sages taught that prayer should be spoken. Speech is the will manifested in reality. Thought is ephemeral and slippery. You can change your mind. Words bring ideas into reality. Talk to G-d. It will help make the relationship more real. Your primary avenue for interacting with G-d is Will made concrete through Speech.

Erotica LA organizer Ron Miller: "My ex [wife] converted to Judaism, but her mother is not Jewish and has no specific religious affiliation... And they hold Easter Egg hunts in the backyard for the kids. Do I have a problem with it? No. What does it have to do with the religious holliday of Easter? I don't ever remember seeing a very large rabbit crucified."

Luke: "Do you keep kosher in any form?"

Ron: "No, I don't."

Luke is a vegetarian and therefore does not need to worry much about the Jewish Dietary Laws aka Kosher.

Ron: "I like my meat rare and juicy. It seems to be a terrible thing to take a wonderful cut of meat and boil it in salt water."

While Judaism expects Jews to observe hundreds of ethical and ritual laws, the religion of Israel only asks seven things of non-Jews, but one of them is to avoid eating blood. In his masterful Anchor Bible commentary on Leviticus, Rabbi Jacob Milgrom explains:

"...[A]lthough man was conceded meat, its blood, which belongs to God, had to be drained. Now that the blood had to be dashed on the altar [in the ancient animal sacrifical system at the temple in Jerusalem], however, it served an additional function - to ransom the life of the offerer for taking the life of the animal. Thus the principle of the inviolability of life was sharpened by this new provision: killing an animal was equivalent to murder unless expiated by the well-being offering." (pg. 49)

Luke: "When was the last time you were in synagogue?"

Ron: "Yom Kippur. Every year I hit Kol Nidre services and I fast for Yom Kippur. I've fasted every year of my life that I can remember. And I recognize both of my parents' yarzheits [anniversary of their death]. I visit the cemetary where my parents are interred at least four times a year, such as on their birthdays and on Mothers Day and Fathers Day... And they get fresh flowers. My father has been gone 34 years...

"For me Judaism is 80% tradition... I think that following the traditions and teachings and imparting the importance of family to my children is far more important than the religion. I've worked with people who keep kosher and are very orthodox and they are less than scrupulous in a lot of their business dealings...

"And though I have no problem with the industry that I am involved in [pornography] and the teachings of my religion [Judaism, which strongly opposes pornography and other forms of sex outside of marriage, despite what Miller asserts]... I do not think that the two cross in any way, shape or form.

"I intentionally stay away from anything that would hurt another human being or would intentionally hurt another human being..."

Luke thinks "intention" or "motive" is often worse than useless in assessing the morality of actions. We can never know our own motives, let alone those of others, as Jewish theologian Dennis Prager points out. We can judge the morality of acts.

Ron Miller: "Human sexuality is a fact of life... It's something that people are going to seek out. If I can work in this industry and present a positive side to the industry, then I guess, I'm educating..."

Luke: "Pornography with a human face."

Ron: "I enjoy John Leslie's vintage work from the 1970s... I enjoy Jill Kelly, Juli Ashton, Brooke [Hunter]... Everyone who portrays sexuality as it should be portrayed. I love Dave Cummings work. He's doing a helluva service... He's older than I am by ten years... He shows that human sexuality is for everyone.

"If I had to pick one collection of videos it would be old Cameron Grant - Dinner Party, Elements of Desire... My two favorite videos of the '90s...

"It's easier to characterize what I don't like... I don't like violent, unrealistic things... I don't like sticking two or three penises into one vagina or anus... If it doesn't happen in real life, don't do it."

From today's www.geneross.com:

Heaven Leigh's husband gives an explosive interview later today about the Heaven Leigh - Kendra Jade - Luke F-rd flap involving the Bunny Ranch. "He's [Ford] an asshole," says Eric, Heaven Leigh's husband. "He's blown this whole thing out of proportion. He did this to make Kendra go ape s---. Everything's so far off base, no one will ever get to the truth of the matter. This is the way Luke F-rd works. He's even sucked me and Heaven in before with his lies."

[HEVG editor] Mike Albo writes about his open drug testing challenge to Luke F-rd. Albo's stipulation is, if he passes, he gets to punch Luke in the face.

Albo: "Big surprise. 'Scoop' Luke has 'to think' about my challenge to be drug tested, and then to punch him square in the face if the test is negative. Talk about lacking the courage of one's convictions! I suppose his waffling is due to the fact that he KNOWS what he's been writing about me is not true. Anyway, Larry Flynt, Jr., and I are planning to take Luke out to lunch next week, and we hope to straighten a few things out with the boy. You'll be the first to know what happens, although given Luke's obvious cowardice, I'm pretty sure he'll back out at the last minute like the little pussy he has clearly shown himself to be.

Gene sez: "My money's on Luke accepting the lunch engagement, providing your paying."

Luke sees eery parallels between the Charlie Sheen and Darren Star stories. In both cases, Hollywood celebrities seem to be wanting to get away with doing something bad by demonizing their victims as stalkers.

Krash writes his latest installment of BOWERY BAR BABBLE-ON:

Leigh Zermuhlen’s overdose in Darren Star’s hotel room was the kind of story that cub reporters dream of. And by not reporting it, entry-level scribe Jared Paul Stern would cement his place is gossipdom.

Today, Stern labors as occasionally bylined assistant at Page Six under Richard Johnson, the former Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous content-provider whose wife, Nadine, was Bowery Bar publicist in precisely the time-frame that a teenager left the celebrity hangout so frequently mentioned on "Page Six" and died naked in Darren Star’s bed on Central Park West. Alcohol was in the 19-year-old’s blood along with cocaine and opiates, toxicology tests later revealed.

Although Leigh Zermuhlen’s post-mortem report never saw the light of newsprint outside her hometown newspaper, The Staten Island Advance, neophyte gossipist Jared Paul Stern colluded with “American Psycho” author’/ A-list sybarite Brett Eastman Ellis--who, like Stern, attended high-ticket Bennington College--and narcophile Darren Star in fabricating a NY Press story in fall, 1995 depicting the nubile overdose victim as a stalker.

Although omitting details such as the exact circumstances by which the doomed blond stalked Darren Star from East Village to a posh Central Park West hotel, then disrobed in his room, cooked up his dope, and died a stalker’s death--Jared Paul Stern’s “scoop” had author Brett Easton Ellis on the record as claiming that Zermuhlen was stalking him, too.

NY Press’ snarky tribute to “American Psycho” by way of Star’s “Central Park West” would earn Stern a coveted invitation to Bennington co-alumnus Ellis’ celeb-studded annual Christmas party--thus propelling Stern to his current omnipresence as someone who gets invited to A-list parties and writes the kind of “news” that gets him more party invites ad infinitum.

Also at Brett Easton Ellis’ swank East 13th wassail, in addition to “Sex and The City” “journalist Candace Bushnell, was none other than Darren Star.

Star’s presence here is eternalized by a party pic in the Star-friendly “Manhattan File”, dated February 96, to which Jared Paul Stern was a contributor.

Although the homosexual Stern had been slagged by The New York Observer as a “piss boy” for his demonstrated gynophobia--showering verbal vitriol on females unlucky enough not to be models or editors, such as the overweight adolescent girl he impugned in a “Detour” mag style column for choking to death on “a pork product”--his NY Press editor hailed Stern as “a gifted gossip writer.”

The gifted Jared Paul Stern disappeared from NY Press pages shorty after publisher Russ Smith a/k/a “Mugger” learned the exact dimensions of Stern's role in the Leigh Zermuhlen/Darren Star cover-up.

A source tells l-keford.com: “I emailed copy on Zermuhlen's death from The Daily News, The Post, The Observer and Staten Island Advance to Russ Smith at “mugg1988@aol.com” and he wrote back in acknowledgement. This occurred on Wednesday, June 17, 1998. I never heard from him again.”

At the time, Russ Smith was in an escalating epistolary war of words with Richard Johnson at The Post. Johnson had vowed in a letter to NY Press that neither Smith nor his freebie weekly would ever appear on “Page Six.” Smith responded in writing that Johnson was “a cunt.”

Shortly after this uplifting exchange--and shortly after Jared Paul Stern had departed NY Press forever--Smith, according to sources, used the Darren Star whitewash, of which Mr. and Mrs. Richard Johnson were so inextricably a part, as a means of leveraging his way onto “Page Six.”

Since then, NY Press and/or Russ Smith have had numerous mentions on “Page Six”--something which Richard Johnson had emphatically vowed, in the late spring and early summer of 1998, would never happen. Meanwhile, Leigh Zermuhlen, dead of Darren Star’s euphoriants at 19, would live on in NY Press’ archives as a stalker.

NY Press, which is not archived in any libraries outside their own at 333 Seventh Avenue, did not, as this report went online, yet provide l-keford.com with the requested copy of Jared Paul Stern's fall, '95 Bowery Bar item.

Coming Soon: Why S.I. Newhouse Gave Ron “Mr. Big” Galotti The Big Boot from “Vogue.”

Euro Update

Michael Kathe writes from Europe: "Since you've posted something about Romance (yesterday): I didn't see the penetration in it, it was just Rocco with a hard-on and a condom, mainly masturbating. And there are several blink and you'll miss it BJs Catherine Troussaud performs on another man (no hard ons, because the main male character refuses to sleep with the female protagonist), and some bondage. But there are about 5 to 10 seconds of penetration (a group sex scene) in another (much better) movie by the (at least in Europe) very famous Danish director Lars von Trier, "Idiotne" ("The Idiots"). (Look him up on www.imdb.com - you might even know some of his other movies such as "Breaking the waves" or "Europe").

"Plus: The new issue of THE FACE-magazine has an interesting article on Porn Chic by Laurence O'Toole: Late 70s pornography inspiring fashion Photography and vice versa Fashion inspiring pornography. (Interesting: 3D of Massive Attck and Liam Howlett of The Prodigy did the music for Privates "Uranus Experiment". Both Massive Attack (Trip Hop) and the Prodigy (Big Beatz) are top selling bands in Europe.)"

Barroom Brawl in Print

NiceJewishGirl suggests that the contents of these news updates resemble a barroom brawl in print. She writes: Ok, Luke this is from "Popular Reality" a zine I subscribed to. This is the latest issue: vol. 436, no. 1. Popular Reality - 1116 Shepard St., Lansing MI 48912. I think this can be applied to your site. Feel free to cut and paste all the bits you like. In fact, I would change it to A Bar Room Brawl with apologies to Bob Black, and where it says Pop Real or PR you should put Luke F-rd. Luke change the names here, put in Steve Hirsch and Paul Fishbein as the anarchists separated at birth below. Put your name or initials every time you see Luke F-rd. I talked with you about this 2 days ago, remember? Fix this, you will be rewarded by manna from heaven.....instead of anarchists you could say vca, vivid, etc. love, njg the brilliant girl with brilliant ideas.

Introductory Brag by Rob Black

Publishing is like sex; timing is everything. l-keford.com was right on time. The fringe was fermenting. l-keford.com bootlegged the best of it. Luke F-rd made it look easy, and for him, it was. Artlessly but not carelessy assembled, the website amplified Ford's more than usually unique ego although 99% of the material was by others and most was not produced for l-keford.com. LF.com was always receptive to collage, and no wonder, it WAS a collage. l-keford.com was a thieving magpie with a sense of style. Not to say a bratty naif whose decadence had the purity of innocence: Henri Rousseau with a can of spray-paint.

By 1997 the currents, creeds and crazes were commingling in the mails, and l-keford.com epitomized and accelerated the intersections. "Politics", of course, throughout, "anti-authoritarian" but with a weakness for militant actions for whomoever conducted which drew down the wrath of precision anarchists. Graphics, newsclips, rad news and low humor and as soon as we all had a look at each other, a free-swinging letters column like no other--that was Ford's infant formula. Many who were raised on it now find pap indigestible. The tabloid started small, at eight paragraphs, and took a few issues to fully find it's braying voice. But by ones and twos the crew came aboard, cutlasses clenched between their teeth.

The starting cast included Rob Spallone, the James DiGiorgio, who holds the world's record for Jack Chick plagiarisms; Mike Albo, mixmaster and mischiefmaker; and yours truly. After two accessions in the second issue, l-keford.com had himself an Impossible Missions Force. Anti-Authoritarians Anonymous (Brock and Heaven Leigh) imparted an important ideational spin--counter-clockwise. l-keford.com was never closed to orthodox anarchists, not even the risible "True Haymarket Anarchists" or peevish prigs like ex-Professor Jon Bekken

A columnist for AVN trumpeted the tabloid, then anathematized it for printing a pseudo-situationist essay on porno HIV. Porners complained of incoherence (sure, so what?!). Boring aporners professed to be bored; they were more likely unnerved. Taken as a whole, LF.com tended to heal the split in wit, rejoining intelligence with humor. And funny ha-ha with funny peculiar. Collage aspires to community, towards superseding separation, it is an ingathering of the exiles.

l-keford.com distilled a wide range of underground activity, much of it emergent, and the effect was intoxicating. There could never be, not even as early as 1984, any all-inclusie 80's marginal outlet. LF.com, like some other publications such as Twisted Imbalance, bolstered the zine scene by reprinting heavily frome ven smaller projects. LF.com did a lot to create, perhaps for thousands, a culture of confrontation and a nano-pluralism which was an invitation to produce and not just consume. Copies Ford didn't sell or fie away by mail he just left around in heaps for the local public. (It is ridiculous yet tupical that in three years, Ford issued the paper in three cities.) He proved that poverty is no bar to philanthropy. Not that he was out to Serve the People. It's just that to keep it you have to give it away. LF.com was a bar-room brawl in print. It was the best.

From www.aish.org:

All too often we are guilty of self-centered paranoia. For example, how many of us have had the experience of going over to a table where two people are holding a conversation and as we approach the table the conversants stop talking? The almost immediate response of most people in this situation is to suspect that they were the subject of the conversation. In fact, we were probably the last thing on the conversants' minds but we still suspect that they were talking about us. Or, to offer another example, a superior speaks in an abrupt manner to us. More often than not, the person's behavior has little to do with how they feel toward us and everything to do with an outside problem that's bothering them. Still, we agonize over what we could have done to upset them. All of this is not to say that we should not be deeply concerned with our relationships with others; but the message of the raven is that we must try to strike a healthy balance and be as objective as possible when viewing others' motives. Contrary to what we may think, we are not really the center of everyone else's universe.