Porn Goes Local

Phil Harvey got a masters degree in family planning administration at UNC in the early 70s. Perhaps it seems unlikely that he went on to create Adam & Eve.

"Every day, employees ship more than 15,000 boxes of sexually oriented merchandise across the country. Adam & Eve and its parent company, Phil Harvey Enterprises, Inc. (PHE) have grown to include Internet sales, a wholesale branch, three retail stores and at-home parties a la Tupperware. PHE doesn't sell Tupperware, though. It sells X-rated videos, lingerie, vibrators and other merchandise that people don't generally discuss in public."

Phil Harvey and his business operate out of...Hillsborough. This means that there are thousands and thousands of dildos in a warehouse in Hillsborough. And his film division, Adam & Eve Pictures, has Carrboro contact info. Is there porn being shot in Carrboro?! Well, maybe not. I can't find any evidence of that. But porn is being produced in Carrboro or Hillsborough, it seems. Just not shot there.

The Independent has a good article about Phil and his legal battles over obscenity charges--including government raids on his old warehouse west of Carrboro.

My, the rich history and culture of our area.

--contact info links to prove I'm not making shit up--
http://www.adameve.com/t-company_info.aspx
http://adamevewholesale.com/contact.php

how did i get here

Wtf comedy central plays censored girls gone wild videos at 6 am? The only ad is for the uncensored version of what i'm already watching. America what have you done.

Dude I told you Wu-Tang was for the children.

I was pointed toward this story about how shoes are wrong and barefoot is real, healthy, and natural. Ok nice I like that. But the real nut here is:

"Galahad Clark never intended to get into the shoe business, let alone the anti-shoe business. And he likely never would have, if it weren’t for the Wu-Tang Clan. Clark went to the University of North Carolina, where he studied Chinese and anthropology. He started listening to the Wu-Tang, the Staten Island rap collective with a fetish for martial-arts films and, oddly, Wallabee shoes. As it happens, Clark’s father had invented the Wallabee shoe. 'I figured this was my chance to go hang out with them,' Clark says. 'One thing led to another, and we developed a line of shoes together. That’s what sucked me back into the industry.'"

fuck yes.

Places

Someone lives in the places our heroes lived. Someone lives in the places where something happened that had huge impact.

People hang out in the community room where Grandmaster Flash decided to put his hands on the records.

Someone lives in the dorm room where Shawn Fanning invented Napster.

Do they know it? Do they brag about it?

I have no idea what occurred in the many that years people lived in the houses and dorms I've lived in before I lived there.

Someone lives in those places I've lived now, and they have no idea what I did in those places. The songs I recorded. The sex I had.

Famous Naked People Picture ID. Too intense for a trivia round?

Kool Keith has been up to things

and I have been ignoring these things. Perhaps my actions have been a mistake.

Wikipedia sourcelessly reports:

"In 2004, Kool Keith gained national attention for rapping 'doo doo' for 70 minutes at a show in Memphis, Tennessee."

and...

"In early spring 2007, Kool Keith was ejected from a tribute concert dedicated to himself, in Cleveland, Ohio."

How does a song titled "Women Turn On Your TV" wait until the album "Lost Masters Vol. 2" to be released? Geez.

Shit one of his new aliases is MC Robocop