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“Down Low With Luigi #7”, The Daily Derriere, March 11, 2017

This is a series of drawings illustrating a sexual fantasy from my late 80’s erotic sketchbook. This series, which I today call “Down Low With Luigi” is very similar in theme and plot to the “Down Low With Lou” series, except my “clone of desire” is a vaguely mafiosi type of dude rather than Lou Grant.

As an aspiring mainstream comic book artist in the 80’s, I got continual feedback that my inks weren’t of professional  quality. The really sad thing is that I believed them. Jeez, I wish I could do work like this TODAY. Or, I should say, I hope I still CAN do work like this today. We’ll find out when I start trying.

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“Down Low With Lou #5”, The Daily Derriere, February 14, 2017

Happy Valentine’s Day. I forgot all about it until this morning, when my husband wished me day-related salutations.

I recently purchased the dvd set of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Season One. I was disappointed, watching these episodes for the first time in 40 years, to see how small Ed Asner’s basket was in the tight slacks his character, Lou Grant, habitually wore. Around this same time, a friend reported reading Mary Tyler Moore’s autobiography. According to my friend, Mary reported an incident where she stumbled upon Ed, who was coming out of a shower on the set, buck naked. She judged Ed to be quite well endowed. This makes the non-basket-pushing quality of his TV appearances somewhat mystifying. Did he strap it down? Was he a “grower not a shower”? I suppose, at this late date, we’ll never know.

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“Down Low With Lou #3”, The Daily Derriere, February 12, 2017

Ed Asner is a year younger than my late father and the same age as my mother. In my adolescence to the present day, I have been attracted to men in their late 30’s to earn 50’s. The irony is that now my object of desire are my age or younger. I’m having difficulty wrapping my head around this, but, in my late 50’s, I find myself taking on the social role of “patriarch” and “father figure” even though I am childless.

The character of Lou Grant, as he first appears on “The Mary Tyler Moore” show and later, in “Lou Grant” is unspecified age (at least I don’t recall it ever being stated) but the actor was 40 when the series started, and in his early 50’s when it ended. 

I actually met him and shook his hand in the early 00’s, at a fundraiser for Project Lamp (an NGO servicing mentally ill homeless people on Los Angeles’s Skid Row (apparently the organization is featured in the 2009 movie “The Soloist”, starring Jaimie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.). At the time Ed was in his early  70’s, a bit past it for my tastes. I didn’t tell him how he was instrumental in helping me to identify my sexuality (LOL).

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“Down Low With Lou #2”, The Daily Derriere, February 11, 2017

Lou Grant was my first love. As a 13 year old, I fantasized about him fucking Mary Richards. I found the fantasies much more efficacious when I removed Mary from them. I found them more efficacious still when I placed myself in the fantasy. It was then that I realized to my chagrin that my tormentors in 7th grade gym class were correct, that I was indeed a “fag”.

I did this series of masturbation drawings in a sketchbook I kept for that purpose between between December 1987 and October 1999.. I have since titled it “Erotic #7” (in that it was the 7th such sketchbook that I had kept since the late 70’s). There are about 20 drawings in this series, which kept me busy for a couple months in late 1987/early 1988. I placed myself in the fantasy, so the other character in the drawings is a somewhat idealized version of myself at the time.

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“On The Job #2”, The Daily Derriere, February 8, 2017

This is drawing #1 in a series of three that I excavated from the masturbation sketchbook I kept in 1987/1989. I call this series “On The Job” because it has a vaguely blue collar vibe to it.