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“Down Low With Lou, #8”, The Daily Derriere, February 17 2017

This drawing was done in January 1989. I had joined ACT UP/LA  in the fall of ’87. Since I and my husband had just bought a house with a garage and a back yard, I volunteered my house as the site for the signage painting and float construction. ACT U? LA was a really fun, artistic group, with lots of great, humorous-yet pointed ideas for activism. It didn’t dawn on me, at first, that the majority of the members had AIDS or HIV. Duh. Comparatively speak, I was a dilettante, a fair weather activist. My life wasn’t at immediately at stake; I and my husband got tested for HIV for the first time in that summer.

My spouse was not a member of ACT UP; he was active in Democratic politics; in fact he was a delegate committed to Jesse Jackson in the ’88 presidential election. The delegates had to meet (twice a month? One a week on Fridays?) in Sacramento because it was equally inconvenient for everybody.

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“Down Low With Lou #7”, The Daily Derriere, February 16, 2017

This is one of my better drawings in the series. Done on January 5th, 1989, the onset of one of the most eventful years of my life. I had gotten involved in Act-up LA after getting politicized at the Second National March on Washington For Lesbian and Gay Rights, on October 11, 1987. My late husband and I had bought a house together in August of ’88 and moved there in October ’88. I was experiencing economic insecurity as my staff jobs storyboarding TV animation turned freelance, then dried up or became intermittent. Yet I was at a peak of my powers, having started gaining mastery as a draftsmen in 1987.

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“Down Low With Lou #6/#6_1, The Daily Derrier, February 15, 2017

Once again my scanner/Photoshop interface has been getting weird, hence the partial scan. Instead of attempting another scan, I chose to re-draw it, especially since I’m not wild about the 27 year old drawing. I opted to flop in, in anticipation of tomorrow’s drawing.

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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 #4”, The Daily Derriere, February 13, 2017

I scanner was acting up again, so I decided to just redraw “Down Low With Lou, #4” instead of continuing to dick around with the scanner.  I’m posting both the new redraw (as of February 9, 2017) and the original sketch, done in late 1987. This is a drawing of the semi-idealized version of myself, reacting hostilely to Lou Grant’s harassing behavior.

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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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“Down Low With Lou #1”, The Daily Derriere, February 10, 2017

This is drawing #1 from my masturbation sketchbook from 1987/1988. The “clone of desire” in this series of drawings is based off Ed Asner, in his career defining role as Lou Grant. I wasn’t using any reference other than my memories of watching him on TV. It’s also based off my imagination, since I’ve never seen Mr. Asner naked. The closest I’ve come to that was in “The Family Man”, a made for TV movie from 1979, where he stars as “…A happily married family man, owner of a parking garage in Manhattan, (who) drifts into a romance with one of his customers” (IMDb). Ed took off his shirt in that one.

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Daily Derriere, September 13, 2016, “Bedtime Story”

I drew this for “Chiron Rising”, a porn mag dedicated to 60+ men and their admirers, back in 1989. when I was 30 or about to turn 30. At the time, 60+ was trending a bit on the old side for my tastes. Now that’s my peer group; men in my preferred taste range (35 -55 years old) are now YOUNGER MEN. My 52 year old husband is a YOUNGER MAN. Ed Asner, when he started playing Lou Grant in 1970, was in his early 40’s. He was my adolescent ideal of the erotic father figure, and now the character he played, at the age he started playing Lou Grant, is young enough to be MY SON, if I had children. Trip out or what?

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THE DAILY DERRIERE, MARCH 3, 2016

Twas not my intention, but this ended up looking like Ed Asner, sort of. Not too surprising as Ed Asner was my first love as a 12 year old hitting puberty in the early 70’s. In fact, I realized I was gay when, while fantasizing about Lou Grant fucking Mary Richards, I replaced her with myself and found the fantasy much more successful.