scottobear | The strip mall of sin.

ldy reminded me about the strip mall of sin, posting in my journal...

Have I mentioned it before? It's a plaza near my house, that caters to all the vices that are legal, and grayish.

Kids under 18 can read this, but don't tell anyone, or I'll deny it.

The contents of the plaza are as follows.

1. Adult Bookstore/Video Store, with sundry items and "marital aids". Yes, I've been inside, and yes, I bought something, and no, I'm not married. What it is I bought will be an entry posted sometime in the far-flung future. The place has "porno viewing booths" that run for 30 seconds for a quarter. When I walked past, I was thankful not to smell anything vaguely emission-like. Something I found odd was that the guy looked totally normal and comfortable running the place. Kind of cool, I tend to think I might have trouble keeping a straight face if someone arrived and asked "Do you have a copy of Shaving Ryan's Privates? No? How about Sex Trek II, the next penetration?" Posted notices there reminding prostitutes that hooking is illegal. They don't seem to care, or maybe they can't read English, Spanish or Creole. (See also #5, below.)

2. Grateful J's... a head shop, full of hemp, bootleg tapes and incense. Yes, this is the main reason I go to the SOS. I have made a little trade swapping sound board bootlegs of a few Phish and Grateful Dead concerts there, I can pretty much get my tie-dye and sweet smelling burn-sticks free there. I've recently discovered due to sweetalyssm that kitties are smart enough to avoid fire, and after careful tests, am comfortable with candles and incense around the house! They won't trade for some things, but Napster has made trading of bootleg stuff a good barter for me. For what it's worth, Phish and GD don't mind, so it's not copyright infringement, as long as you leave the studio albums alone. I need to find a place that'll allow me to trade burned CDs for cash. :) Anyway, if you hang around there long enough, you can get assorted drugs if you're a regular. I'm not currently into that, but sometimes wonder who else could get in trouble if I was in the room when the deals go down. Anyhoo, that's also a place to get fun/weird sex toys too. Why they bother next to the porn place, I don't know. If I ever decide to go back into the bookstore, maybe I'll comparison shop. (Not that I'm in the market, one way or the other.)

3. Regular video store, but with an extensive XXX section, all titles of which are for sale. Higher quality, polished stuff there, pretty much exclusively vivid video stuff. so they don't have a bigger competition, plus, it's for folks that are afraid of the adult bookstore.... fearful of the towel delivery truck outside, or the imagined greasy patrons with soiled overcoats in muggy south Florida. I have a membership at the store. I like it, as it has great prices, and isn't a major chain like blockbuster, and they have cool weirdo movies about zombies / rubber monsters / angry apes / etc.

4. Tattoo blues, a tattoo & piercing parlor. I went in there with April and Danny at one point, to look at designs and to price nipple-rings, septum jewelry, and various other items of surgical steel pushed into the body. Tattoos I've considered getting are my family crest (if my brother, or other close family member ever got one with me) and a couple of other design ideas...I think a lot of body art is beautiful, but am sort of hard pressed to decide on something I'd want to accessorize my skin with, forever. My brother, on the other hand, has a really keen flaming skull on his side, and stomach, and I think it looks neat. The folks in the store are quite nice, willing to let you take your time, and answer any questions you might have. Prices are much better than at funhouse tattoos, too, which is up the street.

5. Florida Models - "On Site Dating", featuring Dancing, photography, models, fetish, and all the way down on the menu list posted outside to "Mutual Nude Massage and shower sessions" From the comments/complaints I've heard from the patrons in Grateful J's, you can get anything you want in there, if you flash some dollars, and can get someone to vouch for you. The hookers at the Adult Bookstore are verbally hostile at the mention, apparently they couldn't get ho-cred to work in the building.

6. An Electrician/Locksmith- the only remotely legitimate business in the plaza. Or is it cover for the elaborate lock picking cat burglars who get names and addresses from the wallets of depants-ed folks in #5 above? They also do faxing for you, and photo ID's.

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well, your cat may be smart enough, but my baby is far too fascinated with fire for me to feel comfortable.

: )

you should see her at the menorah.
my silly little one.

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