Hey Kids! Topless Pulp Fiction!
During a recent in-house editorial discussion here, the notion was floated that we should be showing naked female breasts on this website, as part of an attempt to increase search engine rankings and site traffic.* To address this lack of undress, we’d like to present you with The Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society, whose slogan is “Making Reading Sexy”. Their raison d’etre:
We’re a group of friends, and friends of friends, and friends of friends of friends, and complete strangers, who love good books and sunny days and enjoying both as nearly in the altogether as the law allows. Happily, in New York City, the law allows toplessness by both men and women. So that’s the way we do our al fresco reading. If you’re in New York and the weather’s good, won’t you join us sometime…?
And yes, you can go to their website, which features many photos of them in Bryant Park and other New York City locales fulfilling their organizational mission. (Of course, the site is probably Not Safe For Work.) They’ve been working their way through a recent contribution from Hard Case Crime who generously supplied them with free copies of some of their latest, including [[[Seduction of the Innocent]]] from our good friend Max Allan Collins. We hope he got a good back cover blurb out of it.
They don’t appear to have gotten around to comics and graphic novels yet, but we’re sure we can find something for them by the time the weather in New York gets nice again. And no, despite what you might think, we’re not going to send them a bunch of mini-comics. We just aren’t cynical enough for Cynicalman.
* Yes, this is what goes on in our workplace when we aren’t figuring out how many dimensions Cynosure intersects with. Arguing about whether Thor is stronger than the Hulk is for newbies.
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Well, who knows if you’ll get more site traffic, but personally, it don’t do a thing for me except make me cringe a little and wonder if I need to start being careful about opening the site at lunchtime!
So in the interest of equality are we going to be showing male nudity next? Or…?
P.S. OR I can always just supply the Internets with that fantasssstic photo I have of you and Dean. HMM.
You might be interested to know, Emily, that our site does include a smattering of male nudity as well…not much, since most of our members are girls, but we ARE a co-ed group, and have occasionally met in private enough spots to get all-over tans. So, for instance, http://goo.gl/vwwEX.
So, are you cringing less now? Does that make it all okay?
Your Friends at OCTPFAS
Well, that’s good to know, but not really – I was cringing in large part because, as noted, I read this site at lunch on occasion, and wouldn’t want pics like this to unexpectedly be on my screen at such times. Well, and generally when I open up ComicMix. Whether your site has one or two types of nudity wouldn’t ever make it “all okay” if someone was walking by at work when that picture showed up.
And my equality comment was directed at ComicMix rather than your site.
That all makes sense, Emily. We certainly don’t mean to make anyone’s lunch hour (or workplace) less comfortable. Though there is something funny, when you think about it, about the fact that it’s completely legal to go topless in public parks and such, but a picture of us doing this completely legal, public thing is “Not Safe For Work”…
We\’ve done the male nudity already: http://www.comicmix.com/news/2009/04/01/glenn-hau…
But if you think the Internets can withstand that photo of Dean and me, well, it certainly would be tit for tat. So to speak.
Hah! Whatever happened with that promising position, then?
Hmm…now where was that picture…? *opens flash drive*