Where is the baby pit bull? – cop, during no-knock raid
I’m really annoyed that The Steven Banks Show, an extremely funny comedy produced by my home-town PBS station, WYES, has never been released on DVD. To give you a taste, here’s the show’s soundtrack album (which I own on CD, naturally). The links above the video were provided by Mike Siegel, Franklin Harris, Cop Crisis, Jesse Walker, Cop Crisis again, and Amy Alkon, in that order.
- I’m helping!
- R.I.P. William Hurt.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- The oldest businesses in the world.
- Cops believe they have Divine right to inflict violence.
- I remember when this was the plot of a Doctor Who story.
From the Archives
- Trumpists are clinging to the “sex trafficking” narrative like grim death.
- The travel industry will regret collaboration with “trafficking” fetishists.
- People need to keep suing government actors for every single assault.
- “Human trafficking” is nothing more than a dysphemism for sex work.
- “Sex trafficking” now means whatever authoritarians want it to mean.
- Unless some country provides a haven, the open internet is doomed.
- “Packed” = “concentrated”. And the word for “tent facility” is “camp”.
- It took almost seven years for the press to finally catch up with me.
- The government needs to be buried in lawsuits before this will stop.
- Japanese attempts to hide sexuality will never be enough for gaijin.
- A perfect storm of stupidity, sex fantasy and authoritarian violence.
- “Authorities” want to keep sex workers from protecting each other.
- Cops, lawheads, dogs, Kentucky, Star Trek opera and much more.
- I’ve never seen chicks grow and develop as quickly as this batch.
- Removing excuses cops use to persecute people is always good.
- “Survivors” are exploited by prohibitionists, but some wake up.
- Texas cops routinely destroy lives by creating false memories.
- Your last bit of privacy during travel is about to be eliminated.
- An imaginary “offense” is excused by an imaginary “disorder”.
- It’s good to see the “sex addiction” myth slowly falling apart.
- “This is not about sex trafficking; this is about local NIBMYs.”
- A long-overdue move by Mexico to throw off US domination.
- Columns like this one by Steve Chapman are no longer rare.
- Why do you advise activists not to debate prohibitionists?
- Another step toward a fully-independent demimonde.
- A list of sex work-friendly criminal defense attorneys.
- When malodorous moralists went after Pepe Le Pew.
- Still doubt politicians are deranged megalomaniacs?
- Why do puritans pretend that shaming is “modern”?
- Doctor Who has always been one of my favorites.
- My two previous columns for the vernal equinox.
- Cops, Metallica, Lyle Waggoner, and much more.
- This will definitely be uphill in most of Louisiana.
- Prohibitionists love victim-blaming sex workers.
- The Canadian premiere of The War on Whores.
- Your government calls this “border protection”.
- We told you so, over and over and over again.
- Tips for sex workers pivoting to online work.
- How China tries to keep the genocide quiet.
- How the pandemic is harming sex workers.
- There really is nothing new under the sun.
- This is going to hurt a lot of sex workers.
- In praise of my producer, Paul Johnson.
- Cops, covers, saints, and much more.
- I move to Sunset for the duration.
- Sex workers reaching out via art.
- Far too little, far too late.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- More Twitter stuff!
Project Mohole began in 1961 and was abandoned in 1966.
Dr. Who was first broadcast in 1963.
The Soviet Kola Superdeep Borehole began in 1970 and was abandoned in the 1990s after reaching a depth of more than 12,000 meters.
It is possible that the Dr. Who story was inspired by one of those projects.
In 199x I saw a half-hour(?) show in which Steven Banks struggles with distraction while trying to write a speech for his boss. Always wondered what else he’s done; never heard of the series before now.
Two surprising features of the puppy story: it was not the wrong house, and nobody shot the puppy.
I remember watching Steven Banks, but I can only remember the plot of one episode. And I can remember a song from another episode.
I remembered that his name was Steven (how the hell are you), but I’d forgotten his last name. So thank you for reminding me.
Among the musical quotations in “Trying to be Cool”; the one from Superstar cracked me up.