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underwear, rubber, bears, mud, and tit torture. To me, the announcement of
upcoming themes was a pro-active way to encourage writers and artists with
enough lead time to submit materials on the themes. To make the point, I
showed DeBlase a portion of my Palm Drive Video photographic portfolio
and its themes. On March 1, 1988, DeBlase wrote me a letter confirming
our plan:

Dear Jack,
Life as usual is amazingly hectic.... With your proposals in
mind [i.e.: my theme thumbnails and thematic photos which I left
in his hands to cue his issues], upcoming fetish features are:
Issue 116, Underwear: Your shot of Curtis James in his long-
johns is great. Do you have more of these that we could use along
with a review of this tape? [The video was Redneck Cowboy in Black
Leather, and he published three of my underwear fetish photos on
pages 48 and 98.]
Issue 117, Daddies: I plan to use your Dave Gold’s Gym Workout
[still photographs taken during the video shoot] here; do you have
others that you’d like included? [DeBlase published two of Dave
Gold, page 45.]
Issue 118, Rubber: A natural for your new Keith Ardent video
[Pec Stud in Black Rubber, during which I shot two hundred photos,
including a special Drummer cover and a photo spread of eleven
centerfold pictures (pages 2, 3, 11-18, 32), as well as authoring the
cover feature article “Rubberotica”].
Issue 119, Bears and Mountain Men: Curtis James again, as
well as many of your models. You pick the ...[models] you’d like
emphasized here. [DeBlase printed twenty-one of my photographs
of straight mountain men and gay bears and published my lead cover
feature article, “Bears! How to Hunt Buckskin Mountain Men.”]
Issue 120, Mud, Oil, Grease, and Grunge: Naturally, your Mud
Pillow Fight video and photographs will be featured. Anything else
you have that is appropriate? [I provided three interior photographs
of “mud” for “Sodbuster,” Drummer 148, page 61.]
Issue 121, Tits: Again a natural for your Tit Torture Blues tape.
[DeBlase printed one of my photographs of Jason Steele.]
Any more recommendations for upcoming fetish features?

At DeBlase’s request, I suggested “solo sex and video” as the theme for
Drummer 123 and wrote the lead feature, “Solo Sex: Who’s Who in J/O

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