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“Virtual Drummer” collection in the premiere issue of Skinflicks,
Volume 1, Number 1, January 1980.
In November 1979, Daniel D. Pacella, who had also starred in
the Gage Brothers’ LA Tool and Die, wrote from his Orange Drive
address in LA:

Jack, A thousand thanks from Chuck and me for your...
review. We loved it. We enjoyed it. We even got off on it....We
were glad you wrote about our effort as more than just a sex
show....Sorry to hear there’s so much trouble at Drummer,
but use the photos included with the review wherever you
get this published....We look forward to sharing once again
with you a joint and a jug of wine.
—Dan & Chuck

With aching nostalgia for the 1970s, I recall, like Chaucer’s vig-
orous Wife of Bath joyously counting her grand slams, that while I
was editing Drummer,
• the Enger-Fritscher affair ran (September 1978-January 1981)
parallel with
• the Mapplethorpe-Fritscher affair (Halloween 1977-Spring
1980) which ran parallax to
• the Sparrow-Fritscher gay marriage (1969-1979) running in
step with
• the Tavarossi-Fritscher affair (1971-1981), and coincidental
with
• the Hemry-Fritscher union beginning May 22, 1979, and con-
tinuing to the present.

Like all of us in that Titanic decade, I lived the 1970s to the hilt,
but I did have some limits.
When the drop-dead handsome Romanski, who had the big-
gest cock in porn, but not as big as Enger’s, wined and dined and
courted me, and played the piano (which he did beautifully), I politely
declined his gorgeous advances because it seemed incestuous to
ball my hairy blond lover’s ex who seemed overly curious about what
he had heard my conjure-energy was like sexually. My refusal in the
free love of the 1970s was probably foolish, because Enger joked,
“You don’t know what you missed.”
Maybe I do: Chuck Romanski died of AIDS June 17, 1993.
During that same summer, in August, 1993, I saw Dan Dufort
for the last time when the hills around LA were on fire, and security
for the visiting Nelson Mandela had slowed all traffic to a crawl. He
was desperate: his mother had died some months before, and his

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