[Vision2020] And Now for Something a Little Different

[deb]

What an interesting job! It might actually be fun to look at Moscow's 
historical porn industry---heaven knows we have other oddities in our 
history (Frank Robinson ring a bell? How's about those underground tunnels 
through downtown? What about the underground newspapers in the sixties? The 
subversive meetings of the MOLES? religious schisms and flame wars?).
Perhaps it is a book. "The Weird History and Current Conditions of  a Small 
Idaho Town". We certainly have enough local chatracters and color to do it. 
And, by the way, Joan Opyr's new book, From Hell to Breakfast, is now out!!! 
Yahoo--the adventure continues!
Debi R-S


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 3:34 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] And Now for Something a Little Different


> If you recently stole the Dutch City of Leeuwarden's municipal porn
> archive, city officials would like a word with you.
>
> In a related news item, cities in the Netherlands have municipal porn
> archives.
>
> Courtesy of the Associated Press at:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/at47ld
>
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>
> Dutch city fears loss of pornography archive
> By TOBY STERLING
> Associated Press Writer
>
> The municipal pornography archive in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden is
> missing and officials fear it may be gone for good.
>
> Spokesman Erik Krikke of the city's historical center said the archive -
> which contained photos, drawings and erotic texts with a connection to the
> city - may have been taken home "accidentally" by an employee or visitor.
>
> "We're hoping that someone will say 'Hey, I have that in my attic' and
> bring it back," he said Thursday. "No questions asked."
>
> Krikke said the collection was small enough to have fit in a moving box.
>
> Mayor Ferd Crone of Leeuwarden, 87 miles (140 kilometers) north of
> Amsterdam, told local media he had been unaware of the collection's
> existence and was surprised it was gone.
>
> Krikke said the bulk of the archive had been assembled by a "fanatic"
> curator at the historical center, mostly during the 1960s and '70s. Items
> such as pictures by local photographers and artists would be difficult or
> impossible to replace.
>
> The collection included a copy of the rare February 1998 edition of Dutch
> Playboy, Krikke said. It featured girls from each of 11 Dutch cities along
> the route of the country's most beloved ice skating race, the
> Elfstedentocht. One of those girls was from Leeuwarden.
>
> Asked whether he thought it was unusual for the town to have a pornography
> collection, Krikke said "yes" - and that made the loss greater.
>
> "Actually, we don't have one anymore," he said.
>
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>
> How about it, Moscow?
>
> Heck.  City hall would have to hire a complete separate staff just to
> process public records requests.
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "For a lapsed Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist
> Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go
> to work."
>
> - Roy Zimmerman
>
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