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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Housekeeping The New Issue of The Stranger Is Live!

Posted by Kelly O on Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:00 AM

(A. Birch Steen is on vacation this week and will return next week. The rest of us are in our editorial meeting from 9 to 11 a.m., so we'll be observing Slog silence, but look—we made an entire paper's worth of stuff for you.)

This week’s cover is a portrait I took at the AVN porn convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. I’ve been to three of these conventions, for no other reason than my fascination with the industry and the cast of characters that inhabit it. In 2007, I met Cynthia Jean Gillig-Stone, a size-65NN big-bust model, XXX-film actress, and exotic dancer who went by the name Echo Valley. She also had a mainstream film role in 2008, playing Tits Hemingway in Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. The gentleman with her in the cover photo is a fan—an autograph seeker. When he stopped Valley to get something signed, I stopped too. I didn’t want an autograph, and instead asked for pictures. Valley was gracious, friendly, and extremely sweet. I’d see her around the con- vention floor, and I’d smile and wave at her. She would do the same back at me.

Fast-forward to last month: I was invited to participate in a gallery show with the theme “Love & Anguish.” I immediately thought of the portraits I’d taken of porn stars. When I found my photos of Echo Valley, I did a quick internet search to see what she’d been up to. She was dead—killed on May 21, 2011. Her Pontiac had been rear-ended by a pickup truck, and she was ejected through the windshield. A state trooper reported that she had not been wearing a seat belt. With size 65NN breasts, I’m sure she couldn’t wear a seat belt. What made this woman, this human being, born “Cynthia”—in a small town in Michigan, just like me—what made her famous and made her feel loved is also what killed her. I’m pretty sure her story is a proper summation of “love” and “anguish.” RIP, Echo Valley.

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That single breast is not attractive.

Posted by suddenlyorcas on November 9, 2011 at 9:10 AM

That rack is a little disgusting.

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on November 9, 2011 at 9:23 AM

Be careful of what you say about the dead. Those boobs could come back to haunt you in your sleep - or - maybe give you wet dreams.

Posted by billrm on November 9, 2011 at 9:46 AM

Nope. I looked it up, and it says right here "there is no such thing as boobs that are too big." Sorry.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on November 9, 2011 at 9:53 AM

Reminds me of the giant boob scene in Woody Allen's 'Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask'
>Victor! Look!
>A gigantic tit!
>what are we gonna do?
>What you're gonna do, I'm going home
to get my catcher's mitt.
>The nipple is getting erect!
>Come on, let's go!
>Not so quickly. They're all boys in my family.
>Sheriff, I wanna report on a escaped tit.
>It's already killed two people, Dr. Bernardo and his assistant.
>A tremendous tit.
>Have you been drinking?
>Listen, we don't have time to argue here.
>While we're standing here, the countryside is being ravaged by a colossal boob.
>Be on the lookout for a large female breast.
>It's about 4,000 with an X cup.
>"Everybody Needs Milk"
>We're too late.He's dead.
>Yeah I know. The cream slowed him up and the milk killed him.
>We're up against a very clever tit.
>It shoots half and half.

Pure fucking Genius!

Posted by billrm on November 9, 2011 at 10:08 AM