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News & ArtsThursday, March 29, 2012
City Apropos of Nothing: City Attorney Pete Holmes Naked on a Bear Skin Rug
Posted by Cienna Madrid on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:43 PM
For the record, I had an elaborate post drafted around this image. But for reasons too boring to explain, the post was one sneeze short of irrelevant this morning and is now totally irrelevant. (Someone sneezed!)
But I can't just shitcan the photo, for it is art. Also, Grant is throwing up polls about suckling cats so, you know, fuckit.
- I own this
- Courtesy of the campaign to re-elect City Attorney Pete Holmes in 2013.
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Hahaha. Good old Burt Reynolds. Sadly, I'm actually old enough to remember when the original photo was produced.
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Did that really come from his campaign, or am I the most gullible person in the world? If the attribution is real, that's awesome and Seattle is the most awesome city ever.
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I'm young enough to remember the David Hasselhoff Cosmo centerfold, where he was draped with strategically placed shar-pei puppies.
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Hah! Burt Reynolds' 1972 Cosmo spread really stunned the country at the time - various people for various reasons. Main squeeze Dinah Shore allegedly said "It doesn't do him justice..."
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When Burt lost all the hair on his head, did he get hairy on the bod? Would it be possible to be hairy or would you literally be a bear?
How did Charles miss that they've discovered a new specifies of homo sapien? Does it always take him 5 years to make up some completely unscientific theory linking science and economics and pineapple political theory?
How did Charles miss that they've discovered a new specifies of homo sapien? Does it always take him 5 years to make up some completely unscientific theory linking science and economics and pineapple political theory?
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@3: I was too young to remember the Cosmo spread, but I'll never forget going to see Smokey and the Bandit with my dad as a young kid. It was my first PG movie.
I'll also never forget the day I stumbled upon Burt Reynold's fan mail a couple of years ago. That was a the day I realized how un-awesome my life is.
I'll also never forget the day I stumbled upon Burt Reynold's fan mail a couple of years ago. That was a the day I realized how un-awesome my life is.
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Kids, as I recall (and I was in my early 20s at the time), it was not Cosmo, it was "Playgirl", a very short-lived magazine based on the ill-conceived notion that women get off on nude pics just like guys (heh heh, we're on to you-all feminists!). The Burt centerfold got a lot of pre-publicity buildup, then they didn't even have the nerve to show his weenie. Not that a flaccid weenie is or ever has been a turn-on for any women I know, but still...
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I have to say in all sincerity that this whole post captures a 'treehouse' vibe at that office that takes me back to 1995. Super dumb and funny.
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@12 No, it was definitely Cosmo that had the centerfold. Reynolds did at least two covers for Playgirl, but they're pretty boring. I've been perusing online, and I'm struck by two things: 1) how familiar those old Playgirl pictures are (I must have looked at someone's stash), and 2) how much they suck. Look up the David Duchovny cover and the Tommy Chong centerfold for evidence. What the fuck.
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@4, sadly, no. The campaign bit is a joke (although I've let Pete know that I'm fine with him using the image in future campaign materials).
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@14 Irena, thanks for the research. Now I'm remembering that Cosmo was trying to upstage Playgirl by booking the Bert centerfold, with months of pre-publication fanfare. Then it came out...pffffttt. Such a disappointment.
Rumor had it that Playgirl was pretty much a gay men's magazine until it finally folded. That was, of course, before the internet was invented, back before the earth's crust had cooled.
Rumor had it that Playgirl was pretty much a gay men's magazine until it finally folded. That was, of course, before the internet was invented, back before the earth's crust had cooled.
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@14 Irena, thanks for the research. Now I'm remembering that Cosmo was trying to upstage Playgirl by booking the Bert centerfold, with months of pre-publication fanfare. Then it came out...pffffttt. Such a disappointment.
Many of my friends and I subscribed to Playgirl out of curiosity but didn't stay long. Rumor had it that it became pretty much a gay men's magazine until it finally folded. That was, of course, before the internet was invented, and gay men didn't have too many ogling options.
Many of my friends and I subscribed to Playgirl out of curiosity but didn't stay long. Rumor had it that it became pretty much a gay men's magazine until it finally folded. That was, of course, before the internet was invented, and gay men didn't have too many ogling options.
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