From: Zeke Krahlin
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 1:15 PM
To: Friends of Zeke mailing list
Subject: Modern Drunkard Magazine - hilarious!
Since I've miraculously morphed into a bar fly, my new-found drinking
buddy, Tom (also a Red out of Chicago; yay!) turned me on to Modern Drunkard Magazine.
I find their wittiness outstanding. Of course, consider the source...or should I say "sauce"?
Seriously, folks: even a tea totaller will laugh her/his arse off,
reading this brilliantly decadent and whimsical zine just for drunks.
Ooops, they call 'em "drunkards"...guess 'cause it sounds a tad
respectable.
I think it would be truly fun to write a piece for them, from the
ambience of a GAY bar. Wonder if they've done anything on that yet? You
know I'll find out!
From: Zeke Krahlin
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 11:47 AM
To: editor@moderndrunkardmaga zine.com
Subject: No gay bars at all?
Heterosexuals aren't the only ones who drink and write about it with wit and aplomb.
I searched your site to find NOTHING about gay bars, or gay drunks.
Even your San Francisco bar review was strictly heterosexual. The ONLY
references your online magazine has to homosexuals, is simply to insult
them as a perverted sense of humor.
But then again, that's a big part of being a str8 drunkard. It's GAY
drunks that have class, and make lovely fantasies and adventures come
true. If you'd like, I can contribute a piece about a gay bar, for your
next issue. It was recently printed as a letter to the editor in the
local gay press, and really created waves. Please read that letter here:
A Handsome Mug
BTW, feel free to include the picture accompanying that piece.
--
Zeke Krahlin
http://www.gay-bible.org
From: editor@moderndrunkardmaga zine.com
To: Zeke Krahlin
Date: 17 May 2006, 11:24:40 AM
Subject: RE: No gay bars at all?
Come now. How does getting drugged and mugged equate "class" or a "lovely fantasy?"
We have covered gay bars in the past ("Straight Shots in a Gay Bar" June
2002) and have attempted to secure gay bars as advertisers. They prefer to
advertise in Denver's three gay publications, and many will not carry MDM
simply because it doesn't cater to the gay crowd. Selah.
What it comes down to is we are essentially a straight magazine. And I won't
apologize for that, no more than The Pink Pages or Out Front should
apologize for being gay publications.
Best Regards,
Frank Rich
Editor
Modern Drunkard Magazine
www.drunkard.com
From: Zeke Krahlin
To: editor@moderndrunkardmaga zine.com
Date: 17 May 2006, 10:38:44 PM
Subject: Re: No gay bars at all?
editor@moderndrunkardmaga zine.com writes:
Come now. How does getting drugged and mugged equate "class" or a "lovely fantasy?"
It doesn't. My particular piece I thought was hilariously pathetic:
typical of drunken foolishness...with a distinctly GAY spin. My
references to "class" and "lovely fantasy" have to do with the OTHER
side of gay bars...to which heteros are NOT privy.
We have covered gay bars in the past ("Straight Shots in a Gay Bar" June 2002)
But still, from a hetero perspective. You SHOULD have a distinctly gay
perspective in some of your articles. I am a humorist, who can do that
for you...and very well, thank you.
and have attempted to secure gay bars as
advertisers. They prefer to advertise in Denver's three gay
publications, and many will not carry MDM simply because it doesn't
cater to the gay crowd. Selah.
Um...why SHOULD they advertise with you, when you REFUSE to incorporate
a vibrant aspect of bars and drunkenness: the gay scene. That is plain
and simple: DISCRIMINATION.
What it comes down to is we are essentially a straight magazine
Oh, really? Where does it say "HETERO-ONLY Modern Drunkards", eh? Your
magazine does NOT hold a monopoly on bars and drunks. But by
intentionally EXCLUDING the marvelous gay aspect on this, you slap us
queers in the face.
And I won't apologize for that, no more than The Pink Pages or Out Front should apologize for being gay publications.
A ROTTEN comparison. Those publications are CLEARLY gay oriented.
Drunkeness is NOT limited to heteros...nor does it mean its validity
and quality are monopolized by heteros only...which is what is implied
by your horrid EXCLUSION of the queer side.
Apologize? Did Hitler apologize for excluding gays from German society?
Best Regards
Nonsense. You are NOT a straight magazine...and it is only your hetero
ARROGANCE that assumes we readers should all EXPECT you to be
hetero-supremacists.
Do you exclude black bars and drunks? Asians? Women? No, you do not.
Therefore, you are simply COPPING OUT of including queer pespectives,
because of your unadmitted HOMOPHOBIA. You also probably fear LOSS in
subscriptions, if you include gay articles.
Typical drunk hetero chicken-shit.
--
Zeke Krahlin
http://www.gay-bible.org
I may be able to DRINK you under the table,
but I'll never BLOW you, faggot!
I thought this would be the end of our e-mail dialogue...but no, the saga continues. Read on:
From: editor@moderndrunkardmaga zine.com
To: Zeke Krahlin
Date: 19 May 2006, 10:50:12 AM
Subject: RE: No gay bars at all?
You seem to think that the gay drinking experience is some how different and
superior to drinking in general. We write about drinking. Gay people drink.
They can dig it in that context. Are you telling me gay people can only
enjoy an article or magazine unless it is specifically catered to them? Much
as a man who prefers beer cannot enjoy a story about a guy getting drunk on
gin? Cannot a gay reader enjoy The Great Gatsby, despite the fact the main
characters are straight? Do you refuse to read articles about fly fishing
because the fisherman isn't gay? Are you that prejudiced against people who
aren't like you?
Best Regards,
Frank Rich
Editor
Modern Drunkard Magazine
www.drunkard.com
From: Zeke Krahlin
To: editor@moderndrunkardmaga zine.com
Date: 19 May 2006, 12:14:37 PM
Subject: Re: No gay bars at all?
editor@moderndrunkardmaga zine.com writes:
You seem to think that the gay drinking experience is some how different and superior to drinking in general.
Indeed! That IS the case. But because your hetero-supremacist attitude
BLOCKS you from the unique style of gay bars and drunkenness, you have
no idea. I am OFFERING to provide you some rather remarkable true tales
that are going on at a gay bar I'm hanging out in. For example, when
you have the time, read this:
Larkin: A Hidden Treasure
My point really being, that since MOST heteros remain strongly
heterocentric (if not outright homophobic as well), they have
SUPPRESSED an element of human magic and fun, at their own cost.
Black bars are different than white bars. Likewise, Native Amerikan.
Ergo, what YOU imply, is that gay bars LACK their own distinct identity.
We write about drinking. Gay people drink.
Yet your magazine suggests (through ignoring us queers) that gay people not only do not drink: they do not even exist.
Are you telling me gay people can only enjoy an article or magazine unless it is specifically catered to them?
Of course not. What I AM telling you, is that it is MOST discouraging
and SAD, that we gays still remain IGNORED by a wide variety of
eclectic and fun literature. Despite the fact that many gay bars are
VIBRANT and unique in ways that straights will never know.
To ASSUME that every publication, every group, every institution is
intrinsically heterosexist, even when they claim to be for
EVERYone...is part of the package that is termed heterocentric. This is
similar to blacks demanding they be included in the social milieu of
society...whether clubs, media, bars, etc
For any magazine to ASSUME it is Caucasian-centered, and that everyone
ELSE should assume likewise...is a SLAP in black people's faces. In
that same fashion, you claim this is true for heteros. It's like being
an Aryan-Nazi group, yet legitimizing it as part of a multicultural
experience.
Cannot a gay reader enjoy The Great Gatsby, despite the fact the main characters are straight?
Well, no, they can't truly enjoy it...because we queers KNOW that gays
are part of Gatsby's world...yet the author has expurgated that
important facet from literary consciousness. In fact, gays have played
MAJOR roles in all facets of society, both good and bad.
Do you refuse to read articles about fly fishing because the fisherman isn't gay?
No. But I AM aware that gay fishermen DO exist, and ought to be
included in such magazines. I'm sick and TIRED of pics of red-blooded
hetero sportsmen standing beside this or that big-boobed female bimbo.
It is vulgar, it is barbarian. In fact, it is even VIOLENT...due to the
machismo attitude IMPLIED by such displays.
Do black fishermen exist? Female?
Are you that prejudiced against people who
aren't like you?
Of course not...unless they are homophobic. You have justified a cruel
prejudice against gay people, by claiming that MDM is for heteros only.
Where in your publication does it say this? Clearly, not on the front
page, nor anywhere else.
--
Zeke Krahlin
http://www.gay-bible.org
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