Spent the morning Boobpedia session (which usually runs about 20-30 minutes) finding more screenshots for the Boin Box series. I finished adding Amazon numbers to the series data during my afternoon BP session (usually 30-45 minutes) and started adding new info on entries to the Big Boobs, Bomber Boobs series.

The evening's entertainment returned us to East Side Kid territory with Spooks Run Wild (1941). We seem to have, unintentionally, watched these East Side Kids epics in order of their production. This film includes the Kids' legendary first meeting with Bela Lugosi, making it a Poverty Row Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), although, since that Universal production came seven years after this Monogram Pictures one, the big studio must have stolen the idea from the minor... Once again, Ernest "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison stole the show as far as I am concerned, yet he was relegated to an even smaller role in the group's hierarchy than he was in the previous film. Huntz Hall was clearly being groomed as an equal to Leo Gorcey. But it's Morrison that was the funniest. You can even see Lugosi struggling to keep from cracking up when Morrison does an especially funny "scared" bit and runs off. One wonders what was going on, that this guy-- the funniest of the gang-- was being pushed off to the background. Racism would be the obvious answer, though one would hope the answer isn't that obvious... You can view it online for free at the Internet Archive.

Bon Bon Cherry series set to start

Alright. I'm going to have to start posting these things every day, then go back and expanding, revising, and tweakling here and/or there, until I get bored with them. I've been working on them offline, but now I'm a week behind. I'll wind up never posting if I keep that up. The BP-related images will have to wait for the evening to be uploaded...

Anyway, I spent this morning finishing preparations for the BOMC (Bon Bon Cherry) series. I found screen shots for #1-15. It's hard picking out decent screenshots for the articles, since these videos appear not to be of the highest quality. Each shot shows either the actress' boobs, or her face, and when both are in the shot together, something screws things up-- a face-mask, a really ugly actor, something... It appears to be a "girl next door"- type of series-- the girl next door with enormous, floppy boobs, that is-- so the general plainness of most of the actresses is forgiveable. I'd flip any one of them in a nonce, with relish, of course.

In the afternoon I put together the data for updating the Boin Box series-- that will be a long haul, but a rewarding one as far as Boobpedia goes, since several fairly well-known, prolific actresses appear in it. In fact I think one or two of the DVDs have already been started by other editors during my absence from Boobpedia. These will be more glamorous model-type actresses than the ones I like best-- the chubby gals-- but they are no doubt more popular. I'm not aware of any chubby/BBW actresses who have appeared in that series, so I may put it off for a while... The reason I like JAMS & IZM is the gorgeous BBW actresses. The fact that it is the women who abuse and dominate the men makes it much less unpalatable than the other way around, which used to be the norm. The mysoginistic aspect of many of the best-known Pink and Roman Porno films of the '60s and '70s was never attractive to me in the least. I enjoy sex (cinematic and real) and violence (cinematic only, please) as much as, if not more than, the next guy, but not when the women are being abused. I tolerate it to see beautiful actresses like Naomi Tani (though I have to admit that woman does look stunning in ropes; see for yourself at right.) I contend she would be considered the Marilyn Monroe of Japan, if she hadn't worked in the not-quite-respectable genre of S&M soft-porn. The interesting work that the writers and directors sometimes bring to the Pink film genre is an added bonus. The Toei Pinky Violence-- with bad girls whipping the asses of men-- were more my style. Now show me Erika (seen at left in Ultra Bomber Boobs 152cm!) bouncing around on a 'Porno Pipsqueak' and I'm happy. Just have her on her own, parading around just being her gorgeous herself, and I've found bliss... Why not give her a plot to work with? Hunh? Hey Shintoho, Excess, OP! Where's the BBW Pink Films?! Enough with the skinny gals, throw us guys something we can sink our teeth into!

I watched another East Side Kids opus with the boy after the night's Boobpedia work-- Flying Wild. It is one of those 1941 films clearly anticipating the U.S. entry into the war, which must have seemed inevitable to everyone by then. (Can you imagine things similar to what was going on in the world in the '30s going on today, and the U.S. keeping its nose out of it?...) Spies are smuggling plans out of the country into Mexico... maybe the Kids anticipated war with Mexico? Or, I suppose, the enemy agents picked up the plans in Mexico then delivered them to England, or whomever it was predicted we'd fight. Not as enjoyable as the last night's Kids romp-- probably because Ernest "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison had a smaller role. Gorcey and Jordan were clearly the stars, but they weren't polished enough to carry the film. Don't believe me? Click here and watch it at the Internet Archive.

Seems to me-- I don't know, I'm not an expert on copyright law like those Wikipedians are-- that all the East Side Kid/Bowery Boys movies should be in public domain. After the very early films at Universal, didn't they work only at poverty row Monogram Pictures? Seems like a box-full of their million-and-a-half films would be a gold mine just waiting for Mill Creek to stake a claim. I'll make a deal with you, Mill Creek: You put out the East Side Kid & Bowery Boys films in one of your DVD box collections, and I'll buy one of them. Deal? OK! Hop to it!

Ode to a Rumbly Tumbly

Continuing the JAMS project, I started a stub on their lovely actress Ayaka Yuzuki (pictured at right) this morning. Nice, pretty face, scrumptious ass and boobs, of course, but look at that belly! Oh, my, there's a place old Dekkappai would like to lay his weary head... The belly gets little respect these days, but why should a nice, plump, soft belly be any less desirable than ass & boobs with similar tactile and aesthetic qualities? Ms. Yuzuki also has a deep belly button to show off the pleasing tummy-flesh around it. All-in-all quite a beautiful girl-- I'd flip her in a nonce with relish! With a cup of French roast, that was a very nice way to start off the morning. I wasted my afternoon BP work time trying to figure out better how this blog site works. I figured out more, so I suppose it wasn't a total waste. I'll just post at night though, after the evening's editing is done.

The last couple entries in the New Sexy Zone series-- The Super Tits Spy! Huge Tits Blowjob Lady and Huge-Ass Mask, Super Thunder-Thigh Amazon-- have rather amusing little scenarios as pretexts to their pornographic romping. The former is about a buxom, big-assed female spy who infiltrates an enemy country to sit on faces until they begin spilling national secrets. The second has a faithful, large-rear-ended wife fighting predatory credit collectors by transforming into a super heroine and... you guessed it... sitting on their faces. (At left Anna Moriyama deals harshly with bill collectors in Huge-Ass Mask, Super Thunder-Thigh Amazon) I hope these story-based DVDs continue, simply because they make writing a synopsis more fun, but not to the extent that they revert back to the style of the early AVs. The AVs of the '80s were like mini, poorly-made Pink-films: All plot, with just fleeting scenes of nudity and/or sex... and the plots were not interesting, as those of Pink films can be. I enjoy good Pink films as straight films-- that is, films-- period-- which happen to have erotic content. When up for a bit of cinematic entertainment, one doesn't pop on an AV. The AVs address more primitive urges. As early AV idol, Kaoru Kuroki put it, they are "a bit like eating and menus in restaurants: you're hungry and you have a sudden craving for noodles, so you go and eat noodles. Your appetite is towards a porno video, so you go and rent whatever turns you on. And as with food, viewers can use basic ingredients to 'cook' the desired stimulation from the video themselves." (quoted in Bornoff, Nicholas (1994) [1991]. "Bye-Bye Pink Cinema, Hello Adult Video". Pink Samurai: An Erotic Exploration of Japanese Society; The Pursuit and Politics of Sex in Japan (Paperback ed.). London: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-586-20576-4.)

Pink films don't work this way. Does anyone really find the films of Hisayasu Satou to be arousing in any way whatsoever? I sure as Hell don't, in fact I find them to be anti-erotic. The cinematic equivalent of a cold shower. (Which made it all the more irritating when some Wikipedian crusader tried to paint me as a monster for starting articles on Satou's films, claiming I was "wanking off" to Satou's cinematic atrocities. That type of smearing-by-association is an old trick among totalitarian thugs, and so, naturally, it's commonplace at Wikipedia.) Yet they are very interesting films-- some of the best Pink films I've seen. I'd watch any one of them before I'd sit down and watch an entire AV... which would be, to stretch the metaphor of the astute Ms. Kuroki a little, like eating everything on a menu...

At night I started bio-stubs on a couple more actresses in the New Sexy Zone series which finishes my work on that series for now. Next project: the BOMC / Bon Bon Cherry series. The BP server started acting badly, so I spent the rest of the evening's editing time making preparations for that work. I had already downloaded all the DVD covers. I cropped out front covers for the templates, and started picking screenshots for the articles. Starting at the end (BOMC-028), I worked back to #16.

Calling it quits early, I watched Boys of the City-- an East Side Kids epic. I never was a fan of them, but my son likes them, and it's getting hard to persuade him to watch the good old crap with me these days. I watch the new crap with him at the theaters. Boys of the City has the Kids in a haunted house in the country, with murders, gangsters, and other clichés of low-brow 1940s comedy. The only thing missing to make it a complete encyclopedia of '40s crap-comedy-cliché is a guy in a really bad gorilla suit. (The Three Stooges must have had that gorilla suit tied up during the filming of Boys of the City.) The eye-rolling, knee-shaking, stammering "darkie" cliché was there in all its embarrassing glory, in the person of Ernest "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison. "Ah ain't afraid o' none o' dem ghostesses... ah's a-SCEERED ob 'em!"-type witticisms. I tried hard to be offended, but to tell the truth, "Sunshine Sammy" was the most entertaining character in the movie. Apparently Sammy had been in Hal Roach's silent Our Gang films. After his work with the East End Kids he went off to the war, then declined an offer to join the Bowery Boys when they were starting up that series. Too bad he didn't stick with them through the Bowery Boys years, toning down the stereotype, of course... Leo Gorcey hadn't quite developed his instrument yet. Just came off as a smart-ass kid most of the time. "Sunshine Sammy" obviously had talent, but that's probably as far as he could get in Hollywood of that day-- burying his face in watermelon and smacking his lips. Anyway, Boys wasn't as bad as expected. Not especially good, but not too bad. Click here and take a look at it for free at the Internet Archive.