It shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to find out that the guy behind Girls Gone Wild is a jerk. It is surprising to find out just how much of a jerk he is: Joe Francis, the founder of the Girls Gone Wild empire, is humiliating me. He has my face pressed against the hood of a car, my arms twisted hard behind my back. He’s pushing himself against me, shouting: “This is what they did to me in Panama City!” It’s after 3 a.m. and we’re in a parking lot on the outskirts of Chicago. Electronic music is buzzing from the nightclub across the street, mixing easily with the laughter of the guys who are watching this, this me-pinned-and-helpless thing. Francis isn’t laughing. He has turned on me, and I don’t know why. He’s going on and on about Panama City Beach, the spring break spot in northern Florida where Bay County sheriff’s deputies arrested him three years ago on charges of racketeering, drug trafficking and promoting the sexua...
Wow, that is awesome. Makes me want to try to learn how to solder again, so I can trick out my bike for the playa. Or just freaking out the neighbors...
ReplyDeleteWhoo! Are you a burner? I had no idea!
ReplyDeleteI want to make one of these for around town; I would be the coolest gaijin around.
Woo-hoo! Velocipede Mashup!
ReplyDeleteno seriously, it's cool. I love how PacMan is the entire wheel. That they can even get the ghost is abso-f*****g-lutely amazing.
Yessir I am; if you go back in the archives to late summer 2003 I go on at excruciating length about making playa gifts out of bottlecaps. I didn't go last year, for which I am still kicking myself; I am so going this year!
ReplyDeleteHave you been?
For me, EVERY day is BURNING MAN. Especially if I actually stand in sunshine. DAMN, I am pale.
ReplyDeleteNo, I have never been, and to listen to most burners, the last good year is always the one that was three years ago (no matter the current year, and congruity be damned). It looks like something I will do when I am back in the US, the kids have been to college, and I can cast off some responsiblities for a while. Look for me in 15 years or so; I'll be the fat, nekkid, sunburned bald guy who is so dehydrated that his pee looks like Bass Ale.
Michael; yeah, the ghost is hella impressive. I wonder if someone would sell kits for this...
ReplyDeleteYes, I know there is a kit, I mean like a "done kit." MAKE is for people with spare time.