Al Goldstein from Riches to rags, food stamps and section 8 housing?
 

?Two days ago, I thought I had a heart attack. I was taken to Jamaica Hospital (a cesspool that would shame a mange-ridden street rat if it were taken there). The doctors are actually professional and seem to have received their medical degrees from accredited schools, but the fucking place is a Dickensian nightmare. Old whores with sores, toothless crack heads in urine-soaked pants . . .people just like me!

They checked me out and discharged me. It seems as though I am suffering from an aversion to loneliness. I haven?t gotten laid in over three years. I am broke. My cock sucking son stole from me and has abandoned me once again. My cunt wives took what they could grab (all 5 of them, especially the last Gypsy cunt who picked the flesh off me like a ravenous vulture). I am on 15 different medications, all of which cause me to be delusional, nauseous, and suicidal. I am too much of a wimp to kill myself. I am just waiting to die.

My lawyer, Charles, called me dozens of times upon my return from the Snake Pit. He thought I bit the dust. If it weren?t for him, I would just evaporate. He cares about me and has resuscitated my life on a number of occasions. He gave me the number to get Food Stamps. He also told me that I should qualify for Section 8 housing (that?s what they offer to those people in this country who are living just above the same standard of a Calcutta Untouchable)?

http://www.lukeisback.com/?p=2643

sad... but man the memories that guy must have...

So true...

I used to love watching Midnight Blue...

Thats a handsome man rightcha there. :thumbsup

Couldnt agree more.

Good example of a guy who couldn't and didn't evolve with the times.

its a shame

Screw magazine was great!

Damn, Vanilla Ice got chunky.

He was gotten by the tubes? :winkwink:

It wasnt a matter of evolving it was a matter of pissing away money.

Screw Magazine (it was more of a newspaper really) was a gold mine back in the day in N.Y.C. until all the hooker ads went online.

Al made enough money thru the years ( it was started in 1968) if he had been a little conservative in his spending. He could of retired when the tide was turning and never worked again.

ahhhhhh hindsight.............. I think a number of online firms did try and hire him over the years, but you cant teach an old dog new tricks:2 cents: Still sad............

What's really sad is that in the third world countries, this sort of thing is common - he could still make pulp (with stolen pictures from the internet so no overhead); they're all over Costa Rica. All he needs to do is find a Spanglish speaking editor, and he's back online with an HP LaserJet, a PC, and dialup.

good story...

Remembering some of his quotes, I think it's a good thing. Scumbag got what he deserved.

Agreed.

I do remember this dude was hated, and notorious for some of his quotes.

examples ?

These are not the one's I was referring to, but I'll keep looking. Here are some other gems.

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
Al Goldstein

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
Al Goldstein

Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.
Al Goldstein

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.
Al Goldstein

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.
Al Goldstein

I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.
Al Goldstein

I refuse to be silenced.
Al Goldstein

I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.
Al Goldstein

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.
Al Goldstein

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.
Al Goldstein

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
Al Goldstein

Married life is an existence with bars around it.
Al Goldstein

Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.
Al Goldstein

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.
Al Goldstein

Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex.
Al Goldstein

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
Al Goldstein

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
Al Goldstein

So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.
Al Goldstein

The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.
Al Goldstein

The true success is the person who invented himself.
Al Goldstein

There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.
Al Goldstein

To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.
Al Goldstein

When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.
Al Goldstein

You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.
Al Goldstein

I dunno bout that bro.
5 Divorces no man can recover from.

Thats the shit right there.

True dat. He's also not shy about commenting on that, or his beloved son.

Someone say tubes?

here he is, from last years Internext in Florida
http://www.fubarwebmasters.com/galle...616/z06410.jpg

http://www.fubarwebmasters.com/galle...616/z06431.jpg

http://www.fubarwebmasters.com/galle...616/z06445.jpg

saw him last night on hbo but it was an older pornucopia

Yeah. He was in that second DVD that came with, "Wonderland", talking about John Holmes.