From: joe@spdcc.com (Joseph Francis)
Subject: Great Grey Green Greasy (Re: Smoke in gay bars)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:53:40 GMT

In article <47-JNEWS-2.1@wonky.UUCP> ailsa@wonky.UUCP (Ailsa N.T. Murphy) writes:
>In article <1993Jan19.172601.16385@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca>, aberno@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno) writes:
>>
>> However, it still amazes me that smokers are allowed to inflict irritating
>> fumes (much worse than the airborne "irritants" that make the LA
>> authorities close elementary schools) on non-smokers. I'm very tempted to
>> carry around a ghetto blaster with a tape of some really horrid German
>> experimental electronic music, and turn it on at high volume whenever
>> someone starts to smoke... Not that smokers are outside their civil
>> rights, I'd just like to have a hobby that is equivalently annoying to
>> others. ;-)
>>
>hee!  i LOVE it!  time to buy a ghetto blaster, preferably one that
>plays CDs, so that i can blast Laibach at people (we have them on CD,
>not tape), or Einsturzende Neubaten, but we don't have any of that, so
>i'll have to acquire it first...  fun stuff, that...

Since Alisa came out about her Bisexuality, I think it is time I do
one of my periodical comings out (translation: where /is/ Jojo
anyway?) to clear up what are clearly misconceptions about the jojo
object.

1) Jojo does not reside in the United States. Jojo resides in Paris,
France, in a 60's throwback bizarre male-dominated commune near
Bohemian Montparnasse, surrounded by Video art, a whirl of
multinational visitors, lots of food, and unpredictable evenings.

2) Jojo telnets to spdcc.com since his office doesn't carry many
nonessential newsgroups, not out of homophobia, but out of exigency.

3) Jojo works for a World-renowned institute (IRCAM) which produces
tremendous volumes of horrid French experimental electronic music.
Horrid Experimental electronic music pay's Jojo's bills, just. One
would like to point out that electronic music ceased to be
experimental when people like Jarre and Tomita developed a trashy
formula and copyrighted it. It has been a long time since Darmstadt,
Stockhausen, La Domaine Musicale, and savage experimentation.

4) Jojo works evenings at trying to make (i.e. writes, photographs,
designs, typesets, distributes, sells ads for, and promotes
incessantly) an interesting alternative to ordinary shaved male
erotica with a $5 'zine called "Bearhunt" (got tired of complaining,
decided for action). It is in French and English, and soon to include
German and Spanish. If there are netters who could help with German
and Spanish (or French) I'll be your love slave. BTW, issue #2,
"Daddies" is in the US, look for it soon in a lesbigay bookstore near
you. Hopefuly, Jojo will be making money soon and pay off some
pressing bills.

5) Jojo was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in the boonies of East
Tennessee, went to school at Caltech, Lived in the wilds of Borneo for
a year, has traveled all over the world several times (except South
America, where he feels deficient) and has worked with computers in a
half-dozen countries.

6) Jojo is a Kinsey 6, though has erotic dreams about strong big-boned
women occasionally. He lived with a lover for 8 years who in no sense
resembles a bear. Jojo started and ran an incarnation of the Caltech
lesbigay association (CLAGS) with some friends, is so out he doesn't
even think about it anymore.

7) Jojo is fascinated with fashion, shoes, books, S&M, all genres of
music, photography, travel, good food, bad food, talking, sex,
children's toys, 60's cinema, feminist literary analysis, LSD, DTP,
talking, insects, orchids, old gravure, hairy neo-cro-magnons,
Marijuana, painting, television, ways of thinking, California,
Washington DC, talking, Boston, X, fistfucking, hanging out in
leatherbars on the Warmoesstraat, talking, movies, writing, muscles,
talking, dykes, sex with bisexual men, cold blustery days, driving on
American freeways, social justice, talking. Preferably all at the same
time.

8) Jojo works out at a gym, is blond, bearded, has had Laser surgery
to correct myopia permanently, is 5'10", stocky, dresses poorly, or
dresses in exotic fashions, either has a long cock, a thin cock, or a
big fat cock, or none of the above, has hair as long as when he was 15
finally (though he doesn't remember it being this curly), but changes
his looks every 6 months anyway so there is no accurate
characterization. Jojo is also full of himself, arrogant, unpleasantly
opionated and very teasing, but basically good hearted, and always
modest and demure.

9) Jojo rarely discusses his personal life, though usually claims that
every experience he relates is the absowoot twoof. Since he is the
practitioner of the mysterious process known as Active Imagination one
is never sure, though eyewitness accounts usually bolster the
essentials of what he says. Suffice it to say that much of what he
writes is meant to be enjoyed rather than believed.

10) Some people find Jojo insufferable. Joseph Francis does sometimes.

Ta darlings From The Land That Brought You Horrible French Electronic Music

-- 
US Jojo; damp, slighly soiled, but tasty nonetheless.