Last week I didn’t do my regular Friday relaunch update because our internet was down, and remained down through the weekend and into the first days of this week. I hate it when I fail to make good on a promise, but the truth is it didn’t matter, I had nothing to report.
Since my mass mailing went out in mid-January, I’ve heard from quite a few people who’ve sent me offers to contribute to a crowd-funding campaign as well as suggestions on how we might hook up with one or more existing bondage sites. Thanks so much to all of you.
In the end, however, after endless discussions and attempts to see how we might make a go of things, Lee and I have come to the painful conclusion—for us at least—that we can’t do it, and will stop trying to relaunch. We could never raise the necessary funds through crowd sourcing to create the website we envisage and believe indispensable for success, and we’ve spent too much time working toward a Bound & Gagged that would stand proudly on its own as we once did, to try and start all over again as part of another entity.
We might give more consideration to that latter option if we were 20 years younger; but sadly, we can’t help feeling we’re just too old—old age being the most unpardonnable crime in the gay community—to start over from scratch. The original Bound & Gagged was great, and we hope it will be remembered that way, not as an old nag that tried to compete in a race for which it was no longer qualified, and got sent to a glue factory—which is where horses were sent, they said, when I was young. Is that still the case?
If any of you knows someone, or knows of someone, who might be interested in buying our company, the magazine and website, together with its huge archives of stories, videos, photos and art, please tell them to contact me. But do it quickly, because I’m about to start dismantling everything, starting with two storerooms piled high with back issues, DVDS, photos, artwork and miscellaneous items. The storerooms themselves cost us thousands of dollars every year.
As all readers know, I sell back issues for only $1 apiece. If any of you have been considering buying them, do it now, because within the next month or so I’m going to send every back issue to be shredded, keeping only a few copies of each. Once that happens, the remaining copies, all in perfect condition, of course, will go for much higher prices.
(Within the next few days I’ll start selling long out-of-print issues from my personal archive. These will go for very high prices indeed, starting at $150.00 apiece. If any of you have been looking for specific back issues, and want them pristine, now’s the time to write me about them. I may only have two or three copies of some. Don’t even ask about issues 16, 36 and 38. I only have one copy of each myself, and I’m holding on to those).
I’ll soon be dumping box upon box of Bound & Gagged DVDs, including the ones I’m selling right now for $4.99 apiece. Within a month or so, everything in those boxes will be trash, so get them while you can.
If anyone is interested in any particular artwork that appeared in B&G, or that we sold separately, now’s the time to buy it.
On his death I inherited many original works of the great bondage artist, Lazy Leo, including his magnum opus, “The Estate,” a massive 60-page work. I’ll be selling separate pages from “The Estate” for $150 apiece, unless someone makes me a good offer for the entire edition first. I’ll also be putting up more of Lazy Leo’s artwork for sale as I go through it.
Looking for something in particular? Have any questions? Write me. I’ll continue with this blog, always soliciting personal experiences; my email address is not about to change; and I will always love corresponding with readers.
