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The Saga of Volume 2, Issue 5The miniaturized Liberator issue was one of our all-time triumphs. But it almost got destroyed before it hit the halls. Liberator Lite came up as an idea, if I remember correctly, because we were low on content, and didn't feel like we could put out a good full-sized issue. So we slapped everything together into a tiny-sized, stapled edition that was 8 quarter-sized pages. The lead article was about a school-sponsored blowjob service. The last page was an erotic dot-to-dot that featured Jasmine of Aladdin being frightened by an enormous phallus leaping out of a lamp. By the time we'd copy-edited the issue 40 times over, NOTHING about it was funny to us, and we were horrified by our own raunchy sensibility. I remember me and Jon and Nick and Alex looking at an enormous pile of Liberator Lites (about 700, I think), and someone – me, perhaps – saying: "Hey, we could just destroy all these." And everyone else sort of quietly agreeing. But we went through with it. And they were hot. Hallelujah. Mr. Keyes, the legendary shock-jock of West English teachers, even gave a little presentation about the dot-to-dot; he'd found one half-completed and then scribbled on, presumably by someone who was horrified by the image the drawing revealed. He found that to be very funny. |
