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September 07, 2004

Guccione: Ya Down With O.P.C.*

S3xx0ryFamed publisher of Omni Magazine, and the lesser well known Penthouse Magazine (NSFW), Bob Guccione has no other choice but to auction off his worldly possessions due to bankruptcy.

His loss is your gain!!1!

I had a chance to preview the items for sale, and let me tell you...the communal disappointment was palatable. I assumed the items for sale would go one of two ways: Exuberantly Gaudy, or Teh Hot Sex.

I was expecting cherubs with golden capped asses, or nakkidness abound. I found neither. Boring paintings, pub mirrors, Persian rugs and renaissance era furniture made up the majority of the lots. I did find this painting in which we felt the boob was a little gratuitous. But beyond that...meh.

On the auction block was Guccione's 1975 Lincoln Mark V with only 25k miles on it, and it's been garaged since it's purchase. The interior is a gorgeous burgundy stripe, with chrome accents. Straight Pimpin'.

The most offensive item was Dr. Dude and his Xcellent Ray: The lamest pinball game ever.

The best part of the auction? The crowd. Gold chains and toupees were the required dress of the evening.

*O.P.C = Other People's Crap.


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Having walked the floor as well, I was equally disappointed. One had hoped for either high-class and elegant items, or, more likely, completely gaudy and lascivious. Neither description fits the bill. While there were some large mirrors that had once adorned saloons, advertising single malt scotches and other alcoholic refreshments, the overall collection was fairly crappy. There were numerous boxes of book for sale, which held items such as Gary Larsen’s “Far Side Gallery”, and aged bottles of cognac and amaretto, but overall it appears that although Bob was on the forefront of first amendment issues, he clearly spent little time worrying about taste and class. While the Lincoln Continental Mark V was definitely a “Pimp-mobile Extraordinaire”, the rest of the collection can be summed up by the saying “just because you have money and can do something, doesn’t mean you necessarily should”.

Posted by: Ben at September 7, 2004 12:22 PM

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