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Noted Collector Timble Sells Pornography Collection for Over $52 Million

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

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Bangkok, Thailand. In an unusual sale that gave pornography collectors cause for celebrating, Sotheby’s sold 43 shipping container boxes of pornography, out of 49 offered, for $52.4 Million. The pornography was offered for sale by noted porn collector M.V. Timble, and purchased by an anonymous buyer. The dirty pictures zoomed to new auction records. The unsold shipping containers reportedly contained erotica too disturbing for auction attendees.

Shattering pornography records is nothing new for Timble. He now has four of the top 10 most expensive pornography collections sold at auction, ahead of Larry Flint with three.

After the auction Timble explained, ”I am an avid collector of all genres of the industry, including circus freak sex, geriatric toon porn, transvestite vegetable rodeos, butt-cam documentaries, clown erotica, nineteenth century bondage porn, Tijuana ‘dog and pony’ shows, and even many fetish categories. “I love it all….straight sex doesn’t even raise my eyebrows anymore,” Timble said. “Pornography not only makes my feelings of self-loathing subside a bit, it fulfills me — accumulating filthy porn is the only thing that gives me any satisfaction in life.”

Although renowned as a collector of fine pornography, Mr. Timble is less well known as an erotic photographer and producer of pornography in his own right. Starting in his teenage years, Timble began what has grown to become a line of over 650 pornographic self-portraits. Although the collection has been offered for sale on several occasions, it has failed to attract a buyer.

In November 2005 his portfolio entitled The Mason Ruth Years fetched a very respectable $4.2 million at a Christie’s auction (although the naughty pictures themselves were less than respectable). Most recently, Timble’s hauntingly disturbing Ground Round Clown series was shown to critical acclaim at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art in Las Vegas. Timble also stars in his own line of “how to” and “do it yourself” sex DVDs and CD-ROMs.

Timble is also the founder and director of the Pornographia Society, a philanthropic body established to subsidize raunchy porn and defend against legal challenges to obscenity.

Timble’s estranged wife did not immediately return calls for an interview for this article.

(note: I was sent this to post for Timble, I should have done it sooner, but I was busy masturbating to my new collection of porn)

Galva and Randy “fix” a Farfisa

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

Galva and Randy fix a Farfisa

Leroy garbage picked a Farfisa organ or keyboard or whatever it is called. I think he saw a guy pushing it down the street in a shopping cart? Maybe he paid $25 for it. I can’t remember if we ever got it working, but as you can see, we did get it taken apart. Galva was doing all the actual fixing attemps. I think I was just fiddling. Leroy took this picture in the office of Propaganda. Click on it to see it bigger. Check out the awesome old Mac on the desk. That’s where Galva worked on the accounting program for two or three years without ever actually doing any accounting. I think the most use that thing got was when we used it to play Risk for hours on end.

Pete Zelchenko On Cover of Sun-Times

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

Ok, Pete Zelchenko is not a TSG. Technically, either am I for that matter.

However, I’m confident at least a few of you know Pete. He went to U of I for a while, worked at the Daily Illini and then the Thrifty Nickel. He was involved with Propaganda when it was first started. VERY nice guy. Smart. Brilliant in fact. A character. He is currently running for Alderman in Chicago as an independent. I would vote for him if I was in his ward. He probably won’t win, but I respect the fact that he’s running.

Pete made the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times for a hole he found in the Board of Elections database. Here is the story linked below.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/108366,CST-NWS-hack24.article

Pete Zelchenko On Cover of Sun-Times