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By all accounts, Billy stuck to his word and never worked another day in his life after he quit Coslow’s. At one point, when he could no longer afford to life in Champaign, he was living in Rantoul and would walk, pockets empty, to the Esquire hoping to see a familiar face who would favor him a drink.

Lars noted in recent years whenever he would see Billy around town he would buy him a beer, give him five dollars and a ride. He said he last saw Billy on Friday at the intersection near where he was killed on Saturday, however, the amount of traffic was prohibitive in allowing him to get Billy’s attention to give him a ride.

CHAMPAIGN – Champaign County Coroner Duane Northrup released the name of the man struck by a train on Saturday evening.

Northrup said William “Billy” Hayes, 52, of Champaign was struck by a northbound train about 100 yards north of the Springfield Avenue viaduct while attempting to cross the tracks at about 8:25 p.m.

Northrup pronounced Mr. Hayes dead at the scene at about 9:15 p.m. Saturday.

According to Northrup, Mr. Hayes died from multiple traumatic injuries. No autopsy was performed.

Northrup said he is waiting for the results of toxicology tests and that an inquest may be held at a later date.

The incident continues to be investigated by the Champaign County Coroner’s office and the Champaign Police Department.

Man this site is dead. Am I the only one posting here? Well here’s some news. We just had a baby on Saturday the 1st. His name is Simon Gawlik, 7lbs 10 ounces. Wahoo!

And because the hack is gone… this post was made by Randy, wait for it…. Gawlik.

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)

Do you guys remember Pat Fremgen?

He was never a member of TSG. But he was acquainted with many members of the house. I believe he was a roomate of Todd one summer. He somehow became my roomate sophomore year in the dorms in Scott Hall due to some hardly remembered circumstances. So Tall Rich, Oreo, TK, Todd and others were familiar with him.

Pat was a nice guy. Smart. I guess that’s obvious since he made it to medical school.
Pat liked to drink. A lot. More often than was healthy, he would drink a wee too much and then have “confrontations” with others. Often this would lead to fisticuffs. More often than not, Pat was on the receiving end and came home with various bruises, contusions, etc.

Pat is now Dr. Patrick Fremgen. He’s an ophthalmologist. In other words, (for Scary’s sake) he’s an eye doctor. He is partners in a Wisconsin-based Eye Clinic.

Here is a link to his website:

http://www.eyephysician.com/html/drfremgen.html

According to his bio, he is not married.

Get them while their hot. Your name@tenshittyguys.com. Let me know, I can forward it to your other email.

An end of an era.

He died of a heart attack in his sleep. More details in the links below. Actually, his obit gives a lot of info that I never knew. Like he was one of, if not only black kids at Urbana HS when he attended. He also played basketball, football and ran track. I guess his dad was a U of I track coach. Ra even held a high jump record at Urbana HS for a long time. He was class president as well. Can you imagine being the black class president at a basically, all white school? Even in Urbana, as liberal a town that it is, it must have been an accomplishment. Think of the shit that guy got back then in the late ’60’s.

I guess WEFT is planning a special memorial radio show.

I heard about his death on a radio newscast. I wasn’t sure if it was on News Radio 780 or or WLS or WGN radio. But, I heard it the other night coming home from work. Who would of thought that guy would have been famous enough to rate all this press. He even made the AP wire.

Here are some links:

www.news-gazette.com

belleville.com

hightimes.com

cbs2chicago.com

weft.org

late snap bonless one! Sweet. He looks like a 12 year old boy. He’s probably dropping that skateboard because it was an Uncle Wiggley that weighed about 75lbs. The tab in the corner of the full size version says OCT 85, but it was probably actually taken a bit earlier. Check out the shorts on the guy behind the sitting skater.

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

While catching up with Andy O’Neil in Champaign several weeks ago, he gave me a bit of background regarding his unfortunate divorce. The good news is that he and his wife actually both live in a two-flat. One upstairs and one downstairs, so their three kids are always coming home to the same place.

While that is pretty cool and interesting, perhaps the more interesting story was that one of Eric J’s adopted brother was the “other man” and was the reason Andy and his former wife got divorced. So, in an odd way, Eric J and Andy are the opposite of inlaws, I guess you could say “out-laws.”