SECRET #20 --ADDA DADA IN TALES OF THE CITY? IN A PORN NOVEL? IN HERB CAEN? SAY WHAT!

28 SECRETS IN 28 DAYS

SECRET # 20

ADDA DADA in HERB CAEN? in TALES OF THE CITY? and in a PORN NOVEL?

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OK...it's THREE secrets in one and since TWO are both soooo oblique...I thought I would combine them for your reading pleasure ...and confusion.

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Let me take you back to the wild days and nights in SAN FRANCISCO of the late 70's...Things were bopping all over the place and no one wrote about it better than ARMSTED MAUPIN in the daily newspaper series...TALES OF THE CITY.

 

Every morning folks would get up at the crack of dawn, geesh...there were even those who would go to the CRONICLE building to be the FIRST to buy the paper to read TALES OF THE CITY and HERB CAEN.

 

One read the TALES series for that day, then HERB CAEN, and then one TOSS the rest of the paper (this was in days before recycling). FOR there really was NOTHING else to read in the CRONICLE ...really!

 

So, if you knew someone who was in HERB CAEN ...ADDA DADA was in it at least 10 times...(yes, i was a NAME WHORE back then, too), and of course, your jaw dropped about TALES OF THE CITY... AND of course, you would HAVE to call all your friends to scream...CAN YOU BELIEVE MOUSE WENT TO THE JOCKEY SHORTS CONTEST AT THE END UP!

 

Hence, the day ADDA was in MORE TALES OF THE CITY...

 

The JOCKEY SHORT CONTEST was held once-a-month at the END-UP which then was a hot trendy young disco bunny place...lots of fun...great drinks, music, and a lighted dance floor like SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER...(it was a cool thing then)

 

One JOCKEY SHORT CONTEST, Armisted Maupin was there, and ADDA noticed him immediately...ADDA struck up a conversation about how HOT Armisted's photo was in the latest...whatever magazine and how HOT he looked that night.

 

Well, everyone knows ARMISTED as a bear these days, well, duh, you know ADDA as the same...but long, long ago, in this fairy tale town...ARMISTED and ADDA were quite the jaw droppers. (big clue)

 

I must of impressed ARMISTED with my fashion sense for in his JOCKEY SHORTS CONTEST chapter...he refers to the END UP as filled with LUMBERJACKS...

 

well, of course, every queen in San Francisco knew at that time ..LUMBERJACKS was certainly NO way to describe the patrons of the END UP...and the phone lines burned with the 'what and the hell' was he thinking...its a TWINKY (young) bar , not a CASTRO CLONE (lumberjack shirts, beards) bar....

 

That is until I told my friends, oh...ADDA was wearing his bowling shirt & the BOWLING TEAM name blazened on the back...????

THE LUMBERJACKS.

 

So, an oblique reference to ADDA, which was a nice way of putting ADDA in TALES OF THE CITY. Though I certainly would of liked a walk-on...hahaha

 

OK OK...so, now the third thing...

 

(did you just jump straight down to this part of ADDA's story, or are you reading this story all the way through???)

 

PORN...ADDA IN A PORN NOVEL...well, yes, though I do not know the name of the novel, and I have long forgotten the name of the author who came up to me at one of the SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALS and bluntly said to me...

 

HI ADDA. I wrote about OUR experience in my new PORN NOVEL...

 

OK, THAT certainly got ADDA's attention...

 

So, I said cooly and sweetly, "WOW That is SO cool (wince). We definately had an incredible time for you to write about it..." (no, I didn't have a clue of the INCREDIBLE TIME. )

 

We chatted..I made sure he didn't use my real name....NO, THOUGH YOU WILL DEFINATELY KNOW IT'S YOU WHEN YOU READ IT...

 

SO, I think it was the time I was at SUTRO BATHS wearing my towel very a la PARIS HILTON or the NEW BRITNEY SPEARS......yes, folded in half, wrapped around like some damn mini-skirt...which no one seemed to mind since I had great legs which lead up to my best asset...hahaha

 

Anyway, MR PORN NOVEL , nice black hair and blue eyes...was standing next to a brick wall with a very confident grin on his face when I walked by...

 

oh, did i every tell you I LOVE CONFIDENCE...especially, someone who has more than ADDA!!!....

 

He lets his towel drop.

 

So, I just look at him with a smile of EXTREME CONFIDENCE and...

 

OK...WHADDA YOU EXPECT...THIS IS A PG-RATED FLICKR SITE FOLKS...so, you will just have to use your imagination...(ok...so AFTERWARDS, well, he was gripping on the brick wall for dear life when I left...all the while gasping for breath...so, I, of course, being ADDA, gave him a look of EXTREME CONFIDENCE..SMILED and walked away..)

 

so someone tell me the name of the damn book...and author!

 

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POST SCRIPT (PS)

 

ok...of course it took 5 FIVE days to find out WHO IS MR PORN AUTHOR...and wouldn't you know it...i bump into him TODAY in the MISSION.....while i was with my mom who was so happy that I finally found out WHICH book and WHAT the authors name is...( I forgot simon's LAST NAME) ..

 

He walked by and My JAW DROPPED...NOOOOOOO...and I stopped him and his handsome friend...

 

SIMON, i have to ask you if I may...WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE PORN NOVEL???

 

well, i think its HOTTER THAN HELL or it could be one of my other 3 books said the author SIMON SHEPPARD...i don't remember which one its in, BUT i can certainly remember the event....

 

geesh, ADDA makes it on the list of the TOP 10 OF THE SEX ADVENTURES OF AN EROTIC NOVELIST LIST...

 

my mom was smiling and she said proudly..

 

"he REMEMBERED! "

 

HAHAHAHA...geeesh, being in the TOP 10 out of 10,000 must mean something

 

 

 

Done