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The Desert Peach #11, Page 32

by Donna Barr on April 6th, 2010
The Desert Peach #11, Page 32

It’s nice to see Babette come to her senses.  And her honesty. She knows she’s got a real treasure out of this.

At this time, the Germans looked like the card to play, especially if you’re a woman. You’ll see another versions of this in issue nine, “Scourge of Love,” and issue 26, “Mki.” Women have to find a strong male to accompany.  The Taureg princess Fatima has been raised to marry into an alliance.  The refugee woman Miki has taken her chances with the most likely male, even though she has a far less desirable choice.

An American veteran shrugged and openly told me that the men of World War Two had been recruited — on both sides — with the promise that they could have the women of the conquered, who would have little choice in men — and the women of their own country, who would be grateful.

You can see evidence of this in all the sexy posters and cartoons during that era.  The Marlon Brando movie “The Wild Ones” contains a clash between the returning veterans and the one woman in town who won’t lie down for their leader.  The soldiers of the era were involved in rapes after the war because they thought that was part of their payment.  Women were supposed to be spoils, or at least grateful.

Desert Peach 11 — “Child of the World” (Menschenkind) starts tomorrow!  Don’t miss Rosen’s entrance.

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The Desert Peach #11, Page 31

by Donna Barr on April 5th, 2010
The Desert Peach #11, Page 31

Babette’s being dishonest here.  I mean, would you pass up the opportunity to get it on with the prettiest thing on the block?

She’s just as much in it as they are — she’s just the  only one willing to admit she — ahem — fucked up.  She wants everybody else to accompany her in her misery, that’s all.  It’s no fun being the only one dragged to the altar to confess, even by one’s own heart.  It would be a lot easier to take if we can get other people to go up and throw themselves down, too.  And if they won’t come on their own, she can shame them, or at least demonstrate her moral superiority in the face of their blindness or callousness.

Some gay readers were pissed off by Babette’s turn-around, seeing her as the traditional “whore with the heart of gold.”  I didn’t get it at the time, but I think I’ve figured it out.

She’s the whore with space panties.  She’s the high-steppingest horse in the stable, and she’s pissed off that her trotting style has been despised, if not rejected. The only way she can deal with it is to see it as her own conscious abuse of a client, rather than his being angry about being made to have sex with her as a woman or as a person he wouldn’t have touched on his own.  It’s a fine line — but that’s why I called my publishing company A Fine Line Press.  It can all get very gray.  And shabby.

Madame always remembers what the point of the exercise is.  She can add a nice chunk of change to the accounts.  Nobody’s been killed; business as usual.

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The Desert Peach #11, Page 30

by Donna Barr on April 4th, 2010
The Desert Peach #11, Page 30

You knew it was coming.

Being an enthusiast myself, I’ve run into too many pissed-off Peaches, in situations if not actually personified.  Raised by wolves — or isolated weirdies — I view the world as the Devil might:   not quite human, not quite understanding what makes people tick, assuming their hearts and minds are all as dark as mine, with the same nasty, harsh sense of humor and inward-twisted ulterior motives.

I’ve also got the Irish in me — nobody with Irish can resist a practical joke, the ultimate get-off-the-hook chance to manipulate the humans around me.  If I can get the opportunity to make my characters use each other — the ultimate manipulation of the human heart, if only on paper — how can I resist?

Yes, I believe in aliens. I’m hardly human, myself.

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The Desert Peach #11, Page 29

by Donna Barr on April 3rd, 2010
The Desert Peach #11, Page 29

These idiots have absolutely no idea what they’re in for. The alcohol might help cushion the crash. They’re going to need something.

We all have idiot friends like this who think they’re offering us something so wonderful.  Helll, we’ve all BEEN idiot friends like this.

I recently committed a massive faux pas by asking a Makah elder to “include in the funeral photo the most important members of the family.”  She bridled, “They’re ALL important.”

As a white (or Vaguely Ethnic; ie by 19th-century standards) person, raised white, I don’t understand a fully extended family, that thing we call a “tribe.”  I soon understood that if I was to take a picture of the family for the newspaper, I would have to photograph the ENTIRE mass of people in the hall.  And the official in charge of outside relations had asked me to photograph the family after the ceremony.

The editor was furious.  I was supposed to photograph a funeral service — as one could at any white funeral — but the tribe’s representative had asked me not to.  I finally ended up accompanying the family to an outside ceremony, and very shame-facedly begging a pose from the few who had gone out in the rain, including the widow clutching the flag from her husband’s coffin.  They were extremely gracious in posing for me, probably more in recognition of the passed elder’s work with so many outside forces to make things better for his Family.

I’m not such a great journalist; I interview and photograph like a writer, which demands far more depth and sensitivity, and what I’ll always be.  I don’t butt in if I can help it, but the editor is sitting back there fuming for a photo I should have turned in hours before.

All this for a $20.00 photo fee… I think I’m getting paid about $2.00 an hour. At least they pay mileage — IF I BEG.

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The Desert Peach #11, Page 28

by Donna Barr on April 2nd, 2010
The Desert Peach #11, Page 28

Those guys need beaten half to death.

The scene with Rosen and Winzig?  (Go back a page).  I got letters demanding to know why I didn’t portray it, and then describing it in details.

It’s an old Hitchcock trick — set up the scene, then switch.  The viewer’s mind will fill in all the details, more personally powerful than any director could manage.  Works lovely with horror.

Goes back to ancient theater, when all the murders happened off stage, with much screaming.  The Japanese do it with a splash of “blood” against a translucent curtain.  You’ll see a version of it in Kurosawa’s Ran, as the vengeful woman is beheaded.

Got any ideas how this scene played out?  Send me sketches….(see forum).

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The Desert Peach #11, Page 27

by Donna Barr on April 1st, 2010
The Desert Peach #11, Page 27

Underwear games! We all like the underwear thing….

Ooooh… Rosen’s kissing Winzig.

Where will this lead? Are we going to get to see action on both sides of the keyhole? Will Winzig switch? He’s played by a gay actor — it might be fun, or at least an easier performance.

You didn’t know the American pilot Jeff and Winzig were a couple?  Oh, please — squabbling about who throws whose socks where? How do you think they made that scene in issue 4 so believable? The actor who plays Winzig suggested it; “He’s just like that at home!  I might as well be his mother.” The actor who plays Jeff just thought it was funny.

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The Desert Peach #11, Page 26

by Donna Barr on March 31st, 2010
The Desert Peach #11, Page 26

Well, I’m sorry, but ear-tonguing is just too irresistible to some of us.  There’s all these little nerves in there.

Some people it just tickles, but we can’t do anything but feel sorry for them.

You notice I’m not using the “love” emoticon.  This has nothing to do with love. That’s a big, mature man will all his hormones and a tongue is a tongue.

Babette is a prostitute, but for her in her time and place, this is the best life she can have.  She’s been well-paid for this client, and enjoying him, and believing she’s helping him, makes it very good for her.

Am I a feminist?  Damn straight.  So are you — you vote and you want women to vote and own our own property and be completely equal in all societies, don’t you?  Then you’re a feminist.  If you don’t want those things for us, then shame on you.

If you’re a woman and you call a feminist a Nazi or worse, you’re like a black person calling Martin Luther King a Nazi.  For the same reasons — some big fat white man told you he’s your real friend and you don’t want to listen to those Outside Agitators.

My attitude toward prostitution?  Legal and regulated.  Because if it’s not legal it’s not regulated, and as in all unregulated industries, the workers get treated like shit and everybody else gets to treat them as a Pariah Class.  Those who want to do it — and there are plenty of willing sex-workers, of all genders — should be able to do it in safe, healthy, comfortable environments.  Including if your idea of comfortable is nipple clamps and Rings Of Trust.

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The Desert Peach #11, Page 25

by Donna Barr on March 30th, 2010
The Desert Peach #11, Page 25

She’s so good.  What’s it take? Hot tea, bubble-bath, massage.  Humans are simple creatures.

Germans lost any sensitivity about nudity in the 19th century.  To this day, the women can still shock Americans by coolly — in every sense — hiking in the woods with no shirt.  Although I think the actual incident had more to do with the question about whether or not her pack-straps chaffed.  The American who reported this to me said the German had replied:  “Oh, I have callouses there.”

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The Desert Peach #11, Page 24

by Donna Barr on March 29th, 2010
The Desert Peach #11, Page 24

It’s just a seduction scene.

Move along folks, nothing to read here.  Go look at the pretty pictures.

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The Desert Peach #11, Page 23

by Donna Barr on March 28th, 2010
The Desert Peach #11, Page 23

Lots of prettiness. And tension.

No, the man isn’t naive; he’s has a pure mind.  He wouldn’t seduce anyone else who he knew wouldn’t want it, so it’s hard for him to see it coming. His brother couldn’t tell a lie — probably didn’t see the need for them — and so fell for whatever Hitler and his administration got up to.

It’s a weakness in the noble; they can’t see the bad stuff because, like most of us, they think everybody’s like themselves.

And he’s basically drunk.  One of my readers complained that my characters did all this stupid stuff while they were drunk or on something.

Well — yeah.  Isn’t that when we usually do it?  Why do you think the military allows the under-aged to drink like fish — and hands out smokes like bundles of straw?  For all there have been philosopher soldiers, we’re not really smart if we think the way to solve any problem is by killing or dying to get where we want.  It’s the last, worst, final option.

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