Comments by SuperDude

The constant hustle for tips would turn me off. A real buzz kill.

No tall tale. I saw her go up on stage. No info on LDs or VIP because I did not ask nor participate.

Amen

PepsiMan is correct. This was predictable and foreseeable when the Detroit City Council clamped down on strip clubs and COVID closed them. I have heard that Alan Markowitz sold the Coliseum. The current owners are clueless and classless, trying to milk the regulars on the reputation of years ago. Dead club.

All economic theories are subject to fact checking and proof. One current theory is that the war in Ukraine is causing a shortage of grain in major markets in Europe and North Africa; therefore the price of grain, worldwide, is up dramatically. Cattle feed prices have jumped. The cost of steak follows the increase in grain and cattle feed prices. We'll see.

Sounds like the glory days of the Coliseum are a fading memory.

I'm old enough to remember when possession of marijuana was a felony punishable up to a five year prison sentence in Michigan. Now the state will give you a license to grow and sell weed, within certain restrictions. Sex work will become decriminalized within the next ten years. Consenting adults will demand it and politicians who hire hookers cannot vote against it without facing the possibility of being outed.

A source that may be helpful for information. http://fkktour.com/types/

Sometimes examining the unthinkable may help us find a workable approach. What if we learned that this virus could be starved out of existence if we shut down the entire country for a period of time, a week, a month, 90 days. That would mean all services, except for health and food, would go dark. No transportation, government services, movies, driving, partying, visiting or travel. TV and radio would be on for two hours a day to give updates. No NYSE. Banks open only one day a week. Would we endure and support that to kill the virus. Probably not, unless there was a massive federal subsidy to keep people going until the crisis passed. The government would have to borrow mega trillions to keep folks from eviction, starvation and depression and face a tax increase to repay the debt once the crisis is past us. Wartime rationing might be necessary. So, instead, we struggle with a patchwork of closures, hoping to stem the spread and force a gradual starvation while waiting for a vaccine. Strip clubs are now closed in Michigan under the new order, effective Nov. 18, 2020. Other businesses and services deemed sources of spreading the virus are closed or under new and tighter restrictions. As soon as the latest order was issued, restaurant owners headed to federal court to ask for an injunction. Back in March, 2020 I opined that this virus crisis would hit Eight Mile Road hard. It has, with no real bright light for the future.

Had a girlfriend (six months short term) who wanted anal and kept asking for it. She refused lube. Going dry was tough and didn't always work. Other issues (control of the relationship)got in the way and I walked. She was 17 years younger and that may have been a problem.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/opinion/trump-politics-psychology.html?campaign_id=29&emc=edit_up_20200713&instance_id=20267&nl=the-upshot&regi_id=187693&segment_id=33277&te=1&user_id=1bfab4bd2aa96786ad2e8e0d07c3975e

As one who experienced segregated Alabama as a child and a life long journey as the only Black person on the team, in the classroom, at the college mixer, in the board room, etc., I have reached the opinion that it's too late for the U.S.A to resolve the racial crisis. The Kerner Commission Report in 1968 predicted that we were headed towards two Americas, one White, one Black, separate but unequal. We are now there, with battle lines and guns being drawn in the streets. No one has a patent on being right and many are guilty of bad conduct. There is no consensus leader, POTUS or otherwise, coming forward to say, "Stop. Take a breath. Look at what we are about to do to each other. Do we want America to dissolve in a racial conflagration? That's where we are headed." This has nothing to do with White dancers telling me that I am an acceptable Black customer, but they don't dance for the others.

After the divorce, I promised my children I would pay their student loans. The pandemic and club closings made it possible to pay off some of them ahead of time. Sorry for the dancers who missed the money, but I should have put my kids first a long time ago.

The Coliseum will be permanently closed by the end of this calendar year. The monthly operating costs were getting too heavy the last quarter of 2019 and the first quarter of 2020. Lazy dancers, LE enforcement of no extras, lights in the VIP brighter than a night baseball game all killed the vibe. Covid-19 was the nail in the coffin. How can a club come back when touching is not allowed and masks are mandatory? Dead and will stay dead.

Strange isn't it. The information we want cannot be revealed publicly, only by hit or miss experience. (Or by word of mouth, pun intended.) My uninformed guess is that SCs will have seating limits, with 6 foot spacing required. No sitting or standing at the bar. Table dances only, with a distance requirement and no touching. Dancers and customers will have to wear masks. No VIP. After a couple of months the mask and space requirements in bars and restaurants will be dropped or ignored. When that happens, SCs will end restrictions and the good ol' days just might (slowly) return.

Urge is great, but I fear the opportunity is gone until the vaccine becomes available.

Well, in the new covid-9 world with everyone being warned to wash hands, shower shows may have a comeback. In fact, they may become the only way to see a totally nude dancer.

For background before the latest developments^^ https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2020/04/flint-strip-club-lawsuit-claims-coronavirus-loans-discriminate-against-businesses-of-a-sexual-nature.html

Well at least they can get some SBA funds. http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2020/05/11/strip-club-mogul-jason-mohney-wins-fight-apply-covid-19-relief/3108294001/

Lufthansa had a non-stop from Detroit to Frankfurt. I'm waiting and checking.

Latest development: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2020/05/11/strip-club-mogul-jason-mohney-wins-fight-apply-covid-19-relief/3108294001/

Detroit media reports that some strippers are performing at house parties for groups as large as 40 men. For some, the action has moved from the closed club to a friend's spacious private residence.

The SBA says loans will not be made to businesses that appeal to "prurient interests." A federal district judge has issued an injunction barring the SBA from rejecting the application for the crisis loans. Camelot Banquet Rooms, Inc. v. U.S. Small Business Administration, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, Case No. 20-C-0601. The government will appeal. The decision does not order the SBA to grant the loan, but stops the SBA from denying the club the opportunity to apply for the loan.

I have great memories of seeing him play right field while I was sitting in the bleachers at Briggs Stadium. Bleacher seats were 50 cents, later raised to 75 cents. Bus fare from my home to the Corner was 25 cents each way. The Linwood bus stopped at the bleacher entrance. So I mowed some lawns or washed windows and got my money for a day double header, complete with hot dogs. He would move under the ball and catch it before the fans could find the arc. Oh, he could hit too.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/23/strippers-staff-boober-eats-delivery-service-during-coronavirus-lockdown/?utm_source=maropost&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nypevening&utm_content=20200323&tpcc=evening_update&mpweb=755-8714573-719739498 One way of surviving.