More Boner and Squeeky cartoons

by Jack Corbett

For a time Lori Mellon was the focus of the site, Lori being the main character of the Novel "Death on the Wild Side". The real Lori was a stripper whose name we will not divulge here. Jack had several run ins with the real Boner. Once when "Boner" tried to take credit for slitting Jack's convertible top when in fact it had been an enraged Lori, jealous because Jack had been hanging out with another dancer. That time Boner was out in a parking lot at Pops with two friends all of whom would have ganged Jack. Another time Jack came after Boner at Pops. Boner backed down in front of Lori and the whole group he was with as Jack called him a woman Beater and dared him to throw a punch. "Death on the Wild Side" is the product of an era and a setting that will probably never be seen again. It is the only novel written about the St Louis Metro East topless bottomless clubs back in the days when Thomas Venezia and his three clubs, Main Street, Cheeks, and Exposed were still in action. But they were soon to be closed down and Venezia and over twenty others were jailed for racketeering, income tax evasion, and similar charges.

There were more clubs back then and in some of them anything went. One club had a limo parked outside the club ready to take patrons and the girls working there out for "joyrides". Several had hot tubs where anything went. And in those days Jack was experiencing the hot tubs and limo rides so that he could write about it later------often hours later, coming home to the farm, and whether drunk or sober, taping his recollections and thoughts about his most recent misadventure.

But most of the clubs have been forced to change and although still fairly wide open compared to many other clubs in the US, they have instigated more stringent rules and procedures in the face of what we like to refer to as The Mothers for a More Boring Nation--what amounts to as a moralistic hypocritical public outcry that seeks to impose its brand of mores on the rest of us.

The real Lori Mellon (not to be confused with Lori the ex bartender from Visions) is still dancing and now not an hour from where Jack used to live at the farm but less than fifteen minutes. Her place now in his scheme of things......just another woman, one of millions, with a leech. Just another gal who continues to go back to a guy who uses her, beats on her, and takes his cut from her money. Lori Mellon is like a drug addict who just can't stop, hopelessly addicted to the kind of man who should be left hibernating in a garbage can. Or is she so hopelessly addicted to abusive men....in her case, a pimp?

Lori Mellon's destiny perhaps is to be but a symbol.......a historical figure and the creature of a novel, possibly to become the embodiment of what millions of women are and have become-------Leech fodder.

But if you have liked these cartoons you might want to experience Jack and Dirt's weekly cartoon strip that loosely followed the misadventures of Frank Harring and Lori Mellon in "Death on the Wild Side" You will find here still another artist's concept of the human leech in action.
 

Boner becomes Bubba in Dirt and Jack's Frank and Lori cartoon strip
 

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Read all about the novel, Death on the Wild Side and listen to actual sound files of Jack, the real Lori Mellon, and Jade recorded in an East St Louis Strip Club