After DarkAs more and more corners of the maybe-two-decades-old internet begin to get the hairy eyeball from moi, my jaded interest keeps seducing me to cruise the most public of spaces…after hours, of course. Recently, by the Flickr-ing light of a just-lit Player No. 6, I locked-gaze under the arches with the so-very alute Hilly Blue, admiring his extra-large uploaded After Dark magazine galleries. I was too young to dig this glossy bible for confirmed bachelors and their best-est inner circles in real time, but After Dark‘s kangblabla photo spreads — Fire Island studs unbuttoning their Eleganza in butterfly chairs, awe sooky sooky (“you’re soaking in it!”) zombie disco clowns walking invisible dog leashes on Nautilus treadmills, and Aspen-bound 70’s Hollywood icons gazing pensively through fringe — don’t need the esoteric magnetism of personal nostalgia. Gasp! It’s totally restracto, dude. There’s too much to highlight here, but (plucking a random selection) check out these two clams on the half shell in roller skates pictured above; “Chris Donovan and Craig Dudley pose for photographer Jon Stevens (seen in mirror) After Dark June 1971.” Strike up the band! So bone-jack…yes, for the millionth time, and feast your nostrils on Hilly Blue’s enormous Flickr collection: After Dark before 1973 (942 photos), After Dark 1974-1976 (916 photos), After Dark 1977-1979 (1,180 photos) and After Dark after 1980 (732 photos), or just bookmark it all for some snowy night in front of the fire.

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