As you may remember, I recently re-rendered all the classic clips on mudwrestle.us into larger and clearer mp4 format versions for the sites 15th anniversary. In a completely unexpected move, I did the same things for the sister site oilwrestle.us in celebration of it's 14th anniversary. SURPRISE!

We ran the 2003 mud wrestling events for about a year, and we were stealing a lot of coveted Thursday night business from other local establishments, so unfortunately some of them decided to be little snivelling bitches and kept ratting us out to the liquor control board. In washington state, there are a LOT of rules meant to restrict/ban the sale of alcohol at strip clubs, and our girls had a tendency to get naked either intentionally, or as a result of various wrestling holds and moves. That gets you monetary fines and multiple visits from the government. The club ended up paying over $14k in fines in 2003 and was threated with license revocation because of the location of the mud pit, which was in immediate proximity to the club patrons. to keep going, we were required to move the "arena" onto the club's stage and set up a rope line 6 feet from it. Since you can't move a thousand pounds of mud on and off an elevated stage between bands, we had to switch to oil wresting. This all started in January of 2004 and resulted in a whole new store at

http://oilwrestle.us

The early events were a lot of the same girls from the mudwrestling nights, but eventually we attracted a lot of new blood as well. Just like the previous revamp, all clips are now $2 each and there are new image file downloads of the original DVDs. As with all of my sites, there is also a cumulative discount which knocks an additional 3% off the total for every additional clip you add to the shopping cart.


As you will notice from the preview pics, there was still some nakedness going on and ultimately, the entire club got fined out of existence. It shut down completely in October of 2004 and sadly still sits empty 14 years later. Even though the shut-down was the direct result of self-righteous assholes passing stupid liquor laws, their next round of legislation is what really killed the live music business in Washington state. A year later, they passed a smoking ban in all businesses. Since about 90% of nightclub goers tend to be smokers, that pretty much put an end to live music venues in Washington and resulted in dozens of clubs closing down. Ironically, a few more years later, Washington voters finally gave a firm middle finger to rampant nanny-state-ism by stripping the state government of it's liquor store monopoly (an initiative financed by Costco, who can now sell liquor by the pallet) and later legalizing the sale of recreational cannabis.

Well ... As long as we're getting opinions with our (kind of) messy girls....

I'm delighted that smoking is banned in clubs where I live, and I wish they'd outlaw that filth in every other public place too, including the sidewalk.

On the other hand, I'm in favor of naked boobs in clubs, and in every other public place, including the sidewalk.

Wow, that surprises me, I never thought you'd be a club goer Regis?

Every other public place? I thought it'd be ALL public places.

Well I'm banned from all of them but, you know, in principle.

To be fair, I don't know of ANY state where you can smoke in bars even anymore. Super happy about the cannabis though. My brother lives out there and found a medical blend that has probably saved me a colostomy. So, yay Washington and Colorado for spearheading that.

Nevada. They know where their money comes from and aren't going to shit in their own feedbag. There aren't even any non-smoking casinos that I'm aware of, although most of them have some specific areas that are smoke-free, especially walkways and places where kids might be. Weed is legal now too, but specifically not on casino/resort property, so you pretty much have to be a resident toking in your own house, or stay on the down-low with edibles. I think they have essentially dissolved the police "weed crimes" division though, so It's all pretty much live and let live these days.

Guess you won't be coming to the 20th anniversary then. In Nevada, you're required to carry at least one pack of Lucky Strikes or Camels on you at all times. It's the law.

Good riddance to smoking in bars. No one [else] want to smell that shit.

I guess we can buy the requisite packs at the airport on the way in? Must remember to do that.


Now, I'm a life-long non-smoker. They knew it caused cancer when I was at school in the late 70s / early 80s. So I never understood why anyone of my generation would do it. Older folks, sure, no-one knew it was harmful back then, smoking was cool and fashionable, and tobacco companies had some really cool and sophisticated adverts if you look through 50s and 60s magazines. You could even smoke on aeroplanes and never mind all that jet fuel. But kids I went to school with? Madness. Lots of them did though.

But, having said that, I do miss the smell of smoke in pubs and clubs, and the smell of cigars in first class on trains. A few years back I was in Brussels in Belgium with friends for a weekend, after the UK smoking ban but it was still legal there. Just off the famous central square with all the 17th century buildings, we ended up in a multi-storey pub that is mostly only frequented by the locals and invitation-only to get into. Access to the upper floors was by twisting stairways and walkways, some of them open to the rooms below. And people were smoking. The air in that place smelled divine. It was like centuries of tradition, ancient ales seeped into the timbers and the wafting scent of lots of different kinds of tobacco smoke.

From a health point of view I agree what we have now is better, especially for staff not having to work in an environment that could kill them. But still, somehow I think we've lost something intangible. Some places now have incense sticks burning instead, I kind of like that. And the best pubs still have real fires, coal or wood. There is nothing quite like the smell of a real fire burning in a hearth to turn a good place into a great one.

Maybe you should have considered changing from mud and oil wrestling over to pudding wrestling.....because we used to get all our pudding wrestling supplies from Costco who sold it in large tins. If you had signed a pudding wrestling deal with Costco to get your pudding supplies exclusively from them and to promote their brand then you would have a powerful ally on your side to get the legislators off your back.

Mind you, as your 2nd home is in Las Vegas I would have thought you could negotiate a deal to feature your models at Gilleys, which is the most famous mud wrestling club in Vegas.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gilley%27s+mud+wrestling