Bakotopia tests conservative market with racy print issue - By N.L. Belardes

Cleavage in Bakersfield?

Conservative Bakersfield is getting an eyeful with the latest issue of Bakotopia magazine. Bakotopia has even gotten a bit tongue and cheek with a self-imposed NC-17 rating.

Yowsa.

It's a gutsy move from Bakersfield's new rock and roll on-the-beat street magazine. What will conservative Bakersfield say? Truthfully, I don't think it's worse than any PG-13 or R-rated flick. And you can find much worse in book stores. Besides, a little racy is OK. People watch soap operas don't they?

Noveltown put its video editor on the streets, the under-17 Landen Belardes. He was paid in unwanted baseball cards to see if he could slip a copy of the NC-17 edition from the rack right outside of Bakotopia headquarters.

Who knows? Maybe they were being guarded by the Ska King himself, the Ricky Ricardo of Bakersfield, or shall I say, Ricky Racy... Product Manager, Matt Munoz.

I asked Landen before his thieving adventure what he thought he might see in the latest issue of Bakotopia. He said, "Wasn't it supposed to have some of your zombie pics that you took of the Hectic Films Wretched Flesh movie?"

What? Oh, those... not racy, but gruesome for sure...

"And didn't you mention there was some weird hump quote of yours?"

No, no... I never said those things!


See, the bug said them, not me!

Now watch the video and see if our secret underage spy was able to get away with the latest racy issue of Bakotopia magazine: