| --Saturday, March 31, 2007--
Greetings from Miami
 For our people, going to Miami is the next best thing to Next Year in Jerusalem. Here's Joanna Angel outside the Exxxotica Miami trade show, where she is signing with, of all companies, ClubJenna.
I didn't know that Angel was a ClubJenna celebrity.
"She's cuter than Larry?" she suggested.
Angel actually had to step out of the room because Jenna was due to begin signing and the line wrapped around the booth a few times.
"It's pointless trying to sign when Jenna's there," she said.
Angel described the amount of cleavage she was showing in her little red dress as "retarded". I was sporting a short bus just taking the picture.
(Photo courtesy Brea Bennett)
Previously: Joanna Angel caters to my audience; "So you're having sex, and people find this a turn-on?"; Joanna Angel's Porny Monster
See also: Burning AngelLabels: "joanna angel", events, WGL
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--Friday, March 30, 2007--
All Tomorrow's Parties: Eva Angelina, Mia Rose, and Jenna Presley edition
 It is hard to believe that Eva Angelina, in our hearts and minds for so long, is just 22. But that's what it says here.
The bespectacled Latina celebrates her birthday at Forbidden City tomorrow night, as does Contact Pornstars.com, which turns three (See Monstar? I don't spend all my time writing about steveporn).
Forbidden City is located at 1718 Vine Street in Hollywood.
Down the road (1643 Ivar Street, same zip code) at Facade (if you're drunk, you'll hardly feel the walk; or engage the help of a friendly police officer to give you a ride in the back of his car. Give precise directions), Mia Rose and Jenna Presley both turn some ungodly young age, plus one.
Previously: Eva Angelina: How to dodge the draftLabels: events, WGL
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--Thursday, March 29, 2007--
MILF, ass definitions continue to evolve
 I have been traveling the highways and byways of Porn Valley this week asking people just what they think a MILF is. I have yet to hear the same definition twice. In general, though, it is women who are the literalists and the men who tend to be a little more laissez faire in their requirements. One guy said, "A MILF is anyone older than me."
"Any woman older than you," I clarified.
"Yes. A MILF has to be a woman."
"Good," I said. "Because I'm older than you."
"I try to keep my relations with the press professional," he said.
"You must not be from around here," I said.
Anyway, here is Kimberly Kole. She stars in Jim Powers' Mother Fuckers 4. Her scene features a fantasy sequence in which she seduces her stepson (the fact that he was her stepson was not revealed until a few minutes in, after I had already fired off several indignant letters to my member of Congress).
I asked Jim Powers how he defined a MILF.
"A MILF has to be a woman who has a kid of an age that has friends who can be attracted to her," he said. "She needs to be over 35."
"Can she be an adoptive mother?" I asked.
"Yes," he said.
In that way, Powers is more concerned with the "I" in MILF than the "M". For him, the subjective "I" trumps the objective "M".
In Kole's fantasy sequence, she utters the following line:
"Just imagine your dick between my ass."
After a week of wrestling with the thorny and complex MILF issue, my normally-ordered thoughts were once again thrown into disarray.
Did Kole mean ass cheeks? For me - but I am a Buddhist - an ass is something to get in or up, not between. I guess next week I will spend determining what is an ass (and I don't mean Bill Mullet).
Previously: Gram Ponante launches International MILF Registry; Hannah Harper: Passion is to magma as squirting is to lava; Crack smokin' in America; Porn's Most Outrageous Outtakes
See also: Sin City
 Labels: "Jim Powers" "Sin City", directors, dvd, MILF, WGL
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Al Goldstein: Excellent campaign website for a homeless guy
 Screw magazine founder Al Goldstein has announced his candidacy for President in 2008. Currently, he is both the only Jew and the only pornographer running.
It is tempting to call Goldstein a joke candidate (well, it's tempting because he is a joke candidate); he hasn't filed with the Federal Elections Commission. But in Goldstein's declaration that he is not a joke candidate I'm reminded of when George W. Bush defended himself against detractors by saying, "I am a legitimate candidate."
Goldstein's website, candidacy, and cigarette money are all provided by Booble as a marketing ploy, but his site is actually pretty good compared with some of those of his non-competition. It says something (but what?) about the pool of candidates that a publicity stunt website is better than many paid for by the Presidential hopefuls. Look at Tommy Thompson's, for example.
Goldstein shares his views on gay marriage ("everyone should suffer") and the war in Iraq ("I'm against all wars"), but it is in a blog entry about strippers that makes Goldstein seem, if not a presidential candidate, then a likely contender for an AVN Insider column:
Men are predictable and can be played like an accordion and the women are great actresses. The guys get stroked and feel special and the woman makes money, which she probably gives to her longhaired hippie boyfriend. I am bored out of my mind but the food is wonderful. You might think Goldstein is the only person declaring a joke candidacy from the porn world, but Doug Stanhope, 2003 host of the AVN Awards, is also "running".
Goldstein will need a running mate who can court the South. It might as well be Seka.
Previously: I, Goldstein - Me, I just vomit; Mary Carey: Do cameras make us stupid?
See also: Presidential candidates, Goldstein '08Labels: hype, non-events
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--Wednesday, March 28, 2007--
A brief and non-hysterical history of the .XXX domain
 If everyone from (many) conservative Christian groups to (many) Internet pornographers oppose creating a domain extension specifically for porn, though for (many) different reasons, and if the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names And Numbers (ICANN) has twice turned the proposal down, Ars Technica wonders why the proposal is being reheated yet again.
The answer is that registrars and their business partners stand to make a great deal of money from the creation of a porn-only top-level domain, so registrars will continue seeking its adoption.
How many other pure examples of profit with no communty benefit can you think of? (I suggest credit cards for students.)
Previously: Utah: No Star '80 on Port 80; .XXX will have to wait
See also: Proposal to erect XXX domain faces stiff opposition (arstechnica.com), ICANNLabels: business, ICANN, legal
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XRCO Night at Forbidden City
 The X-Rated Critics' Organization Awards will be held at Forbidden City on the corner of Hollywood and Vine on Thursday, April 5. Doors open at 7 p.m.
The Awards used to be held in Century City, an area of Los Angeles reachable only by accident, and then Hollywood's CineSpace. Why they have been moved yet again is a mystery to me, but then the XRCO, of which I am a member, is also a mystery to me.
(This photo of Jenna Jameson is from the 2005 XRCOs; I believe this was the year Jenna started winning different varieties of Mainstream Crossover Star awards.)
Previously: XRCO announces nominees; XBiz Forum and Awards: Us v. Them; "Shut up, please": the 22nd annual XRCO Awards
See also: XRCOLabels: awards, events, xrco
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--Tuesday, March 27, 2007--
Something is about to happen to Lorelei Lee
 In Slave Labor Productions' Trouble x 2, a title which at first sounds like an Olsen Twins' vehicle, the delicious Lorelei Lee and Bella are treated most harshly - but respectfully - by Paige White, who probably couldn't get away with this sort of behavior in Sam Brownback's Kansas.
Read the review of Trouble x 2 here.
Some companies, including the one whose banner is flashing above, will not carry this product due to certain content restrictions, such as the presence of blood or penetration while the penetrat-ee is gagged. This is usually a sound bet. I think, though, that an understanding of the consensual nature of the proceedings should also figure into the decision to carry a product.
Many companies run the risk of not being carried by e-tailers due to their content (it's interesting, also, that the "Debbie Does Dallas" series is pulling in good numbers in its time slot but Showtime seems scared to advertise it - compare that to its hype over the "This American Life" TV show that is not doing nearly as well).
I also watched Audacia Ray's The Bi Apple. Joe Gallant's cameo is excellent and what that Tasty Trixie needs is a damn good whacking.
Read The Bi Apple review here.
Previously: Gram Ponante announces Also Ranny winners; Lessons in quitting while ahead; Something is about to happen to Sasha GreyLabels: "adam and eve", "audacia ray", "slave labor", BDSM, dvd, fetish, reviews, vivid, WGL
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--Monday, March 26, 2007--
To walk like Gwen Diamond
 Here's Gwen Diamond from the set of Black Dicks in White Chicks #14, also starring Sophie Dee and Adrianna Nicole.
Right off, the question "What makes Diamond walk this way?" occurs, and the obvious answer would be "Why, Black Dick, of course."
But Diamond had not yet encountered Black Dick when this photo was taken. She is merely imitating the supposed effects of Black Dick.
From now on, when people ask me if porn performers really act, I will point to the life-size poster of this image on my wall and say, "This, my friend, is acting."
(Even if the person I'm talking with is not actually my friend. See? I can act as well.)
Previously: So are they pink or are they white?; Celebrating Black History Month the only way Porn knows how; Scenes from the Class Struggle in Playboy's Penthouse; Why I love the theatre
See also: Red Light District
Labels: "race movies", "the craft", dvd
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San Franciscans to go to Hell
 If you're going to San Francisco, make sure to wear a thornbush in your hair.
Mondo Porno Res-Erection, a sacrilegious Good Friday porn-a-thon, takes place at Folsom Street's Cat Club between 8 p.m. and 3 a.m. April 6, hosted by Provocateur Editrix Abby, Dragstrip, and Paradox Media.
The evening begins with a screening of Repenetrator, the Burning Angel alt-porn "classic" starring Joanna Angel and featuring a properly un-Christian resurrection plot.
In The Temple of the Rock, the live music line-up includes The Tongues, Charm School Dropouts, Lick and MC Meathook. In between each band will be a bit of babalonian burlesque, featuring The Indra and LA’s Devastatia Fox and Sparkle Diamond.
And from the stage between performers, Brother Fudgie Frottage and Editrix Abby Superior will be slingin’ the FREE PORN while it lasts, plus additional giveaways from Good Vibrations, Adam & Eve, Fantasy Glide, Madame S. and Divine Interventions. Mix, mingle and pick up some salacious swag. Sidle up to the saucy dancers and spend some of your hard earned cash.
Meanwhile, in the Dance Den of Iniquity, DJ Damon (1984 / Bondage a-Go-Go ) will spin sacriligeous sex rock and dance romance. Upstairs in Marauding Mary Magdalene's Lap Dance Lounge the Ladies of Chez Badunkadunk will be available for dances as DJ Simone of D.I.E. spins makeout music for the sacred whores.
Doesn't this sound fun? Wouldn't you like to live at a place called Chez Badonkadonk?
It's unfortunate that all this blasphemy is ultimately displeasing to Our Lord, because people seem to be working very hard on it. I try to tell them it's difficult to dance while tormented for eternity in a lake of fire, but when someone is blowing you it's almost impossible for them to hear your righteous words.
Previously: San Francisco sex workers seek to unionize; "What kind of jobs are we talking about here?"; Lorelei Lee and Adriana Nicole just because; The way things are going, they're going to crucify VBLabels: events, san francisco, Satan
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--Saturday, March 24, 2007--
Lessons in quitting while ahead
 This image is the sexiest one in the entirety of the Kim Kardashian video, and it occurs about 30 seconds in.
The dust is still settling on who made what amount of money from whom, but one can't help but think of another Vivid star, Sunny Leone.
I have been watching the "Debbie Does Dallas...Again" series on Showtime. It has the honor of being 25 percent of the shows I tape, along with "Family Guy", "Teletubbies", and "Battlestar Galactica".
Typical of reality shows, "Debbie" is elaborately staged and the individuals involved take on hyper-real character traits. A central conflict is that "Sunny can't play Debbie because she won't do guys."
Kardashian won't make a good Vivid Girl because she hardly does anything.
I do hope she got some money, though; all this useless hype should at least teach someone a lesson.
Read the review here.
Previously: Vivid does Kim...again; Wrangling a sex tape; Is the feature dead?
See also: VividLabels: dvd, hype, non-events, vivid
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--Friday, March 23, 2007--
Paige Turner reminds me of Daisy Buchanan
 Paige Turner (get it?) stars in BadAss Pictures' Virgin Patrol 3. Virgin Patrols, as you know, are a provision of the USA PATRIOT Act and are now being, as patrols always are, "stepped up".
Bob Seger wrote a song called "Turn the Page" which deals with the loneliness of the road-bound performer:
Well, you walk into a restaurant
Strung out from the road
And you feel the eyes upon you
As you're shaking off the cold I feel this way walking into certain bars in Glendale, except it's never cold here.
Compare Seger's lament to this passage from "The Great Gatsby":
“We don’t know each other very well, Nick,” she said suddenly. “Even if we are cousins. You didn’t come to my wedding.” “I wasn’t back from the war.” “That’s true.” She hesitated. “Well, I’ve had a very bad time, Nick, and I’m pretty cynical about everything.”
What does this have to do with Virgin Patrol 3? Well, nothing. Paige Turner plays a cheerleader. There's no connection. It would be silly to look for one.
Previously: Way up firm and high on Cahuenga Blvd.
See also: Badass Pictures, "The Great Gatsby" online, Bob Seger
Labels: because, dvd, geekery, metro
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Nicki Hunter benefit at PSK Tuesday
 Nicki Hunter, one cool chick (or two if you count the other spellings of her name) will be the star of a benefit in her honor this Tuesday, March 27, at Porn Star Karaoke.
Hunter has been undergoing chemotherapy for the past few months. Not because she is a thrill-seeker, but because she has cancer. If you have ever seen Hunter perform, you'd assume that the cancer might be intimidated by her ferocity alone, but the benefit will ease the financial burdens of taking on a big-ticket disease.
The benefit will feature an auction of the following items and services:
Ginger Lynn dinner date – dinner held at Sardo's
Amber Peach & Cleopatra of the Nile dinner date – dinner held at
Sardo's
Electric Guitar signed by the cast & crew of the hit show Cold Case
Scrubs signed by the entire cast of ER
Brandy decanter – Specialty item – blown Deer glass decanter filled
with delicious brandy signed by Nicki Hunter
Raffle Items:
"Family Guy" gift basket filed with signed scripts, video game, "Family
Guy" DVD collection and more, all in a very special "Family Guy" case
(not available in stores) – donated by Seth McFarlane creator of the
"Family Guy"
Disney gift basket filled with shirts, DVDs and other great Disney
items – donated by Disney Studios
Ginger Lynn gift basket – donated by Ginger Lynn
Private in-home Yoga session donated by BMY Studios
(bmystudios@yahoo. com ) - Donated by Becca – Yoga instructor to
Sardo's
$1000.00 Gift Certificate for Cosmetic Surgery good towards any
medical procedure – donated by New Me Surgical Institute
(www.lovenewme. com)
Brandy decanter – specialty blown glass pig filled with delicious
brandy – donated by Sardo's
2 tickets to Sea World
Liquor gift basket – donated by Sardo's
And MORE!!!!!
DRINK SPECIALS
The drink specials Sardo's offers this night, 85% of the proceeds to
directly to Nicki Hunter. So for every 2 for 1 drink special that you
spend $6.00 on, $5.00 is donated to the charity event. I suggest, further, that everyone in the adult industry who comes by should also bring something special to bid on; each of us has at least one or two very hard to find DVDs (or maybe boxes of them), special autographed items, and/or a signature service only we can provide, like photography, advertising, or maybe even a cool and detached explanation of why it was probably a mistake to accept a blowjob from that Best New Starlet nominee in 2003.
Previously: Wig-flipping with Nicki Hunter; Plight of the Hunters
See also: Sardo's Bar, Info on Lymphoblastic LeukemiaLabels: events, philanthropy, PSK, WGL
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Pabst Blue Ribbon Night with the Steveporn kids
 After taking a few days off, I returned to my exhaustive and fetishistically complete schedule of porn party coverage with the Eastside Story release event downtown.
Aside from Repo Man and the movies of Michael Mann, very little is known about downtown Los Angeles. We are only aware that there are no roads in that area, just the dry L.A. Riverbed where we race our Greasemobiles and hide from the Terminator.
Downtown L.A. is the most New York-y section of the city but, unlike New York or San Francisco, where the homeless are seamlessly integrated with the urban landscape (even having restaurants open up inside them), L.A.'s homeless are concentrated in a small area beyond Los Angeles Street, where they can be most easily filmed.
I talked with Eddie Santoro, a man who was sleeping in a doorway a block down from Bar 107.
"Where you headed?" he asked.
"Up the road," I said.
"Lot of pretty girls up there," he said. "I was by there a little while ago. Girls showing their titties."
"Well that's where I'm going then," I said.
"They shooting a movie up there?" he asked.
"No, but they make movies."
"I played a homeless guy in Terminator 2: Judgment Day," he said.
"And were you - "
"Nope! I was living in a house in Arcadia."
 Michelle Aston is not homeless. She lives in the Barclay, a hundred-year-old residence hotel that used to be where farmers from outlying areas would stay after they brought their products into the dusty city and did their banking at the federal-style bank across the street.
"If I have guests, they have to pay an extra ten bucks," she said.
"Just ten bucks?"
"Well..."
We walked next door to the bar. I've been off the hard liquor for three days. I didn't know what to do wth myself. It's not like I'm going to bring a thermos anywhere anymore. Aston bought me a tall PBR.
"I don't drink beer, but this is very nice of you," I said.
Then I looked around and noticed that everyone was drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon. I carried that can around with me for three hours and I think I finished an eighth of it. I'm going to do that from now on.
I stood with Aston as we watched her scene with Page Morgan on the screen. I haven't watched the movie yet, but the colors are very trippy. They were both smeared with lipstick and Aston was throwing Morgan around like a flesh-covered bean bag I want to have sex with.
"I'm really going to town on her there," Aston noted.
"Yes you motherfucking are," I said soberly.
Outside Morgan herself was hanging out by a collection of Triumph motorcycles. She couldn't get in because she's only 20. A woman asked her if she shopped at John Fluevog, because she looked familiar.
"No," Morgan said, " I shop at the Salvation Army."
"Did you get that dress at the Salvation Army?" I saked. Now that I'm sober, I have the wherewithal to set her up with all ther gingham she needs, provided she doesn't wear it inside the house.
"No, I think I stole this one."
Now that Eon McKai can be photographed it seemed unoriginal to take a photograph of him, but I did ask if he needed to make room in his office for Ray J., white-hot auteur of the Kim Kardashian ouevre.
"I was wondering why Steven (Hirsch) didn't answer my e-mails for so long," he said.
 Speaking of New York and San Francisco, Joe Gallant and Violet Blue stopped by. Gallant is shooting in L.A. this weekend and is mulling a move here. "To downtown? To the loft area?" I asked, thinking that it would more suit his aesthetic.
"No, we're looking at Studio City," he said. Next time I see him he's going to have a glowing bluetooth headset in his ear and have no recognizable facial expresssions.
Blue was down with Eros-Zine editor Thomas Roche to promote her book "Fetish Sex". Strangely, I have only met Blue twice, both times after bodily injury (to me, not her). It is as if the Intelligent Designer requires me to be compromised.
 As you know, I am a fan of full-contact flat track roller derbies. I did my Master's thesis on them ("Blood on the Oval: The Need of Kneepads in Modern Feminist Theory"). I interrupted XBiz event planner/terror skater Joetta as she was phoning in a scoop, and she almost high-sticked me.
"That's not what Nancy Kerrigan would do," I said.
I stumbled home out of habit and poor motor skills rather than intoxication.
Previously: Eastside Story gets its priorities in order; ReBelle Rousers on location; Michelle Aston will eat your girlfriend...; Can you tell me how to get to Avenue X?
See also: Vivid-steveLabels: "vena virago", directors, events, steveporn, vivid
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--Wednesday, March 21, 2007--
Adult industry to {sic} itself on bad grammar
 Bill Mullet, publicist for Iphigenia Squirtz, calls it "A FULLON ASSAUTL."
Vapid Pictures marketing manager Voom is preparing for "an exxxxtra dose of significant shit."
These PR gurus are preparing to cash in on the biggest trend in adult entertainment since Blu-Ray: individual and corporate sponsorship of poor spelling, bad grammar, and cliches.
"Publicists have been setting the stage, if you will, for this, if you will, campaign, if you," said Mae Scirocco, president of Chatsworth's Porn Publicist's Guild (PPPG), on its website, "will, for years, and now they are ready to capitolize on it."
It is a simple formula: for every instance of an extraneous X in a porn title, headline, or performer's name, an amount up to four cents (US) is deposited in an account. The account will be maintained by industry watchdog Gram Ponante. Similar charges apply to misuse of the word "your" or the employment of "enthused" in place of "said".
In a business model designed to jump-start Porn's flagging economy after five years of decreasing DVD sales, individuals and companies can also sponsor each case of poor English, hyperbole, or an outright lie.
"Let's say Publicist A writes of Performer B, 'Performer B has a good credit rating and no drug problem, and is starring as Parris Hiltop in AutoFellater Productions' Production of 300 (Cumshots), which will be distributed by Hustler,'" said Loup Perch-Tounge from the Nordhoff Alliance, an adult industry trade group, "well, there's at least 10 sponsorship opportunities in there."
Perch-Tounge believes the industry's historically-recognized shortcomings can now be monetized.
"Performer B doesn't have a good credit rating, so let's say Vivid can pay for that one, Performer B eats meth for breakfast, so Digital Playground can take a crack at that, 'Parris Hiltop' is a stupid name - maybe AVN or XBiz can get a revshare on that. AutoFellater isn't even a legal company and never had a distribution deal with Hustler, so maybe Hustler can sponsor its name being taken in vain! Everybody wins," he enthused.
Through a Web 2.5 system of "intelli-tagging", Perch-Tounge continued, as soon as the misspelling or other sponsorship opportunity hits the web, it will immediately be hyperlinked to the sponsoring entity's website, which will then be charged similar to Google's Ad Words model.
The PPPG's Scirocco sees the need for regulation.
"Of course we'll have to impose controls on unscrupulous publicists deliberately misspelling things or lying just to increase traffic for various companies they might be, if you will, 'in bed with'," she said, "but test cases have proven that when many of them try to spell something wrong, they actually spell it correctly."
Scirocco didn't see the need for people who could write well in the new economy. "Their dinosaurs," she said via e-mail.
Perch-Tounge concurs, but also envisions room for exponential expansion.
"Why limit sponsorship to grammar, unnecessary letters, or cliches?" he asked. "We could open it up to fake MILFs, fake teens, calling someone an 'industry veteran' or 'director' when they aren't, misuse of the term 'viral marketing', whatever. The whopportunities are endlessless."
The change can't come fast enough for Mullet, who has resorted to writing press releases about himself.
"Look," he said, "I'll be the first one to say I'm an idiot."
Mullet was about to continue, but decided he didn't need to elaborate.
Previously: Summer Haze wrestles for the dead, lost causes; Images of Heaven (that take me to Hell); Eye Candy; Enough rope; Continuing education credits; The most insightful and provocative press release ever written; Porn and spelling; Return of the Tounge; Mind your boxcoversLabels: business, hype
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--Tuesday, March 20, 2007--
San Francisco sex workers seek to unionize
 An affiliation of "erotic service providers" ("an Erotic Service Provider is anyone who is compensated for his or her erotic services or compensated for their support of someone else’s erotic service" - thus making yours truly an Erotic Service Provider) in San Francisco is gearing up for a season of fundraisers and awareness-building events in anticipation of the latest attempt at unionizing the skin trade.
The 'San Francisco Courtesan Carnival' series of charity events and parties will support labor rights and education funding for erotic service providers. Funds raised will provide tuition so 50 erotic service providers can attend intensive labor skills training organized by the United Association for Labor Education during the summer of 2007. See? If we ESPs had been unionized, I could have called my shop steward on March 1 rather than bringing in The Man.
It is not lost on me that, using the loose definition of what constitutes an erotic service, all the waitresses at Sardo's should get in the union based solely on the way they bring me my copious amounts of alcohol.
Previously: It's not 'sex work' when you're just lying there; Shame's diminishing returns
See also: Erotic Service Providers' UnionLabels: news, prosties, PSK
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Lori Lust: Girl wrangler
 Like you, sometimes I get tired. Recently I became tired of Lori Lust press releases because they strained my credulity (as you know, I pack a size 38 credulity).
But now it is time to write about Lori Lust again. Not only does she have a new porn rental house in lovely Northridge, but she also suddenly has a modeling agency. What is it called? The Lori Lust Agency!
And her recent acquisitions are people written about with wonder and mystery on this very site.
 First there's the intriguingly-named and fantastically-constructed Skigh Phoxxx, last known to be Digital Playground's Shay J.'s girlfriend.
 Then there's Ange Venus, the woman who spread so far for fans at the AVN convention that she had to be conveyed by wheelchair back to her and Max Hardcore's suite.
Congratulations Lori Lust! Everything about you is interesting!
Previously: Lori Lust conquers media, inbox; Valentine's Day Lust
See also: Become a Lori Lust "Diva Modlel"Labels: agency, hype
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Vena Virago: Tempted
 Vena Virago, mercurial and cryptic director of Vivid-steve's Eastside Story (not the Squeeze album) will host a happening on March 22 at downtown's Bar 107 on Positively 4th Street.
"We're artists," Virago did not say, and I'm glad. "And flesh is our canvas."
All the usual suspects will be there, I'm told, with Michelle Aston as majordomo(natrix).
Previously: East Side Story gets its priorities in order; Hanging with Silver Lake Swingers; Porn Valley font panic; Porn Valley art panic
See also: Vena Virago, Vivid-steveLabels: "vena virago" wgl, directors, steveporn, vivid
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InTERActive: Taking the blue pill, choosing the yellow bikini
 Tera Patrick would have you believe that she also likes the yellow bikini, but then you go back and choose the red one and she says she likes that one, too.
Which Tera can you believe??
Viewers of the InTERActive DVD, three years in the making, might then wonder if Tera is being straight with them, and if they really are her only boyfriend.
Eventually all thoughts of betrayal and duplicity melt away, however, as Tera stares into your virtual eyes and asks, "Can you fix my hose?"
Read the review here.
Previously: Mooninites descend on Boston; Pirates to receive G rating
See also: Hustler, Club TeraLabels: "tera patrick", dvd, hustler, interactive, reviews, teravision
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--Monday, March 19, 2007--
Cock Starz: It has begun
 You know how much we like to party around here, and Dragonfly, having been around over two years, qualifies as a Hollywood landmark. I remember going to an event there as far back as ought-four.
Here Penny Flame and a character from Mortal Kombat advertise Tightfit Studio's Cock Starz release party, to be held next Tuesday, March 27.
Penny Flame recently ended her relationship with Shane's World, leaving Casey Parker and (perhaps) Devon alone in the contract girls' lounge. The falling out had something to do with Shane's World blaming Flame for the non-wood of one of her co-stars (Flame admitted she got him high, but correctly pointed out she wasn't his erection's keeper).
This has nothing to do with Cock Starz, of course, but a gentle reminder that in a city of 12 million and in a talent pool of, oh, 250 people, you never know who you're going to bump into at the Dragonfly. Which has a large back room and an alley behind that, both of which are great for smoking.
Previously: The Whipping Hour; Assraelis; Whither Shane's World?; Shane's World keeps Penny Flame of the street; Is the feature dead?
See also: Tightfit StudiosLabels: events, tightfit
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--Friday, March 16, 2007--
Page Morgan - Just Because
 When my older sister, Quindreth Ponante-Kerkove, received this Rolling Stone in the mail, our parents popped an aneurysm. I can still hear their indignant screams as they packed her off to have her baby far away from our parish.
"No wonder you got pregnant, getting magazines like that," they said.
"RS 440" has become shorthand for inappropriate associations; it wasn't Billy Idol on the cover of Rolling Stone that got her in a family way, it was the fact that she had loose morals.
Every time I see that sneer on Page Morgan I think of my bastard nephews.
Previously: Stagger Lee; ReBelle Rousers on location; Fresh Out the Box 4Labels: because, WGL
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--Thursday, March 15, 2007--
Utah: No Star '80 on Port 80
 "Wrong hole."
Forget .xxx, a Utah measure to curb Internet smut access would create your computer's own porn pipe.
Ralph Yarro III, who chairs the board of Utah-based UNIX software solutions provider SCO, effectively lobbied the non-binding resolution through both houses of his state's legislature after which it was approved by Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. The resolution calls on the US Congress to designate port 80 a porn-free zone.
Every Internet-capable computer uses ports to communicate with the outside world, and each Internet function we take for granted has a particular port devoted to it. Port 25 is usually used for outgoing mail, port 110 for incoming, port 443 for secure transactions like online banking, and so on. Port 80 is the standard for transferring web pages.
The Internet Community Ports Act, authored by Yarro's "Clear Port 80" (CP80), would require that port to be a "community channel", with a Miller Test applied to lock out anything unseemly.
Man! Imagine if Porn got port 69? That would be so clever! I love it when people use the number 69 to stand for anything sexual, regardless of whether anyone other than Lee Stone and very small women actually 69 anymore.
(Alas, port 69 is already used for booting routers and the Blaster virus.)
Read more about CP80's efforts here.
Previously: XFanz to stage erotic festival, perhaps erotically; The Decline will be televised
See also: SCO chairman wants Congress to make port 80 porn-free (arstechnica.com)Labels: legal, news
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Phoebe Jones in The Cheerist
 Here is what Phoebe Jones can bring to your team:
Solo, BJ, GG, BG, BBG, BGG, and Bukkake. She was not in Six in Me.
Previously: Fiat Lux Kassidy; Erotica L.A. in review
See also: Absolute ModelingLabels: agency, because, stats
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Sunny Lane, on and off the ice; Tyler Faith, awake and asleep
 I asked Sunny Lane what she thought of her ABC special when I dropped by KSEXRadio last night.
Lane and former Adam & Eve contract performer Sophia Lynn were followed by ABC's PrimeTime crew for several months, and special attention was paid to the supportiveness of Lane's parents, Shelby and Mike, of her career choices, whether her career was ice skating or porn.
I have never seen Lane off-message, and I told her so. I don't expect her to trash-talk other performers or confide in me her love of the Dark Arts, but it is sometimes a challenge to determine if what I'm hearing is the real Sunny Lane.
Last night I came to the conclusion that whoever Sunny Lane is, it is a perfectly integrated product, and I should just stop worrying about it because I like the product. She has been this person since she was a tiny ice skater of seven years old, if not before, and she will probably be this person when she is a grandmother, entering cookies into competitions.
"My (ice-skating) coach told me that there's 'On Ice' and 'Off Ice'," Lane said.
"And at what point did you realize that the cameras kept following you after you unstrapped your skates?" I asked.
"When I was about eight," she said.
I was being interviewed on KSEX about my coffee redistribution system, and Lane, Wankus' co-host, kept the mood light with peppy down-home aphorisms.
"Be true to yourself," she said.
"Keep your energy positive," she said.
"I am the god of Hell fire," she didn't say.
I saw a little bit of the PrimeTime special. The PrimeTime people had contacted Lane through Nightmoves, the Tampa magazine and exotic dancer show that first brought Lane to prominence in the adult world. I had also seen Belladonna's PrimeTime special a few years ago, and I wondered how much of my overall feeling of unease came from the editing.
For example, one of the things Sunny's dad, Mike, extols about his daughter's work at The Bunny Ranch is the fact that "she was fed."
It leaves the viewer wondering, "What part of Georgia do you have to be from for being fed to be a luxury?"
Lane confirmed that her father had said plenty of things prior to and after the food comment that were not aired. I didn't feel the special was a hatchet job, but there were a few examples of too much talking or, perhaps, too little.
Kelly Turner writes:
Don't you find it interesting that the porn industry tends to get upset at the mainstream media's so-called hatchet jobs? (sidenote: Wasn't porno supposed to go mainstream any second now?) Is it because they are so used to a trade media that wouldn't dare say anything negative, so they can't understand it when the Diane Sawyers take a swipe at the indus |
