| --Friday, September 19, 2008--
Lenka remembers her Koran
 Today is Talk Like A Pirate day, so even people from Massachusetts are adding Arrs to their conversation.
BlueBlood.com's Lenka commemorates the day that was first celebrated in John Adams' report to the Continental Congress in 1786, when Tripoli's ambassador explained away the Barbary pirates thusly:
It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every mussulman who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise. He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once. The United States continued paying tribute to the Barbary States until 1805, Lenka said, and these early national humiliations led to the current sub-prime mortgage crisis.
Previously: A la carte feminism; Sugar levels; Young Hollywood and the birth of the United States
See also: Lenka at BlueBlood.netLabels: blue blood, events, history, john adams, lenka, steveporn
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--Thursday, August 21, 2008--
Remembering Haley Paige, a little
 Before presenting a brief remembrance of the porn performer Haley Paige, who died a year ago today, I'll share with you an anonymous comment I just received on a post about the late Anna Malle:
"hey anna is going to hell by the way..fornication is a big sin to God..she will suffer the blitz of hell fire..pray for other birls in porn also to change." I have become a heavy comment moderator recently, trashing your First Amendment freedoms, I know, but I choose to leave some hateful comments intact as a reminder of the dangerous regard some fans have for people they think they know.
Maryam Irene Haley was 25 when she died on August 21, 2007 in the Central California town of King City. Three weeks earlier, on August 2, she had married her boyfriend, porn director Inkyo Volt Hwang, in Las Vegas.
From my Fleshbot story last October:
 People who see porn as a multi-billion-dollar cautionary tale need look no further than the sad story of husband and wife Inkyo Volt Hwang (aka Chico or Wanker Wang) and Maryam Irene Haley (aka Haley Paige). Hwang was a website owner and director of extreme porn videos, and Paige was a performer who appeared in the gamut of what porn has to offer, from gangbangs to "couples-friendly" films.
Hwang was arrested on suspicion of pistol-whipping Haley in June, they were married at the beginning of August in Las Vegas, she was dead at month's end, and he was found dead in September.
Hwang, 38, had served time in prison before. For two years in the late 90's Hwang was in Chico State Prison on two felony counts of sexual battery and assault with a deadly weapon, charges nearly identical to those that landed him in jail in June. When running a previous incarnation of the site lukeford.com, Hwang was at the forefront of "shocking" porn website content that mixed gallows humor with extreme sex, often forcing his overweight "minion" to sit on reluctant starlets.
Toxicology reports on both deaths have not been released, but Haley's father said that Hwang was in the room with Haley during her overdose, which occurred on August 21. She had said in the months immediately prior to her death that she had left porn and was planning to go back to school. Hwang was found September 29 in a motel in Morgan Hill, CA, south of San Jose.
Many who knew Haley said she was too sweet and too vulnerable to be in porn. Born in Mexico, she claimed that she was molested by an uncle and raped by gang members before moving to San Diego with her family at 12. Seven years later, she was working at a Blockbuster when she answered a nude modeling ad. She later appeared in more than 300 scenes. She was 25 at her death.
On porn message board ADT, Hwang wrote this of Haley in March: "I think we're attracted to each other simply because we have the exact opposite personalities. She's sweet and quiet. I happen to be aggressive and loud. I guess opposites do attract." I met Paige a few times, and she was indeed very sweet, but also distant. I met Chico Wang (who adopted the name of his prison) a few times, too, and didn't enjoy the experience. But he was distant, too. I have since met a number of friends of both Paige and Wang who say that the couple were very private people, despite the clinical nature of the work they did, and that Wang's public persona masked vulnerability, low self esteem, and shame. And that those things got the better of him.
 So many porn performers don't want their families and hometowns to know what they do, and there is such a deep stigma to the job in such a benighted society that only a few people (Nina Hartley comes to mind) can really transcend it. But Hartley actively seeks transcendence in everything she does, and the majority of porn personnel prefer to keep large aspects of their lives under wraps for fear of what confused idiots like the person quoted at the beginning of this story might do.
But by virtue of there not being a continued thread in Porn, a legitimate archive or history that competent people who are proud of their accomplishments can carry on, departures like Paige's get swallowed up in the face of 11,000 new porn titles a year that bring on anonymity far swifter than in Hollywood, and that is a shame.
 People loved Maryam and people loved Haley, and I encourage those people who've talked to me privately to leave a positive message in the comments section.
 Most of the images above are from I Love Haley Paige, a compilation disc released this year of scenes shot between 2003 and 2005. It does not have behind the scenes footage or anything extra that reveals Haley the person, which I think is a missed opportunity for her fans. But she sure was lovely.
 I Love Haley Paige
Previously: The Da Vinci Load and gallery; Haley Paige video surfaces posthumouslyLabels: anna malle, chico wang, commentary, haley paige, history, news, nina hartley, WGL
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--Thursday, April 19, 2007--
Sexualizing history
 We all know that the myth of George Washington chopping down the cherry tree concerned our fledgling country's castration anxiety, and who can forget what the opening of the Erie Canal was really about? Am I right? Huh? Ladies? I thought so.
So today, the 232nd anniversary of the Battle of Concord and Lexington, let's make a deep reading of the first famous lines from Emerson's "Concord Hymn", which is clearly an account of a Minuteman gangbang:
By the rude bridge that arched the flood
What is the "rude bridge" but the yearning pelvis of a bukkake object? I could cite numerous references throughout our nation's short history to support this, but doubtless you've already heard them. It is sad that our country's early patriots held women in such low esteem as to call their parts rude, but if it makes you feel any better all those dudes had dysentery anyway.
"The flood", of course, is vaginal juices. We think today's obsession with "squirting" is new, when in fact, like churning butter, it is an ancient skill just now finding its way back to popularity. Those Colonial goodwives ejaculated like crazy, because most of them were witches.
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled
It has been a popular historical myth recently that Abraham Lincoln was gay, when in fact men of that time, because the sexes did not enjoy the companionate and intellectual intimacies they do today, were merely closer than they are now. Further, men often shared the same bed while traveling. Therefore the "flag" is a reference to the collective, free-balling nature of a bunch of amiable men who decided that Spring had come early enough for them to drop their pants and "unfurl" after a long winter. It can't mean anything other than that.
Here once the embattled farmers stood
Dozens of archaic early American words and phrases survive, such as "lock, stock, and barrel", "potluck", and "half-cocked", whereas one's "embattled farmer", better known as a penis, has given way to "Gram-hammer". Anyone who has seen the American Bukkake series is familiar with the tableau of a bunch of guys standing around with their embattled farmers in their hands, trying to keeep them standing while the female talent finishes crying.
And fired the shot heard 'round the world
Peter North, who took his name from Concord's Old North Bridge, delivered in his prime loads that could be heard splattering on his scene partners' chests. Some would bruise. The "shot heard 'round the world" is undoubtedly a reference to a particularly decisive Minuteman popshot.
The poem goes on, with references to "streams" both gentle and dark, as well as yet more shafts, but you get the idea.
Check back again when we discuss Johnny Appleseed. That guy was sick.
Previously: A Brief and non-hysterical history of the .XXX domain; Celebrating Black History Month the only way Porn knows how; Scenes from the class struggle in Playboy's PenthouseLabels: history
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Today is Talk Like A Pirate day, so even people from Massachusetts are adding Arrs to their conversation.
