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Rob Spallone Calls Me An Asshole Over My Elegant Angel Story

Rob calls at 6:35pm. "Hey asshole."

Duke: "Hi."

Rob: "How do you feel now?"

Duke: "I'm still right."

Rob: "You're wrong. You're 100% wrong. Number one. Patrick is not that kind of guy. If Patrick was selling, he'd say he was selling. He's a straight shooter.

"He's not selling his company. Patrick has a good company. He always did. He slacked off for a while, but he's back stronger than ever."

Duke: "Ok pal, thanks."

Rob: "Not thanks. That's what you write. That you're an asshole. Rob Spallone told you that you're an asshole. And it's not for sale. And whoever told you that, you should call them and say, you made me look like a dick. Now I'm putting your name up there."

I stand by my story that Elegant Angel has been sold and that its former owner Patrick Collins is lying about it. I believe, but do not know, that Pleasure Productions has scooped it up. They've specialized in buying companies at bargain prices. Frank Koretsky, owner of Pleasure, denies buying Elegant Angel or having any interest in buying it.

2257 Regs And Identity Theft

A source writes:

On the issue of 2257 and the new regulations, webmasters must have identification of the models to prove age. Previously, they just needed to be able to point to the content producer, who had locked up in filing cabinents the model ID and 2257 info.

Now content producers are in a tough bind. To comply with the law as well as keep generating revenue, they need to disclose the model ID (which includes things like driver's license that may have their home address, passport, birth certificates, etc). Models could now be easily put at risk that a "fan" posing as a webmaster, could purchase just one set of the model, and therefore get her private info. Imagine a fan getting the ID to Aria Giovani or any of their favorite porn star?

Content producers are starting to "Advertise" their "2257 compliant" images much like JMM (jeff miller) did on GFY and here.

In the above thread by JMM, you can go to his site and see where he offers birth certificates, social security cards, etc. Talk about identity theft.

There are CA laws about privacy. Could a webmaster that is trying to comply with 2257, end up breaking a CA law? It would seem that CA AG could have issue with this that makes it automatically go to the Supreme Court. The problem is that CA AG may not be motivated to go on the line for "defending" porn.

Residents of CA, the models, are being endangered, and it may not have been anywhere in their contracts, that their personal info like SSN, driver's license, birth certificate, etc would ever be revealed. JMM is just one of many content producers who are trying to comply with the law, but the ramifications of such mean they protect themselves and the people who purchase from them, but endanger the models.

Jeff at Sunupmedia responds:

Thanks for the advertising.

Next time, perhaps you might want to scroll to the bottom of the page: "Note: Prior to shipment, all orders will be screened. Only legitimate, established companies will be eligible to receive this content."

I'm not just sending the content to any Tom, Dick, or Harry (no pun intended)

Romeo writes:

Sooner or later surfers will learn they can access the physical addresses of webmasters just by clicking on the 2257 link on the front page. I also wonder whether extreme Christian right / anti-porn crusaders will eventually realize this and use webmasters' addresses to their advantage. I wonder if some are already doing so. Many webmasters who don't run affiliate programs work outside of their homes - especially those who have full-time day jobs.

Am I paranoid in thinking that some activists will use this information to campaign against webmasters who run 100% legal and legit businesses out of their homes? These are the kind of things local news channels love - 'local man who lives 1 mile away from school runs MILF website.' I don't know whether this will happen to tons of people, but it does put a lot of people at risk - especially people who run one-man operations and don't have expensive lawyers or PR people.

Elegant Angel Sold - Patrick Collins Is A Big Fat Liar

Patrick Collins will be kept on to run EA. I don't know how many EA employees will lose their jobs.

I reported May 12 that Elegant Angel was being sold. Patrick Collins got to AVN's Paul Fishbein on May 13 and had him publish that Elegant Angel wasn't being sold. When Pat said this, he knew full well that he was selling his company. Patrick Collins is a big fat liar.

A week or two ago, Rob Spallone told me I was wrong about Elegant being sold. Ed Kail, Elegant salesman, said I was wrong. But I was right.

From AVN.com:

May 13, 2005 Patric Collins Did Not Sell Elegant Angel Paul Fishbein reports: I just spoke to Patrick Collins who says that he has absolutely NOT sold Elegant Angel as was reported earlier today on a porn gossip site. "It has no basic is fact at all," Collins said.

From May 31: AVN President Paul Fishbein contacted Frank Kay, owner of Pleasure Productions, who had this to say: "I do not own Elegant Angel, nor am I buying it. Are all of you people in California on crack?"

Ever since Patrick got sued (personally and Elegant Angel Inc) circa 1998 by the wife of the cop who was shot and killed on his premises by one of Patrick's employees Hector (set builder) who then killed himself.

There is a billboard on Vine across from Mel's (between Hollywood and Sunset Blvds) facing southbound that could be Paul Fishbein's twin brother, if he had one.

Most of the industry talk for the past week has been about 2257 regulations. Several companies have canceled overseas trips for June and July until their lawyers give them further instruction. I think a lot of people will be opening foreign subsidiaries to own distribution rights (Brazil, Czech, etc).

Jordan Fleiss Interview

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Jordan, 20, calls me back Monday night, May 30, 2005.

I met her the night before at PAW's bowling fundraiser.

She'd said my name excitedly. "The man behind the myth."

Monday evening Jordan went to Dodger stadium for the first time and saw her beloved Cubs win 5-3. "I'd never been to a baseball game outside of Wrigley Field, which is where the Cubs play in Chicago."

Duke: "Did you have fun last night?"

Jordan: "It was fun. I was definitely glad to meet you. When I first came into the industry last year, you were one of the first names I learned. Your old site (www.l-keford.com) was one of the first websites I got sent to."

Duke: "How did you get into the porn industry?"

Jordan: "I moved out when I was 17. I wanted to experiment. I wanted to do and see as much as I possibly could while I was young. I was recently sexually liberated. I was turned on to some new things, discovered a talent, and figured why not make money with it. If it pays for school, great.

"I had a couple of friends who 'modeled.' I talked to them about their experiences. I jumped on to a message board website for the adult industry and spoke to different people. I ended up going to Vegas for my first shoot. I met more people there and ended up in LA. I moved here in March."

Jordan Fleiss has done about 25 movies.

Duke: "When you were a girl, what did you want to be when you grew up?"

Jordan: "A lot of things. Mainly a lawyer for criminal justice, psychological profiling, abnormal psychology."

Duke: "What kind of crowd did you hang out with in highschool?"

Jordan: "I was a skater girl. I went to a public school in Chicago. It was a diverse crowd. There were a lot of minorities, a lot of gangs. You couldn't categorize my cliche."

Duke: "But what's a skater girl?"

Jordan: "The baggy jeans and the colored hair and was listening to metal and rap."

Duke: "Does it mean you were rollerskating?"

Jordan: "I skateboarded a little bit. We hung around with the skateboarding group. Everybody skated back in highschool."

Duke: "What kind of student were you?"

Jordan: "An absent one. Highschool was a wild time for me. I started everything early. I was 15 when I lost my virginity."

Duke: "Were you a slut?"

Jordan: "I was more one of the guys. I was the one girl you would always find among a crowd of guys. I was always into the sports, the music. I was a tomboy."

Duke: "How did your family and friends react when you got into porn?"

Jordan: "My family knows but they live in denial. Nobody talks about it. I never had to deal with a reaction from them. Some of my friends were proud, some surprised, and some melted away. I could see where some of my friends started to look at me. They deny it. They say it doesn't bother them."

Duke: "What have you loved and hated about your time in the industry?"

Jordan: "I love that I meet people from all over the world. I met two people in this industry from Transylvania [next to Hungary in Europe]. You just don't get that kind of cultural diversity walking down the street. On a porn set, everybody is forced to be uninhibited. You get to know them on a different kind of level than you would talking to them over a beer or randomly meeting them at a party. It's ignorant to think that the only way to live life is the way our country lives it.

"What I don't like is that this industry is so similar to highschool.

"I did an 18-month apprenticeship as an autobody technician. The people who take old cards and grind them down and restore them. I'm going to take over the shop back home but I have to be certified to do it. Cars have been my passion since I was 11. I can't explain it. I didn't grow up with them."

Duke: "How has it affected your love life to work in this industry?"

Jordan: "Guys have never been a priority of mine since I've been on my own and realized the value of money and what these years are going to do for me. I try not to date people in the industry. It's unprofessional. Outside the industry, the guys will always say, no, it doesn't bother me that you do porn. No, it doesn't bother me at all.

"Then, as time goes on, slowly and surely it bothers them, and they try to change you, and they hold it against you. I'm not up for that.

"I am attracted to women. I think they're beautiful creatures. I just don't like pussy."

Despite this, Jordan has done a few girl-girl scenes.

Duke: "Has working in porn affected your views of men?"

Jordan: "No. The guys in the industry are like guys outside the industry, only more."

Duke: "What do you like to do in your spare time?"

Jordan: "I drag race back home."

Duke: "What did you learn last night?"

Jordan: "I learned that fans are sillier than I thought. Being around guys in the industry, who see 100 naked chicks a week, if you run around naked in front of them, and they don't turn their head. All of a sudden you're with all these civilians, and when a bra strap falls off a shoulder, the cameras are flashing. It was a culture shock."

What Do Spiegler Girls Do When They're Home Alone?

Hardware posits on ADT:

Make random phone calls and ask whoever answers if their refrigerator is running.

Hold competitions to see who can play Chopin's Etudes the best.

Raid the frig for ice cream and complain because only the neapolitan is left.

Argue over whether or not post-modernism is really art.

Put cold heat in the other girls' thongs.

Disect Dostoevski's Notes from the Underground and discuss the moral implications.

Lee O writes: "My guess is that many totter around on ridiculously large heels while stroking insanely tiny dogs tucked away under their dainty little arms. The ones who don't are giggling insanely."

Taryn Thomas posts:

Since I live at the "Spiegler Dorm" full time, I'll give you a few ideas.

Right now living there it is Poppy Morgan, Claire Robins, Jeanie Marie, Lexi Luv and I. Poppy is here right now and you could only imagine, what we do when were home alone. Other times we dance on the balcony in our pajamas to Dirty Dancing and sometimes it's caught on film. We all go to the pool at times and you could once again only imagine when six hot chicks show up at the pool. Also, how could I forget we are always practicing our ANAL skills. And sometimes when are lucky we get visits from Spiegler girls that don't live here.

Lori Alexia Photos

I met this little fireball at Porn Star Karoke about six weeks ago.

She writes:

Hello, Luke. Here are a few pics for our interview on your site.

I'm not even going to touch the racial issues and comments that I read! Hopefully, every year will bring about more mature, open minded, and non- racist individuals.

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Joanna Angel Has No Soul?

She calls me back Monday at 6:35pm. I hear a poker party in the background. Joanna's drunk.

Somebody yells out, "Do you know where's my medication?"

Duke: "What prompted you to get into the porn industry?"

She giggles. "Nothing prompted me at all. I wasn't thinking about it. It came from out of the blue.

"My college roommate asked me, 'Do you know what you're doing when you graduate?' I said, not really. He said, would you like to start a porn website with me? I said yeah.

"I had never watched porn before that. I never knew anything about porn. It was one of those things that at the time seemed like a good idea. A lot has changed in the past three years."

Duke: "What did you major in at college?"

Joanna, 24: "I went to Rutgers. I did an English major with a minor in Film studies. I almost got a minor in philosophy. I was one class away.

"I graduated with honors. I was like a smart person.

"Are you laughing at me? I'm wasted. Let's keep going. It's going to be fun."

Duke: "When you were a girl, what did you want to be when you grew up?"

Joanna: "When I was in college, I wanted to teach creative writing to people in prison. I watched this movie called Slam (1998). It's not that good of a movie, but it's... I also went to this writing school for the summer -- Naropa Institute. There was a woman there named Hettie Jones. I really looked up to her. She was a writing teacher in prisons.

"I [later] realized that most prisons don't have creative writing teachers. I didn't know what to do with myself."

Duke: "When you were a girl, what did you want to be when you grew up?"

Joanna: "I didn't think about what I was going to do past the next day. I guess everybody thinks about being a teacher. I don't remember much about my childhood."

She giggles.

Duke: "Why not?"

Joanna giggles: "I just don't. It's not something I think about on a regular basis."

Duke: "Was it drugs that took away your memory?"

Joanna: "No. I didn't start doing a lot of drugs until college. I don't do a lot of drugs."

Duke: "What kind of crowd did you hang out with in highschool?"

Joanna: "I didn't hang out with anybody. I didn't have any friends. I had pink hair. It was short, messy and spiky. I guess I had some friends in the punk scene. I went to shows a lot. I had this boyfriend I was hanging around with. A lot of my friends in highschool, everybody's friends in highschool were assholes. I don't talk to any of them now. We were also kind of angry. We were all angry kids who found each other. We weren't necessarily angry about the same things. We all wore lots of patches on our bags."

Duke: "What are they?"

Joanna: "When you like a band, you sew a patch of a band that you like on your bag. That's what I did when I was 16."

Duke: "Were you cute in highschool?"

Joanna: "I don't know. It's not really up to me to decide. To be honest, I don't think I was cute. I think I was ugly."

Duke: "Were there a lot of people hitting on you?"

Joanna: "No. That didn't happen until my senior year. I went away for the summer after my junior year, and when I came back I had boobs. And all the football players were hitting on me. Not in a serious way. More, 'Ohmigod, she's a freak, but she's kinda hot.'"

Duke: "How old were you when you lost your virginity?"

Joanna: "Ohmigod, you're asking me my life story. I was 18. It was a very good experience.

"I skipped a grade and got to college early [age 17]."

Duke: "How long did it take you to get your degree from Rutgers?"

Joanna: "Five years. Don't tell anyone that. I partied a lot."

Duke: "When did you get your first tattoo?"

Joanna: "The day I turned 18."

She has seven.

Duke: "Are tattoos addictive?"

Joanna: "Not really. I've done things in my life that were addictive. I don't wake up in the middle of the night sweating and say, ohmigod, I've got to get a tattoo. Getting a tattoo is like getting a new shirt or a new pair of shoes. Other girls like Louis Vutton handbags and expensive jeans. I never cared about stuff like that. I just cared about getting nice tattoos. It's not like it's dangerous. It's something you think about fairly often."

Duke: "What need does getting a tattoo fulfill?"

Joanna: "Do you not have any tattoos?"

Duke: "No."

Joanna: "You don't have any friends who have tattoos?"

Duke: "No."

Joanna: "Ohmigod. It doesn't really fulfill. I can't explain it."

Duke: "Do you want to hurt yourself and that's why you get a tattoo?"

Joanna: "No. That's not it at all. It's a design. It's an aesthetic."

Joanna and company launched Burningangel.com on April 20, 2002.

Duke: "Was that the first time you posed naked?"

Joanna: "Yes. My roommate was the one taking the pictures. I lived in a house with seven guys. We were just sitting around and I said, ok, let's go downstairs and take naked pictures of me. It didn't feel like a big deal. The pictures were extremely ugly."

Duke: "Out of those seven guys, how many had you slept with?"

Joanna: "None."

Duke: "Whoa."

Joanna: "Is that amazing? Some breakthrough in porn journalism?"

Duke: "Did you ever have sex with the guy who's your partner in the website?"

Joanna: "We had sex once when we were 19. It was a five minute thing. We don't have sex on a regular basis. We're like brother and sister. We tried it once to see what would happen but it wasn't anything we wanted to continue. We're friends."

Something's not right here. A guy always wants more sex with an attractive woman.

Joanna stands 5' tall and measures 34C-24-34.

Joanna has shot about ten sex scenes but won't sell many of them because she doesn't like them. "I don't think the guys were staying hard enough and doing a good job. People don't realize how hard it is to find good guys."

Duke: "How did your friends and family react to your website?"

Joanna: "I love my family and they love me. My mom is not that happy. She probably wishes that I would do something else. She just wants me to be happy. When she sees that I'm happy, she's happy. She doesn't look at the website. My dad thinks I started something cool. I don't talk to him extensively about the sexual things I did on camera.

"Some people in my family don't want to talk to me anymore. Some of my uncles and one of my aunts. It's caused a big debate. One of my aunts got angry at my mom for wanting to disown me. It made me and my mom and my dad closer. That they love me and accept me even though I do this makes me feel like I should be nice to them all the time. I have the most amazing family ever."

Duke: "Did you want to hurt them when you started this?"

Joanna: "Not at all.

"Is this some kind of psychological thing? Are you trying to do some kind of expose on why porn stars want to do bad things."

Duke: "I'm just a good listener."

Joanna: "I never wanted to hurt my family. Maybe some ex-boyfriends."

Duke: "Tell me about wanting to hurt ex-boyfriends."

Joanna: "I don't feel like talking about any of my ex-boyfriends right now."

Duke: "Did you get emails from any of your professors saying they saw your work on Burningangel?"

Joanna: "Yes, from three. One of them was an English professor. One was in charge of internships. They just said nice website. They tried to disguise it as some intellectual academic thing."

Duke: "Did you ever have sex with any of your professors?"

Joanna: "I did. When I was 19. With one of my English professors but he wasn't my professor and it wasn't to get a good grade. It was at Naropa. He was a teacher there. I wanted to have sex with him. It was pretty gross. He was old [30yo]. When I was 19, I was mostly having sex with guys 20-25."

Duke: "What kind of men are you attracted to?"

Joanna: "I don't know."

Duke: "Sure you do."

Joanna: "I like guys with a career and a good head on their shoulders. I have two qualifications for me to date someone -- if they got a higher SAT score than me (1580) and more tattoos than mine. That's the only way I will call someone my boyfriend."

Duke: "How many boyfriends have you had in the past eight years?"

Joanna: "Six."

Duke: "Did they all have higher SATs than you?"

Joanna: "No. I didn't make this rule until after I started doing porno."

Duke: "Do you find a lot of guys with more tattoos than you and good careers?"

Joanna: "I don't find any. I had a boyfriend two years ago and I really loved him, but he didn't want to date someone who did porno. I had to leave."

Duke: "Why didn't you just quit porno?"

Joanna: "F--- that. This is my life. This is what I do."

Duke: "You chose porno over the man that you loved."

Joanna: "I did."

Duke: "Why?"

Joanna: "Because I love porno."

Duke: "Why?"

Joanna: "Because this is what I do. This is my career. This is the company that I own."

Duke: "But why do you love it? What about it do you love?"

Joanna: "I love everything about it. I love that porno is an underground industry. I love that it is a subculture. I love that it is wrong yet everybody loves it at the same time. I love that everybody wants to ban it but they can't because it makes way too much money.

"I've been a dancer since I was 21."

Duke: "A stripper."

Joanna: "Yeah, a stripper. After I started stripping, I go, the sex industry is an amazing place. It's an underground weird seedy disgusting thing that's so powerful and amazing at the same time."

Duke: "How do you feel about growing old?"

Joanna repeats my question incredulously. "I hadn't really thought about it until now."

Duke: "What do you hate about the porn industry?"

Joanna: "I don't hate anything."

Duke: "What's it like dating people when you're a porn star?"

Joanna: "I haven't dated that many people."

Duke: "But when you have..."

Joanna: "Men in general are pretty stupid. They're not intelligent."

Duke: "How are men stupid?"

Joanna: "I don't think they understand women."

Duke: "What don't they understand?"

Joanna: "Are you really serious?"

Duke: "Yes."

Joanna: "Is this what you ask most porn stars? The differences between men and women?"

Duke: "Yes."

Joanna: "For some reason, I'm always that girl that everyone comes to for advice. I'm not in a place to give people counseling but it's what I do.

"In general, most men are really selfish. They see only one side of the story. Most women have the ability to see two sides of things."

Duke: "Do you think women are superior to men?"

Joanna: "I think I am superior to all men. I think women are superior to men but society doesn't allow them to feel that way. I think most women feel subservient to men. Women really do have all the brains and all the power."

Duke: "Which period of your life was the happiest?"

Joanna: "Right now. Also, when I was 19, my sophomore year of college. Nothing really mattered then."

Duke: "What are your goals?"

Joanna: "I want to make lots of porno. I want every single person in the world to know what BurningAngel is."

Duke: "Is their a philosophy behind BurningAngel.com?"

Joanna: "BurningAngel.com is a punk porn site. It's not punk in the aesthetic. It's punk in the attitude."

Duke: "How do you feel about illegal drugs?"

Joanna: "They can be used recreationally. Once you use anything to the point where you can't live without it, then it is dangerous.

"This world is a tough place to live in. Once you start using drugs to deal with the world, you're doing something wrong.

"I don't care about anything being illegal. I don't have that much respect for American and the government. People need to do whatever they need to do to maintain their wellbeing. If you can't live in this world sober, then that it is a problem, and you should learn how to do it, even if it is hard."

Duke: "Are you primarily attracted to men or women?"

Joanna: "Men. I dated two women. I was in love with this one woman."

Duke: "But she wanted you to stop doing porn?"

Joanna: "No. We did porn together."

Duke: "What happened to that love?"

Joanna: "I still talk to her. She does a lot of drugs. I don't want to do a lot of drugs."

Duke: "How do you feel about porn addiction? Do you think that's something real?"

Joanna: "Yeah, I think a lot of people are addicted to porn. Nobody wants to be lonely. Everybody needs attention and some sexual fantasy in their life."

Duke: "Do you feel that by working in porn, you are preying on people's addictions?"

Joanna: "No."

Duke: "Why not? There are people addicted to porn."

Joanna: "There are people who are addicted to buying clothes, alcohol. People are consumers. In America, everybody buys something. I don't feel like I am preying on an addiction. I don't think addiction to sex comes from pornography. It comes from people's natural state. People are sexual creatures and pornography capitalizes off that. I don't think [porn] creates an addiction. A heroin dealer gives out free samples so people can get addicted and he can make money. Pornography is what people think about and jerk off to."

Duke: "But aren't the free samples you put on your website like the heroin dealer who says, here, try some of this."

Joanna: "No. That's not something I'm thinking about when I'm on camera.

"Are you laughing?"

Duke: "I just liked the analogy to the heroin dealer giving out free samples. I laughed at that."

Joanna: "Ok. Why are you using it against me?"

Duke: "I didn't. It just made me laugh.

"Do you think we have an eternal soul?"

Joanna: "WHAT?"

Duke: "You studied philosophy. This is in your bailiwick."

Joanna: "Eternal soul? I never studied that in school."

Duke: "Now's a great time to start."

Joanna: "I don't think we have an eternal soul."

Duke: "After we die, that's it."

Joanna: "I think so.

"I don't think about my death very often."

Duke: "If, after we die, that's it, does that depress you?"

Joanna: "Not at all. I want to make the most out of what I do while I'm alive."

Duke: "Which books have most influenced you?"

Joanna: "Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. The Other Hollywood by Legs McNeil. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susan. Because I'm a writer, when I read something and really like the way it is written, it was brutally honest. She told the truth. It didn't have a happy ending. There are few American classic novels that don't have a happy ending."

Duke: "Do you think it was trashy?"

Joanna: "No. I'm pretty trashy."

Duke: "You're a high-low girl."

Joanna: "What?"

Duke: "Some high culture, some low culture."

Joanna: "I've never heard that term before."

Duke: "I'm introducing you to so many things. This will be an interview you'll never forget."

Joanna: "I guess not. You're out there to try to make me look stupid. Are you like one of those Howard Stern people who tries to make girls look stupid?"

Duke: "I just want to get the best possible interview I can."

Joanna: "Ok. I hope you got one out of me."

Duke: "I did. Thanks for your time."

Joanna: "You asked me if I had an eternal soul."

Duke: "You think that's a weird question?"

Joanna: "I think that's an absurd question."

Duke: "What's absurd about it?"

Joanna: "It has nothing to do with anything."

Duke: "It's a Rorschach's test."

Joanna: "I guess I'm going to have to take a look at your website. Are you going to make me look like an asshole?"

Duke: "I treated you like a delicate flower."

Joanna giggles: "Joanna has no soul."

Duke: "That's the headline."

Joanna: "Eternally.

"I just got a manicure and I got a bow on my nails. I look like a present."

Duke: "You are a present to me."

Joanna: "I'm going to go back to my barbecue."

Duke: "You mentioned you've been drinking today."

Joanna: "Heavily. My friend was making White Russians. A big bowl and I was drinking it from the bowl. I never ever drink. This is the first time since the AVN Awards. I drank so much that I threw up in the Venetian casino all over the place. That's because I never drink. I ate a burrito for dinner. It was gross."

Duke: "Did you smoke dope or shoot any lines of heroin today?"

Joanna: "No. I don't do that. I know that you think that porn stars are f---ed up."

Duke: "What gave you that impression?"

Joanna: "Because you're an asshole."

Duke: "I'm not worthy to hold your computer keyboard because I only got 1135 on my SATs."

Joanna: "See. You could never take me on a date. Maybe I'd have a meaningless one-night stand with you but I couldn't have anything meaningful with you."

Travis writes: "Yeah, don't know her personally but she comes off as one of those counterculture entrepreneur fake-subversive porn moguls who thinks she reinvented the wheel, & is offended if you're not impressed. Being the latest lemming/fashion victim to wallow in third-generation punk/goth extended adolescence & garnering a lot of peer approval (& cash!) for basically exploiting your peers as hard -- or harder -- than any uncool middle-aged businessman doesn't nurture a healthy perspective on one's own importance in the world .... Hey, most porn chicks ARE, clinically speaking, stupid & immature! Doesn't matter whether they're based out of Woodland Hills or Brooklyn ..."

ADT thread

Jody Maxwell in July Hustler

My interview with her.

Taylor Hayes Update

Jack writes:

Over the past two years she has been phone-bothering my buddy in Dallas, who Taylor/Tara lived with before moving out west. The calls are irregular and typically intercepted by my friend's wife, who is a European TV personality. The calls usually involve Taylor asking for my buddy from a blocked number and then giving his wife (who knows all about Taylor) a hard time. I once heard the Dallas end of one of these bitchfests: it's some funny s---, because my buddy's wife is one tough cookie who straight-up tells Taylor to go crawl back into her hole.

Peter writes: "I want to read more about Taylor Hayes' descent! She used to be the hottest thing - let me enjoy her misery. Fill me in on the gory details."

PAW Hosts Bowling-For-Scholars Evening In Torrance

Victoria Spencer Victoria Victoria Avy Scott Belladonna Belladonna Naudia Nyce Belladonna Tricia Oaks, Serena Sin Tricia, Serena Victoria Givens Victoria Givens Lori Wagner Lori Wagner Lori Wagner Lori Wagner Frank Prather Tricia Oaks Serena Sin Serena Sin Cousin Stevie and his wife Amy Serena Sin Promise Holly Wellin Lexxi Tyler Victoria Givens, Lexxi Tyler Lexxi Tyler Lexxi Bill Margold, Mari Possa Mari Possa Mari Possa Brooke Hunter Brooke Hunter Brooke Hunter Lexxi Tyler's boyfriend Dee Dee Lexxi Tyler Lexxi Tyler Lexxi Tyler Kayla Kayla Daphne Rosen Daphne Rosen Daphne Rosen Daphne Rosen Mallou Mallou, Monstar Mallou, Monstar Justine Jolie, Sarah Blake Justine Jolie, Sarah Blake Justine, Sarah Justine, Sarah Holly Wellin Holly Wellin Holly Wellin Angella Faith Dru Berrymore Dru Dru Brandy May Steve Nelson (AI News), Tony Lovett (AVN Online) John, Vicky Vette Vicky Vette John, Vicky Vette Frank Prather Kelly Erikson Kelly Erikson Kelly Erikson Kelly Erikson Kelly Erikson Kelly Erikson Kelly Erikson Kelly Erikson, Cousin Stevie Kelly, Stevie Kelly, Stevie Kelly, Stevie Monstar Kelly Erikson Kelly, Lexxi Tyler Lexxi Tyler, Kelly Erikson Kelly Erikson Promise, Jeff Mullen Bill Margold, Promise Flower Tucci Flower Tucci, Tiana Lynn Bill Margold Bill Margold Christie Lee Jordan Fleiss Jordan Fleiss Jordan Jordan Jordan Fleiss Kelly, Monstar Kelly, Monstar Kelly Erikson, Monstar Holly Wellin, Rusty Nails Holly, Rusty Layla Jade Layla Jade Layla Jade Layla Jade Layla Jade Layla Jade Lisa Daniels Lisa Daniels Lisa Daniels Layla Jade Jordan Fleiss Jordan Fleiss Jordan Fleiss Tee Reel, Christie Lee Tee Reel, Christie Lee Christie Lee Tee Reel, Jordan Fleiss Tee Reel, Jordan Jordan Fleiss, Christie Lee Tee Reel, Jordan, Christie Lee Jordan Jordan Fleiss, Christie Lee Christie Lee Rebecca Love Rebecca Love Frederick Frederick Frederick aka Candy-Lee Frederick Janie L, Monstar Lexxi Tyler, Lisa Daniels Lexxi Tyler, Lisa Daniels Becca Brat, Jenny Hendricks Becca Brat, Jenny Celestia Star, Johnny Celestia, Johnny Brooklyn Nights, Celestiaic Celestia, Johnny Celestia Star, Brooklyn Nights Flower Tucci Flower Christie Lee Christie Lee Christie Lee Christie Lee Christie Lee Jordan Fleiss Jordan Fleiss Jordan Fleiss Rebecca Love Rebecca Love Rebecca Love Avy Scott Christie Lee Christie Lee Christie Lee Tiana Lynn Tiana Lynn

Rick Williams, owner of Black Widow Productions, tells me, "I wanted to bring Kara [freelance graphic designer, Italian, at Black Widow] for you, but...her boyfriend was jealous."

I blush bright red. "She's the most beautiful woman I've seen in my life," I say. She reminds me of Lyra.

ChickenMaster writes on XPT: "Luke is the best photographer ever. It's like he catches the essence of their destroyed soul Picture-of-Dorian-Gray-style."

David writes: "I don't know if it's your camera or the porn stars but the female porn stars look TORE UP! Wow! The guys look a lot better than the girls. Maybe it's time for the female porn talent to buy you a new camera to make them look better."

Monstar reports:

Best Luke moment of the night:
Monstar: That's a really cool camera
Luke: If I could just figure out the settings...

"Don't let the eyeliner fool you," Monstar tells me. "I'm all man."

About 45 porn stars showed, along with a similar number of photographers and pornographers as well as about 150 fans for the fifth such fundraiser.

How am I going to carve compelling material out of such an amiable evening?

Jokes about how many girls have implants the size of bowling balls can only go so far.

The only desperation I sense tonight is my own as I seek a good story. Nope. Nothing here that my dull sense pick up.

The industry has neutered me. At one time, I broke stories. Now I just rehash public relations.

Have I sold my soul for a blowjob?

I need to do more interviews. Most of them will be boring, but if I keep doing them, some inevitably will be compelling.

I'm never going to afford a wife, kids and a new car if I can't do better than this.

To save a few dollars for gas, I cut my own hair Sunday evening and butchered it. Nobody teases me about how bad it is.

There's no drama. Nobody threatens to kill me. Nobody punches me or anyone else. I don't feel like I matter anymore.

Over the past three years, I've met about 50 women I'd like to date. None would have me (once they knew me).

I have no problem meeting great women. I have a problem getting them to take me seriously.

It's a good thing I don't use this website to complain about my problems or project them out onto the industry as a whole. No, it must not be porn that is isolating. It must be my behavior and choices that are isolating.

I turned 39 May 28. I did nothing for my birthday. I never do. I don't believe in it. Nor do I believe in bloviating about myself on a website that has a higher purpose -- earn me a living.

The last time I was inside a woman was seven months ago. But I don't mind. That denial makes me stronger. I'm not here to mess around. I'm here at lukeisback.com to settle down. What better way could there be to meet a quality woman that attending a porn star bowling event and blogging about it?

I take comfort in my ability to draw the socially and physically retarded. I guess they think I'm nice. So they start hitting on me. Retarded girls have been hitting on me since I was ten.

Friend says: "So [retarded] people hit on you? Uh oh. In my country we say the way you shout into the forest, that is the way it echoes back."

Jane writes: "What ever happend to Taylor Hayes? You had some BBQ behind the scenes pics of her on your old site. Last I saw was when she got really upset on the Howard Stern Show.... and have not seen her since. Is she still in the biz?"

She's out of porn. She was in a custody fight with Seymore Butts a few years ago that landed in the New York Post's Page Six. Seymore has total custody of their son Adam, so that probably says something about how Taylor Hayes is doing. Normally, if a mother is functional, she gets most of the custody. If Taylor is out of porn and still judged an inferior parent to Seymore the pornographer whose kid gets plastered on Showtime regularly, then....

Seymore's girlfriend Mari Possa along with Cousin Stevie and his lovely wife were at the bowling event Sunday night along with their publicist April Storm.

Bill Margold looks increasingly like the late Jim Holliday.

He says PAW has run out of money helping Fred Salaff (jailed in Panama) and Brandi May (who's a mother to five kids).

Lexxi Tyler works with Tyler Faith Tuesday for Bella Productions. It will be Lexxi's first scene for anyone (other than for her own website).

Is Kelly Erikson still a Metro contract girl?

I hear Edward Wedelstedt's trial has been continued until January.

Back in the 1980s, Jeff Mullen in Milwaukee used to make much of the music that went into porn movies. He reminisces with Margold about the movie Porn to Burn, which starred Bill, Peter North (as a congressman) and Porsche Lynn.

It's the first time I've seen Bill Margold smoke. He inhales from his cigarillo.

I find out that Layla Jade is no longer married.

Bad Ass Frank says he hasn't been drinking for five weeks. I ask him why. He says Tricia Oaks made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

I stand outside with Christie Lee and Jordan Fleiss. They smoke and drink coke mixed with liquor. Christie says she just read a review that said she gave lousy head. She's indignant.

Angella Faith diddles herself with a dildo much of the night.

Jack Spade (Aria's ex-husband) and Becca Brat have started a talent agency -- VixenModels.

I ask if they are together as a couple. Becca says: "I don't want to talk about my personal life."

Belladonna squirts fans with milk from her breasts. She gave birth a few months ago.

The party peaks about 9:45pm and then people start leaving. I stay until 10:45. There are a couple of hundred people left.

Aussie writes: "What is up with Rebecca Love's left ear? Does she play rugby? Wrestle? Did Mike Tyson have a go on it? Maybe she should wear headgear during her next gangbang."

Fred writes:

1. Victoria Spencer, Kayla, Angela Faith and Daphne Rosen look awful. Angela Faith really looks like she's past her expiration date. Can they really earn a living doing porn?

2. That butterfly tattoo on Tricia Oaks looks silly as hell. (That's what it is, isn't it?

3. It occurs to me that there seem to be a lot of porn star events that are apparently open to the public. Is there a fee to get into porn star karaoke or porn star bowling?

[Yes. $30.]

4. New question for your next porn star interview: What do you think the recent referendum in France portends for the European Union? Do you invest in Euro-based investments?

Khunrum writes: "Have any of you guys been to Porn Star Cave Diving? Porn Star Hang Gliding? And coming up....the first Porn Star Ascent of Mt. Everest.... See you next weekend at Porn Star Ballroom Dancing."

Helpful writes:

Can't make it. Gotta conflict with my porn star knitting circle. Sorry.

Luke's boiler plate interviews are sorely lacking ("What crowd did you ahng out with in highschool? What do you love/hate about porn? You don't think I'm paying for that $7 Mai Tai?")

Here's a new one for the porners to chew on: "Iran, despite having the third largest oil reserves in the world, insists on developing a uranium enrichment program. Does Israel have the right to bomb such development facilities as a simple act of self-preservation?" Committe chime in, please!

Fred writes: "The porn star chess club would be the answer to a nerd's prayer."

Cindy Crawford Starts Barroom Brawl at PSK?

Gene Ross reports: "There's been dead bodies and broken noses at Porn Star Karaoke. Add to that a cat fight allegedly started by Cindy Crawford last week."