Friday, September 8, 2006
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Rob Spallone's Brother Roy, 48, Dies In Costa Rica Sept. 5
I've known Rob for eight years. If I ever needed a favor (get bailed out of jail or have someone whacked), he'd be one of the first persons I talked to.
Rob (robspallone@aol.com) calls me Friday morning: "Do me a favor. My brother died. If you could just put something up there and leave it there because I've been getting nine million phone calls. Anybody who wants to pay respect can come by my house at 3 p.m., Sept 13, 20058 Friar St. 91367. We're leaving for New York Thursday."
Luke: "When did Roy die?"
Rob: "Tuesday I got the phone call."
Luke: "What killed him?"
Rob: "They did the autopsy yesterday. I had him cremated. Natural causes. He'd been sick. He didn't tell anybody. That's it.
"He was supposed to go to work Monday. He didn't show up. He didn't show up Tuesday. They sent somebody over. They found him in the bed dead."
Luke: "When did you last talk to him?"
Rob: "I went to my mother's office Tuesday morning. She said she spoke to Roy Saturday. He'd been depressed and sick. He sounded good. He was getting a new job. He was moving.
"Three hours later I got the phone call.
"I was supposed to fly down today and leave him down there because he liked it there. I was able to give the rights to this girl to identify him. I've been on the phone with the embassy for two days. I sent them all the money they needed."
Luke: "When did you last talk to him?"
Rob: "About a month ago."
Luke: "What did you talk about?"
Rob: "Nothing. He was the same as always. Crazy Roy."
Luke: "Didn't he have surgery?"
Rob: "Yes. His gallbladder exploded when we were in New York five months ago."
Roy has a 23-year old daughter. "If you met Roy, you'd think he was the happiest guy in the world. He was a tough kid. He wasn't a bully. Anybody who met him, liked him."
Rob chokes up.
My clearest memory of Roy is from Las Vegas in January 2005. I stayed with Rob and Roy and company for a few days at the Bellagio. Rob and Roy were bickering most of the time. On a Friday night, Roy was freaking out because he hadn't heard from Rob all day.
Then Rob stumbled in with Tommy Sinnopoli (who sells herbal viagra). They were both drunk as skunks.
It was pouring rain on the drive home to Los Angeles Sunday evening. Rob was exhausted so Roy gave me a ride home from Rob's house in the Valley, saving me an $80 cab fair.
Roy was always helping people like that.
May his memory be a blessing.
Sex Columnists
Lainie Speiser writes:
Why are they no STRAIGHT MALE sex columnists? That’s what I want to know. Why do I only get sex advice from gay men and sex positive (cringe, cringe) lefty chicks? Why because it would be too raw and honest for the masses to swallow but I think its high time. C’mon Luke start writing one, talk about how you prefer blow jobs to intercourse and how women can smell bad down there. But no,no, no you can’t write about that too many women would be insulted and cry.
I wrote a sex column once when I was a in my mid 20s for a lefty weekly rag called Downtown and later Aquarian Arts Weekly. They named my column “Eros and Existence” nuff said. But I wrote it weekly and there was many a week they just flat out refused to print what I wrote because they said it was too pornographic. They especially despised a column I did about one of my lovers asking me to do with a strap on (which I did). This was in 1997 and toys weren’t quite the big rage yet among hetero couples. They were really horrified and angry, yet a few weeks later they had this other sex writer Tzurah Litzky (wrong spelling but it was something like that), a 50-something year old grey granola writing about the first time SHE got fucked in the ass. And she wrote all this flowery bullshit about some guy breaking her anal cherry, blah-blah-blah, and I found it so hypocritical. Sex is not flowery and pc and spiritual and if it is, I think they call it, “boring married sex.”
I miss Anka Rakovich now that woman was hilarious!
1. Sex columns are a sub-set of relationship columns, ergo dominated by women. 2. If men were to share as much as female sex columnists do, they would look like pigs. 3. I hate it when female sex columnists aren't hot. The only women I want to see on TV talking about sex are women I'd like to have sex with. Is that so wrong?
Lainie writes:
Yes and have you noticed that many simply are not? Victoria said that’s what makes her unique that’s she’s a sex columnist that men would actually WANT to have sex with. Thus I think men would listen to her advice over the others, don’t you think? Her show on Sirius is doing well, she does a show every other Tuesday on Howard 101 called The Sex Connection and she gets swarms and swarms of callers. Also the word “SEXPERT” should be banned.
The truth is 90% of female sex columnist are wacky insecure women who don’t feel very sexy at all and they use this thing as some sorta badge of honor but then when men get all hyped up and horny over it they get insulted. I’ve met some sex columnist (ahem Amy Sohn) who are 100 times nuttier and more riddled with issues than any porn star/centerfold I’ve ever met. Its all the same, “Daddy love me, love me Daddy!” thing and its just boring now. I notice the only female sex columnists that get success are the ones who really are never strong, confident, self-reliant women. Funny how the Carrie Bradshaw neurotic character was the sex columnist when really the slutty Samantha Jones older woman would probably give the better advice, truly love sex for sex’s sake, and know what she’s talking about.
Ah Luke like we don’t know your pigs already? Women always want to know how to please a man, they should know from a straight sexually active good looking one.
Women always say they always want truth, they always want closure but when they get it, its not what they want to hear, they get really upset then sit and analyze it to oblivion and convince themselves that what they heard was really not the truth but some sort of defense mechanism.
I love my parents oh so much because at least they were honest with me about these things. Both of them! The kind of honesty you can only get from people who didn’t have the time and luxury for self-indulgent reasoning.
I do wish there was a male sex columnist, but he’d have to be a good writer, a really good writer. Jim Goad is close he’s putting out this book in the Spring called The Big Book of Sex and I’ve read a lot of it, and of course much is humor, much is very helpful advice I think. He wrote about the art of cunnilingus and he wrote something along the lines of, “you have to act like you enjoy it, I can’t stress that enough” because its true women need to feel you really love licking their clit where most men really don’t think about that at all, they’re just happy to get the head and hope you won’t use your teeth.
Sex is almost the best way to gauge a relationship. When sex fades, the relationship is fading. I remember a bunch of relationships where I lost interest in having sex with my GF. We broke up soon after.
On the other hand, the best sex I've had has usually been with volatile women who've broken up with me a few times. Make-up sex is great. Stable commonsensical women don't tend to rock in bed.
About half the women I've been with were eager to do anything I wanted and almost all women have left it up to me to initiate sex. It usually bothers me if the woman makes the first move.
My primary feeling about the history of my sex life is just plain gratitude that women would have sex with me. It's my most visceral need and my drive to get it is maniacal. I put on the full-court press to get it if I need to.
The most erotic scenarios to me are power ones -- where I feel in power and can coerce the woman to do what I want. For example -- that I am a famous writer, or a powerful boss, or a professor and she's a student or employee or imploring journalist. These are just fantasies and I don't think I've ever acted them out. I pray to God that I've never coerced anyone to have sex with me.
I know you’ve never coerced anyone for real, you’re too sweet and gentle. But its certainly fun to play those games during sex, most definitely. I myself like to indulge in those games quite a lot. When I’m in a relationship and I feel its dragging sexually I want to play the lets pretend we never met game, where I get picked up at a bar. When I played this game on a dirty weekend with my boyfriend, he pretended to be my boss and I was his new hire, he charms me into the hotel room for a night cap and then, well he shows me who is REALLY boss! Afterwards he pulls up his pants, stands over my crumpled, messy figure on the floor and says, “And THAT’S why you should never trust a stranger.”
Let me ask you this, why can’t a woman initiate sex with you and what do you consider initiation? I can’t imagine always waiting for the man to make the first move. Always? Its kind of fun to switch roles I’d say, just to mix things up.
Yes sadly I agree, when sex fades, the relationship is falling apart, its heartbreaking isn’t it? Why does it fade? What goes wrong? How did it get this way? The best sex I’ve had I wasn’t in a relationship with the person at all, more of a lovers thing, booty call, whatever people say it is nowadays. Because you don’t see the person often first off, and when you know you’re seeing someone for the soul purpose of fucking them, its really exciting. Knowing when you get they’ll be no talk and pleasantries and even the offer of a drink, just getting right to the ravaging. That’s hot.
Luke sex and love are not the same thing and the sooner people accept that the better. I’ve loved people down to the core whom I was no longer sexually into but still very much romantically into because it was beyond that at that point. Sex DOES eventually fade between people, its inevitable. Or it comes and goes in waves, I’ve experienced that too.
Two producers have told me that everything at LA Direct is running fine. The website is here and everything seems fine. I heard a lot of bad stories but seen no evidence to back them up.
Feds Give "Toilet Man 6" Two Hands Up
SEPTEMBER 7--In what appears to be a Department of Justice first, federal officials today included the word "bukkake" in a press release announcing the arrest of a Brazilian man for allegedly distributing obscene material. According to federal prosecutors, Danilo Simoes Croce, 42, operated web sites offering "obscene videos for download or delivery in the U.S.. The videos depicted bukkake, fisting, and depictions of defecation, urination, and vomiting in conjunction with sex acts." The Sao Paulo man was arrested yesterday in Florida, where he was charged with conspiracy to distribute obscene material, a felony carrying a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $150,000 fine. In a revoltingly detailed criminal complaint, postal inspector Linda Walker provides a shot-by-shot description of some of the films purchased from Croce's sites by undercover investigators, who have been targeting the operation for more than three years. Some of titles carefully reviewed by Inspector Walker were "Toilet Man 6," "Bukkake 3," and "Scat Pleasures," according to the complaint, excerpts of which you'll find below. In the Croce document, Walker also includes a brief "background on fetish-type" films, in case readers (like, say, a square U.S. magistrate judge) were unfamiliar with terms such as "fisting." The Croce case is the latest major prosecution brought as a result of the Bush administration's initiative against hard-core pornography. In a communication last year to the FBI's 56 field offices, the anti-obscenity campaign was described as "one of the top priorities" of Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez and FBI Director Robert Mueller. (9 pages) E-mail story to a friend.
Rachel Kramer Bussel - One Step Away From Cock, One Step Closer To God
She writes in the Village Voice:
I realized that my affairs of the heart were in bad shape when another friend asked about my love life. Her raised eyebrows and expectant grin told me she was waiting for some naughty or over-the-top account. Not only did I not have anything interesting to report, but I discovered that I didn't want to play the local drama queen, with constant tales of relationship ups and downs that eventually all blur together. My friend Miriam Datskovsky, who writes the Sexplorations column for the Columbia Daily Spectator, and I recently disabused a friend of the notion that being a sex columnist makes for dating nirvana. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth; we may get propositioned, but those who think we're sex goddesses who can fulfill their every fantasy are dead wrong, and only see a fraction of the bigger picture. Sex columnist or not, it's actually tough to figure out who's real and who is fake, who wants to know the real me, and who just wants whatever horny-all-the-time persona they've created in their mind. The irony is that when I'm with someone who gets me, where the admiration and attraction are mutual, I am horny most of the time.
Holly Randall's on a similar program of abstinence. She's trying to get spiritual with her new roommate and clean up her finances.
Mary Carey Drama
So, me being the crazy girl I am have had nothing but drama in my life the last couple weeks. Bad break ups, new friends, bad friends, I've been through it all. I even went as far as to fly some randomn ghetto stripper out to see me, crazy. Only good thing is I have met some great people now through my friend Carolla and am weeding out all the bad. Anyway, getting ready to start my write in campain. Oh, also, pick up the newest issue of Swank magazine with me and Ron Jeremy on the cover.
I've spoken to Mary several times over the past week. She sounded burned out from partying.
I call Mary Thursday afternoon, Sept 7.
Mary: "I think I was making irrational decisions last week because I was lonely and depressed."
"Harold broke into my email account twice. He told me he tried to break into it again but I changed the password.
"He and I had a joint checking account. He's emptied it."
Harold says he used the money to pay their joint bills and replace $1,000 in cash that Mary had stolen.
Mary: "Three months ago, he forged a check from my personal account. Even the bank said over the phone that it didn't look like my signature. I declined to press charges."
Mary says she's seen Tawny Roberts doing cocaine while pregnant.
She doesn't want me to call her ex-boyfriend Harold. "He's going to tell you that I'm a stupid slut whore."
Harold tells me: "Mary has this guy whose willing to fly her all over the place. Escorting. Whether she's done it or not, she's in the mode of inquiring. One of the [main guys] from Legend, his friend, saw pictures of Mary. They gave him her number. They're going back and forth via emails. I don't know why they'd pimp out their contract girl."
Luke: "Did Mary admit she's been doing coke?"
Harold: "Yeah, [over the past week]. She doesn't do it much. I've only seen her do it five times. She doesn't get really f---ed up. She just drinks."
I call Mary.
Luke: "Have you done a little coke in the past week?"
Mary: "Yes."
Luke: "Escorting?"
Mary: "No. One of the guys who works at Legend is trying to get me a job as a host in Costa Rica. Yeah, maybe we'd hook up. Harold thinks they're trying to pimp me out.
"Did he say anything nice about me? Did he say he misses me? No. Is he a good guy?"
Luke: "He's better than a lot of people in your life."
Mary: "I spiral out of control every time I leave him."
Mickey G Murder Attack Or Malicious Slander By Roxetta AKA Melissa West?
I just read this horrific post by a girl named Ashley on Adult FYI regarding myself. Ashley is apparently speaking on behalf of Mickey G. I am sorry that Mickey has the issues that he does. However, I cannot continue to get caught up in his whirlwind of misconception.
I have only met Ashley once and do not understand how she knows about my personal life or why she believes that Mickey is not capable of violence. I have also agreed to submit to a drug test myself and have only warned people about Mickey because he came at my friend, named Ken, with a "butcher knife" and poured a strong acid (he later stated he purchased from Circuit City) in his eye which caused him to become permanently blind in his left eye. Doctors say that his vision will never return in his left eye. Ashley says for Mickey that he did not do this. She says that Mickey is not a danger. He is a danger. He has physically abused me and Ken. I have hospital documents and police reports, pictures, to prove it. Mickey G. is emotional and is a threat to all who come in contact with him. He has physically abused me and now my friend, Ken, who rented a room from us. Permanent blindness is not something that one would inflict on one's self simply to cause Mickey G. grief. I love Mickey. I never wanted to even turn him in. However, I am afraid he will hurt me or Ken again. I am afraid I will be responsible if he hurts others. I feel horrible that this happened, but Mickey please seek help. Please do not hurt me or Ken again.
LADirect.com Down For A Week
What's going on?
Two sources who book talent tell me there are no problems.
Luke: I must CONFIRM that for my needs there is NO PROBLEM at Direct Models. Back to telephone communication for the time being...not having email communication is truly frustrating but the cooperation and follow through has been top notch ! I have been in daily telephone contact with Robert at Direct Models, who is coordinating the requested talent for an upcoming soft-core casting session scheduled for today – Thursday September 7th starting at 3:30PM I requested / selected 10 girls for my session – 7 have been Confirmed – 1 out of town – 2 working. SO for me NO PROBLEMS !
Summertime Blues
For many, this has been the worst summer, production-wise, in recent memory. I know some industry folks have stated they didn't see much of a difference between this past summer's slow-down and that of other summers . That's great &for those people.
But, for just about everyone I've spoken to, the Summer of '06 sucked. And I'm not simply talking about production, although production (or the lack of it) was high on my list for why this past summer sucked, but I'm also talking about sales and collections. Make that collections. Collecting money is, after all, what it's all about. Anyone can sell. Not everyone is as successful collecting on those sales and, from what I've heard, collecting money this past summer was, apprarently, not high on the lists of those who owe the money.
The lack of cash-flow, of course, is one reason production slowed so dramatically this past summer. This is a cash-flow business, at least for most companies. I'm sure some of the more well-heeled XXX companies endured the cash-flow crunch easier than others but, for many, when the cash gets cut-off or slows down it's not pleasant nor does it encourage production.
Anyway, the summer is over and I'm hoping we see a production up-turn as is usually the case after the summer doldrums of earlier years. If not, there's gonna be a lot of 'splainin to do.
Happy Birthday Holly Randall
Chuck Spears writes on XPT: "Holly, when you cancelled the date with Tee Reel maybe you were just sick with butterflies in your stomach. Check out my photoshop job below and pick up one of those dandy self help books and maybe you can move up with negro-dating ladder and date some hip hop brothers like Lil Jon!"
Allison Margolin - L.A.'s Dopest Attorney
My parents raised me without putting restrictions on what I could see. My mother and I shamelessly strolled the house naked together. My father, too, was a nudist in his own right. He swam trunk-less and even had friends who participated in public consummations at their wedding ceremonies. But it wasn't until I was eight-years-old when I knew I wanted to be in Playboy. I was at my mother's hairdresser flipping through magazines, when suddenly the page I flipped felt hairy. I looked down and saw a beautiful naked woman with real hair glued to her pubic area. I laughed at the way the hairdressers had tried to bring the Playboy Centerfold to life, but what captured me was the image of the naked woman.
In Playboy, I had found a forum that accepted the same thing my parents had silently promulgated to me: nudity and sexuality were things to be celebrated, not punished.
My complete interview with Allison Sept 6.
During the online boom, Swisher was known as the number one reporter on that beat.
Luke: "How important was the pornography industry in the development of the Internet business?"
Kara: "Critical. I love the pornography industry. There was Danni Ashe, the most downloaded woman on the Internet, I love her. She was so smart. She came to the South-by-Southwest conference and was on a panel. People snickered at her. She was one of the smartest people I ever met early on in the Internet. She understood the power of interactive media better than anyone else. She did interesting innovative things that consumers wanted. You may not like what they're selling, but they've been really good at figuring out what people want and delivering the goods. People should stop snickering about them.
"They have their show at the same time as CES. Technology people have their uniform -- khakis, Oxford shirts, and sneakers. Porn people have their uniform too -- silky shirts, little beards, same haircuts, same boots. I brought my baby to the conference and I was bored and I sat there looking at them. They're always mixing in the halls.
"I should have written about them more but the Journal wasn't interested in pornography.
"[Porners] were the first to sell subscriptions well. They had early payment systems. We should sic the spam people on Al Qaeda. They're really smart.
"There was this M2M4sex.com -- a gay men's hookup. You could write that you were in the Castro and looking for sex dressed up in fur at four o'clock. You put it in and it would find someone. Some say, 'Oh, that's gross.' No, that's why the internet's great.
"MySpace, EBay are about finding what you want when you want it."
Luke: "How did the moguls talk about the porn industry?"
Kara: "I was always like, 'Look at this [porn] site.' They'd go yuck. I'd say, look at how efficient this is. Think about how you could use it for your own business. They never talk about it. Obviously porn was a big deal for AOL. At one point, they thought about starting a separate porn business. Planetout.com paid the rent by porn advertising."
Luke: "I remember how Yahoo had handpicked listings for the best bestiality sites."
"Do your kids suffer because you are not married to a man?"
Kara: "Not in San Francisco." Read On.
Where Are They Now?
Marty writes: "Luke, Here's a trivia question to which I can document the answer that combines your two obsessions and a topic from today -- Which former jewish porn male superstar is now a professional poker player?"
Jamie Gillis, who's writing his autobiography.
Why Doesn't Anyone Talk About The Fag Jewish Mafia?
A wop emails me: "Danni Skura, Joseph Shemesh (Factory Home Video), Legend and Jon Resnick had there own little fag Jew mafia going for a while. I was hoping that since few Italians where left in the industry they might look at other organized crime sources, namely the fag, Jew mafia."
G-Sting: Former Clark County Commissioners Are Sentenced
They once helped lead the county, but now two former Clark County commissioners are going to prison. Dario Herrera and Mary Kincaid-Chauncey were sentenced Monday on their convictions for taking bribes from a former strip club owner.
Death Gets It Wrong
Mike Albo writes: "Since you posted something that touched on the death of Steve Irwin, I thought I'd add that I think death took the wrong attention-whoring Aussie."
Mike South: 'Why Steve Irwin Got What He Deserved'
I've never watched any of Steve Irwin's shows so I have no opinion on his life and death. Mike South does, however, and he writes on GFY:
I am rather appalled at the outpouring of concern over this Steve Erwin character, yes he was likeable but truth is he was a moron who was doing a disservice to the world and I am amazed he lived as long as he did. You see I am a true nature lover, an outdoorsman and someone who understands animals. In nature, and that includes underwater as well as on land you are one of three things at any given moment. You are predator, or you are prey or you are irrelevant. Many larger animals like stingrays, manatees, porpoises and the like have few if any natural predators, to them a human is just another animal so long as it isnt acting in a threatening manner. They simply prefer to just keep a safe distance. A few animals will intentionally stalk and kill a human, crocodiles, some sharks under the right circumstances and polar bears. Animals dont have feelings, they don't have compassion and they don't want to be cuddled or loved or ridden. Outside of domesticated animals all animals see any attempt at contact as an immediate threat. They do understand sex, hunger and fear and they will kill in response to the last two, mother nature has given them a myriad of way to protect themselves and every single one will do so when it feels fear. Mr Erwin was guilty of being a threat and he got what was long overdue. But moreso than that he was guilty of being stupid and of projecting human qualities onto animals and in doing so to lure idiots all over the world into believing that most of the world around them is filled with animals that are perfectly fine with human contact. A sort of world filled with stuffed animals that you can touch and ride and cuddle with. That ain't how it works. Your dog or cat only tolerates your contact because in years of domestication it now fully depends on you, it is no longer a part of nature but is your slave. It cannot live without you. As a lifelong outdoorsman and avid sportsman I grew up understanding these things and as a predator I never take what I do not use and everything else, I leave alone. If you go into the woods or the water remember your place. Look, don't touch. If you need to feel superior to an animal by riding it or touching it go home to your horse or your dog, otherwise just observe and learn and leave only your footprints. If you hug a crocodile, or a stingray or shark or whatever and you end up dead...don't expect me to feel sorry for you, had I been that stingray I'd have killed the dumb mother----- too.
Mark Felt writes:
Is there no topic about which this man does not pontificate?
So he is more of a wilderness expert than Steve Irwin was? I suppose he’s a better driver than Dale Earnhart was, a better illusionist than Houdini… the list is endless. Mike South is the renaissance man of porn.
Mike South responds:
I dont much consider myself to be an expert on many things BUT I may not be the expert that Steve Irwin was on animals but I love nature and I am alive or a better driver than Dale Earnhardt, but I do drive and I am alive And it doesn't take an expert to know that a guy who says: "My name is Steve, I am about to surprise a dangerous _____ in it's natural habitat. It has no idea I'm here, what I am, or that I won't eat it." is pretty much asking to get attacked by a dangerous ________ that feels the necesity to defend itself.
Bryan Micon Of NeverWinPoker.com
I call Bryan Tuesday morning.
Luke: "You got a few minutes."
Bryan: "Yeah, no problem. It's my favorite subject to talk about."
Luke: "What does David Williams do on that video College Cock 8?"
Bryan: "It is a fetish video produced in 7/28/03 by Janet Mason. Part one is a foot job. Part two is him licking her ass for 15 straight minutes.
"That woman could not have sold that many of these. I got the last one before Dave Williams bought the master. I have four extremely secure copies. I bet there are 100 mobile homes in America with this DVD sitting on top of the DVD player and they have no clue who it is."
Luke: "What is David Williams best known for? The World Series of Poker?"
Bryan: "He came second in 2004 to Greg Raymer and won $3.5 million. The video was shot almost to the day one year before that.
"The big question among my friends was whether he did it because he's a member of the site or whether he was paid."
Luke: "He wasn't paid."
Bryan: "I heard from some of his oldest friends that he had memberships to many different porn sites."
Luke: "Is poker regarded in the general community as a vice like pornography?"
Bryan: "Not anymore. I guess you really have not seen much poker. With all the ESPN coverage starting in 2003, it's turned into something special. They're regarded more as athletes, maybe degenerate athletes, than pornographers. Greg Raymer does nothing but sign autographs when he walks out in the hall. David Williams is one of the kings of Las Vegas. In any city, he can walk into a room, into a random sports bar, and a lot of people will know who he is. The chicks dig it because they know he has infinite money."
Luke: "Is this going to hurt his poker career?"
Bryan: "I don't believe so. I tried to get this story in every poker magazine ever. The major poker media refused to run the story. 'We don't want to piss off any pro poker players so they won't talk to us.' No publicity is bad publicity.
"It will hurt his credibility because he has told so many real media that it wasn't him. Because it's embarrassing."
Luke: "How would other poker players feel about this?"
Bryan: "This breed really don't care. What are they going to do? Not deal him in."
Luke: "Would they bust his balls?"
Bryan: "For sure. One hundred percent. But that's it."
Luke: "Would he lose friends over this?"
Bryan: "I doubt it. I know a lot of his friends. He was involved in the game Magic the Gathering. It's a super nerd game, a strategy game. His magic friends are his old school friends. Most of them knew about this porno way before he entered the World Series."
Luke: "Is he self-destructive?"
Bryan: "He said that he didn't want his mom to know about it. That was his main reason for all the denials."
Luke: "Don't hookers and poker go together like meat and milk?"
Bryan: "They do. You can find degenerates in any sport but you are obviously pre-qualified playing in a $10,000 tournament. You have no respect for your money."
Luke: "Have you known great poker players who've ruined their talents by pursuing hookers?"
Bryan: "Hookers are usually the least of their problems. Usually their lives are destroyed between the craps table, the blackjack table and the drugs."
"There are a lot of professional poker players who do have gambling problems. Sometimes it is more of a gambling solution so long as they stick to poker. Poker has certainly destroyed way more lives than it has helped. Most of the pros restrain themselves to playing the poker."
Luke: "Would you say that a higher proportion of pro poker players have drug problems when compared to the general public?"
Bryan: "Yes."
Luke: "Could you give me a psychological portrait of pro poker players?"
Bryan: "ADD. Everyone's report card said, 'Smart but talked during class.' Class clown. Always had a problem with authority. It all leads to poker. Never wanted to work for the man. Always thought you were smarter than everyone else. Usually had a small gambling problem at some point which led to the pokr table, a gambling solution."
"I run the number one poker website -- neverwinpoker.com. I guess poker is my profession. I won a few hundred thousand dollars at the World Series this year. I list my profession as 'professional degenerate.'"
"I've been devoted to poker for about eight years. I was trading stocks in college. I made a ton of money. I thought I knew everything [and then came the crash of 2000 and 2001]. I tried to start a business teaching other people how to make money in the stock market but that was not the place to be in 2001."
I ask Bryan about his photo.
Bryan: "The white visor and the velour sweatsuit are our thing at neverwinpoker. The velour sweatsuit is the smoothest thing you can ever wear. Most casinos are cold. It keeps you warm."
Luke: "Why do you hide your face?"
Bryan: "You really are a poker novice. You always hide your face because it is a reduction of tells to other players. But let's not kid ourselves. You look cool. People take your picture. You look cool for the camera. There is a whole big thing with image that I won't get into, but the image that you project is how other people play you.
"Look at me. I look like the punk kid. You don't want to get rolled by me because then you're just embarrassed. I talk a lot at the table. I use that. But tricks only work on the weaker players."
Luke: "Why do you call yourself a degenerate?"
Bryan: "Some words just crept into my speech. If you read my website, there are a handful of words that get pounded over and over. It's half a joke. Poker, yeah, it is a degenerate's sport in some people's eyes."
Luke: "Do you party a lot?"
Bryan: "No. I have a wife and a dog and a house."
Luke: "How does your wife like you calling yourself a degenerate?"
Bryan: "Remember, I work from the house and make a lot of money. I can spend a lot of time with her. She does not complain. She thinks it's cool what I do. Her whole family thinks it's cool.
"You're Jewish, too? Her family are business owners and lawyers and doctors. It's not a source of conflict partially because I've been very successful for a while."
Luke: "How do your parents feel about you constantly calling yourself a degenerate?"
Bryan: "I don't talk to my parents that much but when I won a place at the final table of the World Series, I got a call, 'Why is everybody calling me? Where are you?' 'I'm in Vegas, mom. I've been here for a month.'"
Luke: "Do they say, 'We're so proud that you're a degenerate.'"
Bryan: "No. They're very much not proud. If they ever tell you they are, they're lying."
Luke: "I can't imagine any parents being proud that their son calls himself a degenerate. It doesn't give them nachas."
Bryan: "I got a phone call. Our rabbi is a good friend. He asked me to speak to his [Reform or Reconstructionist] synagogue. Poker is huge now."
"I've been getting ready for this ESPN coverage tonight. I want to make sure the servers don't crash."
Luke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"
Bryan: "I only knew that I didn't want to get dressed up every day. My mother told me on a few occasions that I'd have to be a trash man."
Bryan estimates that the median age for pro poker players is about 22. "The more you investigate poker, every Stein, Rosenthal, Bloom, they're all in poker. All the Jews are saying this is the easiest money to get now. I don't even go to synagogue any more but something in my brain told me to do it too."
Luke: "How do you think your choice of profession has affected you?"
Bryan: "I have a nice BMW and a $10,000 watch."
"There are action junkies all over the poker world. You're always trying to get your poker high back."
Luke: "I can't imagine that you'd make good decisions if you're high on cocaine."
Bryan: "Cocaine, unfortunately, works very well on poker. If you need to stay up for two days... Cocaine has claimed the lives of a lot of poker champions including Steve Unger. He led the most degenerative life ever."
"It sounds like you need to play a poker tournament."
Luke: "No. I was a gambling addict in highschool and had to go cold turkey on any form of gambling."
Poker Star David Williams' Porn Tape
Jason writes: "I met David Williams in Hawaii during a celebrity poker tournament. I'm smart enough to know the difference between him and Brian Pumper. The man on the tape is without a doubt David Williams. He even uses his middle name "Tony" at the start of the tape to try and hide his identity. Little did he know he would finish 2nd in the WSOP (World Series of Poker) and be recognizble to damn near everyone."
Spademan writes to NeverWinPoker.com:
I wanted to get to the bottom of the David Williams "College Cock" issue. First, I want to thank Micon for staying on this story. Anyway, I've been in contact with Janet Mason's husband, a guy named Steve. He refuses to talk about College Cock #8. Well, L-ke F-rd at lukeisback is just itching to break this story--since Williams is on record as not being the guy in the dvd. We all know that College Cock is not on the market anymore. So here is what I've come up with for Micon--since Micon is saying he can prove it, it's time to prove it. First, the Feds require that anyone making a porn have the id an ss# of the actors in the porn, to prove they are over age 18. Okay, so anyone can see that somebody bought the original masters from Janet Mason and her husband, Steve. With the masters they would have been given the identification of David Williams, since he was Tony in the vid. So presumably DW or a friend of his now owns the master of College Cock, and all the driver's licence information that was given to the producers when Williams showed up to shoot. Here is what Micon should do--remember, Micon is posting that he can prove it. Okay, that's good.
Here's what I'm asking: Please go to http://www.rapidshare.de/ and upload the entire dvd of College Cock. Why is this important? Because the new owner of College Cock is the only person that can prove to rapidshare that they own the dvd. So, when the owner (Williams or his friend) contact rapidshare, rapidshare will ask for proof of ownership before taking the clip off its server. Since DW will not want to offer any proof, then the clip will remain online for anyone to download for free. Please, Micon, ask someone to rip the dvd and upload it to rapidshare so everyone can see it. Then L-ke F-rd can open the can of worms again since he is hungry to catch DW lying to ESPN. Time to prove this once and for all. I can't tell anything from the bad clip that is online. So upload the dvd to rapidshare and in 1 week 1000 people will have downloaded it. Only the owner can stop the downloading.
Thanks for even saving the dvd from oblivion. If it wasn't for you it would be forgotten history. As everyone knows, its up to the copyright holder to defend a copyright in the USA, so whoever owns College Cock will have to file in a Federal court to defend the copyright. Gene Ross at adultfyi.com and L-ke F-rd at lukeisback are interested in this story--but they aren't good at digging up the facts themselves--they cover porn and yet neither had heard of this story till 4 months after the fact. But now that David Williams has a romantic relationship with Carmella Bing, the Las Vegas escort (see lukeisback.com for today's latest about Bing) this is what will get David Williams in trouble, since Bing, his girlfriend, got into alot of trouble with Derek Hay, owner of www.ladirectmodels.com Since Williams is with Bing, Williams is now interesting news to the porn gossip sites. So when Williams is news there, then the bigger news media like ESPN will pick up on it next time if ever Williams wins a tournament. Thanks Micon for breaking this story. If Williams wants to be a celebrity he's got to face his skeletons just like the rest of the celebrities do.
I've never heard about David Williams (until I was emailed this information) and I had no idea that poker players could be celebrities. I know nothing about their world and nothing about the World Series of Poker.
Texas Guy emails me:
Williams is said to be dating porn star Carmella Bing. She has David listed #9 in his friends list. David lists Carmella as one of his favorites. More.
Brian Micon [has this thread on NeverWinPoker.com on David Williams]. Micon is a poker pro who is appearing on ESPN tonight (Sept. 5), defeating Jamie Gold in a hand of poker. Micon is well known in poker. He has a myspace page.
Williams is a famous poker pro, and ESPN did an interview last week and denied that he did a video called "College Cock 8" with Janet Mason. When the story broke in poker news back in April 2006, somebody bought the master and allegedly paid Janet Mason off not to talk.
Trinity James Responds To XXX Church
Everyone is getting the parts they want you to know int he next week I will be posting all emails and putting the truth out there...these people are looney they didnt do alot of things they have said they are doing but its all good...and anbother point it isnt welfare it is pregnancy medicaid thats far from welfare if you ask me but if I needed it I have worked hard enough in my life that I would go and get it if I needed it but anywayz will end it there the whole story will be up by the end of this week that is why they posted beause I told them I was lettign the truth be known so they thought they would beat me to the punch.
Happy Birthday Holly Randall
She turns 28 on September 5. Her MySpace.
Forget Jerry's Kids
Give to the Ray Guhn Defense Fund:
The well-known webmaster, Ray Guhn, has been arrested by the Pensacola, Florida law enforcement authorities, and faces several charges including obscenity, prostitution and racketeering. These charges relate to his alleged operation of the www.cumonherface.com website. These charges present a clear and present danger to Internet Freedom, and demonstrate the government's hostility towards erotic expression online. You can help. Cases of this magnitute and importance are expensive to defend. Ray's legal team is accepting donations. When donating, use the following information: Check Payable to: Lawrence G. Walters, PA, Trust Account Memo Section of Check: "Ray Guhn Defense Fund" Address: 781 Douglas Ave. Altamonte Springs, FL 32714 800 530-8137 Email: Attorney@FirstAmendment.com
Carmella Bing Has A Stalker
Call my stalker at 702-355-684* This guy has my old voice mail greeting on his voice mail and is calling escorts to set up appointments from what I hear and not following through as well as texting 666 to people to freak them out to no avail. I dont appriciate his cowardly obsenitys. I just wanted to throw it out in the open, when he gets 4000 calls from pissed off fans then I believe he will realize hes f---ing with the wrong bitch. Please do not make threats that are incriminating to yourself, but since t-mobil wont do anything about it, then try figuring out his passcode, change it and re-record the messege and punk his stupid ass!
Silverstone v. Legend Video
Silvertstone Entertainment (Tom Stone) says they sold DVD rights to Legend for some of their movies and then Legend sold the movies on VOD without Silverstone's permission.
If anyone wants a good intellectual property lawyer, I know this Pasadena guy Eric Bjorgum (heyeze@yahoo.com).
Jason Rhoades, 41; Artist Combined Humor, Poignancy
He graduated a year ahead of me at Placer High School and is its most famous alumnus after all-star baseball player Jeff Blauser (who graduated with me in 1984).
Los Angeles artist Jason Rhoades, who became more celebrated in Europe than in the United States for elaborate installations that broke down conventional walls between performance and conventional art, died Tuesday.
"It's so tragic," said Paul Schimmel, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art. "He was one of the most significant artists of his generation.
"Both he and his art were known for their humor — one could almost say buffoonery — but there was more importantly a poignant, tragic quality throughout," Schimmel said by telephone from the Caribbean island of Bonaire, where he was vacationing. "He addressed social taboos; it's almost as if he were constructing sculpture with irony. He was an American artist not of the East Coast — he was a California artist with an interest in architecture, popular culture, county fairs, extremes of lifestyle, sports, entertainment, music."
Who Was Placer High School's Greatest Newspaper Editor?
Eric Sch-lzke (now a BYU poli sci prof) served over me in 1983. Rob St-tzman (who was Governor Schwarzeneger's Communications Director) ran the paper for the two years after me.
Alice D-wden, the first girl who French kissed me (my junior year) became Auburn's mayor and now works for California's governor.
Eric writes on Yahoo: "Is this man the most esteemed PHS highschool newspaper editor: L-ke F-rd (www.lukeisback.com)? His life would make a great movie."
L., a cutie two grades below me, replies: "[I] couldn't tolerate him then, and I am sure, if he is still writing about porn and his messed up life, I couldn't tolerate him now."
Eric writes:
I think you're being a little harsh. A guy who claims to be deeply religious and knows so much about Christian and Jewish literature but also knows a lot about porn is pretty interesting. Maybe he's messed up, I don't know him. I'm sure it's a challenge integrating all the parts of his personality, but he seems pretty honest about it. If you have an ethical or moral problem with what he does, that's fine, but on a purely human level, I find him interesting.
L. responds:
He is an interesting character. In hs I thought that he would write about religion, politics, something intellectual. I really don't have a problem with his creative approach to the subject of porn, but I think that he has become self-destructive in his life choices. Maybe he will turn things around. Have you run into him in L.A.? I remember in Underwood's [psychology instructor] class he always had a strong opinion and seemed very self-assured, but not very empathetic to others. I think that is why I had a hard time tolerating him. Very smart, but not a very good listener.
Karen writes: "I would buy a ticket to see this in any theatre, reminds me of DOMINO and her story. I think you could get Heath [Ledger] to play Luke. No worries about the accent as he actually grew up in Austrailia. You gotta read his bio."
Holly Randall Cancels Her First Date With A Black Man
I guess she's still pining for me.
Vilnii writes: "Luke: What is wrong with dating black people in your mind? Why all the hullabaloo if Holly wants to date a black person. Please explain."
It's funny because it is Holly's first date with a black man. She's 28 Sep. 5.
Many people claim to be color blind yet they will not date a black person. I find that funny.
I find the discrepancy between what people say about race (e.g., that it does not matter) and what they do to be funny.
Arshia writes:
This is in response to your piece about Holly Randall not dating.....GASP....a BLACK MAN!
You say "Many people claim to be color blind yet they will not date a black person. I find that funny.I find the discrepancy between what people say about race (e.g., that it does not matter) and what they do to be funny." ...You know what I personally find funny? Sensationalist losers like you who think Not being attracted to someone is equal to Hating them!
Let me give you an example, although I think you would have figuered this out a long time ago on your own, if you were willing to do so. I'm a Middle Eastern man who has a lot of admiration for the Japanese culture. My father spent a few years there and introduced me to their customs and after spending a few weeks there with him on a visit, I fell in love with that country. Still, I don't find Japanese women sexually attractive. I never attempted to date one, and politely turned down a couple of opportunities that were presented. Does that mean I'm "racist" against the Japanese? A moron would most likely say yes. But anyone without some kooky agenda will know better. If you want to harrass people, think of something other than the old "You don't suck black dick so you MUST be a racist " gag. It's getting old. Really old.
Leveling thinly veiled charges of racism at others is hardly something to "giggle" about. Every other week there is a new thread with 5 pages of replies at ADT and XPT, where some porn chick is accused of being a card carrying member of the KKK just because she hasn't fucked black guys yet. I can go around spreading stories that imply certain people are pedophiles and then say I'm just doing it for giggles, but that doesn't mean anyone else, particularly the targets, would find it remotely funny.
Which Respected Veteran Director Is In Rehab?
He's in his fifties.
Robin Williams, after 26 years sober, is also in rehab.
Trinity James Project Blows Up
The XXX Church team posts:
One of the hardest things we deal with is dealing with people who have been affected by the porn industry. We have been working with a gal named Trinity (Michelle) for over a year now. We met Michelle while she was dating a guy named Josh. Josh told us about his girlfriend and his own struggles with pornography and his prior work in the porn industry. Michelle began prostitution outside of Las Vegas and during this time also got married to Josh. We tried to help the both of them but had no luck for a few months.
A few months into our relationship we received a call from both of them asking for help and Michelle expressed a true desire to leave. We initially raised about 16k dollars to help with her immediate needs. We moved them from Las Vegas to Indiana and paid off their bills, paid for schooling, bought a car for Michelle, paid for uniforms, food, and tried to help with all her needs.
Our friend Shelley Lubben got them connected with a counselor in the area and a great church. Over the last year we have remained in contact with them, prayed for them and tried to push Josh especially to step up and start providing a future for his new family. This has been a learning process for everyone involved.
In June we received a phone call at midnight from Michelle. She called crying. She said her home was not a safe place, she was scared for her safety and her daughter's safety and she was leaving Josh. She was also devastated at the fact that her husband was into porn again. She wanted plane tickets back to Vegas to live with her mom. We bought them and flew her and her daughter out that next morning.
Once in Vegas, she agreed to meet with Mike and get connected with some great friends at Central Church in Vegas. We talked through child care issues, job, and a lot of options to make this work now that she would be near people that could help her.
Within a few days she gave up on this hope and wanted to fly back to Indiana. She asked us for money to buy those tickets and this is the first time in a year we have said no. We did not tell her to divorce Josh. We told her to give Vegas a chance and at least meet with Mike and some others. Josh's mom bought her plane tickets and flew her home back to Josh. Since then Josh has done nothing to bash the ministry and talk about how bad we have treated him. We have been pretty direct and strong with Josh. Encouraging him to stop with porn and be a man and take some responsibility. He took over complete control on the Trinity Blog that we had set up for Trinity and started posting things on there that did not come from Michelle or any of us here at XXXchurch. We asked him to stop, he did not and he locked us out of control of the blog. We took down the link to the blog and have still asked him to stop posting things since it is not his blog.
Michelle finally posted today. She said this:
I thought It was about time I make one and only one more post on my behalf of all this nonsense because that is exactly what it is all nonsense..we have all had alot of disagreements and because of course they are the ones out to be nice guys they will be right regardless well I wish I would of never fell for that crap because now my life is more screwed up than ever before...all this money was raised to help me start a new life a better one everyone kept saying but I went along with it and it turns out every time I think maybe I shouldn't it turns out I shouldn't have I could of left porn and everything else without them and been in the same place I am in now so what was the point well actually I would of probally been better off..it has done nothing but cause me to owe out alot of money and cant seem to get caught up it has me in a place I have no one or anything and it has cost me my marriage and I am sick to death of all this being put on my husband like it is all his fault it is about time everyone be held accountable for what they have caused the only good thing that has came out of any of this is my daughter is now in a school where she can get the help and tutoring she needs for her speech so that next year she will be caught up to where she needs to be but that is it..I think thats these guys idea of the project was a good idea but they have went about it all wrong and hope no other girl gets caught up in it.you know that what bothers me is xxxchurch number one thing they work for is to help people with there porn addiction...well we all know my husband has a big problem with it and how have they helped him they told him in a email to grow and just quit looking at it oh yeah and that he was a complete idiot exact words yeah that is really helping someone but no they seem to what to make all this about fighting with him and making it his fault that they couldn't do what they sought out to do. there idea to help me is go to church now yeah I should probally go to church but in all reality that isn't fixing my problems now with money a place to live or the therapist I need now that I have went through all this. my husband is now completely done with the church and believing in anything that he has believed most of his life but then again he seems to be pretty much done with anyone involved in this situation including me he has stopped trying with us because the trying and work we both have been doing seems to get cut off every turn we make so that is how this has all helped but I think that is about it I just wanted my thoughts heard oh and I really hope people aren't spending the money on the video above or any other money for the trinity project because there is no trinity project and the money is just going to fill a pocket that doesn't need any help.
There is a Trinity Project and some great things are happening. We have just hired Laci [not Lacie Heart nor a any porn star] to work in Los Angeles heading up this project. She has started some great relationships with girls in the industry and we are excited about what might happen. We can not fix everyone's problems, we can help with a few things when people are ready. We can not miraculously change your life, only God can do that. The idea of this project from the start was to help people out of porn. We will continue with this mission and ask people that support this cause not to see this as a failure. We don't know what God is doing or will do. We are excited about what lies ahead and the trust that we are building with people in the industry. Our good friend Shelley Lubben continues to work on these things as well. God is opening up some big doors.
One thing we do realize is that we need a place for these girls to go to when they decide to leave. Shelley and X3 are already starting to put together some ideas that I think could really make a transition out of porn a lot smoother then it was for Michelle.
Please continue to pray for Michelle and Josh. Pray for their marriage, the new baby, and that they would be open to allowing God to have control of their lives. We do not see that this is over by any means with them. Right now it is just a little rocky and feel that God is capable of bringing this thing full circle. We do have a few thousand dollars sitting in the Trinity Project fund that we plan to use on other girls in the industry as needed. We will let all of you know of more needs that come up as they develop with others in the industry.
The reason why we post this is so it is out in the open and everyone can see what is happening.
Courtney Simpson Leaving Porn
She's left LA Direct Models. She says she'll do a few girl-girl scenes but she wants to finish her college education and move on with her life.
Female Erotic Photographers
From Spanish Playboy magazine:
Still, even if Cynthia Patterson argues that there is nothing about being female that changes the way that she shoots, there must be something that differentiates the male photographers from the women. At least, this is what Beatrice Neumann, a German-born female erotic photographer, argues. The photographer, who got her start shooting stills of the prostitutes and strippers she knew in her hometown of Frankfurt, explains, “When women take erotic photos, they typically don’t shoot genitalia.” Neumann goes on to confirm that what she personally seeks in a photo is a woman who can “express her sexual confidence without being vulgar. It’s more about attitude, eye contact, a suggestive look. You don’t even need nudity for a photo to be exciting.”
But, sure, maybe as a female Neumann only needs a suggestive look for a photo to be a turn-on. But does that sell to the typically male consumer who is her market?
“Sure, it does,” disputes the photographer. “Otherwise there wouldn’t be so many woman erotic photographers out there today.”
Jed writes:
Reading the depths of depravity that populate your blog, I now have trouble imagining you as anyone but a modern day Travis Bickle. The only thing I have yet to figure out, is will Holly be Iris, or Betsy? "Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets."
"September one. I gotta get in shape now. Too much sitting has ruined my body. Too much abuse has gone on for too long. From now on it'll be fifty pushups each morning. Fifty pull-ups. There will be no more pills, no more bad food... no more destroyers of my body. From now on it'll be total organization. Every muscle must be tight."
"Listen, you screw-heads. Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the s---. Here is a man who stood up. Here is....
Tawny Roberts, Erica Alba Buy Matching Juicy Jumpsuits Thursday
And dump Mary Carey as their friend.
I call Mary Friday afternoon.
Mary: "Tawny Robert, Erica Alba and I hung out in my hotel room [Wednesday afternoon] after we spoke to you. We were up until 6 a.m. partying. Tawny wanted to hire a limo for $600 a day. I said no. Tawny got mad at me. 'Mary, why do we have to do what you want to do all the time?'
"I said, 'I have to go to Legend to have a meeting. I have to get a facial. I have to get my hair done.
"She gets mad at me. She said, 'Is Erica your new Tawny? Are you going to replace me with her?'
"I said, 'No. Tawny, I love you. But slow down the drinking and the partying.'
"They get in the town car to go to Legend. Tawny's drinking beers and champagne [while seven months pregnant]. She just thinks she can't drink hard liquor.
"Tawny and Erica go to the mall while I go to the hair salon. Tawny took Erica on a $3,000 shopping spree. They came out of the mall in matching outfits screaming, 'We hate Mary Carey.'
"The two of them said I was talking about them behind their back. They teamed up and left me. They went back to the Mondrian and drank and said, 'We hate you, Mary.' Tawny was calling me and saying 'F--- you.' All they do is text-message me mean things. 'I hear you told David [Tawny's boyfriend] I was having Marvin's [Tawny's previous man] boyfriend.'
"Erica's got my Louis Vutton purse. They won't respond to me.
"Tawny's baby's daddy David in New York has been calling me. I've been ignoring his calls. I called him up. 'Your little girl is here drinking and partying.'
"He cancelled her American Express card."
David's flying into L.A. Friday night.
"I just want to know what caused them to snap on me," says Mary Friday afternoon. "I flew Erica out here first-class. I was going to help her have a career. I know Holly doesn't like me but I thought she'd like Erica."
WillieD writes on XPT: "Luke, I will pay for a new phone number for you, just so long as this has-been crackhead, her miscarriage-waiting-to-happen drunk girlfriend, and the assorted other wackjob friends of theirs don't call you any more. These used-up attention whores should not be drinking at the James, they should be further down Miller Rd. at the rehab center."
Saturday night, Sep 2 update: I call Mary's cell. Her message says she's sorry for hurting people. It sounds like she's under a lot of strain. She mentions she does not want to hear any hurtful messages.
She calls me late Saturday night. She sounds drunk.
Adam & Eve Tightfit Party Thursday Night
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I arrive at 9:30 p.m. Aug. 31.
I see my friend Tara from FreePornStarPix.com.
Tara: "You need to check yourself into Intake."
Luke: "What's that?"
Tara: "A state mental health facility. It would be good for you. You're burned out on porn and yet you are still going. That's not good. You don't want to end up bitter and dead like some people like Jon Dough. The industry that celebrated him couldn't sustain him."
Luke: "Why did Jon Dough have to die?"
Tara: "He got eaten up by the industry. He wasn't prepared for the changes, how everything's over-saturated. There was a way deals were done back in the day. Even a couple of years ago, people would give you money to do something. People would make verbal deals with you and nothing would be written on paper. Times are hard."
I hear stories about the Internext show in Florida last month. That there were Pussycash stickers on the floor of the hotel on Sunday morning when families with small kids were checking in. That all Internext intendees had to wear badges/lanyards around the hotel with Pussycash on them. "It's embarrassing," says an attendee.
My friend complains about the annoying people at porn parties.
"Where are the classy people at porn parties?" I wonder.
I see no sign of Mike Ramone.
I'm only here because Joanie Lee of Tightfit Productions invited me (twice). She worked in sales for Video Team for seven years before moving on a year ago.
I stare at her hard. I want to ask her, "What are you?"
Instead, I ask a friend of Joanie's, "What is she?"
"She's half-Asian," came the reply.
My mind is set at ease.
There's so much mongrelizing of the races these days. Not that that's a bad thing.
Mike Albo translates: "Translation: Oh, my God! Holly Randall's going out with a black man tonight. I disapprove, but I can't come right out and say it. But maybe if I use a sarcastic cliché..."
Tara gushes to Ava Rose, 20: "Your story is like Cinderella's."
Ava: "It's the optimistic, happy, ridiculous attitude I carry. Call me naive. I never expect anything."
Luke: "What do you do with your spare time?"
Ava: "Ohmigod, I've been asking Adam & Eve to give me more movies because I don't know what to do with my spare time. I could go jogging but I'd rather smoke."
Luke: "Do you consider yourself a role model?"
Ava: "No. Definitely not."
Marcus London (McKenzie Lee's ex) says he's getting married to Devon Lee (a stripper for eight years and a porn star for one) in early 2007. That should take care of the Brit's U.S. residency problems.
I ask Hillary Scott: "Do you ever resent being a sex symbol?"
Hillary: "No. Do you ever resent spending so much time with sex symbols?"
Luke: "Yes."
AVN Editor Mike Ramone emails: "And therein lies your problem, Luke. What? You’d rather hang out with Dennis Prager? How did you ever get so mixed up?"
I hear that Adultcon Vegas was cancelled this year because only one vendor signed up.
Kenny Gallo Goes After Kevin Beechum's Business Partner Allen Gold
Rob Spallone, Allen Gold
It's the end of the summer guys.. Guys like Hampton Mike have to come back to the real world and get ready for winter. I am glad I am no longer in Brooklyn. Who needs the cold. So I posted this picture up again because I want people to tell me who these guys are, I know who they are. I just want to hear from you. I can tell you this. One of these guys [Allen Gold] likes to dip into the cookie jar. thats right he likes to get with porno chicks. I was there when he was making out with Tabitha [Stevens] outside the Deja Vu! In the limo and then she went back with him to his room... Hey is that the night he was telling us that John goggles was a nobody? He likes to run with the guys who live a lie. They make threats to porno people. How? They use bikers and fighters. The truth is they are cowards. They know what they are. call the cops one more time.
Scorpion writes: "As for Kenny Gallo's snipes at Allen Gold, like Gallo has any room to talk about anybody? f--- him! Is he still that bitter about Tabitha Stevens that he talking s--- about her how many years later? Allen Gold is one of the nicest and honest guys I've ever dealt with in porn. There are far bigger man-whores than him to talk s--- about."
Tower Records Bankruptcy Hurts Porn Companies Vivid, Wicked, Sin City, Peach DVD.
Peach is owned and run by Steve Hirsch's business partner David James.
Says a source: "Business sucks especially retail this summer, the worst in years. Try running with the Tower bankruptcy and the adult companies that got screwed by that. I don't know if it is that much but every dime hurts."
Scorpion writes: "I don't how much Tower's going under will hurt the porn guys in terms of profitability, but as for "mainstream" style exposure it will be a big hit. Companies like Vivid, Wicked, and Digital Playground love to play up the fact that their product is in stores such as Tower and Virgin to the media.(although I hear Virgin's become a mess as they let the one guy who knew anything about the Adult business go in a round of layoffs in July)."
Joanna Angel Struts Her Smarts
Come see Joanna Angel battle it off with fellow Jews in the "Big Jewish Quiz Thing", a trivia survival-of-the-fittest for God's Chosen People! Joanna will be in good kosher company, including Time Out NY's Adam Feldman, Gawker's Jesse Oxfeld, VH1's Bex Schwartz and Evangelical Country Singer, Tammy Faye Starlight!
Herbert writes: "Joanna, I have no doubt you are a brilliant young woman, but I still think you need to use a lot more spit in your blow job scenes."
Danny Ting From Wanted List: 'DO NOT trust Craven Moorehead, he's a scumbag'
Apparently Craven screwed Danny's girlfriend Hannah Harper, the Sin City contract girl.
He is not your friend. If you are working with him, he will lie, cheat, and steal. If he says that he made something, do not believe him, someone else did it and he stole it. He is a compulsive liar. Don't believe me, ask people that he's worked with. If you are dating him, he will cheat on you and lie about it. He will manipulate you into thinking it was your fault. He will be kind to you and then call you a cunt. He will drag you out by your hair, and throw you down a set of stairs. He will try to f--- your best friends while you are asleep in the next room. Don't believe me, ask his ex-girlfriends.
If you are his friend, know that he cares nothing about you. He only cares about himself. He does not respect you, and has no conscience. You can know him for 5 years, and he will be one of your boys talking great game. You guys will party together, and have a great time, thinking he's always got your back. Then one night, when everybodys partying and having a good time, and you are sleeping in your bedroom, he will take your girlfriend to his house and f--- her. When she wakes up looking at her torn shirt, and ask's what she's doing there and what happened, he will try to f--- her again. When she says no, take me back, he will say "Fine, but you know you can't say anything because there are too many relationships here to protect, he's one of my boys. You don't want to hurt your boyfriend do you?" When asked about it, he will stone cold lie to your face, and keep lying. Don't believe me? Ask me...
Craven Morehead replies to my inquiry: "Hannah's the one he should be all bent out of shape about, not me."
Chuck Spears writes on XPT: "This sounds more like Danny's girl banged Craven and when Ting found out about it she pulled the 'oh he must have drugged me' story. If there's one thing that XPT, 2 divorces, and that weird rash on my taint has taught me it's that 'whores lie!'"
Rob Walkan writes:
I am in contact with several of my pals from the Danni's (now closed) forum "The Red Room". When the Red Room was closed they posted a notice that it would re-open in early July. Some of my friends who still belong to the site, have been inquireing as to when it will re-open. I can not use my friends name, but I am quoting what he wrote to me.
"Hi Rob... Well, though I am still a member at Danni's, I have been frustrated with their refusal to re-open the Red Room. I sent them several messages about it and they finally answered one saying that it was never going to re-open."
I didn't need a crystal ball to see that one.
Herb writes:
Hi Luke... Since I have been quoted several times here by people who used to be on Danni's I thought I would write and ask you a question. I was known on Danni's as rdr99 when the Red Room was open and we were able to communicate with each other.
If you look back in your files, you will see I was quoted about "management problems" by a former Danni's employee some months back, and recently by my friend Rob (who did not identify me as he is a gentleman and would not do so without permission) who wrote you about the Red Room not re-opening.
My question is this... A few days ago I tried to log on to Danni's with my rdr99 ID. It was refused and the message said I would need to establish a new ID and password. I tried it a few more times with the same results. Finally I called their customer service line and he said my ID name had been "compromised" and I would need a new one, though I could keep the same password. I established a new ID and logged on. Now, for the past few days, I have been getting emails from sites under the rdr99 ID inviting me to join these "relationship" (wanna f---?) sites. Since I only used this moniker on Danni's and since the RR is now closed, seemingly forever, I am getting a bit peeved about it. What can I do to find out who took my moniker and stop him or her from using it? Has anyone else reported this problem that you know of? Has one of their servers been compromised?
I will probably not remain a member there for very much longer. I had always entertained the idea they would break down and reopen the Red Room so people could talk to each other again. I joined the Penthouse site for a month but they don't have a "user forum" like the RR used to be either, so, although they have very many of the same women as models there as Danni's used to have (and I mean used to have), I won't stay unless I can communicate with people there. I, and many of my friends from Danni's are still looking for a similar site where we can get together. Do you know of a good one?
Did Jon Dough Really Want To Die Or Was He Engaged In Breath Play Aka Erotic Asphyxiation?
I'm thinking about the grisly end of Michael Hutchence of INXS and touching myself in an inappropriate manner while listening to Air Supply and fretting about Holly Randall's upcoming date with a black man.
Jon was into choking girls in his videos. Perhaps he wanted a taste of his own medicine? Wasn't Jon Dough a pioneer in choking girls? Didn't he set out to do a series of choking girls and then the company (Zero Tolerance?) backpedaled and canceled the project?
Sometimes I think that porn is no longer about celebrating the human condition but rather degrading it.
Novelist Ayelet Waldman - Daughter's Keeper, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
* Do you ever struggle with the constraints of monogamy? Do your happily married friends? Is monogamy a precondition for a happy marriage? Can one or both parties screw around and the marriage still be good? Even if one is honest, can one, married or single, screw around without wreaking damage? Is there a cosmic significance to intercourse? Read On.
Mary Carey With Her Protege Erica Alba
Mary and Erica called me Monday. Mary said she had broken up with her longtime boyfriend Harold. She claimed he beat her and robbed her.
I call Harold Wednesday. He says Mary is looking into escort work and that she's doing coke.
Mary says no. She says Harold is doing coke.
I call Harold around 5 p.m. Aug 30.
Luke: "How do you feel about Mary Carey?"
Harold: "I hate her. She lost her little noodle. Her brain has gone dead. She got too clingy, too dependent on me. I did a couple of disappearing acts on her recently. She didn't like it. She peed and ruined all my clothes when we were on the East Coast. She threw away all my identification, credit cards, so I was stuck in Providence, Rhode Island.
"She's back doing drugs -- a little bit of cocaine. She pops tons of xanax pills. She's been drinking like crazy.
"I looked at some of her email messages. A lot of porn stars are promiscuous but she's very promiscuous. She thinks she can get what she wants by showing guys her body. She has about five guys throughout the country booking her flights so they can buy her things [he believes] in exchange for sex. She's inquiring about escorting. She told me that if she's not going to be with me, she's going to be a full-on whore.
"Mary wonders about porn stars trying to act classy when they take cum shots on the face the next day. But there's a certain level of etiquette necessary in every day life and she doesn't have it. She's a loose cannon. She's a liability.
"I thought I was different. I thought she would change for me. I thought I was special for her. Part of the way she manipulates people is to make them feel that they are special, that she will change for them, but everything she does is for herself.
"She's hanging out with Tawny Roberts and partying and she's not taking care of business."
Luke: "Mary says you hit her and took her money?"
Harold says no. "A few times I hit her, but never bad. It was always in self-defense when she loses it and starts whaling on me. She plays that abused porn star role. She plays everybody. She'll call me up and say, 'Harold, I'm willing to give everything up for you.'
"She drinks so much and parties so hard because she's so insecure with herself."
I call Mary and chat with Tawny Roberts, who says: "I hate being pregnant. I can't drink hard liquor."
Tawny does not want Mary to get back with Harold.
Mary takes the phone: "The last couple of nights, guys have been buying me dinner and then buying me breakfast. It's nice to be with people buying me stuff and not paying for two."
Erica says Harold was asking for coke and disappeared to go look for some.
Mary calls Harold, put it on speaker phone, and yells at him for suggesting she's taking cocaine and considering escort work.
Mike Albo: 'Sarcasm Should Be Cutting'
The AVN editor writes:
Luke, Luke, Luke... Your really need to give up these repetitious and tedious attempts to insert sarcasm into your commentary about the suicide of Jon Dough. Humor's not your strong suit, son. Time to give it rest. You made--poorly, I believe--the point that you consider the posthumous lionization of Dough by some in the adult entertainment business to be overblown and silly. We get it.
That said, the posting of your IM session with "Jane" (who, I assume is Holly Randall) was priceless. But it could probably use a loose translation:
Luke: don't betray your race (Please, baby, please! Don't go out on a date with that black fellow)
Jane: omg, you are terrible (Jeez, you're a dope, Luke.)
Jane: how are things? (I want to twist the knife of jealousy into your soul, bi-atch.)
Luke: I'm not sure, i went off all my meds (I'm so confused and lost without you! Please feel sorry for me...and don't go out with that black guy.)
Jane: i just went on meds (Your girlish whining gives me such a headache!)
Luke: what finally convinced you to try?
Luke: my example of sanity? (I'm such a tortured individual...and it's all because of you, honey. Please don't date that black guy.)
Mother wins UK ban on violent porn
From the BBC: "A mother whose daughter died at the hands of a man obsessed with violent internet porn has won her fight for a ban on possessing such images."
AVN Editor Mike Ramone emails:
What an idiotic, knee-jerk law. Is it election time in England by any chance? So according to the apparent logic of this legislation, this guy was moved to murder simply because he had viewed violent internet porn? Putting aside for the time being the whole question of what constitutes “violent” porn (does consensual face slapping qualify for instance?) and the fact that I don’t know precisely what kind of so-called “violent” porn the defendant had viewed (doesn’t really matter for the sake of my argument), puh-leeze. The guy was moved to murder in all likelihood because he has serious emotional/psychological problems or is just a bad, anti-social person, not because he watched “violent” internet porn. Watching “violent” internet porn was a symptom of this guy’s makeup, I would be willing to bet, not the underlying cause of the murder. Even so, I know that you, Luke, have never met a so-called study, no matter how dubious its authors or methodology, that connects watching porn with anti-social behavior, that you haven’t swallowed whole (hence, your trumpeting of this story). I dare say that more well-adjusted persons, when exposed to “violent” porn, no matter how repugnant (or tame), do not get turned into murderers because of it. They just turn it off. Sheesh.
I'm sure most people do not turn into murderers from watching violent porn. But do some persons on the margins act out the bad stuff (pornographic or not) they've watched?
'I Can't Publish Anything Bad About Him, He's My Mate'
Tommy replies:
Capitalism at its best my converted friend. He who pays for banner space is granted immunity. I respect your position from the perspective of profit but scorn you for being friendly with vermin. However conflicted you may be, as I have said before, at the core I believe you to be a good person with a moral compass that allows you to sleep at night. Your "friendly" mate on the other hand would pimp his mother out, let his wife take a bullet to save his own life, and has the loyalty of washed up porn talent jonesing for a bump. I am amused at your integrity at times, baffled by your choices of "friendly" acquaintances, and always intrigued by your perceptive outlook and somehow you are still so maddeningly naive when it comes to some of the sewage that trolls the adult industry.
I admire your accidental tourist position in this industry. However repulsed by this business you may be, I also think the safe haven of "journalism" allows you to sit unashamed ring side at this Sodom and Gamorrah life of adult with having all of the bizarre satisfaction of participating in a subculture that you dismiss your own culpability with plausible denyability.
A Pornographer Seeks Grace
Luke: don't betray your race
Jane: omg, you are terrible
Jane: how are things?
Luke: I'm not sure, i went off all my meds
Jane: i just went on meds
Luke: what finally convinced you to try?
Luke: my example of sanity?
Jane: no i've just been so depressed lately it's ridiculous
Jane: the other week i didn't get out of bed until 5 PM
Jane: i NEVER do that
Jane: i have no direction, i have no spirituality
Jane: i have nothing to believe in
Luke: don't you believe in porn?
Jane: of course not, i'm not that stupid
Luke: you keep working hard, you'll get another hustler cover
Jane: i love my job, but it doesn't feed my soul
Luke: I see you on the cover of celebrity sleuth
Jane: oh stop it
Jane: i'm not going to "find God" cause that isn't my thing but i need
something
Jane: i've been thinking about going on this spiritual retreat
Jane: i just can't believe in organized religion
Jane: it doesn't work for me
Luke: wherever the solution is, it lies with people outside of porn. not
on your own.
Jane: my parents think i'm crazy, but i'm thinking of doing this spiritual
retreat in Arizona
Jane: they have spiritual counseling, meditation classes, yoga, diet counseling
Luke: if you don't take on something that requires sacrifice, then it
is cheap grace.
Jane: my friends are making an enormous amount of fun of me but i don't
care
Jane: i need an anchor
Luke: you should do it, even if you hate, it would be hilarious material.
Jane: i said i could always write an article about it, like for Hustler,
a pornographer trying to find spiritual grace
Jane: at least it makes for a good story