Pornhater
2003-07-14 14:38:16
By Jim Goad

[Note: All typos are Bryan Sullivan’s and are probably intentional.]

That single-minded organism called the porn industry, whether it likes to admit it or not, harbors a deep loathing for its consumers and tends to view most of them as sex-offending psychopaths-in-training.

Enter one Bryan Sullivan, a black tumor on the x-ray of porn, a wild-eyed bogeyman haunting the caverns of porners’ deepest fears.

He describes himself as “the Antichrist,” “King of the Mind Games,” and “the greatest human being on the face of the planet.”

Porners describe him as “evil,” an “asshole,” and “the porn biz’s favorite Internet terrorist.”

He is known for carpet-bombing the e-mail inboxes of nearly the entire industry, sending out spooky, violent, racist frothings under such screen names as “pornhater2002” and “zodiac_killer.”

“I love f-cking with people,” Sullivan has written, “it makes my dick hard.”

He has depicted female porners as “shiftless, nonproductive sperm receptacles, who can't do any better than porno.” He scoffs at the notion that they are different than street whores, saying that the only difference is in their pay scale. “These are whores NOT Suzy Homemakers,” he has written, “therefore they must be punished!”

In August, 2001, Sullivan made an online admission to hacking porn star Samantha Sterlyng’s site, causing it to crash. He also threatened to destroy her career by publishing alleged photos of Sterlyng engaged in bestiality. Earlier that year, he had taunted her on l-keford.com with questions such as, “Why do porn whore's think their better than street whore's,” “Were you molested as a child,” and "Is your husband retarded, or a pimp who knows he's got a good thing in a cum drinking whore like you…” Although, as Sterlying put it, Sullivan “basically admitted to a felony” by admitting he hacked her site, he was never charged with a crime for it.

Sullivan seems to bear a particular animus for Jenna Jameson, whom he recently described as an “overrated, tranny-looking, IR-dodging, sneaker-endorsing, crack-smoking, pussy-sucking, man-hating, dick-dodging, trout-smelling, virus-sending … cum-guzzling, white trash lesbian video hooker.” He was banned from simplyjimmyd.com’s forum for a post which included the line “I WANNA RAPE JENNA IN THE ASS SO BADLY” and a description of how he fantasized about Jameson puking in his bathtub. In August, 2002, Jameson posted on Gene Ross Extreme that Sullivan sent her “about a hundred hateful e-mails” which disturbed her to the point where she “forwarded them to FBI. So many of his e-mails are threatening and just flat out scary,” Jameson wrote. “He is the type a [sic] guy who slips a gear and ends up killing people!"

As with Sterlyng, Jameson’s efforts to put Sullivan behind bars were for naught. He was never charged with a crime for harassing her.

As if the whore-baiting wasn’t enough, Sullivan has given porners ample reason to believe he’s a violent psychopath. He has likened himself to Jack the Ripper, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer. An April, 2002, message regarding Tera Patrick stated, “f-cking butt-ugly gook; shoot one dead today!” Two months later, a message Sullivan CC’d to virtually every porner with an e-mail account stated that “Rob Black's a piss-drinkin', sh-t-eatin' rodent. I'll stab 'til dead 3 times over both him and the sewage called his wife, Dizzy Whorden. Martin Brimmer a hush puppie-shoe-wearin'-crumbcake. I'll lay your f-ckin' wig wide open, boy, with a fireman's axe.” Another message from June, 2002, CC’d to thirty-eight porno bigwigs, stated, “I'll blow every f-ckin' head off who recieved this e-mail.” A message sent to Dave “I’m Old, That’s My Shtick” Cummings said, "I can forsee your fate...Your ugly white face grinding into the pavement...blood pumping into your lungs...."

Cummings, a Vietnam veteran, was so sketched-out by a Sullivan e-mail from May of 2002 titled “Nam Was The Best Time Of My Life” that he forwarded all of Sullivan’s e-mails to the FBI’s San Diego branch. The message read, in part:

I remember when I was first at Nam, I was ordered to kill about 20 tied up filthy smelly f-cking gooks…I would find a gook whore, put a knife or gun to her head, and rape her. Normally up the anus. It felt so f-cking good that tight gook asshole, making it bleed from excessive force. If they f-cked with me or tried to fight back or escape, they would be instantly slit across the throat… The best thing I ever did though was, found some beautiful [for a limey] useless whore, knocked her out with my rifle, and f-cking f-cked her ass, cunt, mouth, ears and eyes like there was no tomorrow. When I started f-cking her eyeballs she woke up. So I slit ITS throat, and f-cked her eyeballs as hard as possible. That was the hardest and longest I have ever laughed in my life.

“I was particularly concerned about the ones he sent out bragging about HIM killing innocent women and children in Vietnam,” the amiable Cummings tells me via e-mail. “Ethically and morally, I just couldn't assume he was lying or mentally unstable, so I felt it best to forward the matter to the experts.”

But although the Feds visited Sullivan’s Kansas City home in October 2002—as they had previously in April of 2002, before Cummings became involved—a “media liaison” for the FBI’s San Diego branch informed me that their investigation of Sullivan has been discontinued due to “lack of prosecutorial merit.”

In an e-mail to porn screenwriter Rodger Jacobs, Sullivan said the FBI “went through my hard drive and looked at all my e-mails and one of them said, 'This is more comical than threatening.’” Even though one federal agent said that Sullivan’s online antics undoubtedly constituted crimes, Sullivan’s only punishment was a stern warning to cease harassing porn stars, especially females.

A wired.com feature from October 2002 stated that Sullivan was thirty-seven years old and an electrical engineer for Kansas City Power & Light. But a call to the Employment Information department at Kansas City Power & Light yielded a brief conversation with a bored-sounding woman who said they have no record of a “Bryan Sullivan” working for them.

Dave Cummings says that after the FBI visited Sullivan, one agent told him that Sullivan is a black man in his mid-fifties, who, due to a leg injury from the Vietnam War, walks with a cane and is often confined to a wheelchair.

On the former Mr. Marcus online forum, Sullivan claimed that the FBI supplied Cummings with misinformation “JUST TO GET HIM TO STOP BUGGING 'EM … I AIN'T NOWHERE NEAR FIFTY … FOR SOMEBODY WHO'S HOOKED TO A RESPIRATOR, WALKS WITH A CANE AND IS WHEELCHAIR BOUND, I SURE AM NOT HOME A LOT.” Sullivan, who calls Cummings an “UGLY OLD SCARECROW UNCLE FESTER” and a turtle who “can’t shed his skin anymore,” wrote on one porn forum that Dave had “been played like a fiddle. Once by me and the other by the FBI.”

Curiously, the now-dead Gene Ross Extreme website reported that the Feds had slapped Sullivan with a twenty-one-count indictment related to Internet harassment and forced him to post a $100,000 bond to remain free. The FBI reportedly also visited the Extreme Associates office asking questions about Sullivan. Not long thereafter, almost all of the piss-drinkin' and borderline legal content allegedly vanished from Extreme’s site.

In a December, 2002, phone interview with Jimmy DiGiorgio of simplyjimmyd.com, Sullivan said that the twenty-one-count indictment story was a complete fabrication concocted by Gene Ross. He challenged anyone to find a public record of said indictment. Sullivan claimed that Ross encouraged his online fulminations and seemed to imply that Ross provided some of the e-mail addresses that Sullivan later used to harass porn stars.

“Within a few moments of speaking to him,” DiGiorgio writes of Sullivan, “my reporter's instincts seriously doubted that he's a freaking whacko, that he has a warped or deranged mind, or that he poses any threat to anyone in this business or any other…The only thing he might be guilty of is being Gene Ross's pawn.” Sullivan told DiGiorgio that the FBI reported back to their San Diego office that they didn’t feel he was much of a threat, either.

A post on the former Mr. Marcus message board implied that Gene Ross supplied Sullivan with porn stars’ e-mail addresses and was fired from Extreme due to his coddling of Sullivan.

As deadline for this article approached, I e-mailed Ross, who had ignored a prior inquiry of mine regarding Sullivan, requesting his side of the story. I simply asked him whether he was fired due to providing a forum for the ravings of someone that many industry members consider a dangerous madman. It was an innocent question with a subtext that implied Ross got a raw deal. Ross fired back a dismissive, “Any suggestion that my dealings with Sullivan had a falling out with Extreme [sic] is fairy tale nonsense.” He then quickly shot off an e-mail comparing himself to Jimmy Breslin (?!?!), acting as if he had proprietary rights to the Sullivan story, alleging that setgo’s writers were “smoking crack,” and whimpering that “there's never been an ounce of truth written about me on that site of yours.” I then insulted his advancing age, he sort of challenged me to a fight, and I demurred, citing the possibility of encountering his legendary halitosis. On his new, unpopular site, therealgeneross.com, he assumed a weirdly defensive stance, accusing me of attempting “Journalistic Blackmail” and of losing “credibility” merely because I asked him to verify or deny something. Methinks Gene doth protest too much.

After the Extreme/Gene Ross meltdown, the former Mr. Marcus message board is the only place where I’ve seen Bryan Sullivan allowed to graze around uncensored. Perhaps in response to the FBI’s warnings, he has curtailed the whore-bashing in favor of straight-ahead Negro bigotry. Declaring that “STRAIGHT HOMOPHOBIC BLACK RACISTS RULE!,” he calls interracial sex “THE DEATH CERTIFICATE OF THE RACES.” He refers to rapper Eminem as “THE MODERN DAY AL JOLSON” and compares the movie “8 Mile” to Steve Martin’s “The Jerk,” with Eminem cast in the “I was born a poor black child” role. “WHEN'S THE LAST TIME DIGITAL PLAYGROUND HIRED A NIGGER WHO WASN'T THE JANITOR?” Sullivan asks, and I can’t answer him.

Almost without a doubt, Sullivan has two alter egos on the former Mr. Marcus board—their style is nearly identical to his.

Alter Ego #1, JONNIBOY, specializes in humiliating white men due to their relative underendowment…

THE WHITE MAN NEEDS A TIGHTER FIT NOW CUZ ALL HIS WOMEN CUCKOLD HIM WITH HUGE NIGRA DICKS. WHITE WOMEN ARE NOW TAYLOR MADE FOR BLACK DICK, AND THEY SASS HONKEY MEN THE SAME WAY THE NIGRA WOMEN DO… YOUR DAUGHTERS ARE TAKING BLACK POLE IN EVERY HOLE ALL OVER THIS COUNTRY AND THERE AIN'T A GOATFACED, PIGSKINNED, PALE MUD-FLAP ASSED, WET DOG SMELLIN, NEEDLE-DICK SPORTING, SUNKIN CHEST, DWEEB, NERD, DORK GOOBER, REDNECK, CASPER, HAIR-LIPPED, FAKE-TANNED, BAD PERM, WRINKLED SKINNED, REDFACED, SPINDLY DEVIL, MUTHAf-ckING THING YOUR PATHETIC SONS CAN DO ABOUT IT!!!!!!.....TAKE THAT, f-ckFACES!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alter Ego #2, DANNIBOY, chides blacks for being civilization destroying-savages:

PLEASE KEEP TALKING ABOUT PYRAMIDS AND WE WERE KINGS ONCE... AND ILL TURN ON CNN AND WATCH SOME LITTLE ZIMBABWE NIGGER EATING RICE WITH FLIES ALL OVER HIS BLACK ASS...LOOK AT AFRICA, NEED I SAY ANOTHER WORD...ADMIT IT THE WORST NIGGER GHETTO IN THE USA IS BETTER THAN THE NICEST PLACE TO LIVE IN THAT FILTHY ROTTEN CONTINENT AFRICA..... AND THE NEXT TIME A YOUNG NIGGRA CHILD IS SHOT DOWN ON YOUR STREETS BE AWARE I AM SMILING ABOUT IT…I WOULD LOVE TO SEE SOME DEAD PICS OF MLK IN HIS COFFIN AND MEDGAR EVERS ASS ROTTING IN HIS LONELY CASKET...OR MAYBE AN AUTOPSY PHOTO OF MALCOLM X'S CHEST ALL SHOT OFF BY THE NATION OF ISLAM.....

Sullivan surfaced on setgo.com in May of this year. Calling himself “The Sullivan Klan” and “The White Devil Assassins Alliance,” he continued in the Nigra-racist vein he honed on the former Mr. Marcus board. In one post, he inverts a long-suppressed Abe Lincoln speech condemning “Negro equality” and turns it into a screed against “Caucasion superiority.” In another, he takes an old screed by Israel Cohen about manipulating white guilt to achieve a communist victory in America and converts it to a blueprint for blacks taking over the USA.

But his setgo posts also showed a return to the sort of murderous hooker-hatred the FBI had warned him about. “I GET OFF ON BRUTAL SEX WITH WHORES,” read a message from May 3:

Having brutal sex with a whore makes me cum buckets every time. I like taking a whore by the throat and slamming her into the wall till she's the state of unconsciousness. Once there, she's had her slutty panties torn off, her dirty face punched repeatedly, her smelly twat penetrated vigorously, and her rotten ass pumped like a Texas oil well. I like to make it bleed, then blow it all over her dead body…

It was such foamings-at-the-mouth that caused setgo.com to ban him from its forum. The site subsequently asked me to write a story about Sullivan. Setgo’s owner and webmaster both appear to think that Bryan Sullivan is a dangerous sociopath who deserves imprisonment or worse.

Me, I’m not so sure.

If he’s a potential serial killer, he’s the funniest one ever. “I'm looking for a woman who will pretend to be my wife for the sake of my parents,” reads one post-FBI-visit Sullivan post. “They don't know I'm a serial killer. I'll pay you $37.50 a week.”

And though much of his verbal spooge is undeniably creepy, he’s also capable of intensely witty passages such as these:

Is it just me or do porn and stupidity deserve one other?

I was walking around today and, in one of those split seconds of abject fear that tend to stay with you for a while, I realized that my dick was caught in my zipper.

MARLIN BRANDO… HIS SECOND GOOK WIFE WAS SERVING HIM EGGROLLS AND HE MISTOOK HER FOR ONE AND ATE HER...

Beyond his humor, I found a strange poignancy…and maybe a clue to the “real” Bryan Sullivan…in this post about Vietnam:

I DIDN'T COME HOME TO NO FANCY PARADE OR HANDSHAKE FROM UNCLE SAM. JUST A BUSTED LEG AND A HEAD FULL OF NIGHTMARES WAS HANDED TO ME BY THE G-MEN FROM THE BUREAU, COURTESY OF THESE UNITED STATES OF A STATE.

My instincts may be wrong, but I suspect that Bryan Sullivan is a highly intelligent Vietnam veteran who has been physically and emotionally crippled by his war experience. Just as Vietnam disproportionately brutalized American blacks, the porn industry has historically excluded them. So Sullivan takes out his post-Nam frustrations on porn.

Sullivan did not respond to inquiries I sent to several of his published e-mail addresses, nor to a voicemail message I left at a phone number he listed online as his own, nor even to an open plea for an interview I posted on the former Mr. Marcus forum. He just ignored my post and kept on posting.

I am left to wade through an ocean of misinformation and loose ends. Sullivan remains a riddle wrapped inside a mystery hooked up to a respirator.

But, comedian or not, a mind that can conjure those sort of fantasies doesn’t seem too far removed from a person who can enact them.

Somewhere between thought and action, there sits Bryan Sullivan in his wheelchair.

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Bryan Sullivan writes Gene Ross: Am I a 'Nam vet? Nope. Am I a person in my 50's? Nope. Do I speak in between breathes? Yeah, ask Gene Ross or JimmyD or Martin Brimmer? Do I walk with a cane? Yeah, ask 71 year-old Bryan Sullivan of O'Fallon, MO 63366. Am I confined to a wheelchair? Yeah, ask the same 71 year-old Bryan Sullivan of O'Fallon, MO 63366. Am I Afro-American? Yeah, ask Bryan Sullivan of KC, MO. Who's the war vet of the Sullivan Klan? Bryan's 67 year-old father, Sylvester Sullivan. Who's the Bryan Sullivan they (FBI) went through his HD in April of last year? Bryan Sullivan of St. Louis, MO. (What the hell were they (FBI) doing all the way across the state when I'm down here in on the KS-MO border? I guess they thought since Time Warner Cable--remember them--has a hub in St. Louis I was doing it from there. Assumption is a muthaf-cka. Then again, this has been the FBI before.) Who's the Bryan Sullivan they visited on the job in October of last year? Bryan Sullivan of KC, MO.

Why all the confusion and misinformation? It's the FBI. Lastly, how old am I really? 37, 9/11/65. And yeah, I like listening to the 'Great Times and Great Oldies Station' 94.9 in Kansas City, MO.

Ps You (Jim Goad) shoulda listened to Gene Ross (there is no Bryan Sullivan story) and JimmyD (Bryan Sullivan is a fraud). Thanks for the free publicity though.