Bob sold 2,500 copies of his memoir, which is 2385 more than I sold of XXX-Communicated.
Life is cruel that way. It doesn’t always reward quality, often preferring the cheap and tawdry.
I call Bob Tuesday afternoon, desperate for content, no matter how low the quality and how irrelevant to my readers.
I wanted to get back on his good side so he’d continue to feed me free stories.
Bob’s finished his second memoir. "It’s on drugs and alcohol in my family."
"My father was an alcoholic. My step-father was an alcoholic and my mother was an alcoholic. I call that the triple crown.
"My father’s still alive. He was married three times. He has a step-son (now about 60) and a daughter who have been heroin addicts for about thirty years."
"It’s a memoir that goes to a broader audience. Vanilla Slim [about pimping] goes to a niche market."
"I’m working on another book, something like Jim Goad’s Gigantic Book of Sex."
Luke: "A collection of your writings?"
Bob: "Right. I want to turn it into one long narrative, rather than a collection of discrete essays. I’ve stolen the title from David Aaron Clark — Pornlandia."
A few weeks ago, Armstrong was turned down by The New Republic. He’d always wanted to publish in there so it was a bitter blow, leading him to consume massive quantities of pornography to stem the pain.
He’s living on the Oregon coast, 100 miles west of Portland.
as one of the 2500 who read Bob’s book….while he certainly isn’t an iceberg slim it did have it’s moments.
as a literary work it lacked the brutal reality and honesty that Iceberg Slim and Donald Goines were famous for
Bob was more of a lets get stoned and be introspective type narrative.
Besides you wanna know whats up in porn ya should call me…in the last couple weeks alone I have broken the following stories way ahead of anyone else
adam and eve signing bree olsen
carmen bowing out in Jan, (she says its not so time will tell)
Caren no longer performing (ditto her sayiog not so but again time will tell)
Lisa Sparks wins the booble girl of the year (beating even Jesse Jane)
and an update coming soon penned by a black male performer that will be titled
“I’d rather you just call me a nigger”