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Luke got his first checks in the mail today for autographed copies of his new book. Various porn journalists have read it and are amazed how bad it is.

HEVG's Mike Albo writes Gene Ross.com:

"From 1987 to 1990 I was on the faculty of English Department at University LaVerne. One [of the] classes taught 101B in which main focus how write a college research paper. It probably most dismal time my life-and believe me have experienced some dark moments time-simply because had read so many poorly researched shoddily executed papers. Thought put all that far behind until received copy Luke F-rds History X".

"This "book" reads like a long version of a bad term paper. There are no new insights proffered here, and Luke seems content to merely parrot what others have said before. When Luke does say something that might bear closer examination, he drops the ball. A good example of this is when he states as fact that most porn chicks f--- dogs, just not on camera. What proof can he offer to back up this ludicrous claim? That people would buy this waste of time boggles the mind. Of course, they believe that Luke's book is actually written by someone who knows what he's talking about rather than some guy who is more concerened with being perceived as "controversial" than imparting any sort of knowledge to the general public.

"Perhaps I can save all those who are considering buying Luke's book a few bucks by stating that "The History of X" is a poorly written piece of crap that should be avoided at all costs. What can you say about a man who puts himself up as some sort of moralist and who then turns around and plagiarizes material from other sources with no attribution? Any self-respecting journalist would be loathe to do this type of thing, but Luke does it on a regular basis. He has also stated on record that he "is not concerned with the facts."

"On the plus side, there's a very funny photo of Luke-looking very fey, I might add-on the back of the jacket. Has this doofus ever taken a photo that didn't look completely posed? Anyway, for a more detailed critique of this book, please look to the November 1999 issue of HEVG in which a well-known author dissects "The History of X" page by page."

Luke F-rd writes to www.geneross.com: "Gene, I need to apologize for all the factual errors and slurs on my website over the past two years. I've just been so busy running a homosexual hustling operation out of my two apartments (one on Beverly Drive and another on La Cienega Blvd, both in Beverly Hills), that I have not had time to fact check like I should. Luckily, you do it for me. Hustler Erotic Video Guide editor Mike Albo is my business partner and life partner. We thought that your site would be the place to come out of the closet. Mike and I have been gay lovers for five years. I know he appears very gruff and rough, but deep inside he's truly very sweet, sensitive and caring. I love him deeply, as I know, do you. In preparation for our forthcoming marriage, Mike is converting to Judaism. In just a few hours, we'll be holding hands, lighting candles and welcoming in the Holy Sabbath. Shabbat shalom.

Gene sez: "Luke, if, according to you, Albo died of a heroin overdose last Friday, that would make you a necrophiliac. I may have to run with that story without fact checking. Also, my sources tell me that Albo is the landlord of your two Beverly Hills love pads and that the distinct smell of dead dog was emanating from those two apartments prompting an investigation from Animal Control. Ordinarily, I would check that out first hand, but I'm too preoccupied abusing hookers. Besides, it's Friday. I have to see John Bone about you-know-what."

Source: "We think [former Screw editor] Manny Neuhaus killed somebody. There's an unsolved murder near his house in Pennsylvania. Manny is a gun freak. He'd have parties at his house and urge us to use his guns."

MovieBob writes: "Johnny Toxic, a.k.a. Russell Miller, booked Mid Valley Studios for a shoot on June 10th The shoot was called "Judge Johnny" and had Toxic playing a Judge Judy Type. Toxic shot for 12 hours, and split without paying for the services of Mid Valley Studios. Bob Gallagher, the studio owner is angry. Gallagher said he's been in business for the last two years and has never had anyone "stiff" him. Mid Valley Studios' clients are the best. Vivid, VCA, Notorious, Legend, New Age, K Beech and many others fill the stage monthly. It's a shame guys like Toxic are a part of this industry. Gallagher looks forward to seeing Toxic in another court.....Van Nuys Municipal Court."

Thursday night Luke F-rd provided pastoral counseling to a distraught Kid Vegas who was upset that Mean Gene Ross had spewed Kid's real name all over the AVN site. Kid Vegas begins shooting Cocksucking Skank Whores Friday morning at his new studio, also used by Cream Entertainment, at 11300 Heartland, in North Hollywood. Stars shooting Friday include Kendra Jade, Nena Whett and f---AVN, a natural breasted brunette from Texas.

Email about Atlas Multimedia: "I can't believe you gave Atlas five stars for ethics. Every girl I know is pissed with them and pulling their site. They're terrible. If there's problems pulling the site up, it automatically goes to Raquel Darrian. Find out why Racquel's site gets thousands of hits a day. They may be nice people but they're ripping the "girls" off for thousands of dollars. Telling them their sites are not profitable...BS! And Avica never ever pays."

Don Osterholt, owner of Atlas, replies: "The only client I know that is moving her site is Jill Kelly and that is because she is doing a bigger project with the guys at personal porn and Astral Ocean. As far as racquel is concerned, she is a huge star and doesnt need my help getting thousands of hits a day. Now, about us ripping our girls off, I challenge anyone to prove that......If I was going to rip one of our clients off why would I build their web site at my expense? I am the one that puts up the money and not the client. I only get paid back once the site starts making money. Sounds like that email came from Kelly (Tabitha Stevens) since she has been saying things like that for about 2 months. I guess she is still mad that I called her a whore."

GenXSex writes: "On the subject of Atlas..........Wanna know how they make their Money???? Stealing hits!!!!!! They have those f---ing exit consoles pop up everytime you TRY to leave a site and it goes to Tempted or Space Amazons......all of which pay Mr. Donnie for clicks and sign-ups........now imagine for a sec. you ran a big named girls site, who on her own would get a s--- load of hits due to her fan base and name, and you could get everyone of her fans that visit her site to visit a site that makes YOU money. Well, that's what these damn exit consoles do! FORCE YOU into that site! So, in my opnion, that is how Atlas makes there money........NOT being honest and making it a pain in the ass for members of the girls sites to navagate through, in turn loosing members due to the headache. AND, let's take a look at the IBill/DMR (Web800) situation....they charge 15% transaction fee that comes out of the girls earnings, cool no problem. Now after a certain amount of sales that % goes down, say to 10.5% and so on, now most girls don't hit those sales marks a month so there % stays at 15% BUT as an ISP, Atlas has an account set up...the % is based on TOTAL sales, on all sites! So, they might be getting charged 7.5% and still charging the girls 15%........hum, honesty.....not, If you notice all their girls go through DMR or IBill, at least the bigger names........So, Donnie........there's the challenge, met s---, if Raquel Darrian get's so much business, why doesn't she have her own merchant account and pay 2.3%? I think you now know the answer..."

Mark Kramer vs. David Aaron Clark

Mark Kramer writes: I was working on and in New York City porn in the early Seventies. Among the name porners I worked with were the late Marc “Mr. 10 1/2” Stevens and second-tier smut siren Darby Lloyd Rains. Even back then there’d be coke on the sets. It was Open City all the way.

I suspect that I am among the very few writers working today to have immersed his flesh in this particular outpost of the Sexual “Revolution”--and then to resurface, almost twenty years later, as a subcultural chronicler and investigative humorist for venues ranging from New York Magazine, The Weekly World News, Screw and the recently defunct Spy to to the Montel Williams show and Inside Edition. Plus Paul Krassner’s The Realist--which, in particular, was a fulfillment of subversive writerly aspirations dating back to my youth.

Back in the Sixties, growing up in New Jersey, I’d take the bus into New York City on weekends and sometimes on schooldays as a truant , and hang out in the East Village or take acid on the Central Park Great Lawn, where there always seemed to be a love-in or free concert in progress. On the bus ride back to Jersey--if I weren’t too drunk or tripped-out--I’d usually have an assortment of reading material purchased in the City....stuff like Screw, The East Village Other, Zap Comix, After Dark, and Paul Krassner’s The Realist.

One of earliest stories in The Realist that tuned me into the coming pornocentricity that would ultimately engulf civilization was Ellen Sander’s “The Case of The Cock-Sure Groupies”--a profile of the now-legendary Plaster Casters, two midwestern groupie chicks who made dental-alginate penile casts of pop stars ranging from Jimi Hendrix to The Monkees.

By 1973, my subcultural longings somehow coincided with the downtown Manhattan porn scene--a very specific set of moments in the history of theatrically exhibited pornography, a period of perhaps two years during which it was still possible to refract youthful dreams of radical creativity through a feverish milieu of unbridled optimism whilst commingling one’s essences with total strangers beneath hot lights.

One of the directors I worked with was Lech Kowalski, best known for the Sex Pistols documentary “D.O.A.” and the first inside-porn documentary “Porno Babies”, where porners were interviewed in their homes and suchlike. Fast-forward to 1976, at which time I’m working the midnight-to-8 AM shift in a 24-hour illegal bar on East Ninth Street called The Kiwi, with a sign in front reading “Warm Beer, Bad Food.” I’m living in a $90.-a -month craphouse on Avenue A. There were narcotics everywhere, muggings and other interpersonal crime were endemic, and the City’s sidewalks flowed like gutters with the festering excrudences of a decaying metropolis. And against this colorfully metrophobian backdrop, my earlier porn experiences represented only the smallest part of my investigations into the urban American underbelly.

The intensity with which I lived and worked ultimately hit the wall of disillusionment---perhaps because, at age 24, I felt I didn’t have the intellectual skills or tools to process what was happening around me. So I moved to Dallas, Texas...and did not rematerialize in Gotham until 1986.

My point being: I was f---ing beautiful Jewish coeds for the camera--and back then it was Arriflex BL--when David Aaron Clark was still enrolled in grade school. Ditto for all the pot-and-acid-drenched sexual hypocrites like Eric Danville and Abby Ehmann and penis amputee Joe Christ---all of whom used Screw, which supposedly celebrates authentic erotic experience, as their grudge-driven vehicle to blacken my name and reputation, or in the violence-prone David Aaron Clark’s case, maybe even blacken my eye. So maybe now you can see why I so much look forward to David Aaron Clark’s upcoming court appearance here....

David Aaron Clark writes: A few remarks and clarifications, take them as you will:

Though I'm trying not to participate in the internet gossip mill, and I have successfully managed to ignore Mark Kramer's active inclusion of me on his enemies list for the last four years, I will make my one and only statement on all this tiresome s--- he's been peddling on the Internet -- the only place he can publish his work anymore.

It takes a career crackhead like Kramer to see conspiracies where instead exists the natural flow of people meeting and working together. I knew and was friends with Joe Christ when he first came to New York, before he ever hooked up with Nancy Collins, who I had also met separately. No, she had nothing to do with my novels being published -- I would have enjoyed a much better publisher, if she had. Yes, she bought two stories from me for anthologies she was editing -- because that's what writers and editors do. The story in Forbidden Acts received praise from reviewers as one of the best in the book. No conspiracy there.

Kramer was sucking up to Joe at first -- their falling out came when Kramer stole Joe's 18-year-old girlfriend that Joe had brought to N.Y. with him from behind his back. Kramer was struck by one of my blood performances, and wanted to write about it. I told him to write about all the other people who either did it before me or were also doing it. That was the genesis of the Newsday piece. At this point I was the only friend Kramer had at SCREW; he was banned from the premises. Everyone else shook their head at me for giving him any respect; and indeed, I ended up burnt.

Yes, SCREW and I (at Al's editorial command) made fun in the pages of SCREW of Kramer for having engineered the bogus "crack-smoking squirrels in Central Park" story that made the rounds of the British tabs in 1994. To any sane mind, this is hardly tantamount to making a foul insult about a person's lover and friend who has passed away under tragic circumstances. Kramer's hands were not full when I hit him, and to the best of my memory he was not wearing glasses. But so what if he was.

The "hippie couple" who he keeps insulting and who he admits to trying to have busted by this time were his only friends in N.Y.C. In fact, they came down on Thanksgiving Day 1994 to bail the schmuck out of the Tombs when he was slapped in jail for punching his oh-so beloved girlfriend, who had been supporting him, since he has a tendency to be fired from whatever gig he gets once the editors figure out how wacky he really is. He repaid their kindness by deciding they were part of the "conspiracy," and must pay, pay, pay.

Kramer is a very good wordsmith whose talent has been derailed by his drug-fueled obsessions and paranoia. I have never met nor heard of a supposedly heterosexual male who was so magnificently and terribly obsessed by the "true status" of another man's penis. Obviously, Joe Christ's penis, like the sacred foreskin of Jesus Christ, must be an icon of untold power and fascination, since in Kramer's cosmology it is at the center of so many events in his own life.

I have never tried to cover up or make excuses for the bizarre circumstances of my own life. In fact, it fuels much of my work, inside and outside the porn field.

So there you go, Luke. More grist for your mill. Hope it fills up a few column inches for you.

Mark Kramer replies:

Fortunately, Clayton Patterson has a video that shows a fat pornographer slugging a guy who had pen and notebook in hand. Portly porner Clark can be sure that the factual and legal sorting-out processes begin next time he makes an appearance in New York State.

Also, I've never tried to have anybody busted. In point of fact, David Aaron Clark's public "crackhead" tirades down though the years and the letter Joe Christ wrote to New York magazine, filled with "crackhead" references, were, if not attempts to have me busted, certainly instrumental in losing me work. Ironic especially since several members of the Screw art department could be found snorting coke in my East Seventh St. apartment circa 1989-91. Especially former art director Kevin Hein. Evidently, behind their smarmy facade of appreciation for my East Village drug contacts and using my apartment as a convenient place to toot up -- they were seething with resentment that I continued to get prestige writing gigs....

The "hippie couple"--one of whom was a Screw columnist--were instrumental in setting up the attack at Psychedelic Solution. Moreover, they would milk the media opportunities that came along with the attack, e.g., one's picture turned up in the New York mag article; the other's name and work were plugged in the letter Joe Christ wrote to New York]--illustrative of how much these career felons value their low profile [in 1987, they were stupid enuff to allow Spy's Eric Kaplan to write a thinly disguised depiction of their apartment in an article "The Hippies That Time Forgot"]. Also, "The Hippies That Time Forgot" threatened my publisher, Shannon Larratt, with violence and 86ing from Web [email Shannon @ bme@freeq.com]....

They have also threatened my present girlfriend. Speaking of girlfriends, I never punched a female and Clark knows nothing whatever about the bogus case lodged against me by my then-girlfriend/Yale honors grad/psychopath Nancy Jo Sales--a big-titted, red-headed Jewess--who would later be appointed, not long after the Psychedelic Solution incident, a Contributing Editor of New York mag.

As far as my means of support--my personal foibles never stood between me and selling my work...until Joe Christ, David Aaron Clark and The Hippies That Time Forgot drove a stake through the heart of their own subculture by setting up an attack at Psychedelic Solution and then writing to New York magazine that I had *started* a fight. Temporarily this would reduce me to their level--but I’ve been fortunate in finding new markets for my work [obviously Clark missed my Feb. 99 piece in “P.O.V.” mag--”All The News Unfit to Print”--which tells the *true* story of the crack-crazed squirrel hoax.

Please excuse me for not getting "over it" regarding the profoundly degrading events David Aaron Clark's attack set in motion. I'm sure the upcoming spectacle of the suety porno careerist’s courtroom defence for his behavior at Psychedelic Solution on Dec. 14, 1994 will prove a healthy first step in the direction of my getting "over it"....

Also, I met Joe Christ in Dallas in the early 80s and later, circa '88, Christ barraged the Screw offices with promo materials once he found out I was there. In '90, Joe Christ's move to New York coincided with Josh Alan Friedman's book party. At the time I was established as a tabloid writer with cool East Village digs and a beautiful Jewish girlfriend--something else Clark no doubt resented, since it is that clear that only women who sold their bodies for cash took him seriously--so the "sucking up" idea is wide of the mark indeed. In fact, I *introduced* Joe Christ to David Aaron Clark at a party/exhibit for Madonna nudes at the Neikrug Gallery in spring, 91.

I have pictures of Clark from that evening, which, amusingly, was before he started dying his beard and other remaining hair, and had otherwise not yet adopted the arrogant, delusional rude-boy stance--evident to John Bone and others-- by which we know him today.

Talk about sucking up to Joe Christ: It turned out Clark was actually one of the no-talent penile amputee's earliest New York fans--and devoted many pages of Screw editorial to jump-starting Joe Christ's "career" as a "filmmaker" and "artist". Utility-wise, this lowered Screw's standards yet another notch-- in effect making Clark, who at Screw was the center of attention for the first time in his rumpled life, look like some reigning intellectual.

Also, this log-rolling on behalf of dickless weenie-wagger Joe Christ paid off by getting Clark his only mainstream writing credits *ever*...in collections by Joe Christ's wife, Nancy A. Collins, who was also on hand for the attack scene at Psychedelic Solution. Of course,*all*these folks are in the toilet now, as they were then, except this time they’re not being paid for their sociopathic drivel: Instead, they are *paying*...As well they ought to.

As far as the blood article went...there was nothing--nothing--stopping Clark from publishing his own article...except for the fact that only porn-related venues were accepting submissions from him. And anyway, it's so much easier to write and edit your own work for Screw and find a 19-year-old prostitute to praise your literary genius than it is shopping your work, as I have never stopped doing, to publicatons with more than Screw's 14,000 "readers". And on top of all this, David Aaron Clark *appears* in the movie "Sex Blood and Mutilation"--in which Joe Christ publicly unveiled his pubic stump for the first time. Form follows dysfunction, eh? Film at eleven.

Private, Charlie Geerts Update

Email: "I'd say these rumors about Private and drug trafficking are in the same categorie as the 'Rocco-has-aids' rumors. Where there's a lot of money and succes, there's these kind of rumors. I never heard anything at all connecting Private with drugs. It doesn't make sense also: this company is so incredibly rich, why would they want to become involved in something they could lose everything with? They litterally swim in money.

"Charlie Geerts' media representative Hans Knoop is a former reknown investigative reporter (of Jewish descent) who had his finest hour in Holland in the late seventees, when he traced down an infamous Dutch collaborator with the occupying German forces back in WWII. His name was Pieter Menten, I believe he had an SS-rank, and the case was BIG news throuhout Europe at the time. Menten was convicted, his villa burned down, a he had to turn over his extensive art collection which was robbed from his victims.

"Re. Charles: here's some info from an old (1-25-95) newspaper article in De Telegraaf, Holland's biggest newspaper. Charles was arrested in 1994 for tax-evading and fraude after an extensive investigation (codename 'Halt') from the FIOD, the Dutch IRS. His bail was set at 1 million guilders, which his laywer promptly paid - in cash. The Fiod suspected Charles, who at the time still was the director/owner of Scala Agenturen BV, of deliberately falsifying the invoices of video sales and copyright sales and of falsifiyng his income tax papers. Charles at the time was befriended to Klaas Bruinsma, one of Holland's most notorious mafia-leaders who was later shot and killed in Amsterdam. Also he admits to still being befriended to notorious Ettienne Urka, the former sidekick of Bruinsma who is probably Holland's most notorious 'gangster' now. Charles was arrested in LA in '85 for illegally importing porn, the case was later dismissed, as you probably know. The case against Charles by the FIOD was later settled out of court with the tax office. I believe Charles had to pay 20 million guilders to settle the score. The last couple of years he's in the estate business."

A source: "There are some false articles in the Dutch press about Charles Geerts , especially from crime-reporter Bart Middelburg in het Parool, that he, Geerts, is a member of the mafia, that he is the Godfather of the Dutch crime-world, et cetera. The thruth is that Geerts was the biggist porno-trader in Europa and build an gigantic porno-imperium (Scala). For some people that is a crime perhaps. I see him as an great entrepreneur with an unusual way of doing business, but in no way he is a criminal. There was never any proof in that direction. That is just one of the myths surrounding him. Reporter Bert Voskuil from de Nieuwe Revu, a respectable weekly magazine in Amsterdam, wrote a very good and objective article about Mr. Geerts, who he accompanied during a businesstrip to German. Did you know that Geerts is a knight in the ancient Order of the Holy Archangel Michael and the Prophet Elijah (Order of the Templers)? He was knighted in 1970 by His Holiness monseigneur Mar Serapion, the arch-bishop of the Eastern-Orthodox Church in Holland and Belgium. Also present was HH Mgr. Brairley, the arch-bishop of the Old Roman-Catholic Church of England."

Mike South writes Luke: "I got yer book today.....a little history on that. I went to a Borders, the guy tried to look it up and told me it didnt exist. I gave him Author and publisher correctly. Next I went to Barnes and Noble: They said they could order it and get it in a week or two. Next I went to B. Dalton, they said it didn't exist. Next I went to Waldenbooks they said it exists but they couldn't get it. The B&N and the Borders were the big assed superstores. Finally I went to a different Borders...they had one copy...I snapped it up. so far so good....me N the wives are gonna have a reunion so that we may all review it together :)"

Email: "I was reading your Jews in Porn discussion in my office. I was in stitches. My associates thought I was a lunatic. I can only imagine WHO was angry at you. Can't they just take it in stride & laugh or are they too uptight?"

AVN Roundtable 2

The Jewish Contribution to Pornography

I resume with excerpts from the forthcoming Adult Video News cover story:

Alexandra Silk: "I try to stay away from the negative stuff, like Jewish American Princesses Suck Cock, and JAPs in the Hood. For me, as a Jewish woman, it's hard enough to get respect. I wanted to come into the business to show that every Jewish girl is not a ho..."

Paul Fishbein: "Alex, you're touching on something vitally important there. Fundamental to antisemitism, and to tapes like Cocksucking Skanky Jewish Whores, is hostility to the Jewish belief in one God, a belief to which antisemites reluctantly converted and which they never ceased to resist. Most unpleasant, the Jews invisible God not only insisted on being the one and only and all-powerful God, He also developed into a moral God..."

Ron Jeremy: "Years ago, there were a couple of big directors, guys who've been on the cover of AVN, who said about Yiddish Erotica, 'nobody wants to see that s---.' Now a goy like Larry Flynt started the publicity, but the first person to do it successfully was Ed Powers. We had Jewish Dirty Debutantes, and almost every Jewish man in America watched those movies... Now all these goyim are trying to commercialize Yiddish Erotica, but they don't understand the Jewish experience. They don't understand how we've suffered."

Steve Hirsch: "Let's not forget the higher quality of Jewish life as an integral part of Jew hatred. In every society in which Jews have lived for the past two thousand years, they have been better educated, more sober, more charitable with one another, committed far fewer violent crimes, and had a considerably more stable family life than their non-Jewish neighbors."

Lenny Friedlander: "These characteristics of Jewish life have been completely independent of Jews' affluence or poverty."

Mel Kamins: "Even when the Jews lived in slums, they were slums with a difference - lower alcoholism, homicide, accidental death rates... Despite a voluminous literature to the contrary, the Jews had their own values, and they took those values into and out of the slums."

Ginger Lynn: "It was Judaism that brought the concept of a God-given universal moral law into the world. Willingly or not, the Jew carries the burden of God in history and for this has never been forgiven."

Howie Wasserman: "I don't feel comfortable with all this God talk. I'm a Reform Jew. I only have to keep five of the Ten Commandments... I don't worry much about stuff like Do Not Steal. Back in the 1970s, I used to hang out all the time with Henry Hill, and and Bobby Genova. Talk about swag man. We had our choice."

Bobby Genova: "You wouldn't believe some of the stuff that fell off a truck... When the FBI busted Henry Hill, I returned to porn. It feels good to be around thieves. We share common values."

Rubin Gottesman: "I've got some great Traci Lords tapes for sale. Hey Stevie Orenstein, can you bring in a few boxes from the warehouse. She's only 15 years old in these tapes. What a cocksucker!"

Jim South: "Oh yeah baby... Here, look at this. Some underage shots of Alexandra Quinn... The FBI never got its hands on this booty baby. Here's Kristarra Barrington when she was underage... Young girls just really dig me. I'm a father figure."

Above contents are copyrighted 1999 by Adult Video News which retains exclusive rights to the content. Email Gene Ross at gene@avn.com for permission to reproduce.

Peter Ramezap writes on RAME (newsgroup rec.arts.movies.erotica): I have been posting to RAME for the past 3 years or so and have come to notice certain porn actresses/actors/directors etc. posting here, some often some occasionally. Here is the list of people that I have seen post to RAME, who work for industry in some way or other. Let me know who I missed, if there is any.

Guys: ----- Mike South (regular) Dave Cummings (regular) Jim Gunn (regular) Van Damage (posted here when Extreme just had started) Max Hardcore (used to post here regularly but now ...) Luke F-rd (regular) Patrick Riley (regular) Undercover guys from Extreme, you know who you are.

Girls: ------ Brandy Alexandre (regular) Heaven Leigh (almost a regular) Tina Tyler (occasional) Bianca Trump (almost a regular) Eden Rea (occasional) Mila (occasional) Linda Thoren (once in a blue moon poster, but nice to have) Holly Aston (recent poster) Tiffany Million (posted couple of times to bash us all) Santa Fey (posted a few times to promote her dancing)