Porn Rumors

ELASTIN2: Henry Tillman [boxer, convicted murderer] told me that u gave him crabs
KIMMIE KYM: he's out of prison
ELASTIN2: is he?
KIMMIE KYM: yep, been out for some months now. He's working as a host for a restaurant in West L.A, or west hollywood or something like that
ELASTIN2: who told u
KIMMIE KYM: I looked up his name last night, and some articles came up
ELASTIN2: rumor has it he wanted to make a comeback
KIMMIE KYM: his wife divorced him while he was in prison
KIMMIE KYM: he is training for a come back
KIMMIE KYM: I guess Gina took him to the cleaners
ELASTIN2: she inherited Jesse Owens Gold Models
KIMMIE KYM: gold models?
ELASTIN2: medal
KIMMIE KYM: oh
ELASTIN2: u gonna try to get back with him
KIMMIE KYM: hell no, I told you that nigga forgot my name
KIMMIE KYM: f--- him
ELASTIN2: i heard that he f---ed u because he wanted to date the daughter of a bigstar
KIMMIE KYM: who wants a be with a convicted murderer? He said people stare & whisper

WESTWOOD — It’s been 99 days since Henry Tillman was released from prison, 99 days since the '84 Olympic gold medalist began training in preparation for a professional heavyweight boxing comeback. It's been 99 days since Tillman quit doing time for murder. It’s 11p.m. and Tillman, dressed in a simple green track suit, his massive hands adorned only by his Olympic Games ring, is working his “second job”. Tillman, who once seemed poised to win a world title in the cruiserweight division is now conquering the crush of sidewalk traffic at Habibi’s, an Egyptian cafe in Westwood.

Cherry Mirage Splits With Mike

They seemed like one of porn's most solid couples. They hit a downward spiral the past two years. They left town a few months ago. Cherry and Mike, after about eight years together, split three months ago.

Internet Rumors

XXX says: Craig Vasiloff got Rich Botto (RB) to sign on to his idea for a Maxim-type mens magazine. Rich wanted out of the porn business. Rich is now the fulltime publisher and editor of Razor Magazine, on the web at www.razormag.com. Everyone wants to know if it makes money. I think RB will blow his brains out moneywise with it. RB wanted to be more than just a net porner. That's an achilles heel for many people in the net porn biz. They want to reach above where they are and most of them can't pull it off.

The Aussie Porn Mafia is still doing their thing. There are all sorts of suspicious looking programs coming out of Australia.

Serge's pal, General@playgal.com aka Dean Shannon, is the number one guy out of Australia. He's smart and seems to do honest business with other internet players. Dean has set up shop in the Netherlands and other places overseas. I don't know why an Australian has to set up shop in Holland?

Dean is smart that he sets everything up so you can't really trace it back to him.

There's a company in Australia listed on the Australian stock exchange - Adult Shop Australia. I suspect Shannon plays a role behind it. I think he took a failing bricks and mortar sex shop chain out of Melbourne and they tied it into Shannon's hardcore internet operation. It then shot up on the stock exchange because of the huge revenues coming in from the hardcore sex. You never see Dean's name in any of the press reports. It's all this guy named Malcom Day. Supposedly he's some Australian business celebrity.

I remember Dean coming on the boards, about two years ago, and saying something good was coming his way. His operation was going to take credit card processing inhouse. His operation used to deal with IBill.

When you use other processors, they take off about 15%. They can cut you off if you spam. It's a major hassle.

All these companies have been moving merchant accounts around for years because they go through them so fast. They have so many shady fake Russian signups. It's best to have your own processing.

Shannon supposedly has his own processing. I think that's why he bought into this adult shop. That's how he got his own merchant account at a major bank.

It seems that most adult internet companies have landed at Jettis, run by the Bottos and Ken from Webquest. Ken is one solid guy. There are good people in this business who are going to be here 20 years with their companies.

Serge Birbrair is loyal to the people he made money with during the internet gold rush - Dean Shannon and Yishai Habari out of New York.

Everybody is spamming now. Nobody can deny it now. It used to be, 'Oh, he's a spammer. What scum.' But business is so tight now, everybody's doing it. I get spam from people I never thought I'd get spam from.

On Oprano, people are now writing Ron Levi (Cybererotica.com) "R-n," after the way that Orthodox Jews write G-d. Many people think he's too full of himself. That he claims to have invented the adult internet.

Well, he did invent many of these tools that allow adult players to make their living.

I think his personality just rubs people the wrong way. He's a decent guy. He's a generation older than most players in the porn web. He's about 50 years old. Most players are in their 30s.

Serge's partner in Oprano, New Orleans Mike, invented amateur sites. Nobody knew that amateurs were going to be hot on the net. He started Amateurindex.com, a link site.

Mike and his friends started a domain register, directnic.com. Traffic is traffic. You can use your adult traffic and start a domain registration business. It's now in the top ten of all registrars. The city of New Orleans is offering them incentives to stay in New Orleans with their 50 or so fulltime employees.

The biggest webmaster radio show of all time featured Serge interviewing Larry Flynt. Both have their thick accents. It was hilarious. Five hundred people tuned in.

Larry Flynt Publications was one of the big failures on the internet. Then he went with Ken Lawson. Lawson started webmasters per signup. Ken Lawson now runs EdPowers.com. It's converting gangbusters.

DUC: I can't believe AOL didn't nail CEN for spamming. They were spamming. They hired people to spam.

XXX: They did get nailed. They settled. CEN paid out several million dollars. CEN was accused of hiring underage teenagers to spam. Then CEN's attorney Steve Workman proved that was not the case.

Nobody seems to pay a stiff price. These companies have made so much money. It's worth it to spam. The money CEN made from years of spamming is much greater than the fine they paid.

Crescent Publishing paid about an $8 million fine. That was just a cost of doing business. Crescent had the dirtiest deal of all time on the net. They probably raked in $100 million.

Nobody goes to jail. FTC looked at the two biggest players in adult - Ron Levi and the Bottos. They looked into Cybererotica and had a small problem with the way he does free signups. No fine. Just a couple of restrictions on the way he does business. RB the same deal. The FTC found the company wasn't doing much wrong.

It just shows there's no edge to being honest. Because the price for spamming and dishonesty is so slight.

CEN ran two celebrity sites. They are of dubious legality. Celebs aren't consenting for their nude pictures to be sold. They haven't signed releases. CEN claimed they were just a marketing partner to the sites. We only provide bandwidth. They worded it carefully.

After five years, how come no celeb came after CEN? The responsible people kept saying, don't get into celeb sites. ARS (Adult Revenue Service) wouldn't get into celeb sites. MaxCash (Bottos) wouldn't operate one. CEN probably made a fortune. MrSkin is a huge deal, on Howard Stern. Ron Levi used to market MrSkin.

MikeSouth.com says: Adella, who loves everyone, assures me that Digital Playground has not signed Alexa, will not sign Alexa and that Alexa is not dating RobbyD.

JMT writes MikeSouth.com: So, you think it's a coincidence that the Tera Show feed abruptly dies moments after the Hostess With The Mostest uses the word "mob" in reference to Patrick Collins twice within the space of about ten seconds? (As well as "creepy and mesmerizing" . . . ) And this on "Elegant Angel Night," no less.

Jenna Jameson On KSex Radio

Taliesin writes on rec.arts.movies.erotica (RAME): I had the pleasure of visiting KSEX Radio for an episode of The Young and the Curious hosted by Jason Sechrest. Thanks for the invite, Jason. The guests were Jenna Jameson and Ryan Idol.

Jason's sent me press releases on practically everything happening in the biz, and I hardly ever have time to attend any of them. Porn is a tough business. Every one of us is always working on something, it seems, some project or other, and finding time to just hang out with friends is difficult.

So how'd I manage to find the time for this one? A couple of days before the KSEX show I'd had a wisdom tooth removed by an oral surgeon. So I was in pain. And didn't really feel much like working. Work for me these days consists mostly of writing. I sit at my computer and work on my newest book or short story or whatever. Trying to concentrate with the pain I was in was too much, so I decided I would go to the radio station.

I had wanted to go, I had hoped to go. But if I had been able to work I might not have gone. So, it was good to see old friends and people I knew. I hadn't seen Jenna in a while. She's looking great; and you can see that for yourselves. I took some hot pics while at KSEX. They've just recently been uploaded to my website (http://www.taliesinthebard.com/ksex01.htm). I also hadn't seen Rachel Worth (http://www.worth-a-million.com) for some time either. Steve Nelson (http://www.ainews.com) and Tod Hunter (http://www.avninsider.com) were also there reporting on the show. And it was a fun show.

Jason is a fabulous radio host. He sometimes drifts into some of the same shtick as Ross the Intern (from the Tonight Show), but he definitely has an appealing on-air persona. We all had a really good time.

Porn Happens

Frankincense writes: 10:30 am and I decide it would be a good day to make my Costco Wholesale warehouse run. Over the years I've realized that gross consumption of commodities to promote economic growth in the community only benefits those who live outside the community; therefore, in my stand against capitalist entrepreneurialism, I drafted the "COSTCO CHARTER"

Article 1. Personal possessions; From this day forward, I shall only buy my personal possessions from a Costco wholesale warehouse. Malls make me vomit. Filled with snotty little kids and stale air filled with God knows what diseases. Their trendy stores filled with designer crap made by slave labor in Guatemala, playing the latest Brittany songs so loud I want to pull out an AK-47 and demand John Tesh in concert to be played in all stores or the fat kid gets it.

And the merchandise? Clothes I wouldn't be caught wearing from stores run by post high school apathetic drones and gum snapping tarts that have blue hair and bad skin. I would dread the day I was given a "mall" shirt later to see the identical one worn by an angry gang-banger robbing a 7-11. Not my style; I have no style and like it that way.

Article 2. I shall only shop on those hours when wholesale account holders are allowed in; therefore avoiding those vacuous bourgeois belonging to group memberships like government and corporation accounts.

I hate encountering a waddling porcine wife of a school principal as she slobbers over her cell phone talking so loudly about her heat rash and how she is looking for Gold Bond Medicated powder for her chaffing, corpulent thighs as she parks her cart in the isle, blocking everyone from passing. "GET OUT OF MY WAY PETUNIA!" I have been known to yell with utter disgust at those like her having a total lack of any social decorum. Or the clueless dapper dan waving a giant box of tampons at his wife, while she's over ogling over the candy isle, Yelling "FRAN! Do we really need these!" Obviously she's post menopausal but I don't need to have yuppie scum waving personal hygiene products about like they are an American flag. Fran's husband; a total clueless sheep.

Wholesale people know what they want and damn it, we get the job done! I love to see the well dressed Korean man in line with a dolly stacked 5 feet high with Diet Pepsi and 400 cartons of smokes. This guy means business. I make it clear to anyone near me I don't like my space invaded and I will throw things if provoked. People know to stay clear of the likes of me.

Article 3. If COSTCO doesn't have it; I don't need it. After all, Costco jeans fit me fine at $12 Vs $30 for Levi's, They sell everything from furniture to fresh Atlantic salmon. Tools, garden supplies, catering, even prescriptions. All can be purchased at COSTCO for basic sustainable living. Some even have gasoline stations at a cheaper price. I'm wondering when they will have an adult section to put Hustler and Le Sex Shoppes out of business.

Article 4. If COSTCO doesn't have it, Home Depot does. OK so the occasional run to Home Depot is essential for any man, if nothing more than to bolster his ego as he inspects the vast array of sledge hammers or welders. It gives a man the sense of power and privilege...plus they have pretty flowers for my greenhouse window.

Article 5. If Article 3 or 4 do not apply; improvise or use the Internet. I must admit that for those occasions when a good cigar is desired, or high end pro-sumer electronics are needed, there's always the Internet.

Article 6. For those items you buy in bulk that you will not use; give it away; you'll still save money. Sal Price, when he started the Priceclub line, was brilliant in starting his chains of wholesale warehouses claiming "I have a warehouse of stuff that no one really needs but its so cheap they can't refuse the good deal."

It is true, I doubt I've ever left a Priceclub, now Costco spending less than $200. BUT the deals I got! So off I go to Costco Northridge, not unlike the plains drifter who made his monthly visit to the general store to stock up on flour, coffee, smokes, bullets, lard, whiskey and jerky. Staples for a simple life.

After my methodical journey through every row like a laboratory rat running a maze pushing a giant dolly, stocked with my essentials, I made my way to the registers. In front of me was a bubbly woman in a tank top, daisy dukes, high top tennies, and a cap. Her hair was pulled thru the back and she had the look that she was on a mission. Her cart was piled high. Assorted bottled waters, Gatorades and soft drinks, bulk veggies and dips, powerbars, a dozen catering platters with snack foods and sandwiches, and the assorted chips and munchies; she's having a party.

As I stood watching her load this enormous amount of consumables on checkout ramp, a few things caught my eye. Baby wipes. A dozen containers of baby wipes. OK, so she was neat. Then went the bulk packages of fleet enemas. I thought that a bit odd for a party but this was Northridge; anything is normal given the right crowd. Then the few 8 packs of Massingil douches; OK, .......

I'm starting to understand what kind of party this woman is catering. As the assorted party favors were checked, she turned to me and smiled. I had seen her before. Looking at her cap I realized where she was off to...."Hustler" it said. She asks the cashier if they carried cases of rolling papers or 6 packs of lube. I laughed under my breath. "I'm sorry I have so much" she said to me as I smiled. I didn't care, every time she bent over I could see her tits through her tank top. "Not a problem, I know you'll be running out for more junk when the crew eats all the good stuff and the 'stars' start bitching."

Yes, this girl was catering a porn shoot that day. "Where are you filming?" I asked with a grin. "OOh.... North of Ventura (blvd.), How did you know it was for a set?" she asked. I pointed to the enemas, douches and baby wipes...... "Lucky guess" I chuckled. "Yeah right! She fluttered back........I've seen you before, are you in the industry?"

"No Ma'am", tipping my invisible cowboy hat, "I'm just a drifter passin through, thought I'd stock up on some grub and supplies before headin out... I'm a drifter" ........

She giggled. "Well, see ya later, stranger", she said in a cute Gary Cooper fashion. Ya see, in this place called the porn valley, even a drifter can't help but run into that machine that is the "industry"..........No matter if you're belly up to the bar, drinkin rotgut or at the general store, buyin simples for your meager life; porn happens.

Xcitement Magazine’s Cindi Loftus does Miami

Here are my journal entries made at the Internext convention:

Thursday, August 8, 2002 3:30 P.M.

I tooled down Federal Highway with the wind blowing through my hair, (my a/c died yesterday), relishing the fact that there would be no 15 hour travel today; no airports, no layovers, no security checks, no flight delays. Yeah! Instead, after a one hour drive I pulled up to my hotel, The Ramada Resort on Hollywood Beach. I checked in and was pleasantly surprised when I opened the door to my room and it turned out to be a suite! I then went for a walk on the beach all the way down to the Diplomat hotel to pick up my convention passes. It is Internext Miami; a fun weekend gathering of adult website folks. I then walked back up the beach completing a three mile round-trip. That’s about the most exercise I’ve had since high school gym class. That night I attended my first party on the yacht Victory which was docked in the Intercoastal across the street from the Diplomat. Lots of fun, drinks and laughs courtesy of Gof---Yourself.com and Adult.com. The boat was packed and overflowed onto the dock. Everyone had a blast.

After the party I headed back to my hotel and called Bisexual Britni on her cel. I know she was attending a party on another floor of my hotel. I got her answering machine, uhh. I kept trying and finally got a hold of her at 1:30am. But alas, Britni had already left the building and was back in her hotel ready for bed. Congratulations Brit on winning a Web Girl Award

Friday, August 9 11:00am

I just rolled out of bed. Long day (and night) yesterday. I got dressed and headed over for the first day of the convention. The whole Diplomat was closed to the public for our big event. It felt wonderful to walk around in the crowd and know that EVERYONE I saw was involved in the adult industry. I was among “my people,” and it was great! I saw some well-known people; Ron Jeremy, Max Hardcore, Bill Margold, Al Goldstein and Brittney Andrews. There were also lots of pretty web girls floating around. I took lots of pics and just walked around to enjoy the people. The best booth in my opinion was Cybererotica (CECash.com). They had a huge area, like a sun porch. The bars were giving out free drinks. A DJ played some great tunes. The stage was set up like a game show and there were prizes for the winner. Tuxedo wearing waiters were walking around with trays of glazed chicken and various caviar/cheese/ cracker type of things. (If I can’t tell what it is by looking, I ain’t tasting) CE girls were handing out belly shirts, G-strings, hats and more. They definitely had the best giveaways.( See our model, Jewel, wearing the whole CE get up) There were ten computers with internet access to use so you could check your email back home or just surf.

I took a couple hours off to relax in my hotel room because I knew I was attending

a late night event. The Hot ‘n Sticky webmaster Lingerie party was supposed to be wild and last from 11pm until 4am. Free food, drinks, music plus lots of beautiful people in lingerie and lap dances were promised. I arrived at 11:10 walked around taking pictures of cool people dressed in various lingerie outfits. By midnight the place was jammed. It was so packed I could no longer walk around freely to take pictures. I decided to leave, but it was even harder to get out because there were about a hundred people stuffed into a small hallway trying to get in. After I spent ten hot sweaty crushing minutes swimming up stream I made it to the elevator area. I did get a few more pics of people arriving at the party right before the hotel security started no longer letting people get off the elevator. They were sending the crowded cars right back down to the lobby. I’m glad I got out when I did. Unfortunately, I never did see or get a lap dance.

As I left I over heard an undercover cop talking to a uniformed officer. Undercover said “There is illegal activity going on in this party.” Uniform says “What are they doing, having sex in the hallways? “No, but there is marijuana smoking going on” says undercover. I don’t think they busted anyone, I would have heard about it

I ended up back at my hotel room watching Sally Jessie Rafael by 1am.

Saturday, August 8

I woke up way too early (9am). I didn’t have to be at the convention until the afternoon. So I decided to do a touristy thing. I went to the Graves Museum of Archaeology in Dania.

In the afternoon I went to the convention. I got autographs and pictures from Jill Kelly contract girl Haven and Aria Giovanni. I also ran into another beautiful girl who looked so familiar to me, but I couldn’t place her. When I introduced myself and she said her name was Ryan Conner, even the name sounded familiar to me. I told her I knew her from somewhere… and then it hit me! She was a friend of Dave Cummings and he had mentioned her in his column and she had appeared in his movies! AHA!

Then I went on to the Players Pool Party where they were holding a bikini contest. I hooked up with my friend (and PR director for Digital Playground) Adella. We watched six hot contestants do sexy dancing and stripping for us. It was a close race judged by a variety of industry people including a writer from AVN, Samantha (head of Digital Playground) and a midget with a scary mask on. Second runner up was Arianna. She’s new in the business, but definitely has potential with her hot Latin looks and sexy accent.

Okay.. “Freek Fest” is to be my last party of the weekend and it turned out to be my favorite. I worked through my fatigue and arrived at the event at 11:15. (11pm-4am party sponsored by Ethernext.com) Luckily it was in the Club Atlantic which was right in my hotel .Free beer, naked women getting airbrushed and a DJ who had the brains to keep the music at a talk able level. I met some great people including Rich and Neil who sat next to me at the bar and we ended up talking for hours. They definitely kept me entertained. I stumbled up to my room at 3 am. Thank God it was just an elevator ride four stories up! I got back to my room and started my column. I also looked through my goodie bag, lotsa good stuff. Best gift? An X-rated DVD called New “Revelations from Adam and Eve. Best t-shirt? “Got Drugs?” from PharmacyCart.com

I awoke Sunday at 11am with the worst headache. A combination of drinks, lack of sleep and smoke from dry ice. I wouldn’t say I packed, it was more like I stuffed my gear into any available container, threw it in the car and headed home. It was a LOOOONNNGGG weekend. But would I do it again? I always say no. Did I miss my bed at home? Yes, but mostly I missed my family, my computer and my aloe vera toilet paper. A couple of months from now when it’s time for the next convention, I’ll forget about the pain and tiredness and I’ll be raring to go. See you all in Vegas at AVN!