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Kara Mynor Update

Chico Wang writes on ADT: "I recently spoke to Kara who called from Ohio. I'm pretty sure she's out of the business. She lived with me for a couple of weeks then moved out to the gracious home of Naughty Talent. She's a very pretty girl but has some personal issues she has to resolve. I think she's using the time in Ohio to address them and to have clarity of thought."

Holly Calls

6:34 p.m. It's our first time speaking since the morning of March 2nd (before I made my fateful blog that forever blew us apart).

When I see my caller ID, I answer the phone: "Are you stuck in traffic?"

When Holly was stuck in traffic in the old days of six weeks ago or so, she'd often call me.

Holly: "I'm driving 45 mph.

"I know you'd say something like that."

Luke: "I can't help it. I'm feeling good."

Holly: "I'm calling to make sure you are going to be nice to my dad tomorrow."

Luke: "I'll treat him like a delicate flower.

"I just thought of another question I'm going to ask him."

Holly: "Are you going to ask him about the role of Jews in the book?"

Luke: "Depends on how we hit it off."

Holly: "I remember you brought that up before."

Luke: "To you."

Holly: "Right."

Luke: "How do you think he'd react?"

Holly: "I don't know. He doesn't really talk..."

Luke: "About the Jews and their nefarious influence on world finance?"

Holly: "I don't think so."

Luke: "I've got 40 or so questions. Depending on how it is going, I'll drop various questions in.

"I think I'll title it, 'I talk to my future father-in-law Tuesday.'"

Holly laughs. "That would get people to read it."

Luke: "That's the purpose. I don't want it to be like my Dara Horn interview."

Holly: "I never read it. You sent me the link. There was no tragedy in there?"

Luke: "Yes. She's happy. She's not screwed up."

Holly: "That's your problem. That never makes for a good story.

"Is the LA Weekly piece out today? You said the 20th."

Luke: "You so don't listen. I told you several times April 20th. I wrote several times April 20th."

Holly: "I seem to put everything in March. I tried to put your birthday in March."

Luke: "That's just one more thing that makes you endearing."

Holly: "I have March madness."

Luke: "You listen in spurts. You'll catch a number.

"I interpret it all as a personal diss of me."

Holly: "I got Your Life As Story today."

Luke: "You really did get it. That's one thing I can no longer say about you. That's going to constrict my writing."

Holly: "That was really nice what Devan said about me.

"I'm starting to shoot content exchanges on the weekend. It's fun to do my own thing. I'm not pressured to sell it to magazines. The girls are into it because they need it too. It's a good deal for the models. We pay for anything and then give them content."

Luke: "You're like a good Samaritan."

Holly: "I bang out anywhere between three to seven sets in a day."

Luke: "Is there any difference in the shooting style that you use?"

Holly: "When I shot Crystal Klein this weekend, we got to do some fun experimental lighting."

Luke: "How do these special effects make her vagina look?"

Holly: "It's not for her vagina. It just throws an interesting pattern of light on the whole person.

"Every girl calls her pussy something different."

Luke: "You haven't given me any keys to opening up your father's stony cold heart?"

Holly: "I haven't given you any keys to opening up my stony cold heart?"

Luke: "Your father's. I've given up on yours."

Holly: "That's wise. Smart move. I don't blame you.

"My dad is very much like me. You're not going to be able to get in there."

Luke: "I'll use the techniques that have worked so wonderfully on you and transfer them over to him. You don't have any tips?"

Holly: "You are the professional interviewer."

Luke: "But you are the fruit of his loins.

"The book is only a pretext to open him up."

Holly: "You better not ask him any mean questions. I don't trust you."

Luke: "What a slam. Let me pull myself off the floor and try to face life again and look at things in a new way and try to understand where I've gone wrong to engender such hostility in others when I've only meant to serve.

"How's your ankle?"

Holly: "Much better."

Luke: "How many positions can you do?"

Holly: "Haha.

"I'm pissed because I won't be able to exercise for a while..."

Luke: "You're really going to..."

Holly: "Yes, I'm going to gain enormous amounts of weight.

"It's not that that I'm worried about. I need to exercise for my sanity."

Luke: "Are you staying on the program?"

Holly: "The nutrition program or the no-drinking program?"

Luke: "No-drinking."

Holly: "Yes. You didn't believe me?"

Luke: "I wasn't sure you would do it. Almost a month."

Holly's shooting Tiffany Rayne and Nick Blue Tuesday.

Luke: "Does Nick say that his hero is a dead Austrian painter?"

Holly laughs. "He hasn't filled out the model quiz. I don't know who his heroes are.

"One of our models listed one of her heroes as Mona Lisa."

Luke: "That's what I love about porn. People are so honest. Send me a copy of your model quiz."

Holly: "That would be funny. I added questions like, 'What were you like in highschool?' Aria Giavanni was introverted in highschool.

"I like the questions that Rookiebabes pose to their girls. I don't know if they make up the girls' responses. Sometimes the girls will write such crap that I can't use it."

Holly might shoot some solo male layouts. "Men are more difficult to photograph. Women are more fluid and more flexible and men are boxy and square. Gay men are good at shooting men.

"This guy shot Jude Law at our house for Vanity Fair. I was so bummed that I was at school that day. I wanted to meet the photographer, not so much Jude Law. There were pictures of Jude hanging out with our dogs."

Holly wants the gory details on an adult friend of mine who got circumsized to convert to Judaism.

Holly and I agree that vaginal reconstruction surgery is generally a crazy idea.

I ask Holly if she's going to the doctor for her ankle.

Holly: "No. There's nothing they can do. I'm going to ice it and wrap it and elevate it.

"This morning I was crying."

Luke: "How many people did it take to carry you?"

Holly: "Very funny. Two, one on each arm. I could hobble on one foot."

Luke: "Were they bodybuilders?"

Holly: "One of them was my trainer. He took the heavy end. We all know what end that is.

"I was out in the middle of the soccer field. My trainer put me down on a mat. He carries around an emergency kit. He elevated my foot and made me ice it."

Luke: "Did you love it, being carried around by men and cared for?"

Holly: "No. I felt like a dumbass.

"I had just started the workout. I was jogging along. It was really nice out. I'm thinking I wasn't getting as tired as quickly as I thought I would. I feel good. I'm glad I'm out here this morning. Everything was going great. Then boom, crash. I stepped on a pinecone."

Crystal Klein and her fiance Rich have been staying with Holly since last Thursday.

Hobbling up the steps, carrying dogfood, Holly hands over the phone to Crystal.

Luke: "Is she getting you high every day?"

On New Year's Eve, Holly got Crystal high and the poor girl was knocked out for hours and had a split headache. Holly is a heavy stoner and so she was barely buzzed.

Crystal says she's not getting high this trip.

Luke: "Has she cooked for you?"

Crystal: "No."

Crystal's annoyed that I labelled a bunch of photos of Jamie Lynn in Las Vegas as "Crystal Klein."

Luke: "All you hos blur together."

Crystal: "Between Holly and me, who do you think was the bulldyke and who was the lipstick lesbian?"

Crystal claims that the members of her website crystalklein.com know "I'm smart. I have smart members, if you can say about members of a porn site. They're smart. They're not working class. They respect me."

Luke: "They respect you for what?"

Crystal: "For being smart.

"There's no bad talking on my message boards.

"You've wrecked Holly for me.

"If you knew what I know about you. She broke you. I know what you called her in bed. Your morals have changed."

Luke: "That's her fault. She made me use language in bed that I have never used before. I've never degraded a woman in bed before or pulled her hair or called her degrading names and made her do degrading things. I've never slapped a woman before or bit her."

I am shocked and appalled that my most private confidences with Holly have been violated. I just don't feel safe anymore having emotionally unprotected sex.

Crystal: "I love it, Luke. Call me something dirty."

Luke: "I can't. I'm never going there again. It's not my true self."

Crystal: "That is your true self and you're just shocked about that."

Luke: "I am never going to act like that again."

Crystal: "Yes you are. If Holly said, 'Come on over. Slap me in the face and call me a whore.'"

Luke: "I would say no. 'I am distancing myself because this is not what God wants for our lives.'

"You think I'm driven by my penis? That if Holly gave me the time of day, I'd be over there trying to stick it inside of her?"

Crystal laughs. "You're talking dirty already."

Luke: "I was trying to make a moral point about the degradation of women in our society and how I am opposed to it."

Crystal: "I should write a story about you. It's fascinating. I want to bring in my point of view.

"I am not as dirty as Holly but I'm certainly dirtier than you."

Luke: "Holly is a dirty little whore."

Crystal: "You just said it again."

Luke: "I don't like using that language. It's not the real me."

Crystal: "If you haven't used that language before does not mean it is not the real you.

"You strike me as the type of guy who restrains himself.

"Come on my couch. I'm going to help you. I've helped a lot of people. I'm really clever when it comes to that. I have a lot of empathy. I get people. I just need to find out a little bit more about you."

Luke: "Would you help me be the true man that I know I can be?"

Crystal: "Can you not be sarcastic for once?"

Luke: "Can you explain Holly to me?"

Crystal: "Yes, I could, but not right now."

Hey, At Least There's Empirical Evidence That Porn Exists

Mike Ramone blogs:

So, some anonymous arrogant religious fool over on www.lukeisback.com, apparently taking a cheap shot at Holly Randall, is equating being raised by porn parents with child abuse. That should give you some clue as to the level of sophistication (actually, lack thereof) of the fool's thinking. Never being one to resist pointing out the foolishness of religious fools, I retort:

Get off your self-righteous high horse. The history of religion, littered with the bodies of millions of people tortured and murdered in the name of God over the centuries, is far more obscene and immoral than consenting adults having sex on camera for the masturbatory viewing pleasures of other consenting adults. You badly need to, as they used to say back in the `60s, raise your consciousness about your religious belief system. A good starting point is Sam Harris' The End of Faith. Not that I believe for a moment that anyone who buys the brain-dead irrationality of religion can be swayed by like, you know, reason, logic and critical thinking.

Want To Hear Something Ridiculous?

HollyRandall: want to hear something ridiculous?
Luke: yes please
Luke: you're going to pose nude?
HollyRandall: lol no
Luke: hee hee, i am feeling good today
HollyRandall: you know Taschen?
Luke: please tell me the story but i must pray while you type
HollyRandall: well i guess he and my mom had a falling out of some kind
HollyRandall: he's publishing a book "100 best erotic photographers"
HollyRandall: guess who's not in the book?
Luke: you?
HollyRandall: no, silly!
HollyRandall: my mom!
Luke: me?
HollyRandall: one of THE most famous erotic photographers in the world
HollyRandall: i mean, c'mon doesn't that seem a little ridiculous?
HollyRandall: to leave her out of that because he doesn't like her?
HollyRandall: whatever, it's his book
Luke: such pettines does not belong in the august realms of wank material.
HollyRandall: that's funny
HollyRandall: ok i have to go home so i can work more

Adam Grayson (SearchExtreme.com): 'I was offered my first sexual bribe last month over our Golden Gape Awards'

Adam says: "I just laughed at her. Not out of self-importance or adherence to any supposed honor, rather because I thought it was ridiculous that someone believed a stupid award from our site was worth the horrors of fellating me."

Luke: may i quote that?
Adam: yeah let me reword it though, it's clunky
Luke: If it wasn't clunky, people would not believe it was written by you.
Adam: $120,000 journalism degree my friend
Adam: eloquence is my calling card
Luke: you were robbed
Adam: yes i was
Luke: you got to think like a Jew
Adam: you attributing this?

Does AVN Sell Pieces?

John: surely your serial killer van has sirius installed?
Luke: why don't people bribe me like they purportedly do the AVNers?
John: one day a nice woman will be your sugar mama and buy you a benz
Luke: Have you ever had sex with Heidi?
John: cuz you don't "sell pieces"
John: LOL no i've only met her a cpl of times
John: if i did, maybe my dvds would get reviewed in a more timely fashion
John: does AVN really "sell pieces" thoough? i'm gonna guess there's never been a formal study

Luke: Does AVN sell pieces? Do good reviews in AVN or coverage make any difference to your sales?
James: Nothing seems to make a difference in our sales. Our DVDs don't do well.
Luke: Must be your publicist's fault.

Paul Fishbein (AVN) Vs. Alec Helmy (XBiz)

Who commands the most loyalty? They're running competing trade shows (though at different times). We can judge by the number of booths and sponsorships and ad pages who has the most friends in the internet world.

PurePlay Media Fires Publicist April Storm?

April (april at pureplaymedia.com) replies: "What? lol Me? No...I'm still here plugging away :) Where did you hear that? There has been some turnover here but I'm still here."

Was Drew Dixon, head of sales at Pureplay, fired today?

Many PurePlay porners have been unhappy with April for years. But what do you expect from a porn publicist? How many inane ways can you ask them to pump up another porn movie? How many ways can they sell poison as something beautiful? Exactly how much meaning do you think they can impart when they send out another unwanted email touting some stupid porn video? Why does it matter if they are two weeks later promoting crap?

April had a relationship with one of the PurePlay owners -- Canadian Richard Arnold. He's wishy washy, slippery. Any porn company that talks about going public but never actually does anything is a bit suspect. Maybe they will one day?

Richard and Sig Badke aren't the best at returning phone calls. People come in for a job interview and then never hear back. That's the sort of thing that leaves a bad taste in people's mouths and causes them to badtalk you.

April's always been nice to me, which is a staggering accomplishment given the things I write and that I have known her for eight years.

She had a huge birthday party January 26.

Carly Milne was the publicist at Pureplay for a year or so (circa 2003).

Dating Advice For Luke

Khunrum writes: "They don't like to boom-sing on an empty stomach. The 60 minutes show should make a positive impression. Purchasing a small couch from Ikea couldn't hurt."

Robert writes: "Why not break out the big guns and show her your directorial debut, "What Women Want"? If that doesn't work go straight for the roofies with rice milk nightcap. Good luck!"

Please Feel Sorry For Holly Randall

She writes me:

You should feel very sorry for me. I twisted my ankle this morning jogging in the park -- thankfully I was training so I had people to carry me to my car. I was going to shoot Thursday, I hope I'm better by then. Right now I'm hobbling around on a walking stick like I'm 95. I keep telling everyone how I had to walk 10 miles barefoot in the snow to school when I was their age.

I did ice it for 2 hours this morning with it elevated, but it started to feel so much better, and I had an important meeting so I just came into work. It's not my driving foot, so at least I can get around. It's wrapped up right now. I think I actually pulled a tendon in my foot/ankle as opposed to just spraining it -- there's a little bruising but no swelling. Hopefully it will heal quickly!

The Real Suze Randall Photography is an account I had the girls in the office set up for us. My dad's myspace page.

I was checking out Holly's Xpeeps profile: "I'm the photographer/company director for Suze Randall Productions (www.suze.net and www.suzevideo.com). The one question I am asked all the time is "When did you find out what your parents do for a living?" The truth is, there was never a point in time when I "found out." I've always known, but I'm not sure exactly how -- my parents didn't exactly proudly display their work all over the house. I guess I was just raised in a household where everyone was honest and there was no shame attached to sexuality or nudity. My friends always express surprise that a family who works in porn gets along so well and remains incredibly close-knit. All in all, the adult industry never gets boring and I look forward to going to work every day -- now how many people can honestly say that?"

HollyRandall: i fixed up my dad's myspace page for him
Luke: I have exhaustively researched your father and I am well-prepared.
Luke: Why don't you use the topless photo of your dad? They've disappeared from his website.
HollyRandall: he probably got teased for it too much
Luke: Why did you change your dad's status from single to married?
HollyRandall: it was by default that way when he set it up i guess, he didn't know how to edit all that info
Luke: yeah, yeah, if you need to believe that...
Luke: Does your dad ever hit on your female friends?
HollyRandall: nah, he's not creepy
Luke: damn

Chaim Amalek: Ask Hump if the Jewish lobby is insufficiently powerful in Washington.
Chaim Amalek: Ask Hump if Negroes are as good at science as Koreans.
Chaim Amalek: Ask Hump if, surrounded as he is by hot young white women, he dreams of ditching his wife for one of them or at least f--king them.
Chaim Amalek: Ask Hump if porn is good for a marriage.
Chaim Amalek: Ask Hump if people take him less seriously because he is married to a porner.
Chaim Amalek: Ask Hump how often he and Suze have sex (ask this for Holly's sake).
Chaim Amalek: Ask Hump how he'd feel about having a Negro for a son in law.
Chaim Amalek: Ask Hump if he likes George Bush.
Chaim Amalek: Ask Hump if he ever uses illegal drugs.
Chaim Amalek: Ask Hump how much he drinks.
Chaim Amalek: Ask Hump how often he writes.
Chaim Amalek: And try to keep it friendly.
Chaim Amalek: You might want to address him as "Dad."

Dick Delaware Update

I call him Monday afternoon.

Dick: "I am fighting Saturday in the 205 [pound division against Tod Medina in Las Vegas]. I have a heavyweight fight the following week in Fresno against Eli Jocelyn. I know I can beat both guys."

Luke: "How's your porn work?"

Dick: "I'm doing good work. There's a lot of haters out there who don't like me. They're either afraid me or jealous of me. It's hard for me to get work after a couple of incidents that I've had. I've done great scenes, multiple pops. I don't get the credit I deserve in porno. If they'd let go of their jealousy and anger, they'd have a great performer on their hands."

Luke: "You've lost three fights in a row."

Dick: "If I can't get work in porno, I can get my income from fighting."

Luke: "How's your love life?"

Dick: "Layla and I are seeing each other casually. We are getting along better these days. She comes to visit me from Arizona. I don't ask her about her stuff. I don't want to get angry. The less I know, the better I am."

Luke: "Have you found a place to live?"

Dick: "I'm staying with my mom right now."

DanaDeArmond.com's Unhappy Member

Lance writes her: "why aren't you naked we really never get to see you playing with yourself why not?"

Dana (her MySpace) responds: "because i just woke up and im sick."

Lance writes: "okay so i should go and get a membership somewhere else."

Dana responds: "you dont seem to appreciate me very much... also you dont realise that i am a human being. honestly if this is the way you are going to talk to me i dont really want you as a member. everyone else is very nice to me."

Lance writes: "so am i, i am just asking what am i spending my money on if i never get to see you do anything."

Dana responds: "and im telling you that i am sick. SICK. having bad reaction to medication. but i guess that doesnt matter to you."

Lance writes: "i just telling you that it's bad for business girl and from what i see from you every damn time i log on you most be sick all the time."

Eve Mayfair Update

She was supposed to come to Jamie Lynn's party Saturday night but she fell asleep watching a Seinfeld rerun and never made it.

Sunday night she was supposed to go to karaoke but again fell asleep.

She has five days to find a new apartment but she's too proud to exchange sex for rent.

She's not reading either.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

I look at her MySpace page and read off to her bitterly: "I love talking about sex."

Eve: "That's my character."

Eve corrects my write-up:

Okaaaaaaay Luke.

Quote me all you want for your website, but don't go putting words in my mouth.

Just to clarify, never once did I say I'm "too proud" to do anything. I mean, c'mon. I do porn. I said a sex in exchange for rent situation is something I will not be considering because I like to avoid drama in my personal life. I've known people to enter those types of agreements, and -- understandably -- they always end poorly. Even (especially?) if the person is a boyfriend.

> Sorry darling, I was doing the best I could off of my recollections.

"Recollections"? I thought you were a journalist! Don't journalists take notes?

I Miss Edward Wedelstedt

I never thought I'd say that, but there's been something missing from my life since Eddie W went to prison. [Correction thanks to Mark Kernes: Eddie is not yet in prison. That destination is a few weeks off.]

I've been trying to fill this hole in my soul through a series of destructive relationships but no matter who I do, the ancient yearning to write about Eddie W. persists.

I call a friend. He says he's given up smoking.

Luke: "What about dope?"

Friend: "You have to keep some vices. Nobody likes a person with no vices."

Luke: "I don't have any vices. Everybody likes me."

Friend: "Yeah, right. You have vices. You hang out with people who are bad for you."

Luke: "Like who?"

Friend: "Porn people. You know who. You're a masochist.

"You're feeling the effects of missing Eddie. Now that he's locked up, you should send him letters. Tell him you're one of Eddie's Kids and harangue him. 'Eddie, how dare you do this to me? I looked up to you only to find out that you don't pay your taxes.'"

I Interview Holly Randall's Dad Humphry Tuesday

The ostensible topic is his novel The Nero Prediction.

Holly writes: "Please be nice! Don't make my daddy look bad."

I reply: "I'll treat him like I treat you."

Holly: "Uh oh."

Luke: "A friend of mine published your dad's book -- Adam Parfrey of Feral House."

Holly: "I know. He almost fell out of his chair when he heard we were dating. He's an interesting guy. I've met him and his girlfriend several times."

From AVNOnline.com:

"I just try to make the girls look beautiful," says [Suze] Randall. "I want the girls to feel proud of whatever they do."

With a laugh she adds, "I mean, even with cum all over your face you still have got to look beautiful... baby."

From Klixxx.com, another interview with Suze Randall:

ER: What happened along the way to the husband you supported when you first started out?

SR: He's still here, the father of my three children… Humphrey Knipe's still writing [laughs]. We thought he'd make the millions… he got the book published, but it's been a disappointing road. I was the one who ended up making the big bucks. He put the Internet together for me.

A Chat With Director Devan Sapphire

I've known him about eight years and we've usually been on good terms.

DCyper (DV8cultx.com) phones me back Sunday at 3:55 p.m.

He is memorialized as a wonderful lover in this Rachel Kramer Bussell essay.

DCypher (Devan Sapphire): "I don't understand why you are being really mean to Heidi for no apparent reason. I understand that you're mad that you believe she had you thrown off a set [about three years ago].

"My movie Wonderland received an Editor's Choice in the February AVN.

"I understand that people are upset but I don't see why I have to get dragged into it. My movies have quality on their own.

"Why become unglued that somebody had dinner and watched a movie with your boyfriend? Heidi is dating a guy now. She's devoted to him.

"Maybe I just don't get it because I'm a polyamorous corrupt pornographer and largely liberal and I just don't understand. Even if they had sex, what's the big issue?"

Luke: "There's nothing I can say that can communicate to you how different people have different emotional reactions to these things."

DCypher: "As I watch this drama play out, it seems distasteful. I can't imagine that people would want to go to you and put their personal life on the web.

"I feel bad for Heidi. I think it is cheap that you allow people to post stuff anonymously.

"Are you hunting for -- did I bribe Heidi to get a good review in AVN?"

Luke: "Did you spend a weekend with Heidi in Vegas and have sex with you?"

DCypher: "I have never had sex with Heidi. I took Heidi to Vegas [about three weeks ago]. A friend was having people over. I told Heidi I was going out there. She asked me if she could come along. We drove out to Vegas. We hung out with my friend in bars.

"Next day we got up and left and came back to LA and had lunch with my girlfriend (Justine Jolie) and Tristan Taormino.

"The relationship I have with Heidi is completely platonic. I talk to her often on the phone. Sometimes we do lunch.

"Before I got into directing, I was doing PR for Sin City. I was used to being around all these people from AVN. I hang out with Pete Warren. I went out to his house Friday night.

"I hung out with him last night at the Wikitiki party [for Cctavio Arizala's book]."

Luke: "Rachel Bussell Kramer says you are an amazing lover."

DCypher: "She's really something. She wrote a glowing thing about me. Did it make you upset that I have never come on to you? I know you're lonely now that Holly and you aren't together.

"Don't you think that these attacks on Heidi are baseless and cruel?"

Luke: "I don't think they are baseless."

DCypher: "I think she's one of the only people you can't bribe.

"Reviewers in general don't get handed Ipods and PlayStation portables?"

Luke: "I haven't argued that she's any more corrupt than anyone else, including myself.

"Did Heidi write the review for Wonderland?"

DCypher: "She did. Does that mean that I can't hang out with people who review my movies? Would it be better for me to give my movies to Mark Kernes because we don't hang out?"

Luke: "I'm not making any judgments."

DCypher: "I read the quote that I had a quote from Heidi on my boxcover and that I took Heidi to Vegas and we spent the night. We had separate beds. We went to bed at midnight. We woke up at 8 a.m. and drove home. Is that unacceptable? Does that seem inappropriate?

"She's reviewed a movie I've done before and she's not given me an Editor's Choice. She gave me a 3.5 for my Sin City movie Blonde Factory."

Luke: "I don't know what AVN's policy should be about accepting gifts and fraternization."

DCypher: "I think that whatever happened with Kami and Ivan and Heidi, it is very unfortunate that this is being made public.

"I don't see how it is any more appropriate for me to go to Peter Warren's birthday party where half the people I know in the business were there.

"We invited Pete to Vegas with us. He just didn't want to go that weekend.

"Heidi doesn't live like a kingpin, like someone with buckets of money. She seems devoted to her job. She's a good friend. She's not the type of person who gives out good reviews to friends. Most people at AVN don't operate that way.

"I know how you love to salaciously spin things. There's no positive light that is going to come out on lukeisback.

"I put in a lot of work on my movies and now this is going to come out and people are going to think that I bribe AVN to get good reviews. If it was that simple, everybody at Metro would have good reviews."

Luke: "People will assimilate the information in different ways. If people want to hate you, they will seize on this."

DCypher: "That's all the internet has become -- people in this business bashing each other and not putting their names on it. I went through all of this with the pornogossip.com crap back in the day. Nobody would face up to me and admit they did any of it. What did it end up meaning? It did me a favor. It gave me a bunch more people I don't have to pretend to get along with. It's 40 less hands to shake at a convention and 40 less people I have to pretend to be nice to.

"Cindi Loftus liked my movie [The Prisoner] and I never did anything for her. I was nominated for six AVN awards and I won zero. I'm friends with Heidi, Peter, and Dan Miller. I get along with Mike Ramone, Mark Kernes, Paul Fishbein. I didn't get anything special out of it. I think I should've definitely got Best Screenplay over Camp Cuddly Pines.

"When I was the publicist for Sin City, you didn't see them winning awards and we were in [the AVN offices] all the time.

"Heidi is friends with Michael Raven. You didn't see his reviews going crazy this past year.

"I've heard stories about people who have outright tried to bribe people at AVN and been turned down. I heard a story from a guy who said he tried to bribe Gene Ross by putting $100 in the movie and that Gene pulled it out and threw it at the guy and said, 'Get the ---- out of the office.'

"What if I start writing that you are on the take? You'd probably like the attention. What if I said you were writing nice things about Holly because you were sleeping with her? That might be true. You were writing good things about suzenetcash because you were sleeping with Holly. You were on the take.

"If anyone does not believe I earned my review on Wonderland should watch Wonderland. I put my heart and soul into that movie.

"I had a shot that required special effects with the lighting. I couldn't have made that shot if I didn't have the right lighting people.

"It's not often that you see porn stars quoting Shakespeare.

"Gram Ponante gave me a good review and I definitely did not sleep with Gram. At least I think it was a good review. I can't really tell with Gram. He did say I thought I was Shakespeare, which wasn't very nice.

"You still like me, right? You still like my movies?"

Luke: "I don't watch your movies."

DCypher: "Do you watch any movies?"

Luke: "No. I hate porn."

DCypher: "Then why do you swim here? Why do you come here?"

Luke: "It's not to watch the movies. It's to tell the stories."

DCypher: "Aren't you upset that somebody created HollywoodMafia.com without you? They lived your dream. Here you are still messing around with these vapid shallow porn people that you say you can't stand. You tell me you're a Republican. You tell me you're a Jew. You tell me all this stuff. But you're still here. You date the goyim.

"Do you read the kabbalah?"

Luke: "No."

DCypher: "Are you upset that Jason Curious is? Everyone is taking that which makes you you away. Jason Curious is trying to be more Jewish than you."

Luke: "I don't feel proud when pornographers start teaching the kabbalah."

DCypher: "I've never read the kabbalah."

Luke: "Don't."

DCypher: "Are you saying I shouldn't because I'm a pornographer?"

Luke: "Yes. In my tradition, you are not supposed to study kabbalah unless you are married with kids, over 40, and fully observant of Jewish law."

DCypher: "Didn't they tell you that you are not supposed to play around in porn anymore if you wanted to be a Jew? And you're still here?"

Luke: "Yeah."

DCypher: "What does that make you?"

Luke: "Someone who doesn't live up to his ideals."

DCypher: "Are you a blasphemer? Is it kinda forgiveable? So he doesn't always eat kosher? Or is it a really big deal?"

Luke: "Plenty of people would say it was a big deal."

DCypher: "Plenty of people at your book party would say it was a big deal."

Luke: "Yeah. They're conservative."

DCypher: "I was going to say uptight."

Luke: "Most of my friends lead conservative lives.

"What's new with you?"

DCypher: "I have four movies in editing.

"I must say you're writing has gotten better. Even though I am often not thrilled with the things you choose to talk about, you have gone back to the top as far as gossip sites. I told someone the other day, I keep wanting not to read him. Some of the stuff he posts is offensive, but one out of ten stories he posts will be entertaining enough that you have to read it.

"It's just weird that when I read things that I am close to you are so off in the wrong direction."

Luke: "Do you think my writing is any better from my relationship with Holly?"

DCypher: "I found a lot of that to be really entertaining. I am most shocked by how well Holly handles the XPT people. They don't faze her. I hear the same stuff from Kimberly Kane, Ashley Blue and others how they don't take any of the people on there who are mean that seriously. They shrug it off.

"It's an evolution. A couple of years ago, people came out and started making horrible comments about each other all over the web. The end result is that some people shied away from the internet and other people became thick-skinned."

Luke: "Can you believe what Holly has let me get away with writing about her?"

DCypher: "When Scott Fayner wrote about Taylor Rain this much, they trashed him. Yes, I notice that from time to time, people will say things on your site that you talk about Holly a lot, but for the most part, people who read you have embraced her.

"I've always found that she was easy to get along with. I've never met anybody who didn't like Holly. If someone attacks her, by the time they're done arguing with her, they love her. I wish I had that level of a head. I tend to get angry."

Luke: "Jokes or tease that I could never give to any other woman, I can do to her and she'll laugh."

DCypher: "You should do a book called Luke's girls, all about her, Kendra, Mary Carey. A book about how divergent your views are but yet your tolerance of their lifestyle even though you don't believe in any of this stuff.

"I can't imagine how Mary Carey could go have dinner with those people after everything they've done."

Luke: "Are you and Justine Jolie getting married?"

DCypher: "That's the word on the street."

NYT: Sex, Lawsuits and Celebrities Caught on Tape

TWO years ago Red Light District, a little known video company in California, hit the jackpot when it landed distribution rights to the Paris Hilton sex tape, an explicit bedroom video shot by a former boyfriend. The DVD has sold some 600,000 copies, establishing Red Light District as the leading player in a lucrative niche of the pornography industry: a purveyor of explicit videos of famous people, sold to an eager public, often over the vehement objections of the participants.

Ms. Hilton tried to stop distribution of the tape, although its notoriety paradoxically catapulted her to an even higher orbit of fame, establishing her as a kind of postmodern celebrity, leading to perfume deals, a memoir and the covers of Vanity Fair and W.

David Clark writes:

Gee, it's nice that even the NYT are lousy journalists when it comes to porn ... nowhere is there mention of the absolute necessity of signed releases & age verification documents, as required by both 2257 & copyright/invasion of privacy laws.

Anybody with a brain knows that Tommy Lee, Pam, Hilton et al were in on their tapes, signed off & collected $$$$$$$. No wonder they can't be trusted to report on the Bush administration & big pharma, when they can't even be bothered to do an iota of background on porn while writing an article.

Jamie Lynn, Penthouse Pet of the Year 2006, Celebrates Her Birthday At Day After Nightclub

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I park on Sunset Blvd for free and walk half a mile to the Day After club on 6757 Hollywood Blvd.

I meet my friend Tara from FreePornStarPix.com and we're let in by organizer Brad Thomas.

Brian from TheHardcoreSource.com is already here with his civilian model friend Valentina. I follow Brian for most of the night. He's more assertive about asking the models to pose and he always makes space and time for me to get off my shots.

He buys me a drink.

Tara's brought a bag of gifts for Jamie. She gives me a ribbon so that I have something to give Jamie. My normal rule is that I don't buy gifts or cards for anyone I'm not courting.

I leave at 11:30 p.m.

Penthouse publicist Lainie Speiser writes: "Is Smelly Monkey an angry bitchy fag or another porno loser who is bitter and never gets laid? He’s not only bitter, but an idiot who knows nothing about porno or Penthouse."

Kendra Jade Update

Sunday, 10:40 p.m.

KendraJade: Luke , were you annoyed with Mary and I last night ?
Luke: no, just tired
Luke: how was your day?
Luke: church?
KendraJade: Oh.
KendraJade: My day was phenomenal.
KendraJade: Church was amazing.
Luke: great
KendraJade: (Notice I'm working on my punctuation and grammar just for you )
Luke: I am impressed.
KendraJade: I wouldn't want you to think I was a moron.
Luke: Is someone else typing this?
KendraJade: Nope
Luke: How do I know it is you? Give me a clue.
KendraJade: Hmmm. I can describe what I remember of your hovel.....
Luke: OK, please do.
KendraJade: Or perhaps remind you of the time you swam naked with my friend , Shelle Pearson.
KendraJade: It is a small guesthouse , located behind and somewhat to the right-hand side of the actual house.
Luke: Damn, it is my dear sweet Kendra.
KendraJade: When you walk in , the kitchen area is to the left.
KendraJade: The bed is on the floor, to the right .
KendraJade: The computer is on a deak , pushed up against the wall. Luke: OK, it is you.
KendraJade: There are papers everywhere.
KendraJade: Lol.
Luke: Nothing's changed.
KendraJade: Was I accurate ?
KendraJade: Does my memory serve me correctly , dear Luke ?
Luke: Yes, it does.
KendraJade: And are you impressed by my sudden dive into a self-respecting , properly spelling , grammatically (sp?) correct woman ?
Luke: Very impressed. I did not know you had it in you.
KendraJade:P.s. I am at the airport , and I am wearing clean clothes so people won't look at me "badly".
Luke: what books do you have with you for the trip?
KendraJade : I brought only my Anne Sexton collection , and my Poe Collection. Oh yeah , and the Nicole Richie novel . Are you aware of my obsession with Nicole Richie ?
Luke: No, but she is a literary giant.
KendraJade: It's quite disturbing, actually.
KendraJade: I love her .
Luke: why?
KendraJade: Do you think she had a ghostwriter ?
KendraJade: How many books did she sell ?
Luke: Of course she had a ghostwriter.
KendraJade: I love her because I relate to her.
Luke: being black?
KendraJade: And also , I'm obsessed with how skinny she is.
KendraJade: No. LOL. But she came from a crazy family , adopted. KendraJade: And she has a shopping addiction , like me.
KendraJade: There's more to it than that , but those are the primary reasons.
Luke: Makes sense.
KendraJade: I even hired her trainer once.
KendraJade: And I own ever purse that she does
Luke: She's a lousy role model, and Anne Sexton does not sound like a good one either. How about a productive high-functioning role model? Like Luke F-rd?
KendraJade: HA!
KendraJade: I buy every article of clothing I ever see her wear.
KendraJade: I hired the same person that does her hair.
KendraJade: My Nicole obsession is completely unhealthy.
KendraJade: I'm currently trying to get skinnier than her.
KendraJade: Who should my role model be ?
Luke: Someone who has led a good and honorable life.
Luke: from Judaism, for instance.
KendraJade: Don't know any of those.
KendraJade: Ruth ?
Luke: yes
KendraJade: Too late for me to fashion myself after some religious figure.
Luke: Rahab, that hooker in Joshua who helped the Israelites.
KendraJade: In case you hadn't noticed , I'm an ex-pornstar.
Luke: It's never too late.
Luke: Gypsy Lee Roth
KendraJade: Hmm...I will have to re-read Joshua.
Luke: Did you and Mary Carey part on good terms?
KendraJade: I cried at church , though.
KendraJade: Yes , of course we did.
KendraJade: We love eachother.
Luke: Good on both things.
KendraJade: But I can only take her in small doses right now. I have enough of my own problems.

Playboy Mansion Party by Gia Jordan

She writes on XPT: "I went to a party at the Playboy Mansion [Saturday] night! Simply amazing and in some spots, cameras were forbidden. I can hardly wait to go to the next one which will be more exclusive. Thanks you Playboy Golf for inviting me and thanks to my friend Julia Baetty for getting me in without waiting in line."

A Sign Of The Apocalypse - Holly Randall's Dad Humphry Joins MySpace

Holly messages me:

My dad joined myspace & it's all your fault.

He joined because you sent him that email about the interview, which prompted him to check out your site, I suppose. Then he noticed how one of your links clicked throught to my myspace page and since he'd heard about it through the girls in the office, I guess he was curious and signed up. As you can see, he's done nothing with his profile-- I told him I'd turn it into a promotional tool for his book.

Are you going to pimp for him? Are you going to put "single" on it?

I checked Humphry's MySpace page and it says he's single. I wonder how his wife Suze Randall feels about that?

Holly posts on Humphry's Myspace: "You better be on myspace to promote your book, dad. I could be suspicious about you trolling for young hotties but I know where you are at all times: either in the office, sitting by the pool, behind the bar, napping in your bedroom, or shopping at Albertson's. Then again, it did take you several hours just to pick up some toothpaste the other day."

Raised By Porn Parents

A religious friend writes me about a secular friend: "I am sorry that she was raised by porn parents. That is child abuse. As for her BA, some of the stupidest people I know have advanced degrees. I would be impressed if she chose a different professional path than that laid out by her parents. Alas, she merely trudged on in the well worn path and is, no doubt, carrying on the deeply rooted pathologies and I'm sure she is unhappy and incapable of a lasting loving relationship. Sad."

Holly Randall (why does she think everything is about her?) responds:

Does that imply the pathology of my parent's marriage -- and that they are one of the dying few whose marriage actually worked and stayed intact? I have been given nothing but stable examples of solid marriages throughout my childhood-- excepting my uncle who was married young and has since remarried a woman he's been with for now over 20 years -- divorce does not exist in my family. One thing my parents have always been adamant about is tolerance -- I think most people have unrealistic expectations of marriage and are too quick to judge their partner.

My shoot with Crystal yesterday made me remember how much I love my job, though I know those opposed to it would like to believe that I should be miserable because of what I do. It's so easy to judge when you don't know someone, or what actually goes on in my studio. Of course I have my bad days at work (everyone does) but I look forward to it, and really do like 95% of the models I work with. I don't know if I see a different side to a lot of the models because I actually talk to them and treat them as best I can, but girls like Melissa Lauren, Riley Shy, Courtney Cummz, Alektra Blue, Victoria Red, Crystal Klein, etc (I'm just naming girls I recently shot) are truly delightful and I love spending the day hanging out with them, making them look beautiful, and taking sexy photos.

Your religious friend is most certainly entitled to his opinion (thank my parents' enthusiasm for tolerance for my conscious desire not to harshly judge those I don't know -- or anyone for that matter) but keep in mind we are all different. I would beg him to not assume I follow some kind of pattern of being a "ruined soul" because I work in porn. The adult industry is not for everyone, but it suits me just fine.

My religious friend writes me:

Holly is absolutely right. I am an intolerant bigot. Really. How dare I judge her? She spends all day taking pictures of nice naked women. They take breaks and discuss The Confessions of St. Augustine. Maybe Holly hits the bottle a bit 'cause, y'know, deep down there is a black hole that just can't be filled. But who am I to judge? I just sit in my office and crunch numbers and I'm really this horribly judgmental man who might believe that some things in life might be soul destroying. But what do I know? I lead a happy life. I love my wife. I love my children. I'm just a right wing fanatic. Truly a danger to civilization.

Of course she's delusional. Anyone with any brains, any sense of decency who works in porn, is operating under cognitive dissonance. Porners need it as a shield or they would fold up mentally. That's the reason so many rely on pharmaceuticals to get through their shoots, to get through their days, to make it through their nights.

As for her tolerance. Well gee, it's not hard to be tolerant of everybody else when you're, um, a pornographer. Besides, you know me, I'm hardly intolerant. Some of my best friends are strippers and porn stars. I'm merely ferociously judgemental -- which said porn stars and strippers actually appreciate, deep in their guts at four in the morning. For in the end, my harsh judgements place some value on their lives. Those who refuse to judge place no value on anything. Shame on them.

Whoops, shame on me for bringing up shame. Gosh, you can see where this non-judgemental loop leads -- to the black hole of planet A-moral.

I have no doubt she's a woman with numerous fine qualities. Or you wouldn't be interested in her. You have weird but high standards.

She should branch out into weddings and bar mitzvas.

Heidi Joy Pike

A contributor emails:

Luke, I just love seeing you report the details on Heidi. I was going to post this to the AVN blog but just felt that your website would look so good with it. I couldn't resist.

Heidi, I figured you out three years ago. Remember when Violet Blue was brining gifts in to AVN and suddenly won an award? Or how about how Sin City hired Tina Tyler, your friend, to be their publicist. They pissed off everyone in the jizz biz back then but they did great in the magazine.

Not to mention how many men got nominated for performer of the year that you personally found very attractive. IE: Nick Manning, Lex Steele, etc. I'm sure it will be a long time before we see someone like Kyle Stone get a similar honor even if his pop shot blew a hole in a girl's head. It won't happen.

Let us not forget that Kurt Lockwood suddenly appeared out of nowhere and in moments you wanted to give him a column.

On that note there was Houston. Lovely Houston that couldn't write to save her life. But she just phoned in her crap. And sometimes you made it up for her. All because Harry Weiss was publicist for Metro and you really liked him.

Under normal circumstances and in a normal industry you would be fired. But I know the dark secret that keeps you employed. That small little cottage industry you are soo good at keeping hidden keeps you getting a paycheck from AVN.

Yes, I'm talking about that beautiful prostitution business you run. You know the one with a small handful of wonderful and beautiful cotract girls from a couple of companies like Wicked. Never more than two or three perhaps four. But that's the key to your success at fooling everyone and never letting them find out what you do. That way no one will ever find out you hooked up Paul's friend Grahm. Or his other buddies.

You have always stacked the deck in favor of those you like or wash your back. And you always will. It's just nice to see that there are others figuring you out.

Mark writes:

Everything eventually comes out in the wash. Paul is almost done cleaning house and when he finally gets rid of Heidi then he will at least have a staff that's a bit more proper.

Even when you try to send screeners to another reviewer with their name, Heidi makes sure to intercept the mail.

If you simply send your screeners and never talk to Heidi your f---ed. You have to play her game of kiss ass and buy her gifts or do something for her to lean in your direction.

When will things work the way they are supposed too? Its business, send her a screener and it gets reviewed fairly.

Instead she abuses the powerful position she has and leaves studios that deserve more credit never to be recognized.