Tuesday, August 8, 2006
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Hank Rose writes:
Luke: I thought Wikipedia specialized in facts, not editorial opinion. Bet this piece was written by a scholar nerd who substitutes brain power for lack of a sex life and tries to legitimize that inability by demonizing anyone who is sexually prolific and equating their erotic prowess with mental and social disorders.
The fact remains---and statistics support this from the white trash Bible Belt to the mid west southern redneck heartland and beyond---that sexual repression creates anti-social psychopaths. While those healthy libidos unbrainwashed by religious conditioning are more apt to have a sane love life, private or public.
The sour grapes stance over the battle of the sexes is lost by simple minded WASP sheep with a sex drive short circuited by environmental or sociological causes that connect intimacy with weakness and hedonism and therefore can only judge the miraculous process of creation of human life with an evil eye.
Imagine, after millennia of civilization we still have brain dead fools who believe that the very process of creating human life is to be ashamed of regardless of context. In other words, the pleasures of the flesh are acceptable only if you hide them. But if passion is out in the open, it is an abomination.
Western civilization as we know it is doomed. When too many All American Forrest Gump Andy Griffith show simpletons grow up being told that lust is the devil's doing, it's no wonder why your average sadist sexual serial killer hails from below the Mason Dixon line away from the liberal blue movie states.
Yet there's a double edged sword to sexuality as entertainment. At the same time that bluenoses are dead set against it, sex as a selfish means to an end tells entertainment consumers to get off, don't commit or have kids. Meanwhile 3rd world primitives team our borders in droves and outbreed us like rabbits.
When in 50 or a 100 years, caucasian Eurocentrics who invented modern civilization are dying out through lack of procreation we have ourselves to blame. Those who make porn and don't send a message to the Western World to have more kids. And those who doom their own posterity by shunning sex.
The war of the defining purpose of sexuality is to be won or lost in the battle of the 1st world vs. 2nds and 3rds. If on the one hand we liken it to candy to be eaten and not life to be re-processed, we don't have enough babies. And on the other if we simply dismiss whoopie as a sin, we're childless on 2 fronts.
There is no such thing as evil as sexuality. Why would any creator want the joy of lovemaking to be thought of as bad? Only societal pedant misfits deem it as such because they were are taught that way to begin with. The stigma of porn or sex superhero chicken does not hatch without an evil conditioned egg.
So the Wikipedia anti-sex hack should have scientists study his brain and find out why he's sexually messed up in the head. Either that or we can summon Sigmund Freud's ghost and ask him what the hell is wrong with a culture that just wants to jerk off, abstain from love, sex or families and have no more kids.
The future cannot be won with money and bombs. Only orgasms and babies will save us. Don't think so? Check back online in a century and see who has become extinct and who is still around to rant and rave. I'll bet said poster has dark skin and doesn't speak English. Lesser meek people don't think. They do.
As long as white men are slaves to media and self, we'll commit suicide. Smut alone is not to blame. Puritan attitudes toward sexuality are just as bad. Porn just needs to send America a message wake up call. Hey, Juan and Abdul are outscrewing us up the ying yang. Mr. & Mrs. Smith & Jones, stand up and f***!
Go Daddy Behind Adultfyi Down Time?
Gene Ross posts: Every once in awhile it ain't your webmaster's fault. I learned that today waiting with my thumb up my ass for Adultfyi to go back on line. My webmaster Dan Friend who runs AmaVoyeur.com told me this morning that he expected Adultfyi to be back on line about 9:30 PT. It hasn't gone up- yet. But Friend's assuring me the site will still be up today. But there seems to be some howevers attached to the process. One of which is the fact that Friend's waiting on a call from Go Daddy. And waiting and apparently waiting.
"I paid to expedite service to get this all up and running," says Friend who indicates that the company besides registering domain names offers a hosting service. "I have a dedicated machine right there," says Friend who cuts through the webmaster jabberwocky to basically say there wouldn't be downtime in the future by having this service.
"So basically you're sitting there waiting for them to call you?" I ask Friend. "And I'm sitting here waiting for you to call me...but nothing's happening."
"Exactly," says Friend who's still waiting on a call from the company. "The site is definitely going up today, though," Friend continues. "The whole entire database is there. It's definitely going up there. That's what I'm doing right now, checking over the database part of it to make sure there's no problems there."
"What are these guys doing over there once all this shit is downloaded?" I continue to ask Friend. "Educate me. I'm ignorant."
"I'm trying to compile your actual website," says Friend. "Because they're not separate pages- it works off a database. So I'm trying to compile the actual program that runs your whole entire site and I can't compile it remotely because I'm on this dial-up modem. It takes forever. So I'm trying to get them to compile it for me because they're right there, and if they click a button it's going to be faster than me trying to do it over a modem."
"So basically you're waiting for someone to click a button," I comment.
"Exactly," says Friend. "I have everything moved over. I did tests on this site. It tested out it looks great."
"This isn't reflecting well on Go Daddy if all these guys have to do is push a button," says I.
"Exactly," says Friend. "I guess there's a special department that has to do it and all this crap. I don't care who goes over there. I'll walk you through it on the phone if you don't know what you're doing. I can walk you through the steps but it will go a lot quicker if they're doing it!"
"Chained by bureaucracy," says I.
"Exactly," Friend agrees. "All day long and I got yours up because your site will be a quick one. I can't imagine what it's going to take for mine. I could be down for three weeks! If it's taking almost two days to do yours, mine runs off five computers. I got to tell these guys I need access to somebody because there's a lot of stuff coming over. And I signed a two year contract so they got their money. I should have said I'll give you the check as soon as you get everything up and running but they don't work that way. I told them I need this site up right away and the sales guys is, like, right away, that they have support 24/7."
The Eighth Ramone
Mike Ramone responds to Tod Hunter: "Tod, you have a lot of blind spots. If you knew much of anything about The Ramones, you’d realize that I was the EIGHTH Ramone. Now pay attention. This may constitute Final Jeopardy someday: there were the four original members, plus three more over the years. Clear? Now go back to your Bill Haley records. Nerd-rock is much more your style anyway."
Gee, sorry, Mike, maybe you didn't understand that my lack of knowledge about the Ramones is pretty much total, my Ramones exposure consisting of one viewing of "Rock 'N' Roll High School" at the Fox Venice. I was in a Virgin Megastore last week, saw the logo, counted to four, and added one. Obviously the people who made the T-shirt don't share your obsessive need to inventory Ramones and stuck with four.
When you dismiss Bill Haley as "nerd rock" I'm not surprised. I would show a little respect, myself, seeing as when "Rock Around The Clock" hit #1 on the Billboard chart in 1955 it was considered THE BEGINNING OF THE ROCK ERA. That synchs with your contempt for what you dismiss as "the so-called Golden Age of porn," which -- in reality -- made porn respectable in the eyes of the US public and has enabled us to all make a living in a legal industry.
I usually listen to jazz anyway.
Nice to know that the Esteemed Head Honcho Of AVN (Company motto: You Can't Spell "ADVERTISING" without "A-V-N.") is busy cruising Websites and keeping track of how many people were members of defunct punk-rock bands (Question: How many members are dead? Better question: Who gives a shit?) instead of, oh, sending a minion to Las Vegas to cover the unveiling of the first porn star to be sculpted by Madame Tussauds in its 200-year history.
What did you win those journalism awards for, Mike? Perfect attendance?
Keep Feeling Fascination
Mike Albo writes:
"Not everything people post is interesting. It is my job to winnow out the good stuff and reject the dull stuff. People read lukeisback.com because they are interested in my judgments about what is going on."
Obviously, you're referring to "good stuff" like "Holly Randall emails: So since the tragic loss of our Alpha male, Pepper, we've been looking for a male puppy. My mom grew up with Boxers so she had her heart set on one of those-- and we found him!"
My, that IS interesting, Luke! I see exactly what you mean. I can only hope that there will be some spine-tingling, nail-biting Air Supply, Kelly Clarkson or Debbie Gibson posts upcoming. Or maybe something cut and pasted from Wikipedia. Accompanied, of course, by your "judgments" about such.
Keep the laughs coming!
Daniel Metcalf writes:
...I'm still trying to reconcile "I save readers time. They could spend hours combing the boards or they can spend five minutes on lukeisback.com and read the good stuff" with "it's my site and I'll run it into the ground if I want to" (a paraphrase of a post you made not so long ago when your site seemed to be devoted almost entirely to musings on Holly Randall and Air Supply, with a random cut & paste from Hollywood Mafia thrown in to break up the tedium every now and then) but hey, that's why I'm just a cellist in Boston and you're our Moral Leader. Keep up the stellar work man!
I keep trying to run my site into the ground but my readers won't let me.
Adultfyi.com Coming Back Today
Gene Ross posts:
Who would have figured that a heatwave on the east coast would have affected my website but it apparently did. Similar to a situation that affected KSEX a weekend ago, Adultfyi had been down since Monday morning. And I spoke to my webmaster Dan Friend who assured me that the site would be up and running Tuesday morning, possibly as early as 9:30 PT.
Friend tells me that the shut down is also killing his business, Amavoyeur.com which remains down.
Friend is currently working on dial-up because he says that's the only way he can get to the Internet. What's even worse, the Allentown AOL number doesn't work and Friend says he has to dial-up long distance.
"That was the only way for me to get out to the Internet," he continues. [Apparently Verizon's equipment was fried as well.] "They could be up today but the way they made it sound it could be a week, two weeks of work because they had to order parts. So they wouldn't give me a date and I'm not going to sit around and wait- I've got to get my stuff up and running."
"The equipment is also dead at the Internet company due to the excessive heat that we had," Friend explains. "It's dead- and they're not giving me an indication on when it's going to be back up."
To put it simply, the Adultfyi server was on the east coast but Friend had to relocate it to the west coast.
"But since I'm not in California, I have to send all the data files and photos over the Internet to that computer via dial-up. So the thing is we're trying to get the site up as fast as we can. If I didn't move the images over, the site wouldn't have run well or it would just display the text news. But you don't want to do that."
Friend says he had to purchase a computer in California in order to make all of this work. "I re-routed everything to go to California," he says. "That's where everything is going until they fix it on my end. That's why it's taking so long because I'm sending all the database files- everything over there."
And by the AOL equivalent of pony express.
I mention to Friend that I started getting phone calls from people on the east coast claiming that Adultfyi was down as early as Saturday. I know I was posting until at least Sunday afternoon. But Friend claims the site wasn't down over the weekend.
"That's not true at all," says Friend. "But there had been a major crunch on the east coast due to the weather. Because of the weather something blew out- and they wouldn't even go into specifics. All they would say is that we're aware of the problem and we're working on it."
Meanwhile Friend says his business as well was going to hell because of the circumstances and that at this rate his site won't be up until next week. "I'm on dial-up and I had 4 million images to put over," he says. "This is just killing me. I've lost phone lines and everything over this- my phone lines are connected to the Internet. Right now I'm living off my cell phone and burning up my cell. And that's the reason I went with Verizon because they're the biggest ones out there. They have a guarantee and all that but they say the guarantee doesn't affect weather. The guarantee should be the guarantee."
Under those circumstances, I suspect that loads of websites had to have been adversely affected. "It's affecting a lot of people in the business," Friend agrees. "I guess with the heat, the air conditioner can only run so well. I've got a brand new air conditioner and it's not running to its capacity because of the heat. The weather is starting to cool down but the damage has already been done. My feeling is that because I pay so much for the Internet, I don't want to hear that. You should have a back-up solution for me. You're not giving me any solid answers so what am I going to tell my customers. You're not going to charge me? Of course you're not going to charge me- you can't charge me for when I'm down. That's their answer but the thing is get it up and running for me. I just made fast decision to go with the California outfit."
According to Friend, the Adultfyi e-mail server won't be running- at least for another couple of hours - after the site goes back up.
Push That Vivid Porn
From Claire Hoffman's LAT story Joe Frances:
The call center, just past Los Angeles International Airport, is staffed by rotating shifts of 250 employees who earn $9 an hour, plus commission, to hawk "Girls Gone Wild" videos, which sell for as little as $9.99 each. A whiteboard on the wall sets the agenda: "Push That Porn!!!"
The workers are mostly young and African American, and the videos they're pushing are almost exclusively of twentysomething white girls. "You like watching triple-X, right? You seen our doggy-style videos? Well, I'm going to send you out eight of the hottest videos of the year," goes the pitch.
The porn upsell is Vivid.
I remember four devastating articles on pornographers in the LA Times Sunday magazine: Mark Carriere (circa 1992), Steve Hirsch (January 2002 by Ralph Frammolino), Adult industry health problems (January 2003 by P.J. Hufstutter) and this piece on Joe Francis.
I believe Mark, Steve and Joe all believed their piece was going to be positive but there's no story with a "nice pornographer." Nobody wants to read about a nice pornographer. You want the guy to be a rapist.
Adultfyi.com Down
There are problems on the East Coast (the location of Gene's server) related to the recent heatwave.
Plagiarized AVN Story Unchanged, No Apology
The first and fourth paragraphs are taken word-for-word from this Philadelphia Inquirer story.
If this happened at any other publication, the writer would be fired and the publication would publish an apology.
Internext Pictures (Aria Giovanni)
Mallcom.com CEO Jerry Aharony with Peter North Girl at Pluginfeeds.com party CanvasAlive.com model and Pashur the Body Painter Kira and fellow model from AdultRental.com Jenny Andrews of alternativemodeling.com Kira of AdultRental.com Photos from RioJoe.com)
New Puppy
Holly Randall emails:
So since the tragic loss of our Alpha male, Pepper, we've been looking for a male puppy. My mom grew up with Boxers so she had her heart set on one of those-- and we found him! Had to drive all the way to Fresno to get him, but it was well worth the trip. Say hello to a new member of the Randall family, Milton. (Yes he's named after John Milton -- I thought Byron would've been a better choice, but oh well!)
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Just wrote "6 weird things about me" for Ron Royster who is posting on Gramponante.com's site while he's out I suppose. It was fun to think up... reading them all I realize how odd I truly am!
Plagiarism?
Daniel Metcalf writes me:
Plagiarism? Well this isn't quite the same thing, but you DO have a track record of cutting excerpts from peoples' message board posts (including my own from ADT) and presenting them on lukeisback.com as if they were whole, often creating an impression contrary to what the person actually intended (which would be clear if the message was re-posted in original form). It's never fun to be deliberately misrepresented, is it Luke?
There's as much of a parallel between quoting someone's posts and plagiarism as there is between consensual sex and rape. Both are forms of intercourse but that's where the similarities end.
If I quote from someone's post, I link to the source so people can read the whole thing in its original context. But I only quote the parts that I find interesting for obvious reasons. Not everything people post is interesting. It is my job to winnow out the good stuff and reject the dull stuff. People read lukeisback.com because they are interested in my judgments about what is going on. Usually a person's post will get one hundred times as much attention if I quote it on lukeisback as opposed to letting it languish on some posting board.
I save readers time. They could spend hours combing the boards or they can spend five minutes on lukeisback.com and read the good stuff.
If a person gives an hour long interview to AVN or The LA Times or 60 Minutes, only a sentence or two or three may be used. That's just how journalism works. When people write a post or give an interview, they usually think it is their story they are presenting, but once a journalist gets a hold of their post or interview, he will shape it into his story, reflecting his judgments of what is important. See the book The Journalist and the Murderer.
So, no, Daniel, it is never fun to be deliberately or undeliberately misrepresented, but in my experience, much of the time when someone feels their post or interview has been misrepresented, it is a case of the person not wanting to stand behind what they said (with all their extraneous remarks deleted).
People don't usually see themselves. When they make a post or give an interview, and then deal with the consequences, they are often forced to confront themselves, and it is large part of their own selves that they do not like.
There's nothing people like more than talking about themselves and there's nothing they hate more than seeing it in end up in print.
Jenna Gets Waxed
Tod Hunter was the only member of the Adult press to make it to this Vegas event:
Madame Tussauds general manager Adrian Jones points out that there was an interest in a Jenna figure from guest surveys, and describes her as meeting three criteria: She's famous, she's from Las Vegas, and she is a successful businesswoman, a meme that has been turning up every time Jenna's name has been mentioned lately. He also pronounces the name of the place "Madame Too-sahds," which may be correct but sounds a little precious when I try it later... "She's been fantastic with the process," Jones continues, and adds that she was very cooperative with helping them find the right skin tones, hair colour, and replicating her tattoos. Jenna also recorded a voice track for the figure, which will speak when you touch the tattoo on her ankle... The curtain opens, and Jenna is sitting next to the figure on a fur-covered bed. Jenna is in a white and red dress, the figure is clad only in a leather belt, her arms coquettishly covering her breasts.
The Psychology of Porn Actors
Famed researcher Dr. Robert Hare stated in his 1993 book Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us that many, if not most people in the adult film industry are clinical psychopaths (he also included prisons, stock markets, and even politics as areas with above normal psychopath populations). He describes psychopaths as "intraspecies predators who use charm, manipulation, intimidation, and violence to control others and to satisfy their own selfish needs. Lacking in conscience and in feelings for others, they cold-bloodedly take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without the slightest sense of guilt or regret." According to Hare, people in the adult film industry, including producers, frequently exhibit traits common to psychopaths, including superficial charm, constant need for stimulation and instant gratification, sexual promiscuity, lack of anxiety, lack of remorse or guilt, short term marriages, inability to sustain relationships, impulsivity, irresponsibility, and substance abuse.
Kami Andrews writes on ADT: "well it makes sense, we dont self regulate and the average chick is young and wide eyed, hell even *I* want to take advantage of them. for every porn chick there is a suitcase pimp, and after a few years of getting dicked around you figure out how it works and begin dicking!"
Jenna Jameson Dating Dave Navarro, Divorcing Jay Grdina?
Sources confirm exclusively to PerezHilton.com that soon to be divorced Dave Navarro is dating blonde bombshell Jenna Jameson. But isn't Jenna married? Well, not for much longer!!
Sources tell PerezHilton.com that Jenna has split from her husband/business partner Jay Grdina. In addition to her suddenly single and dating a rock star status, there are more changes going on in Jameson's life. "Jenna recently sold her empire to Playboy," a source close to the star tells us. "And, she is moving to Los Angeles to be closer to Dave. She's already been house hunting in the Hollywood Hills."
Navarro and Jameson each had books ghosted by Neil Strauss.
Jay is still number one on Jenna's MySpace (and if that doesn't prove true love, what does?) A source emails me: "Luke, I think the rumor (almost certainly true) isn't Navarro but Ultimate Fighting star Tito Ortiz. Interestingly, he's also high on her friends page."
Tito is one position ahead of Navarro on Jenna's MySpace.
Police Report On Angela Devi's Suicide
Her real name was Angela S. Dhingra.
The police report states she was 30 years old and stood 5'1 and weighed 105 pounds.
She resided at 7498 E. Christmas Cholla Dr., Scottsdale, Arizona.
Angela S. Dhingra was found by police at 9:34 a.m. on March 31, 2006.
From the report:
Angela's boyfriend Euan C. Black...told me Angela tried unsuccessfully to commit suicide approximately three weeks earlier by carbon monoxide asphyxiation in the garage.
...Euan told me she wrote notes to himself, her parents, who live in Louisiana, and Bibiana [B. Baez, her best friend], parked her BMW X5 in the garage, ran a hose from the tailpipe to the interior of the car, started the car and shut herself into it. Euan arrived at the house with SPD and SFD and was able to get her out before she died. She was transported to Mayo Hospital on E. 56th St. where she recoevered.
Angela saw a Dr. Seuss about the suicide attempt and was prescribed Wellbutrin. She also "swore" to the doctor, Euan and Bibiana that she would not try to kill or hurt herself ever again.
...Angela was lying on her left side on the floor... Her back was against the west wall of the living room and her feet were up against the landing of a set of stairs... She was curled into a fetal position and her right arm was curled into a fist and was directly in front of her gace. Her eyes were closed and her tongue was partially protruding from her mouth. Both her tongue and lips appeared to be swollen and were blue and purple...
A small square-shaped, four legged stool, was upside down on the carpet next to Angela's feet.
While the firefighters were checking Angela for signs of life, I noticed what appeared to be a red, white and green plaid strip of fabric between Angela's back and the wall of the living room. When I looked closer, I saw the fabric was wrapped around Angela's neck. The loose end of the fabric was attached to a white colored hook.
Euan...is in the process of a divorce that will be final on 5/5/06 and said Angela was "the other woman."
Bibiana has known Angela for seven years.
...There was a partial note and card left for "Dearest Mom and Dad." It started off saying that she was sorry for "hurting both of you with what happened last Monday." I later spoke with Kapil Dhingra, the victim's brother, and none of the family knew what significance "last Monday" had.
...Inside of the kitchen pantry, there was a garbage bag hanging on the inside doorknob. The garbage bag contained a glass with a straw and several empty Xanax packages. The empty packages previously contained 115 .5 mg pills that were unaccounted for.
Fred writes: "Is there really a "Dr. Seuss" that Angela Devi consulted? When she arrived, was there a grinch or a cat in a hat in the waiting room?"
Here's the April 1, 2006 death announcement on Angeladevi.com.
Somebody posing as Angela Devi posted April 1, 2006.
Mike emails me:
I knew Angela before she got into the adult business. She was a very nice girl. I would have never guessed she would have gotten in that business or that she would have died in the tragic manner that she did. Back then she was known as Angela Shanali Dhingra. Last Saturday, July 30th, would have been her 31st birthday. Everyone please remember her.
Tara writes:
Summer Internext 2006 started today in Hollywood, FL. Pussycash and Epoch splashed out on making their presencence known at the event. Pussycash banners were everywhere, even affixed to floor tiles. Epoch brought an army of 25 representatives to ensure that every website knew about their fantastic cascading billing.
Tara emails:
Lane was supposed to come down and appear at the BlingBucks/Mallcom cabana yesterday and never showed up! Epoch brought 25 sales people and threw a big party on the roof at a Miami club. They bussed everyone down and there was free booze on the bus! Yippee! Summer Internext is better than Winter Internext because Netbilling, Top Bucks, Bling Bucks/Mallcom, Epoch, I Want U, and other cool companies sponsor open bars where the booze is free. There is also a large amount of free food, so you don’t really have to worry about meals. The best part is that all everyone stayed at the same hotel, so the networking was easy. The show floor itself was sparsely populated. The last several Adultcon events had way more booths than this year’s summer Internext!!! Pussycash went crazy making their presence known. They even had giant stickers on the floor with their logo! Crazy. I’ve never been able to get them to convert. There were some LA people here. Me, Wankus, Tyler Faith, Georgia Peach, Aimee Sweet (and hubby), Aria Giovanni, Vivid Mike, Rheena, and Wanted List. Summer Internext beat Winter Internext hands down. I did an informal survey and many people are skipping Winter Internext in Vegas because its been dying off for the past few years, it costs too much (why does AVN pick an expensive hotel like Mandalay Bay, because not everyone will stay there –they’ll stay at a cheaper hotel further down the strip- and that means the webmasters do not get to hang out and network). Why not have the convention at a one of the downtown Vegas hotels, which would be much cheaper?
Behind the Scenes At Danni.com
How did a company at the top of its game crash so dramatically?
Look no farther than its director of operations Layne Thr-sher.
Dannie Ashe left the company in early 2004.
Layne took over in the summer of 2005. He got the position by working hard and charming the owner John O. Morrisano, going to dinner with him, laughing at his jokes.
John's a nice guy. He's savvy in most things.
Layne became drunk on his power and became unbearable by the beginning of 2006. Morale at the company (about 35 employees in Culver City) plunged.
"You should hear how he talks when he goes out to dinner," people said about Layne. "He says, 'My company this...' 'My company that...'"
Because of cash-flow problems, Danni.com became slower at paying their bills. Relationships with models, vendors, and others crashed.
Danni.com and its affiliate websites and the DHD (Danni's Hard Drive) program became filled with glitches. Video wasn't working. The message boards erupted with complaints. "If I had been a customer, I would've been pissed," says a former employee. "If you were a porn addict, how could you not become a rageaholic?"
"The company went to s---," says a source. "Then the finances went to s---. The morale was bad. The atmosphere was so tense. You would walk into the building and it was hard to breathe. Everybody was walking on eggshells. Everybody was talking in whispers. And it was all about Layne."
Thr-sher can't handle his liquor and has made a spectacle of himself at parties.
Layne's friendly, even smarmy, with the models. As soon as Erica Campbell etc came into his office, he'd be smiling and talking about nothing.
"Layne's a desperate, lonely man," says a source. "He didn't date the models. He didn't have the balls to do that."
Danni.com's most popular models turned on Layne and Danni.com after getting paid late and experiencing other frustrations.
Danni.com sought out new models but the company had a problem - by Layne's order, internet access at work had been blocked to Yahoo.com, AOL.com, MySpace.com, hotmail.com. That made it hard to search for models online.
"Models got paid first," says a source. "Utilities, photographers, model management, hair sylists, make-up, etc got paid later because Danni.com had cash-flow problems."
The company financially collapsed at the end of 2005 and the slide continued through 2006.
I believe Danni.com is up for sale.
Once I started publishing about Layne (in May, 2006), Thr-sher had his IT (Information Technology) guy Justin collect all the emails by the company's employees off the server and start files on every employee. About a dozen or so people were fired. Others quit.
"How did Layne react to my publishing on him?" I ask a Danni.com source.
"He went running to his lawyers," my source responds. "He was losing his hair. He's got this long black hair, a long rocker ponytail. He gets tense. He gets stone-faced. He says, 'Everything is under control.' He's a control freak."
Luke: "What about the owner John O. Morrisano?"
XXX: "John doesn't care. John bought the company as a toy. He lives in New York. He comes to the business about once a month. John told the Danni.com employees: 'If you don't like it here, just leave.'"
Danni Ashe is a lovely person. She's appalled by the direction her former company has taken.
XXX: "Layne was furious when XBiz stated that Danni Ashe no longer had anything to do with the company."
When things go wrong at Danni.com, Layne typical response to employees who bring him word of a problem is, "What did you do?"
Says one former employee: "We just wanted to hit him over the head with something large. He'd say it like it was a joke but it got annoying."
Most of the employees were upset when they learned Danni.com was going hardcore.
Los Angeles Times Reporter Claire Hoffman Nails Joe Francis
Joe Francis, the founder of the "Girls Gone Wild" empire, is humiliating me. He has my face pressed against the hood of a car, my arms twisted hard behind my back. He's pushing himself against me, shouting: "This is what they did to me in Panama City!"
Francis comes off as a rapist in this story, which must be ranked as the definitive piece on Joe.
I suspect Claire is cute and charming. Francis must've become enamored with her and pushed things over the edge.
This somewhat fascinating guy reminds me very much of French pornographer Pierre Woodman, with a better tan. After the publication of an article of mine in Libération that he didn't like, he called and talked the ear off of my editor and woke me up in my Budapest apartment with colourful phone threats; I soon learned that this was a common occurrence, especially with women journalists. Joe Francis takes it up a notch by slamming the reporter from behind on the hood of a car. With the alleged rape described in the piece, it smells like a lot of upcoming trouble for GGW (a.k.a. "Girls With Low Self-Esteem", in the TV series Arrested Development... )
Porn Star Heidi Peterson - Slave to the Arabs
A source writes August 4, 2006:
I've had the pain/pleasure of knowing Heidi. I could tell from your articles and from what she told me you had a soft spot for her. What a waste of a wonderful woman. Anyhow, getting a new husband couldn't save her. She's out of porn but has fled back to be a slave of her beloved Arabs. Frankly, five years from now when they no longer want her for the obvious advantage she brings of sin-free sex with a beautiful Godless infidel, I wouldn't be surprised if someone straps a bomb to her and she willingly goes as a martyr for them.
Your articles did a good job of bringing out her whimsical child-like side, voice like an eight year old - I was thinking Marilyn Monroe esp since Heidi's other cause is blonde liberation. Unfortunately the abuse she has suffered over the years and the brain damage from the beating have destroyed her emotions to where it is now impossible to penetrate the shell. She only seeks what she perceives as protection and security as a slave in a strickly "conservative" society. I couldn't stop her.
I'm not a follower and only ran into your existence in researching her incredible stories which I now believe are true. I also know you have been in and out of the business since then. But as I said, she seemed to really touch your soul like she did mine, so I thought I'd let you know.
Gary Levinson writes:
Dear Luke,
I am a licensed attorney in the State of California. This office has been retained by Mr. Antonio Caselini. Your webiste has an entry indicating that one Antonio Luciano Caselini (dob: 10-6-56), was investigated as an organized crime figure by the southern California Sheriff's office. Mr. Caselini, who has the same middle name and birthdate, denies any such involvement in organized or other criminal activity. Mr. Caselini has been contacted by friends and family who have stumbled across this entry on your website, which, needless to say, has caused Mr. Caselini considerable distress. On behalf of Mr. Caselini and his family, it is respectfully requested that the entry on your website be deleted forthwith. Should you immediately comply with this request we will not take any further legal action against you or your business. Should you wish to contact me to discuss this further, I can be reached at the below address and telelphone number. Your anticipated cooperation in this matter is appreciated. Gary Paul Levinson, Esq. Newport Beach, CA 92660
Kenny Gallo responds to my inquiry:
Luke, Antonio [Caselini] from Newport Beach owned a car lot -- Newport Exotic. He owned a night club with me. He helped me hide cash. He was in business with me.
Tell them to email me. Did he own Super Chicken... Did he get caught with a Machine gun.. Did he help me cash a stolen 26,000 dollar check... Oh and I have the person who it came from.. he took me to Wells Fargo in Costamesa and 19th.. Hey lets call this lawyers bluff.. that paper is a public document.. he was in biz with me... If its that same guy ask this lawyer who Safar is.
I was an organized crime guy. There is no way around it. If he did biz with me, then he was my associate. So he is hooked up. I know his other contacts. Do they want to go there?
On May 7th, I received this email about Antonio Caselini from Rob Unid:
Dear Sir
I am a private investigator and we are trying to locate you to take the following website down LUKEISBACK.COM.
Before you go spending a lot of money defending yourself do the right thing and we have some information on your father and will be posted on the website.
We will be checking back.
Professor Ian Hill emails May 18, 2006
DEAR GENTLEMAN
I AM PROFESSOR IAN HILL. I CAME ACROSS DR.ANTONIO CASELINI NAME ON YOUR WEBSITE. DR CASELINI WAS ONE OF MY BRAVEST STUDENTS AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY. HE NEVER EVER DID WHAT IS PORTRAIT ON YOUR WEBSITE. DR CASELINI IS A FINE CHAP. YOU BLOODY AMERICANS CLOSE YOUR EYES FOR THE TRUTH.
Background On Kenny Gallo, The Primary Author Of HollywoodMafia.com
Gallo is a convicted cocaine dealer and law enforcement informant. He produced many porn movies, was married to Tabitha Stevens, and hung out with numerous porners and Mafia-types.
Orange County Sheriff's Department investigator Michael L. Currey in 1990 prepared this statement of probable cause to get a search warrant:
...Genises, a nightclub and sushi bar located at 23311 Muirlands Blvd, El Toro, CA. We had received information that vice and narcotic violations, specifically the sales of cocaine, money laundering, and/or loan sharking had been...occurring at this business.
On 1-20-90 the Orange County Fire Department investigated a possible arson at the nightclub Genises. The owners were identified as:
1. Caselini, Antonio Luciano (10-6-56) [Not the famous Dr. Antonio Caselini, the professor]
2. [Gallo], Kendall Sawyer (6-1-68)
3. England, Darren David (12-4-66)During the investigation, a confidential informant (C/I) came forward... The C/I told me that subjects Darren England and Kendall [Gallo] were involved in the sales of cocaine. The C/I further stated that their share of the money to buy Genises had come from cocaine sales, and that there is a current "rift" between [Gallo] and England vs. Caselini over ownership and money debts.
...Both [Gallo and England] had sold a great deal of cocaine during 1989. Both had lived at 21971 Rimhurst, #H, El Toro. During this time, they formed a "semi-organized crime" outfit and were distributing cocaine with amounts as much as "kilo quantity."
[Gallo and England] hid their money under the alias name Ramon Gonzalez at Home Federal Savings at 4543 Campus Drive, Irvine.
Scottsdale- The husband of Babe’s Cabaret owner and adult-film mogul Jenna Jameson is being investigated by Scottsdale police after a stripper accused him of assaulting her during a table dance.
Middle East
Jack writes:
Does the overwhelming military response of Israel some of which may well constitute war crimes not make you question your faith? is it not the case that this will only serve more hatred and violence? My view is that the bottem line for America is putting themselves in a better political position to be able to bomb the Iranian nuclear sites, their encouragement and support of Israel seems to serve no other logical purpose. I seriously doubt the intelligent Dr Rice believes that such violence will result in a lasting peace. Bombing nuclear sites will work, you cant pick them up and move with them, they are fixed and there are not thousands of them planted all over the place. The potential nuclear ability of Iran is truly frightening to behold they would take out the major cities of Israel in the full knowledge of America responding in kind, the death of hundreds of thousands would not be a deterrent. For me only this and America stopping that now real potential justifys what is happening. As for the looks of the female reporters I think Emma Hurd of Sky News is an exception. She's a bit of a looker to my gaze.
Could you name another country that's been bombed and invaded and reacted more weakly? Certainly not England. England and the Allies were thrilled to firebomb Dresden killing thousands of civilians. I think Israel, if anything, has been too restrained. I believe Israel should try to wipe out Hezbollah. Countries and people who nurture terrorists, such as the Lebanese with Hezbollah (Lebanon brought Hezbollah into its government and allowed Hezbollah to operate freely within Lebanon and mount attacks into Israel), as with the Afghans and Al Qaeda, will pay a price.
How do you think the United States would react if terrorists launched thousands of rockets into it from Mexico? How would the United Kingdom react if France allowed terrorists to launch thousands of rockets into the U.K.?
James DiGiorgio writes me:
I don't know whether or not Israel is guilty of war crimes. I believe war itself is a crime. But I don't think you need to question your faith as a result of this latest war in the Middle-East. Hezbollah has made war on Israel and Hezbollah's motives are religious-based. Israel, on the other hand, is defending its homeland and, as such, their participation in this war is not about religion. In this instance, Muslims should consider questioning their faith, not Jews.
Bagging On Mike Ramone
An emailer who says he's an editor at a major metropolitan newspaper, one of the top 20 in the U.S., writes:
Dear Luke:
As an actual journalist, I just thought I'd back you up and say that if Mike Ramone condones that copy-and-paste job, he's even more unethical than I thought.
The way the story is written, clearly the only thing being attributed to the Inquirer is a fact (that the club paid the fine), not the actual words.
If Ramone doesn't see how this story "steal[s] and use[s] the ideas or writings of another as one’s own", well, I suppose that explains why he needed to look up plagiarism in the dictionary in the first place.
Just grabbing stuff of the internet and recycling it under your name is a sleazy and pathetic thing that no real journalist would do, and defending it is a sleazy and pathetic thing that no real journalist would do.
Tod Hunter writes:
Sometimes the depths of Mike Ramone's self-delusion are staggering. "Thomas Stanton" (The spiritual heir of Harry Manas, Andrew Wyke and Trent Brown, I'm willing to bet) did indeed steal and use the writings of another as one's own, with the addition of the words "according to a recently published report" as an attempt to ameliorate the theft.
This is like the guy who added one note to the "Under Pressure" bass line and said it was completely different. By the time the Disney lawyers were through with him, there were several new names on the composer credits.
That Magazine does the same thing with press releases, but nobody cares. The issuer of the press release is happy for the exposure. If you want to test this, check the press releases I run against That Magazine's Website's "news stories."
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Who just saw a logo for The Ramones and realized where "Mikey Ramone" got his name. The fifth Ramone.
Steve writes:
Luke, never mind the ethics of journalists. Any college student should know that you can't copy whole paragraphs and use them without quote marks and a direct cite of where those words come from. That's an automatic "F".
For an alleged professional, it should be a firing offense. But who ever said AVN was professional, or involved in journalism?
AVN's Mike Albo writes me:
Pot, meet kettle. Luke, you've been guilty of plagiarism on more than one occasion. I can recall several instances when you used material taken from the now-defunct Hustler Erotic Video Guide and either purposely or through sheer incompetence presented it as your own or made it unclear what your source material was. I even remember calling you out a year or two ago about using a phrase that was something along the lines of "surly Negroes from the California Department of Corrections" that was lifted from some satirical description I wrote in either Hustler or HEVG. To your credit, you did attribute the source on this occasion...but only after you were reminded from where it came.
As for your "emailer who says he's an editor at a major metropolitan newspaper, one of the top 20 in the U.S.," well, with such solid and impressive credentials, I'm saddened he didn't offer your readers his name. I'd really like to read more of his insights in his august and respected publication.
Just sayin' is all.
Mike, if I didn't bust people for doing the same things I've done, I'd have a sparse column.
In my postings to various newsgroups in the Spring of 1997, I used without attribution many paragraphs of quotes of porners from Hustler Erotic Video Guide, Adam Film World (and its sister publications) and perhaps other publications. I intermixed these quotes with the quotes I gained directly from porners. This was bad, probably copyright violation, but it was not plagiariasm as this material was placed within quotation marks.
I did use your joke about surly inmates from the California Department of Corrections without attribution but I did not use your exact wording (as AVN did it in its first and fourth paragraphs of the story in question). What I did was bad. I stole your joke. It was probably plagiarism.
Mike Albo replies:
Even though I was referring to your old website and not newsgroup postings, you are nevertheless a master of the half-assed justification. My hat's off to you. Bravo!
There's was no justification in my reply to your email. Not the slightest. There was simply explication. If you don't know the difference between explication and justification, there's nothing I can do to help you.
Regarding my old website www.lukeford.com, I believe your assertion is false. I don't believe I used quotes (or any material) from your magazine (or any publication) on my old website without attribution. If I am wrong, I'd like to see the evidence. One can use web.archive.org to review the archives of lukeford.com.
Perhaps, Mike, you can provide some evidence?
Mike Albo replies:
Nothing specific at this late date. Sorry. As I mentioned earlier, you used text and quotes from interviews, sometimes attributing, sometimes not and sometimes not making it clear that this material was coming from another source. However, since you’ve explained that none of this is plagiarism, I can now rest easy. That, and I’m quickly losing interest in the whole topic. Now, please, go back to listening to those ultra-gay Air Supply songs and pining for Dennis Prager or just musing about life from the perspective of a 12-year-old, socially inept girl. That stuff always cracks me up.
It's times like these when I am in disgrace that I strive to remember what is most important in life -- love (and I mean the sturdy manly heterosexual kind).
Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reed. Some say love it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed. Some say love it is a hunger an endless aching need.
I say love it is a flower and you it's only seed. It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It's the dream afraid of wakingthat never takes the chance. It's the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
When the night has been too lonely and the road has been too long and you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong, just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows lies the seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes the rose.
AVN's Pete Warren writes:
Just thought I'd make it known to all that Thomas Stanton is, I promise, a very real person who sits three cubes down from me. And on another note, I can't believe it took Tod (seeing as how he IS Mr. Jeopardy and everything) all these years to figure out that Ramone took his name from, uh, The Ramones.
Tod Hunter replies: "Nope, that's a blind spot I have. I was in my mid-20s when I finally twigged to Bill HALEY and the COMETS. Sometimes I miss 'em. Nobody's perfect."
Jed Riley writes:
Had to laugh when you had this 'editor' of a major metro newspaper weigh into the Mike Ramone issue. He speaks as if journalists are a group of whitebread, cleanskins. For him to say stealing and recycling are things no real journalist would do, the bloke is clueless, or he's the editor of The Daily Planet.
This show plays every monday night in Australia and it consistantly exposes stealing and recycling by journalists in this country, mainly at major metropolitan newspapers, infact it has a yearly award called 'Carp Verbatim' for the best plagiarizism job. With the extra saturation of the US market, I could only imagine the state of the problem there.
'Soothing Social Inequities'
Melvin Bukiet writes in Neurotica: "Sex, like religion, is a placating power that dissolves social inequities."
While theoretically there's nothing immoral about consenting sex between adults, and theoretically it can all seem very soothing, in my experience promiscuity breeds anarchy and destruction.
In my view, the sexual revolution has done more to exacerbate social inequities than anything. In our hyper-sexualized society where men (and the minority of women who want to pursue sex as a prize in itself) are free to follow their predatory instincts, social anarchy results with children born out of wedlock, relationships dissolving in vicious recriminations (frequently blogged so that both parties are tarnished) that would not have happened if sex weren't so easy, men and women stray from their marriages or avoid commitment to see if something better is coming along.
Religion as I've witnessed it has disciplined people to commit to each other and to behave (and dress) modestly so that sexuality is tamped down and that tiger is leashed. My life is chaotic to the extent that I don't observe my religion.
P.S. I've never read a story about faculty-student sex that has not thrilled me. I can't think of any scenario more erotic.
Not sure what that says about me.
Much of my greatest fun (over the course of my long life) has come from pretending to be my girlfriend's (not speaking of any one in particular) professor and she acts as though she's my bad student.
My biggest weakness is my susceptibility to the wiles of attractive young women.
August 1st was my 3 year anniversary in porn. Three years and still alive, clean, sober, and somewhat sane. What has happened so far in my time in the business is so surreal and unimaginable. My eyes were opened more then the rest of my long life. I came from Russia during the Cold War at the age of 8 went to three colleges, worked in TV and Film and made some cool award winning movies with talented friends. But that has little comparison to what I have experienced and seen the last 36 months of my 432 months alive.
Three years ago I joined up with Extreme Associates and Evolution Erotica for a new adventure in life. I have seen so much and met so many unique people. There is a book in my head just waiting to be spewed out. From sets to personal life, it has been an amazing ride. I fell in love and imagined a life long partnership. I walked the red carpet at an Awards show. Made some cool movies with creative people. I did the most amazing things with most amazing people in my life. I went through one of the worst spans and depressions in my life. I was judged for things I didn't do. I have made some really good friends and learned how others can self destruct and hurt themselves and so many truly innocent. I have seen stuff in person that belong to movies like Scarface and Pulp Fiction. And I have seen things that belong in Pee Wee's Playhouse as well.
...And while Professor Stone tried to reassemble himself, she continued to coo, "Life needn't be nasty, brutish and short. Just act as if all of your actions could be universal principles."
...Trish cornered him, and opened the hastily bunched robe. "Oh, gee," she said. "It looks just like Karl Marx."
Al Goldstein's Misfortunes
Hank Rose writes:
Luke: It was sad to read about Goldstein's misfortunes. He's a lovable character. I remember fondly writing an article for Screw way back when. And for real porn fans, Al was right---Hustler was the stroker yardstick. As for all his old ladies, we can learn a lesson trying to buy love with our wallet and then see it slip away when the gravy train stops. Better to learn it early than too late.
I think the disrespect oldtimers suffer from is due to ageism more than anyting. Of all the dreaded isms, it's the most widespread and least credited for those who hit the skids. HOFer Joey Silvera used to say to me that if you are still struggling or haven't made it by the time you hit 40, romance will be fleeting.
Indeed, it's easy to land a partner when you're at the top of your game. The real magic trick is to find true love at your lowest with only your heart and soul to give. If you can do that, the accomplishment is priceless. Especially if you pass on high maintenance youth and find a mature woman to take care of you. As for this grave new world, I fear that the ongoing Mid East conflict will soon lead to World War 3. My best friend in Vegas has two kids and an ex wife who live in Haifa. And my media partner who is from a town by the West Bank has not gotten back to the US yet. I am on pins and needles from this war. Not only is porn in freefall. We are now living in the worst times in American History.
Luke, you should take up songwriting like me. I learned all I ever needed to know about it in music class back in highschool. Now it's a passion. I'm addicted and have hooked up with some players in the music industry for partnership collaboration. There's more to writing than porn journalism. Other forms of literary art set the mind and spirit free. Lyrics are a lot of fun!
Measuring The Hotness Of Chicks By Distance From Combat
During the recent war in the Middle East, I've been watching a lot of cable TV news. I've noticed that the plainest chicks are on the front lines and the hottest chicks are far away from combat. Is that evolutionary biology at work?
Humphry Knipe responds: "You're right, Holly's way back."
Relationship Advice From MattsModels
Here's my experience with this situation: If you're in a relationship and you tell your partner it's OK for them to f--- other people (whether it be together as swingers, on film or otherwise) - you are sending the message (subliminally or overtly) that you really DON'T CARE that much about your partner. In other words, your partner is just not special enough for you to want to keep them all to yourself. You may think I'm full of shit - but it takes a very special type of relationship to withstand the complexities of "Swinging" or being porn talent. I believe this especially true for girls, they seem to operate on a very intuitive level and by telling them that it "turns you on" to see them with another guy, just f---s with their head. I believe it's often the beginning of the end of a monogomous relationship.
Holly Randall - Crazy?
Holly writes on XPT: "I am crazy normally-- liquored up I'm insane."
Random writes:
One of my biggest pet peeves is when girls say they're "crazy" and/or "wild", and Holly says it a lot. A hell of a lot. It's such a shudder-inducing cliche.
Holly, you're a lot of things -- cute, sweet, intelligent -- but not crazy. Gardening, riding horses supplied by your mother's fortune and doing laundry while dancing around in lowrider jeans packed tight with granny-panties as Luke shoots video is not crazy. Neither is flirting, dancing and revealing nip when intoxicated. That's simply socializing. Congratulations, you're among the millions who lose inhibition when you've tossed back a few.
One gets the impression the constant reference to your "craziness" is a means of overcompensating for your (rather shockingly) normal existence and lack of confidence in your physical appearance. I would venture to say that you feel a constant need to stand out, so to speak, because you feel inferior to the "models" you shoot on a regular basis. Would I be correct?
I also think this insecurity is to blame for your habit of shutting people out. You do this not because it's what you truly feel like doing, but because you think it gives you a little more depth and an added mystique that other girls may not possess. You want to be wanted (like all girls), but for whatever reason you feel you have to go the aloof, tortured-soul route in order to get others longing for you. Would I be correct?
Random fact: Da Burglar has made reference to you 78 times this year alone. Really think about that.
Holly replies: "At least give me credit for giving you credit for hitting the nail on the head. I applaude you for calling me on my s---."
Random writes:
Why do you feel being just Holly Randall isn't good enough?
You know it takes a lot for at least half the girls you shoot to look attractive. Hell, you rivaled or topped them with your racy photos and you didn't have the benefit of having you as a photographer. So why the self-doubt? Why do you feel insecure when placed next to girls who essentially have no worth outside of being professional cocksockets?
Holly replies:
That's a fantastic question, but remember how much importance is placed on looks in the world I live in-- for the most part I don't let it get to me, but I am a human being and subject to self-doubt. On the other hand, I appreciate your points, especially since you compliment my photography in such a way and I know you are not a fanboy who tends to kiss ass. I want huggles from all of you.
Jack: I am going blind trying to read/follow this whole thing between
you and Holly (she's hot). Sorry that did not work out. 'If you would
like a free blowjob, just email her at hollyrandall@suze.net.' Prolly
not the best sentence you ever wrote. 'I'm hitting every public bathroom
on the way home and scrawling "Call Luke for a good time" with your number
on the stall walls.' THAT is funny. She is of made of porn. No wonder
you fell in love with her.
Luke: oy ve, i loved the part of her that was porn-free
Jack: There is a part of her that is porn free? Must've been between the
lines. She is porn royalty, baby.
hollyrandall: i am not crazy
hollyrandall: then again it depends on who you ask
hollyrandall: is craziness relative?
Luke: I was not going to include that part of the thread, but then you
kept replying so I did.
hollyrandall: like, when i'm in a room with you i'm the normal one, but
when i'm in a room with say, my brother, i'm the crazy one
Jeff writes:
I don't know about everything that Random says about Holly, but I do know that's true with other women. They think being "crazy" is wearing one green sock and one red sock, singing the wrong words in Karaoke, women just find that stuff hysterical. Also what drives me nuts is when they say "family is so important to me' and they've been divorced mutliple times and ship the kids off to institutionalized day care. Also, when they say some guy they are dating is "so funny" and you meet the guy and he has the personality of dry wall.
AVN Journalist 'Thomas J. Stanton' Plagiarizes Philadelphia Inquirer
Stanton (who is he?) writes on AVN.com July 20, 2006:
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled on a legal question that could have far-reaching consequences for bachelor parties.
Do strippers have a First Amendment right to do that thing they do?
Apparently not, according to a recently published report.
The decision came Tuesday in the case of an Atlantic City go-go bar, the Moulin Rouge, that was cited three years ago for violating New Jersey's lewdness standards.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer June 20, 2006:
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled on a legal question that could have far-reaching consequences for bachelor parties and lonely men.
Do strippers have a First Amendment right to do that thing they do?
Apparently not.
The decision came Tuesday in the case of an Atlantic City go-go bar, the Moulin Rouge, that was cited three years ago for violating New Jersey's lewdness standards.
AVN Editor Mike Ramone replies:
How is it plagiarism when Thomas attributes the story in the third paragraph to “a recently published report,” and in the sixth paragraph “to a report in the Philadelphia Inquirer”? The same sixth paragraph, btw, that you saw fit not to include in your excerpt from Thomas’ story? Slow news day Luke?
The first 24 words of each story are identical. If you are going to use identical wording and not place it in quotation marks or indent it to show that it is a quotation, then you are plagiarizing.
The 29-word fourth paragraph in both stories are identical. The AVN story does not place this in quotes.
Mike Ramone responds:
To plagiarize is defined in my trusty American Heritage dictionary as “to steal and use the ideas or writings of another as one’s own.” Since Thomas clearly attributed the story to the Philadelphia Inquirer, there’s no question in the reader’s mind that the Inquirer is the source of the story. Hence, Thomas did not “steal and use the ideas or writings of another as one’s own.”
Gibson’s Drunken Diatribe Makes Life Hell For Australian Jew
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) – Mel Gibson’s
recent drunken diatribe against Jews is having a negative effect on the
social life of an Australian Jew who lives in Los Angeles.
JMT writes:
Forget about stupid radio interviews - this is something you should be trying to cash in on. Gibson has made some kind of hazy, insincere plea for help/forgiveness/acceptance/whatever from jews. As a converted jew, a reformed Australian, and a recovering alcoholic (you can fake that last part, right?), you're exactly what Gibson needs right now to show the world that he's serious about pretending to not want to be a mean-drunk jew hater.
Contact his people and advise them of your willingness to be put on the company payroll, and your availability to be photographed meeting with Mr. Gibson and to be interviewed by the media with regard to the tremendous "growth" and "healing" you've personally witnessed. Show them your "A Current Affair" reel so that they know you can handle yourself on TV.
Know this: whatever money you would need to justify whoring yourself out like this is probably less than what the kid who runs the copy machine in Gibson's production company is making. So act now, and be driving a decent car by the end of the month.
Neurotica: Jewish Writers On Sex
On his Neurotica book tour, Melvin was often asked about the Jewish male's fascination with shiksas. One the last leg of his tour, he blurted out: "They've been f---ing us for thousands of years. We just want to know what it is like once."
Why Did Michelle Freridge Leave As Executive Director Of The Free Speech Coalition?
I think she took a lot of flak for the aura of disarray, as witnessed by the failed “Night of the Stars.” She probably senses a lack of support.
Keith O'Connor, Anthony Simone Out At Defiance Films?
So Norman Bentley is running the show?
I should follow the money… er… the missing money. Ron Levi (who bankrolled the company) is still rich, but not as rich as before.
Blowing The Whistle
A source emails me:
Luke, What would you need to blow the whistle on a very well know pornographer shooting minors in Thailand? This person has been changing IDs with models as young as 15 years old and selling the movies to known video companies. What kind of proof would you need to run with this one and get this creep nailed? I have already e-mailed information to one company telling them they needed to look out for the content and I never heard back from them, but from what I have heard they are all friends so they may not care.
I did find one of the models and she/he (transsexual named "Em") told me that she did use a false ID, and was only 15 years old at the time of filming and worked a few times for him. The model would not give me the original ID because she/he feared that I was going get them into trouble.
John T Bone... even put a photo of the model I am talking about on his blog site along with some other personal photos that appear to be minors...
John T. Bone is believed to be connected to the Thai Mafia [and many people are afraid of him].
I don't know where this footage went, but it is out there along with a few others. I know I have seen movies that I think are his with Robert Hill and Pandemonium. Both have been warned about this in the past. This is not the only one, but since I found this one on the blog maybe it will be better for you to investigate. Whatever company has these scenes, has child pornography.
I just saw on [John Bone's] blog site that he has his own movies out with Asian transsexuals and females also.
I've heard these types of allegations leveled at John Bone since 1999 but have never seen any conclusive evidence to support them.
John has never been known as the most rigorous of book-keepers or checker of IDs. He's creative but not meticulous.
John Bone's wife, I believe, is Thai.
I call him in New York Tuesday afternoon, August 1.
Al: "I'm an old Jew with bad hearing."
Luke: "When is your book coming out? The one you worked on with Josh Alan Friedman."
Al: "I got a call from Peter Bloch [Editor] at Penthouse.
"I called Josh yesterday. I said they [the publishers] are a bunch of scumbags. They haven't even sent me a copy of the book. It's coming out next month. Here I am the writer. Review copies have been sent out. And I haven't gotten a copy."
Luke: "How was working with Josh?"
Al: "I love Josh. He was my editor 25 years ago. He loved going to all the massage parlors. He's written six books. He holds me in high regard.
"Frankly, I've been depressed since Screw went bankrupt two years ago. I'm looking for a job. I've been turned down by Starbucks and Costco. I'm not the big mouth I used to be. That's why Josh went to the editorials from 1968 and older ones when I still had piss and vinegar.
"I hate the porno industry. I helped start Larry Flynt. I've had 21 arrests. No one in the porn business has offered me a job. If it wasn't for doing the blog, I'd be back in a homeless shelter. My rent in Howard Beach is paid by Penn Jilette.
"When I start doing publicity for my book, I'm going to abuse the s--- out of it. It's no different than religion. Religion sells a fantasy. Pornography sells a fantasy. The bulls--- that you are going to have those type of women in your life is pathetic. It's delusional."
Luke: "Have you changed your views on the porn industry?"
Al: "Not at all. You look at Screw. It as Mad comics. There's nothing wrong with masturbation. There's nothing wrong with fantasy. But let's call it what it is.
"Fishbein at AVN was telling me that the business is down 20%.
"What put Screw out of business was the websites.
"I'm guilty of the same thing. I ran jerk-off photos. But at least I made fun of the girls.
"Pornography has the same right to exist as religion and reality shows. But I know it's sleight of hand. That's what my book's about. All men are coagulated testosterone. Men are pathetic creatures. I'm guilty. I have five ex-wives. That's why I went bankrupt.
"Playboy I could never jerk off to but Hustler I could because the girls are sleazy."
Luke: "You have a wife?"
Al: "I have a fifth wife. She's 29. I'm 70. Together three years."
Luke: "What is her attraction to you?"
Al: "Nobody else will be with me. There's no reason to be with me. I have no money. Wives are prostitutes who won't work in a whorehouse. She likes that despite my 21 arrests and bankruptcy, I'm still in there trying.
"Everyone dumped me. Ron Jeremy was best man at the wedding. Two people have been loyal to me -- Ron Jeremy and Paul Fishbein. Nobody else in the industry has done s--- for me. I hope everyone gets busted. Everyone needs a five year jail sentence at Leavenworth."
Luke: "How did you maintain your friendship with Fishbein? You've been caustic about him and his magazine."
Al: "I love Paul because he's a good friend. I only speak the truth. I am an obnoxious assaultive uninhibited Jew boy from Brooklyn. Everyone I've slammed is having the last laugh -- ignoring me, gloating when I failed. My son, who's 30, who graduated Harvard Law School four years ago. I was boasting about him on the Howard Stern and Don Imus show. He got so offended he would not invite me to graduation."
Luke: "Is he gay?"
Al: "I think he is. I think he sucks a dick now and then. I've always argued it takes a real man to suck cock. After my fifth marriage ends, I'm going to become a fag."
Luke: "What did you think of Gil Reavill's book Smut?"
Al: "I don't read about porno. What do I care? I'm rereading Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis. Why do I want to read about pornographers? To be titillated? To learn about it? I don't care if it is pro or con. Gil's another mercenary. There's nothing wrong with him."
Luke: "What happened to your relationship with Larry Flynt?"
Al: "I wish he'd hire me. I went to him and begged him to at least give me a job as a manager. I don't want to be a dishwasher. He did give me an assignment and he loaned me $3,000 but I want a full-time job and Larry has not done it.
"I'll tell you who the biggest [jerk] of all is... I hope you're not going to censor this. Dennis Hof owns the Bunny Ranch. I was the first person to cover his bordello for Penthouse. I gave him publicity. Put him in my columns and on my TV show. He promised me there would always be a place for me. What a perfect job for me to be maitre de, to greet people at his whorehouse. He would not give me a job. He is the typical porno ingrate. I hope he dies of diabetes."
Luke: "What are the lessons to be learned from your rise and fall?"
Al: "Nothing. Nothing is real. Nothing is forever. Enjoy the moment. Mine is not the first story, be it Tyson or a rock 'n' roller. Don't believe the words of wives, 'I love you,' because as soon as you lose the money, they're gone.
"My ex-shrink, Ted Rubin, he wrote David and Lisa, said, 'Al, you have to learn the art of inhibition.' I repress nothing. I censor nothing. Like all honest people, I am hated and loathed."
Luke: "Where do you find happiness?"
Al: "I don't. A cup of coffee, when I ejaculate, and the taste of pussy. Right now I just want to survive. I go to the V.A., they give me lithium. I'm a zombie. I've thought of killing myself but I won't kill myself because I'd make too many people happy.
"Have you got enough?"
Luke: "Thank you."
Al: "As you've noticed, I still don't pull my punches."
FBI Conducting a 2257 inspection at the offices of Robert Hill Releasing
"We're getting checked today by the FBI for the 2257," stated Lynton, owner of Robert Hill Releasing, one of the top she-male producers. "They're very pleasant; we're working with them whichever way they want. They're getting all the information they need. Obviously, they're checking for underage, I believe... They picked out movies, generally with younger titles; five or six titles, I believe; randomly picked, I believe, or maybe the titles indicate underage or whatever."
However, Lynton assured that none of his performers were in fact underage.
Seymore Butts emails: "updating your "industry slowdown" story...lighthouse talent was up about 47% for jobs completed in july over june. unless we get an unexpected "rash" of cancellations, it looks like august will be even better!"
Asia Carrera Has Her Baby Boy
She writes on AsiaCarrera.com:
07/31 - Guess who showed up 11 days early? Baby Donny was born at home this morning at 10:35am, to me (all by myself with Catty) after 2 hours of labor. Mommy and baby are doing fine, in fact, I feel great! I was back on my computer 2 hours after the baby was born to let everyone know the news! More.
Isn't Shy Love getting sued by the guy who loaned her $250,000?
FTP Studios, owned by Shy Love (Hustler Contract Star and Director), is looking to team up with 50 female web-mistresses/adult actresses to perform in one scene in an adult video each. The scene will be edited within 1 week of filming, and will be provided to you for free. In addition, you will also get the pictures in high resolution, and the 2257 model releases to enable you to use or sell the scene for your profit. We will use the scene on our website as well and in a movie. You will be paid 5 - 10% of the revenues from the movie sales online and on DVD for 2 years (approximately $2,500.00 the first year) If you are interested in getting more exclusive content now, but don't have the budget to do it right, or the location, etc. don't waste any time. Work with award winning professionals in a safe environment. AIM Healthcare test required, must be 18 years of age or older. Contact Eric Hunter or Shy Love today.
I'm Confused About My Sexuality
I've been gorging on Debbie Gibson (Holly's first CD) music videos on Youtube.com (my favorites are "Electric Youth," "Lost in Your Eyes," "Only in My Dreams") and I'm not sure if I'm into her in that way -- even if my strict morals and other obligations do not prevent me.
Is Debbie Gibson hot or not? She looks a bit like a scarecrow.
I've also been gorging on Kelly Clarkson videos and facing a similar dilemma. I don't know.
I'm confused.
Is Kelly a bit thick around the middle?
Kelly says she likes to walk around the house naked. I'm not into that. I find too much nudity kills eroticism.
Important question: Do these women not seek the objectifying male gaze?
I Had Given Up On Modern Music
I thought all the great songs had been sung.
I was down, my dreams were wearing thin. When you're lost, where do you begin? My heart always seemed to drift from day to day, looking for the love that never came my way...
Then I discovered Kelly Clarkson and Youtube.com. I can listen to all the hits I want and I believe it is legal. Music is free again. Because of you, there is no reason to be lonely.
Holly Randall Arrested For Drunk Driving, Blames The Jews
Returning home from the Temptation Awards Sunday morning, Holly Randall, the director of Love Between the Cheeks (AVN Editor Mike Ramone called it the most anti-Semitic film since Triumph of the Will), was pulled over by an L.A. County sheriff's deputy.
Lukeisback.com has learned that Miss Randall aka The Second Coming of Leni Riefenstahl went on a rampage when she was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving, hurling religious epithets. Lukeisback.com has also learned that Adult Video News had the initial report doctored to keep the real story under wraps.
According to the report, Randall became agitated after she was stopped on Pacific Coast Highway and told she was to be detained for drunk driving Sunday morning in Malibu. The director began swearing uncontrollably. Randall repeatedly said, "My life is f****d."
Law enforcement sources say the deputy, worried that Randall might become violent, told the photographer that he was supposed to cuff her but would not, as long as Randall cooperated. As the two stood next to the hood of the patrol car, the deputy asked Randall to get inside. Deputy Mee then walked over to the passenger door and opened it. The report says Randall then said, "I'm not going to get in your car," and bolted to her car. The deputy quickly subdued Randall, cuffed her and put her inside the patrol car.
Lukeisback.com has learned that Deputy Mee audiotaped the entire exchange between himself and Randall, from the time of the traffic stop to the time Randall was put in the patrol car, and that the tape fully corroborates the written report. Once inside the car, a source directly connected with the case says Randall began banging herself against the seat.
The report says Randall told the deputy, "You mother f****r. I'm going to f*** you." The report also says "Randall almost continually [sic] threatened me saying her parents 'own Malibu' and will spend all of their money to 'get even' with me." The report says Randall then launched into a barrage of anti-Semitic statements: "F*****g Jews... The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." Randall then asked the deputy, "Are you a Jew?"
The deputy became alarmed as Randall's tirade escalated, and called ahead for a sergeant to meet them when they arrived at the station. When they arrived, a sergeant began videotaping Randall, who noticed the camera and then said, "What the f*** do you think you're doing?" A law enforcement source says Randall then noticed another female sergeant and yelled, "What do you think you're looking at, sugar tits?"
We're told Randall took two blood alcohol tests, which were videotaped, and continued saying how "f****d" she was and how she was going to "f***" Deputy Mee.
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A porner calls me: "That's funny. The sad thing is that the poor girl is going to get so many calls from people who think she really got a DUI.
"After reading that whole thread about her sucking cock, I'm really intrigued and want to go out with her. I need to become a literary type so she'll like me."
hollyrandall: omg i am going to kill u 4 that post about me as soon as
i stop laughing
hollyrandall: lol what a night the pix on my camera are classic