The week-and-a-half old trailer for for Axel Braun’s Batman XXX: A Porn Parody is one of the most tedious things I have ever seen, though that’s surely to do with the trailer editing and not the movie itself. It’s too bad, because this movie has a lot of elements I generally like: the sixties incarnation of Batman, men in tight-fitting spandex, porn that’s campy in a meta way, and the perenially hunky James Deen, who this time hopefully shot his scenes on the same day as the rest of the cast. (Actually, his absence from all the group scenes was my favorite part of the Brady Bunch porn movie. Which yes, okay, I saw. Shut up.)
The DVD’s out on the 24th. Probably I will see it and probably I will like it, even though I don’t think I’d get this whole “porn parody” craze if I were an actual heterosexual.
Filed under: art, heterosexuals, in praise of athletic beauty, movies, porn, tv | Tags: 10 rillington place, ashley dupre, cristiano ronaldo, jon gosselin, kick-ass, playboy, playgirl, prostution, roger ebert, serial killers, size queens
The Mirror on the first serial sex killer, which was apparently only half a century ago.
Is this month’s Playboy more feminist than usual? No, of course not, but one HuffPo writer points out the difference between women getting paid to be in the magazine and women not getting paid for having their pictures unwillingly passed all over the internet.
A so-called “fat girl” was hired to sleep with soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo and then talk about it. And she did. The Frisky points out that she’s not actually fat and also that this is a weird thing.
This is apparently my week for getting news from editorial warehouses that I never read. Here’s someone at Gather making fun of Roger Ebert for not liking Kick-Ass.
In another one of those “people pretending that an offer to do soft porn is a news story” items, Daniel Nardicio has offered Jon Gosselin $20K to do Playgirl, which is a lot less than he offered Levi Johnston. Nardicio said in a statement that Gosselin’s not very attractive and probably won’t do it, so of course people are pretending it’s a story.
Speaking of Jon Gosselin (for probably the only time ever on this blog), Hailey Whateverthehell posted a photo of a 2-inch penis on Twitter the other day, claiming it was his, because she is a classy person and that is what classy people do. I would like to point out that, no matter how small Gosselin’s penis is, he still managed to father eight children.
[image: Terry Fincher, Rillington Place, 1966, via Britmovie.co.uk]
Filed under: art, books, gay, movies, music, porn | Tags: ao scott, blur, bottle girls, cartoonists, criticism, cruising, david bowie, jens lekman, killjoy, ladies, magazines, malaysia, new york, pinups, record store day, service records, sex toys, sex work, the gays, united russia
New York‘s bottle girl feature is long, but it’s also… something.
I feel like there’s a lot of backstory you need to know before reading this story about sex toys being illicitly sold by Malaysian students. But it’s also a pretty good read even if you don’t, in the way that foreign news items often are, though partly because the writers repeatedly uses the word “gadgets” to talk about the toys.
Amazing photos of New York’s cruisy piers, circa 1982.
Service Records–home of Le Sport and the Embassy, among others–is streaming their entire catalog online. I’m not sure how long they’ve been doing that for, but I just found out the other day.
Next week Blur release their first single in seven years, in honor of Record Store Day.
If you’re looking to read some lady cartoonists, there’s two lists in this interview that are so lengthy your head will surely start spinning in confusion about where to start.
After reading approximately 20,000 articles about the supposed death of criticism, it’s nice to hear someone–in this case New York Times film critic AO Scott–bring up the counterpoint that everyone else is wrong.
David Bowie featured in a nine-story ad asking why ballet dancers and gays were supporting Putin? Sort of, actually.
Porny gay blogs you might want to read: Killjoy.
Finally, a new interview with Christopher Schulz from Pinups magazine.
Filed under: gay, porn | Tags: bachelor pads, Boston, boston university, pornography, sex, sex nerds
On Monday Boston University is holding a day-long event called Carnal Knowledge: Sexuality In Religion, History & Culture, and I am sooooooooooooooo mad that I have an unbreakable obligation that day, because that sounds so awesome. Topics include: “Biblical Marriage, It’s Not What You Think,” “Foucault’s Facebook Friends, or: ‘The Boys of New Berlin,’” and “Machines for Seduction: The Bachelor Pad and Libidinous Consumption.” Oh, and “Deep Throat Red, Deep Throat Blue: Queering 1970s American Pornography.”
Because I am a humanities nerd and these are some of my favorite subjects, I’m really distraught about missing this, even though recent trips to Boston have mostly ended in tears. But if you’re in the area and have any plans to go to this, please please please let me know how it goes.
(via Melissa)
Filed under: music, not hot, porn, tv | Tags: 9 and the numbers, blue guitar, john mccain, laura palmer, sex news, tumblr, twin peaks
IT’S THE MONEY SHOT on 9 and the Numbers, a group I’m liking quite a bit.
“WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THIS HOUSE?!?!” The Palmer house is for sale.
The downside of being a sex news writer is that while I’m researching I spend most of my time dealing with really, really lame crap. Like this “story” about how John McCain uploaded a photo to Twitter and then someone posted it to GuysWithiPhones. NOT NEWS, PEOPLE.
Dirty Tumblrs you may wish to follow: Blue Guitar.
Filed under: books, gay, heterosexuals, internet, magazines, money (lack of), people from rhode island, personal, porn, Science | Tags: abortion, andrew wk, books, circumcision, farmers, food, food stamps, geil magazine, hard print, health care, hipsters, lambda literary awards, nomenclature, porn, providence, providence's best blog, sex crimes, tournament of books
Salon’s Hipsters On Food Stamps article seems to have caused something of an internet furor; I’m not totally sure why. As a Hipster On Food Stamps, I think I can pretty safely say for sure that a) EBT purchases are still something of a rarity at Whole Foods, at least the one I go to; b) since the state actively encourages people to eat healthy food, I’m not sure why people eating healthy food is a bad thing for some people; and c) I definitely would not publicly announce how much money I had remaining the way the two people at the beginning of the article do; it’s bad enough that I live in a small city and half the time recognize the person in line behind me. Also, on my visit to the (very busy) food stamp office, the only other people in my age bracket had kids with them, so I don’t think this phenomenon is quite as widespread as people are suggesting.
And, oh yeah, more about hipsters.
In non-hipster news…
Filed under: gay, hookers, movies, music, porn | Tags: civil liberties, conjunction junction, errors, fall fashion week, gayvn awards, international sex worker rights day, kd lang, leonard cohen, likes, microsoft word, niceness, oscar nominations, pledge of allegiance, slowness, stereotypes, tim hamilton
This Wednesday is International Sex Worker Rights Day. There’s an event happening in New York and other stuff happening around the world.
The GayVN Awards are happening after all this year.
The New York Times refuses to retract errors in the continuing stupidness surrounding fake hooker Hannah Giles and fake pinp James O’Keefe, the pair that made those stupid ACORN videos. Apparently, in an article about O’Keefe’s subsequent arrest for wiretapping, the Times reported that he “made his biggest national splash last year when he dressed up as a pimp and trained his secret camera on counselors with the liberal community group Acorn.” When questioned, The Times looked at the article again and decided that a retraction wasn’t necessary: “The story says O’Keefe dressed up as a pimp and trained his hidden camera on Acorn counselors. It does not say he did those two things at the same time.”
Thinking about the popularity of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” in all its many incarnations, I can’t help wishing it were a different Cohen song that was played at every important occasion. Imagine living in a world where kd lang would sing “Dance Me To The End Of Love” at the Olympics. (Now imagine Nelly Furtado doing the girl parts.)
I’m waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay behind with catching up on fall fashions, but Tim Hamilton’s Paris show (which was, what, five weeks ago now?) is full of items I’m completely coveting.
Is that stupid and ubiquitous Like button that’s attached to everyone’s Facebook updates/Twitter statuses/Tumblr posts/Google Reader streams actually making people nicer? Maybe, but only because people want something out of you. (Or is the writer of that article just living in Happy Irrelevence World?)
Maryland eighth-grader refuses to say the pledge of allegiance and the cops are called to escort her away? Hmmm….
“This year’s Oscar nominations are a parade of propaganda and stereotypes.“ While I disagree with the idea that it’s insulting for Kathryn Bigelow to be nominated for “a typically violent all-male war movie,” I think there are probably some good points here…
Finally, why technology innovation isn’t always a good thing (which I’ve been saying my whole life…) and why Ommwriter is superior to Microsoft Word.
Filed under: Italian-Americans, Italians, porn | Tags: Italian-Americans, porn, spaghetti, stereotypes
I am half Italian and come from one of the most Italian-American cities in the entire country, so I’m always simultaneously fascinated and repulsed by stereotypes of Italian-American men as insatiably starch-loving Mama’s boys. (I say this as a total starch-loving Mama’s boy, for what it’s worth.) And part of me is always tempted to go to grad school just to make documentaries about Italian-Americans and talk about, like, my grandparents’ collection of Lou Monte records.
Anyway, I mention this because I just stumbled across this video of a guy talking about his mom while he jacks off and rubs spaghetti on himself. PhD programs, can you hear me?! I have at least 35,000 words to say about this, including detours to talk about Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Rocco Siffredi, Silvio Berlusconi and that one website where guys stick their dick through a pizza box. I’m kind of not kidding.
(via Unzipped)
Filed under: personal, porn | Tags: birthdays, me me me me me, naked pictures of your dad
So, a celebration is in order. Today my other blog, Naked Pictures Of Your Dad, turns the big oh-one. To celebrate, I decided to take the day off and ask other people to do guest posts. Seventeen people from around the internet, around Providence, and in a couple of cases both took me up on the offer, and starting at 8am eastern time you’ll be able to see what they came up with.
Relatedly, the internet is surprisingly devoid of photos of a) shirtless boys covered in cake frosting, b) male strippers jumping out of cakes, and c) naked guys in party hats. Even the porn blog Gay Porn & Cake Party was surprisingly devoid of these things. Not that the spooky marzipan cock cake above isn’t special, but I may soon need to set up a photo shoot to rectify this error…
Filed under: personal, porn | Tags: adult entertainment expo, avn, las vegas, me me me me me
Because my boyfriend, and pretty much half of the people I follow on Twitter, are all heading to Las Vegas for the Adult Entertainment Expo tomorrow, I’ve decided to go on a little Twitter hiatus (Twiatus?) so I don’t need to constantly read about all the fun everybody’s having.
I made it to the show once, three years ago. Four days in Vegas was a lot to handle, as were four nights of dinners with industry people. Riding around in Hummer limos going to strip clubs is something worth doing once, but by the end of that weekend I was more than ready to fly back east and lock myself up with a book.
Here’s some photos of the trip, though. That’s Jenna Jameson up there, shot from a great distance because the throng of dudes surrounding her for autographs was CRAZY.
More after the jump. Sorry if it takes forever to load; I honestly don’t have the patience to be resizing images right now.
