Press release- ( LOS ANGELES, CA ) –
After months of anticipation, SunLust Pictures most ambitious and controversial film to date, “Gia: Portrait of a Porn Star” is just weeks away from its release.
A tale of love, lust and porn, “Gia: Portrait of a Porn Star” stars Sunny Leone as the most sought after star in adult films.
Joined by gorgeous women like Tori Black, Lexi Belle, Monica Mayhem and Jennifer Dark.....
Hillsborough, NC — Adam & Eve (http://www.AdamAndEve.com/news), America’s most trusted source for adult products, is pleased to announce the latest results in its incredibly popular “Great American Sex Survey.” It goes by many names, and is giggled and whispered about, but anal sex ...........
Diff’rent strokes, indeed. The late former child actor Gary Coleman worked with prolific porn star Ron Jeremy four times: on the 1998 Kid Rock music video "Cowboy"; a 2002 Weakest Link episode; a 2004 episode of VH1’s The Surreal Life; and in the 2009 film comedy Midgets vs. Mascots.
"I’ve known Gary for years," Jeremy tells UsMagazine.com of Coleman, who passed away at age 42 on Friday. "He was always very nice to me, but he was tough to get along with."
Case in point? During Coleman’s cameo on The Surreal Life, he butted heads with another faded star, Vanilla Ice. When the rapper teased him and asked Coleman to repeat his trademark Diff’rent Strokes catchphrase, he stormed off the set. "He was so pissed off," Jeremy recalls. "He was a sweet guy, but he hated being asked to repeat ‘Whatchu talkin’ ’bout Willis?........
Ok I generally don’t give a flying fuck who cares what I think and I try my best to honestly speak my mind about certain things. But recently I learned that some things I wrote on a post here offended someone who is my friend, and who’s opinion of me matters. I had written that the reason I don’t go to conventions in the US is that 99% of the porn stars go there to escort and not do actual web business and that 70% of the girls would disappoint their fans when they saw them under those harsh fluorescent lights in a convention hall.
I might have over-stated the % of girls that escort at shows....
In the 1970’s when porn became a legitimate commercialized product the porn fan was born. Marilyn Chambers and Linda Lovelace and Bambi Woods, Seka and Little Oral Annie and many others become the first "Porn Stars". Suddenly there were annual awards and fan clubs were started. PO Boxes were rented all over the valley by Cal Vista and Legend for fans to send in fan mail to the stars.
By the time that porn went to video, a new group came into the spotlight, younger and looking much more like actual movie stars than smut stars. Girls like Barbara Dare and Amber and Ginger Lynn and Christy Canyon and Tracy Adams and I can’t leave out Traci Lords lit up the screen of televisions all over the US on those giant VCR’s. Stars like Ron Jeremy and John Holmes and Harry Reems and Peter North and Randy West were in nearly every title and the porn business was booming. Jim South was the only agency in town, and even with the law putting him in jail for pimping, the business thrived.....
I hate lol. Visually it's like nails on a chalkboard. When I read it I want to reach through my screen and wipe it away. I want an edit button for it, or one of those little blurry boxes. Digital white out.
Rofl isn't as prevalent so it doesn't activate my OCD in the same way. Ttyl seems outdated and is therefore not a threat to me. I can't even comprehend these new emotional outburst acronyms that are longer than four characters in length, aside from, of course, lololololol--which naturally makes me want to stab things. I can handle brb, but I think only because I know exactly one person who uses it, and he uses it with extreme wit, sarcasm, and caution. This formula makes anything OK.
I have small but acute internal meltdowns that I feel peer pressure to mask when people actually verbalize lol in conversation. Lies. When you say lol to me in my physical presence you are not, in fact, lol-ing. In fact I suspect that when you type lol you are not laughing out loud at me even then. I suspect you're looking at your screen with the same expressionless straight face or slight smirk that I am, because facial expressions are only used in the presence of others, because they are a form of visual communication with other life forms that actually have to see you to get it.
But I'm starting to get it. It doesn't bother me any less, I'm just rationalizing it better. Especially lately when I say things on twitter that are not meant to be taken literally, but are, and before I know it I have people who don't get the reference asking where they can send flowers and get well soon cards and whether I've designated a next of kin. My rabbit is my next of kin. There.
But I'm committing the same crime with smiley faces. People say I do them backwards,
like this: (:
To be honest I don't think it's possible to smile backwards.
They are my go-to response as I answer emails. They are code for many things, such as "I don't speak your language" or "I don't want to answer your question" or "I do not want to commit myself to your opinion or get into an argument with you over it" or "I can't tell whether that's rhetorical". Mostly I find myself adding them to the end of almost everything I say as an insurance policy against being taken literally.
That's just the problem with written language across the distance of the web though. All of the subtleties of visual cues and intonation are stripped away and next thing you know what you intended as the most awesome joke of the century has been grossly misinterpreted as serial killer tendencies and so on. Compound that with the language and cultural barriers you run into as you respond to people all over the world in real time and the emotional distress becomes immeasurable, as with the islander who took me seriously when I suggested we elope in Canada and hunt moose for sustenance.
So that's where I am on Friday night--sitting at home rationalizing pop culture acronyms (which to my horror I discovered all have Wikipedia pages), and taking it a step further as I grapple with whether I can actually use them. I know I should out of compassion for the poor souls I've unwittingly fucked with, but I'm going with the slippery slope argument on this one and I'm afraid of where opening this floodgate of intolerable methods of communication might take me. I tried it on. I practiced saying lol in the mirror. I don't wear it right. It's like the first time I cussed in 6thgrade and everyone laughed instead of taking my middle-school outburst
seriously. I really meant it when I finally said the F-word. So what if I stuttered.
