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January 20th, 2008

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Political News

Jonah Goldberg is a conservative columnist in the tradition of extreme conservatism. In a career of saying mind-numbingly stupid things, his latest stands out. He recently wrote:  “You know, you have environmental groups giving out kits and instructions about how to have environmentally conscious sex. You don’t have conservative groups talking about what kind of condoms you should use or what positions you can be in. That kind of thing doesn’t really go on.” I suppose I am splitting hairs when I point out that you have conservative groups trying to dictate who you can have sex with, and what types of sex you can have, and who want people put in jail for doing anything they find morally offensive. Or the dozens of conservative groups that opposed the Supreme Court decision striking down the Texas anti-sodomy law, a law that put people in jail for the type of sex they had. Or the conservative groups that oppose condoms all together as well as all forms of birth control, make ludicrous fraudulent claims that condoms don’t work to discourage their use, and support outlawing most forms of contraception. I am personally not familiar with the horrors of environmental groups encouraging environmentally conscious sex. Does it mean that when having sex outdoors you don’t toss your used condom into the nearest tree? I’d support that.  I don’t want one of those things falling on my head during my next hike. Whatever it is, according to Jonah, it is far worse than wanting to lock people up and deny them basic freedoms because they don’t agree with your personal take on morality.

While making outright racist comments seems to be no longer acceptable, making sexist comments seems to be almost a matter of course when it is a woman running for president. Hillary Clinton was reported as too emotionless in the press, until she had a little emotion in her voice during a question and answer session and then the media reported that she was crying, which she wasn’t, and that maybe she is too emotional. That negative reporting may have helped her gain a surge in votes from women in new Hampshire. We can expect this to continue, and one of the prime offenders is MSNBC’s Chris Mathews, the man with the odd forced laugh who gives off the sense that he is really uncomfortable in his own skin. He has referred to Clinton as a "she devil" and compared her to a "strip-teaser." He called her "witchy" and likened her voice to "fingernails on a blackboard." He has referred to men who support her as "castratos in the eunuch chorus." He has suggested Clinton is not "a convincing mom" and said "modern women" like Clinton are unacceptable to "Midwest guys." Most recently he claimed that “"The reason she's a U.S. Senator, the reason she's a candidate for President, the reason she may be a front-runner, is her husband messed around. That's how she got to be Senator from New York. We keep forgetting it. She didn't win it on the merits..." How your husband having a hugely publicized and embarrassing affair gets you elected as senator boggles my mind. And he made this claim the day after she won a surprising victory in New Hampshire where most political pundits had written her off. Mathews gets to claim that as a woman she has no abilities on her own, and once again brings up a sex scandal. That’s what I call a media twofer. And another reason why the mainstream media disgusts so many mainstream voters.  Hardball. I don’t think so. I’m thinking shriveled and tiny.

We awarded Mike Huckabee the honor of Whacko of the Year, and once again he has proven how deserving he is of that designation. He said in a speech right before the Michigan primaries” I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution. But I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God. And that’s what we need to do is amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than trying to change God’s standards so it lines up with some contemporary view of how we treat each other and how we treat the family.” Even some of his supporters found this jaw dropping. No candidate in recent history has been this openly theocratic. Of course, he was referring to banning gay marriage and abortion, but there is a lot more in the bible that is not recognized constitutionally. Will adultery become a death penalty crime? (but only for women, or men who sleep with married women, of course.) And exactly what should the legal penalty be for coveting thy neighbor’s wife? Welcome to Mike Huckabee’s America, where you don’t just swear on the Bible, it is also your law book.

I know a number of rocket scientists involved in the swing community. Folks with security clearances. But under Bush, these people are considered security risks. Bush created a uniform security badge to be used by all government employees contractors with access to government buildings. Most agencies ignored the directive as unworkable. One of the exceptions was extreme Bush loyalist Michael Griffin, who runs NASA. I’m only a few hours from JPL, I’ve known people who work there, extremely talented scientists, the men and women behind the amazing Mars rovers mission, but now those scientists must provide the government with extremely private personal information and essentially waive their right to privacy, including providing the government with access to their financial, medical, and psychiatric records. And it was even posted on the JPL Web site reasons to question their honesty or trustworthiness. The Feds would be looking for patterns of irresponsible behavior as reflected in credit history, sodomy, incest, abusive language, unlawful assembly, and homosexuality. The definition of sodomy includes oral sex or anal sex between heterosexuals or homosexuals, something they make specific by making homosexuality a separate category. So if you are blowing someone in the privacy of your own home, you are a threat to national security. Except only 10 percent of the employees covered by these new rules even work on classified projects. Many inside JPL believe that the rules are less about security and more useful as a tool of intimidation against those who might produce scientific results opposed by the administration, such as global warming information that Bush and Griffin have made clear they do not want to hear, or more specifically, they don’t want anyone else to hear.  The scientists sued, and for now, the new rules are on hold. To be fair, though, Bush might have had legitimate concerns that the scientists might release classified material to the martians.

The depression, sadness, and abject misery of those who have had an abortion and gone on to regret it. These men are suffering. Yes, I said men. The anti-abortion movement has found a new set of victims, after realizing that none of them give a damn about women or babies. They care about men. And now men are the new victims of abortion. They have started a movement where men are instructed to say not that their partner had an abortion, but that they themselves had an abortion. The pronoun changes from she to I. They explain that it causes symptoms such as irritability, insomnia and impotence, ironically all of those start with I too. Anti-abortion groups are gathering affidavits about men’s suffering as a result of an abortion.  According to an article in the L.A. Times, “The men are urged to think of themselves as fathers, to name -- and ask forgiveness from -- the children they might have raised, had their partners not aborted.”  Or the children they might have abandoned, leaving single mothers to raise on their own. The article recounts unbelievably irresponsible men who apparently, never having heard of birth control, have knocked up a lot of young women.  They talk about how they wish they could go back in time and stop the abortion. When the reporter asked one of the men what the woman he got pregnant might think of that, he said, “I never really thought about it for the woman.” Obviously. In a movement already fueled by misogyny, the anti-abortion men folks have found a new way to make themselves even creepier and more self-involved. And completely uninterested in the lives of women.

Entertainment

Most of last week I was at the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas. This is the big annual show that brings together most of the people in the adult industry.  It also includes the annual AVN awards, and the Crossover Star of the Year award was renamed for Jenna Jameson, who presented it this year. I did not see it, but did hear reports that her presentation was not well received. She made a speech that was, to put it mildly, less than modest. She then stated “"Honesty is key ... and I will never ever ever spread my legs in this industry EVER!" That came across as a bit of a dig to the many women in the audience who sorta do that and that was the reason they were there, and it is also the reason Jameson was there and got famous in the first place. Although I never really got the whole Jenna Jameson thing. She became the biggest adult star in the world before retiring from performing. But I never found her all that appealing. I thought it was just me, but after this speech, which got boos from the audience, other people are now finding her less appealing as well.

Netflicks moved into streaming distribution last year, and now they have removed  limits on how much subscribers can watch online. SO, how does this make money? It probably doesn’t. Its just part of their push to develop an infrastructure for where they see the future- which is through online distribution. And while Netflix does not have adult videos, I was happy to see that the number seven most popular download was Secret Things, a French erotic thriller about a stripper that has lesbian scenes, female masturbation, and orgies (although not hard core explicit, and that number 8 was a documentary about breasts. Which just goes to show that as it has always been, sex drives new technologies, whether it was the VCR the DVD, home projection of movies, and even in the automotive industry, where the back seat was a strong sales feature.

She was a model for Alberto Vargas and Man Ray. She posed for dozens of pin-ups in 50’s era men’s magazines, such as Famous Models and Gala. In 1953, she created the Vampira character to host late night horror movies on KABC-TV in Los Angeles. She also appeared in what is considered one of the worst films of all time- Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space. Maili Nurmi passed away this week at 86. Her character had influence on the goth scene, Elvira, and also injected a darkly humorous jolt of sex into the repressive 50’s. She may be gone, but we’ll always have her in our most pleasant and sexiest nightmares.

Forget 12 step programs to overcome drug addiction. Snowboarder Riley Giles has a better way, one that he used to great effect in helping girlfriend Lindsey Lohan overcome her drug problems. His program? Sex with Riley Giles. Giles told  Britain's News of the World, "Lindsay's definitely a nymphomaniac. She's wild in bed. We'd have sex a couple of times in the day and then go to it through the night. We once did it four times in a row. That was crazy. Lindsay was insatiable. When you orgasm, your endorphins shoot up and it becomes a massive natural high. If you have an addictive personality like Lindsay you need that to replace the highs you got from taking drugs all the time. Sex became part of her recovery." I imagine it is a lot harder to get hooked on Giles, however. I get the impression you can quit anytime you want to.

Passengers on a subway in New York got more than they bargained for after a group of contestants had come to the conclusion that the poles on a subway car had an additional use. They were contestants in a Web site dare, and won $10,000 for the best public pole dance. The video on YouTube, Sexy Pole Dance Girls in the NYC Subway, is very popular. That’s an underground movement I can really appreciate.

And in who is getting naked now, we can always count on the PETA folks for taking a good cause wildly over the top, and for encouraging famous people to get naked in the cause of discouraging the wearing of fur. The latest is Eva Mendes, of Struck on You, Hitch, and Ghost Rider fame.

Mario Bello appears topless in Downloading Nancy, a movie about a woman who hires a man over the Internet to kill her, but he winds up falling in love with her instead. Great, you hire a killer and he stalks you. It premieres at Sundance.

Currently playing is this scene with Cyia Batten and Hillary Angelo from Charlie Wilson’s War, with a not too unhappy Tom Hanks soaking everything up. It is part of a scene at a party with lots of naked women jumping in and out of the Jacuzzi with Hanks. Tom’s life has been hell ever since he got off the island.

Things soon go badly for Jasmina Toshkova and Yana Marinova in Lake Placid 2, out on DVD on January 29th. This is the unrated version of the SciFi Channel horror movie featuring hungry giant crocodiles, and the young women they just can’t get enough of. 

And finally, I’m not a big Dane Cook fan, I think you either like him or despise him, but he comes across as much sleazier in the story told by Jessica Alba. When filming Good Luck Chuck, she left the set early because every night Cook and his male co-stars would film two sex scenes that would never make the film for the sole purpose of conning young actresses into getting naked. That’s not just sleazy, its sad and pathetic. She claims they turned the set into a late night porn shoot. Sure, some of this shows up on the unrated DVD edition in a montage, but these guys are making the porn industry look good. At least its up front about what it is doing. I’m definitely in the despise him category.

Whacko of the Week

I was driving back from Vegas after the Adult Entertainment Expo. It’s a long boring ride back to LA, and there are not exactly a lot of radio stations to listen to in the middle of the desert. I happened across a talk show, and it caught my attention. At frst I was convinced it was a clever parody. The main reason was that he went on to criticize the writer’s strike, talk about how unimportant writers were, and then went on to tell a series of amazingly unfunny and juvenile jokes he claims to have just written. As parody it would have been funny- as comedy it was sad. The host went into detail about his pathetic life. He talked about how difficult his year had been, and about trying to think back to a time when he was happy. And he conjured up grade school, when life was simpler and there were no sexual feelings. He comments on how men are afraid to express emotion. He spoke of what a poor dresser he was, the recent rare occasion when he went to buy clothing, and one of the clerks urged him to go to the gym first, lose a little weight before buying new clothes. And then he buys an outfit for his dog, going on about how much dogs love new clothing. This is, I thought, is clearly a man alone. A sexually confused gay man alone. Based on his voice, his expressions, and what he talked about, I thought that if this guy was for real, this was the saddest old queen in America. And then at the break they announced his name. Michael Savage. One of America’s most viscious homophobes.

It was a prank caller that ended Savage’s career on MSNBC, and also made his most famous moment. The caller insulted Savage, and he then asked if the caller was a "sodomite", to which the caller answered, "Yes." Savage then said to the caller, "Oh, so you're one of those sodomites. You should only get AIDS and die, you pig; how's that? Why don't you see if you can sue me, you pig? You got nothing better to do than to put me down, you piece of garbage? You got nothing to do today? Go eat a sausage, and choke on it. Get trichinosis. Now do we have another nice caller here who's busy because he didn't have a nice night in the bathhouse who's angry at me today? Put another, put another sodomite on....no more calls?...I don't care about these bums; they mean nothing to me. They're all sausages."  He is known for his vitriol, not his clever wit. MSNBC fired him.

I’m not making this up- his real name is Michael Weiner. Can you imagine growing up as a little boy with that name? I am amazed he looks back at childhood fondly. No wonder he is so angry.

Ironically, part of what made his last year so difficult was that two days after he signed with them, talent agency CAA dropped him as a client because of his homophobic rants, specifically the one where he went after CAA client Melissa Etheridge..  

A year ago on Savage’s syndicated radio show, he declared that the "homosexual dance of death" and the "homosexualization of the West" are the "seminal issue[s] of our time," and that the "homosexual mafia" is responsible for "control[ing] virtually everything that you read, everything that you see, everything that you hear, [and] everything that you wear." Unless, of course, you dress like Michael Savage. Gays are the substitute for jews, which makes sense since Savage is jewish.

He said the "war against the Catholic Church, in particular, that's been conducted primarily by the homosexual mafia" apparently began when "homosexual priests" "infiltrated" the Catholic Church and "became child molesters." He actually claims to believe that the child molestation scandal in the Catholic Church was actually caused by an infiltration of homosexuals who used it as a way to bankrupt the church.

He loves conspiracies. Representative Foley was set up by a gay democrat kid. Democrats caused Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts to have a seizure.

On December 12, in response to Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize win, Michael Savage said, "90 percent of the people on the Nobel Committee are into child pornography and molestation". And he has personal familiarity with this how?

He says that teaching kids to put condoms on cucumbers leads to sorority sisters sleeping with each other. If true, I’m all for that, since if you are a lesbian sharing a cucumber, putting a condom on it might be a good idea. But we should also teach kids that condoms can go on penises as well.

On Martin Luther King day, he called civil rights a racket that is used to exploit primarily heterosexual, Christian, white males' birthright and steal from them what is their birthright and give it to people who didn't qualify for it.” I think the only qualification you need for a birth right is to be born to the right person. That’s not much of a qualification.

He stated  that "the left ... engage[s] in dangerous sexual activities, use[s] drugs to a greater extent than conservatives, and hate[s] the family in a way that you can only imagine." Then why have so many conservative politicians been caught in reckless sex scandals lately doing just the opposite of what they tell others to do? And how does hating families come from wanting to expand the definition of family by including gay marriage and wanting equal rights for families that already exist but don’t have them just because they are gay? How pro-family is it to call gay parents child abusers?

I know that he has a wife, which does not necessarily make you straight. And he has children. But one wonders about the photo of he and beat poet Allen Ginsburg swimming naked in Hawaii that he used to proudly show everyone before converting to conservatism. He passionately hates so many groups, including gays, liberals, illegal immigrants, sex  educators and believers in Islam, but listening to him, I could not help but think that what he hates the most are the choices he made about his own life.

Interview

By all accounts it should be a big film- Michael Ninn’s The Four from Ninn Worx. I know, it’s a porn film, so you may be thinking that the four is about two women and their breasts, but it is a lot more ambitious than that. Ninn is a major director in the adult world, and this variation of the mainstream film the 300 follows four women bent on revenge after their husbands were slaughtered. It features battle and fantasy sequences shot in front of greenscreen, and composited  with computer generated effects. The impressive wardrobe for the movie was created by mainstream costumer The Sword and the Stone. And when I interviewed two stars of the film, they had so far shot only the action sequences and none of the sex scenes.

I got to chat with contract performer Renee Perez, who has appeared in Innocence Brat, Fem Staccatto,  and A Cappela for Ninn Worxz, as well as in Barely Legal 73 for Hustler, All American Girls for Pureplay, and a total of 15 movies that I know of. I believe this is Nikki Kane’s first production for Ninn Workz, but she has appeared in barely Legal 78 for Hustler, Wasted Youth 5 for Red Light District, and New to the Game 2 for Diabolic, amongst a handful of others. Last year was her first year in the business..   

Here are our discussions that took place at the Adult Entertainment Expo. (No transcript of the Interview is available)