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 Abe Froman sent me this , I hope Kayden takes it in the spirit in which it’s posted because it is HILARIOUS, and so perfectly true.

Dear Mr. South,

Kayden Kross has circulated a resume that lists you as a former employer, we would very much appreciate a reference.

“Contributing Writer, Mikesouth.com
Mar 2008-Septemberish 2009“

Thank You In Advance.

Oh my, the temptations here are simply overwhelming. Could I have some fun with this…

This is what ya call a full blown dilemma I mean do be be honest, funny, mean, the possibilities are endless. She did win an award that year for her writing, sort of, I think it was the best female writer who doesn’t write award. Tim Case won the best male in the same category.

When she did write she has a kind of dry wit style but it is very detached, she writes as though she isn’t a part or the life she is writing about, even though its hers.  We liked it though.

But as a company we don’t feel as though we got quid pro quo.

I called my HR person, a rather surly lady named Helen Waite and I asked how I should handle this  inquiry and her response was if we were considering re-hiring Kayden Kross that Kayden should be sent directly to her first.

So in short if that were the case Kayden should immediately go to Helen Waite.

I am getting ready to go on “Bubba the Love Sponge Show” this morning….if you are in the Tampa Bay area or want to listen tune into http://streaming.theboneonline.com/  and tune into “Listen Live”.  So anyway, I was doing my makeup, flawless as always…lol…and I heard about the dust-up that Bubba caused last week with his controversial comments about the disaster in Haiti.  Apparently he has taken quite a bit of heat publically about these statements.  But as I listened to what he was saying I realized that he was right in a way.  Amidst all the celebrity-laden TV specials, fundraisers and telethons people are forgetting the simple premise that I was taught as a young girl:  Charity begins at HOME people!  Namely…there are countless worthy causes right here in the GOOD -’OLE USA that are AT LEAST as equally deserving of our care, compassion and most importantly, money.  I know this may be a politically-incorrect and unpopular statement to make, but I can’t help the way I feel.  While I was listening to Bubba’s show this morning I heard a story about a homeless shelter in Atlanta just received a foreclosure notice on its shelter.  A FORECLOSURE NOTICE…. WTF?  And guess who holds the note?  A non-profit organization, whose job it is, ostensibly, to SERVE the needs of those less fortunate than us…just like those in Haiti.  But what is this U.S.-based “charity” doing…foreclosing on a $500,000 note.  The inevitable result will be, of course, the 400 or so people that the shelter serves will now be on the street….again…only now without ANY help whatsoever.  That seems fair to me…how about you? 

But according to Wyclef Jon, ‘Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Moss Deff, et al. there is no more worthy a cause than supporting Haiti.  Now, again, I don’t want or need the ugly emails from any politically correct people.  I AM NOT saying we shouldn’t help the poor and displaced innocents of Haiti.  But there are SO many other worthy causes out there in our own backyard for crying out loud!  There are HUNDREDS of thousands of orphans right here in America that spend their entire lives in the foster-care system…but Branjolina wants to adopt kids from the country that is buying up all our debt…why is that exactly?  If they TRULY wanted to help, and give a real life to a child…wouldn’t it be better to give that gift of love to a child that is here in the U.S.?  Before we spend (and print) more money we obviously don’t have…let’s put our own house in order.  There are millions of worthy souls here, they me be your next-door neighbor, your child’s teacher, a co-worker or a friend.  I think that everyone, in the words of President Obama, should do something to serve your community.  Work a few hours in a local soup-kitchen, become a big-brother or big-sister.  Collect food at the holidays…whatever you would like to do…just do something.  It’s just a thought…and before any of you say “Lindsey are you putting your money where your mouth is?  The answer is YES…I’m doing Toys for Ta-Tas. 

God I miss that place!

On The Bridge Over The River Kwai

It seems safe but really it isn’t

They are like house cats in their behavior, they purr they stretch and if you move your hand around on the table in front of him he focuses on your hand and will try to cover it with his paw.  but like house cats they can and do get irritated, if that happens you get the hell away, without turning your back to him.  You never make direct eye contact.

I had a friend years ago named Frangi who was a big cat trainer for Ringling Barnum and Baily, used to ask him about them and he would say that if you pay attention they tell you what they are feeling, he said some days they dont feel like doing a show and you have to respect that and let them take the day off.  He said even raised from cubs they are still wild animals and have the predator instinct which includes VERY rough play.

It has been an absolute benefit to this site that she joined us as a contributor and I want all of ya’ll to join me in wishing her a very happy birthday today.

Julie you are the best and I love you and wish you the best birthday anyone ever had.

The 11th Circuit Court here in Atlanta ruled yesterday on the appeal of Max Hardcore.

To make a long story short they found no problems in his conviction but they did have a problem with his sentencing, basically the original court erred in it’s pecuniary damages essentially the government levied his fine based on sales that were not based soley on the area where thevideo was found to be obscene.

As such they vacated Max’s sentences and remanded him for resentencing.

This is a bit of a diary-style entry, but I am faced with some interesting questions and choices and I need to write about them.

I find my plight and need for writing, which may be the same or similar to other writer’s, is the flood of thought, whether the words come in the form of a light drizzle or a storm, I get no release until I unleash them. It minimizes the buildup and evens me out. But the torrent is never ending, and I get backed up again. Writing isn’t so much a choice as it is a necessity. I’d be a criminal without it.

Tomorrow is my birthday and I am taking inventory. The most pressing questions are about this documentary. I play them over and over again in my mind. “Does anyone really care to see a sex worker as a human being?” “Will Jonathan [my filmmaker friend] appreciate what it’s about as it unravels?” “Will this care I have for women like me somehow make up for my failures as a mother?” And then there is the face that stares back at me in the mirror. “Can I search myself without cutting into my psyche too sharply?” I find my assessments are too cold sometimes, unforgiving and relentless. I want enlightenment but I don’t want to turn into a boring old bag, either.

I hate the lines between male and female, porn and mainstream, art and the absurd. I like that Sasha Grey is a natural woman without (at least from what I can see), obvious surgical enhancements. It’s nice to see someone who does not denounce their choices, make room for new choices. The blur of a line is a wondrous thing. I wanted to feature a few gay men in my documentary, but there is some disagreement on that. I’ll revisit the possibility later. I don’t see the line. It’s there, it’s been pointed out, but I still can’t see it. Porn is porn. Everyone involved faces the same issues to varying degrees. Porn star = male and female performers both gay and straight. Male and female performers both gay and straight = human being. All encompassing. Why is this so clear to me? Why is this so darn clear to me! (btw, Darn = boring old bag)

I think a person can change. It may be the only advantage I have - no ties too strong to keep me from chasing The Ideal. I have no faith I am bound to observe, no rules to adhere me to an inheritance, no parent expecting me to carry out the family plan, no long ancestral shadow to sink into. I’m chasing a phantom spirit that insists I be as pure as I possibly can be, even though my instinct is to drink ‘fire water’ and beat myself into some unmovable object until I’m bloody. I suppose that is my long ancestral shadow…

But it’s all a process, right? Part of growing up? Figuring it out? Another year and I’m still here. I should have died of an overdose in 1997, but I forced myself to wake up every time I nodded off at the wheel and then I stared at the living room ceiling for four hours, talking myself awake, ‘I’m not going to die like this, I’m not going to die like this, I’m not going to die like this…’ If I’m still here I must be doing something right, right? I can change. I. Can. Change. Why do I need to change? So I can be a boring old bag. Ugh!

- Julie Meadows

I tried to get Adella to respond to some questions I had for this bit but she apparently is irritated that I broke the news before it was supposed to be broken. It’s a common affliction within porn that when things don’t go according to your plans to just respond by being a bitch.

All that aside this is an interesting thing.  For starters most of the sites that reported on the official version didn’t really get it right, Adella was never technically an employee of Digital Playground, she was an independent contractor whose only client was Digital Playground so she had a company all along.

So now she is leaving DP and presumeably that means that DP isn’t sharing her, so she is out on her own.  Let me tell ya, if you are currently paying one of the retards that popped up and started calling themselves a PR person, you should be looking at hiring Adella, she is the real deal. If you want a person who will write a half assed press release and send it to a few sites that will post a press release about a ham sandwich, and tell you they got you good PR, then by all means go to one of them.

If, on the other hand you need a real PR person and you have goals, direction and something she can work with Adella can take you places that nobody else can even dream of.

It will be interesting to see who Adella’s first client will be…Hint It’s already a done deal, she is just holding off announcing to maximize the exposure.

This is a tough time in porn to be striking out on your own, but for Adella she will likely do well because she is an established name and is widely considered to be among the best at what she does. While the talent pool as a whole is shrinking and getting less and less work The number of talent who really do need a good PR person will remain the same.  Companies, contract girls and the like.

I do wish Adella the best but I don’t think I need to because she is good and she will do well with Fine Ass Marketing.

 Word is that Adella is out at Digital Playground, effective February 1.

Don’t know where she is going from there but I know at one time she wanted to move to Costa Rica with her hubby and run a hotel/dive resort.

She has been rather low key for about the last six months or so, with someone else sending out the press releases and whatnot.

I do wish her the best!

I’m listening to the President as I write this.

When Obama said he inherited a nightmare, he wasn’t kidding.  When Little Boots took office, there was a budget surplus, by the time he left office the budget was in a 400,000,000,000 dollar a year deficit.  It happened because Little Boots embarked on 2 wars, added a huge spending program in Medicare part D and cut taxes. The deficit along with other problems I will point out triggered a recession that further devalued the dollar and pushed the debt up by 3 trillion dollars.

All of that is truth, fact, can’t argue it.

Many of you are probably like me and this stuff makes your head want to explode, but it really does have to be dealt with.

Allow me to try to simplify what happened that has wrecked our economy.

In 1977 Congress passed the Community Reinvestment Act, to make this short and sweet it mandated that banks make loans to people who weren’t qualified to take out loans.  It made it easier to buy a house.  At first it worked well but as we got into the 80s and 90s housing prices were skyrocketing and people, even middle class people were using this ease in credit to finance more house than they could afford, some using exotic mortgages, some of which even elevated the principle over the first ten years, the idea being that housing prices wouldn’t fall.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Bear Sterns, Shearson Lehman and others were heavily invested in these risky mortgages, and they were selling them back and forth with AIG insuring these mortgages against default.

Starting to see some names you recognize?

Read On…

Housing prices began to drop and the mortgages started defaulting and the holders of these mortgages became vulnerable.

It started with Bear Sterns. Wall Street decided that Bear Sterns held too much high risk debt, and confidence began to fail and Bear Sterns worth dropped to nothing in about a week. Bear Sterns was going to fail.

When the chairman of the Federal Reserve looked at Bear Stearns books he saw a looming problem.  If Bear Stearns failed it owed so much money to so many other institutions that some of them would fail, and they in turn would cause other failures to the point that our monetary system would have collapsed.

The US Government had to intervene. They guaranteed Morgan Chase 30 billion dollars to buy Bear Sterns, which was at this point, worthless.

But the problem wasn’t staved off….Lehman was next. The secretary of the Treasury Henry  Paulson was a hardcore free market capitalist and he had just bailed out Bear Stearns,  something he really hated. He told Lehman to find a buyer.  Lehman ignored him and when they came to Paulson for a bailout he said no, you can fail.

This meant now, that AIG was responsible for paying billions of dollars to Lehmans creditors, money that AIG didn’t have so now AIG needed (and got) a bailout.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke knew it wasnt over yet, as did Paulson. The next to go was going to be Merril Lynch they had the same high level of toxic assets (read subprime or risky loans) that Bear Stearns and Lehman had. By now credit had been frozen, nobody could get loans, not even good customers, that meant no capital to start/expand business and grow the economy.

The US Government desperately needed to thaw the credit freeze but Lynch was about to fail and that would have collapsed our economy overnight.  I’m talking complete collapse.  The amount of money we are talking here is beyond my comprehension. Lynch had to be bought.  Paulson knew how to make it happen.

Bank of America was financially rock solid and after a meeting with Paulson. Lynch’s CEO called Bank of America CEO and the net is that BofA bought out Lynch. That stopped the bleeding, economically speaking.

Now the U. S. desperately needed to thaw the credit, the CEOs of the countries 9 biggest banks were summoned to a meeting with Paulson where they were told that they were going to take money from the US government in exchange for an equity stake in the banks no if ands or buts it was going to happen.  Wells Fargo protested…it didnt need or want the governments money.  It had no choice.

In the end all 9 CEOs signed the deal and it was done.

Now when President Obama says that the banks could afford to pay a fee to the taxpayers who “bailed them out”, he is being disingenuous, remember these banks had NO CHOICE.

And let us be clear, Bank of America and the rest are not going to pay a fee, the people who bank with them are, thats me and you. So that fee is on us not on the banks.

So now here we are…Credit is thawed and the bleed has been stopped, but the economy isnt going anywhere.  For that to happen economists say we have to start spending money, creating jobs, buying things, but nobody has the money to spend on that massive level, nobody but the government.

But the government has a huge deficit, the national debt is at 10,000,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars and growing by about half a trillion dollars a year. If we don’t spend money the economy stays where it is, if we do spend money the debt goes higher as does the deficit. Where does this half a trillion dollars a year come from?  We borrow it, from China, Japan, Mexico and Oil rich countries in the middle east.  At some point we will reach our credit limit and a lot of people think its coming sooner rather than later.  These countries that loan to us are already starting to move assets to other currencies.  That’s a very, very bad sign for us.

Now you see the problem that Obama is facing.  The Republicans, smelling failure, aren’t in any mood to help him either, they welcome this failure, it is putting them back into power.

We have to spend a lot of money now, I get that, what will make the difference between success and failure will be what we spend it on.

Maybe I will expand on that soon.  But the bottom line is it has to be healthcare, because healthcare in the form of medicare and  medicaid and social security are where all of this country’s money is going to be going, if we don’t get those costs under control in 2040 we will have no money for anything else, not the military, not education, I mean nothing.