April 22, 2007 … If you’ve been hiding in a closet, you’ve been isolated by all the controversy of Dark Alley Media’s new film “Gaytanamo”. You can check out their new blog DarkAlleyDirt.com to find out all about it. In the meantime, as far left as my politics are, I’m waiting to hear from Matthew von Fistenberg from Dark Alley about this porn based on a current real life situation in our world.

Matthew emailed me and promised to write an editorial commenting on:

“1. I am very disturbed by what’s going on in government policy and places like Guantanamo Bay. 2. I wanted to speak out against it, as I myself don’t really feel safe. 3. Being a pornographer the only tool I have available to me is to make a porn movie that has sex scenes and b-roll (non-sexual parts) that parody the interrogations, the persecution, the policies etc etc… and try to show how ridiculous and double faced is everything that our government tells us on this subject. 4. That I had a choice of using the medium of an adult film to speak out against injustice or I could have parodied the safe topics and like the rest keep quiet. 5. That the concept behind this kind of parody can’t be seen unless one sees the nonsexual dialog parts. Certainly any judgment based on a title alone is a misjudgment.”

I look forward to receiving his thoughts and will publish them as soon as he gets them to me.

In other controversy, famous porn agent David Forrest recently spent his second stint in jail for soliciting sex for drugs on Craigslist.com. He got busted again and is out on bail rumored at $55,000.  Michael Lucas comments in a recent email about the Grabby’s and Forrest. He makes some incredibly valid and lucid points:

“As we all got the news recently about David Forrest’s most recent arrest—this time due to him allegedly trying to offer coke in exchange for sex—I couldn’t help but wonder why I was banned from ever receiving any more awards at the Grabbys for speaking against this man.  You may recall that my comments were directed precisely towards the issue of him hooking his models up with drugs.  Because of what I said, my GAYVN-award winning film “Michael Lucas’ La Dolce Vita” did not get a single Grabby nomination this year… and yet David Forrest is being honored on the Grabbys Wall of Fame. What? Can it be that David Forrest is able to influence more than just his models with his white powder? Shame on those who have continued to work with him the past few years.”

In other news, Lucas is producing a sex comedy this year. He positions it as Ugly Betty meets The Devil Wears Prada. Make sure to change the names this time, Michael! My feeling is that Michael is doing this as it’s the only GAYVN award he has yet to win. One piece of advice to producing comedy - don’t take yourself too seriously. It will be interesting to see if Lucas can do that. If he does, he might have another winner on his hands.

Jerry Douglas has just wrapped his latest film, BROTHERHOOD starring Buckshot Man Danny Roddick and superstar Jan Fischer amongst many more cute collegiate, sexy studs like Buckshot Man Dean Phoenix and more! Here are some behind the scenes shots taken during the shooting.

Finally, and no kidding, the following excerpt is taken from the AP article: “Official takes risks warning on pet drug” by Jeff Donn: “Many vets also liked replacing pills with the twice-a-year shot, which put heartworm prevention back into their hands. One vet with ties to Wyeth lectured colleagues about seizing on Proheart 6 as a ‘hook’ to pull in healthy pets for profitable regular exams.” Well, I urge you to find and read the article. It was a huge cover-up. ProHeart 6 caused a huge number of dog deaths. The FDA is charged with protecting humans, as well as our furry friends, and clearly, money and power are influencing corporate profit over safety. Read the full article here. 

That’s it for today. More soon. Make sure to give your pet a hug for me.

Thanks,
Mark