I just ran across an interesting blog (and no, I wasn’t looking for it–it was sent to me in an email). It’s by a woman who works the counter, for $6.50 an hour, in a p0rn video store. Very fascinating insights into (the sometimes dark side of) human nature and, from what I sampled of it, it’s not X-rated–just R.
From yesterday’s post (note that the blog is upside down–the most recent is at the bottom, and it started back in February, and there don’t seem to be any permalinks).
Here’s what I’ve learned in my year-and-change as a p0rn clerk: men like p0rn.
Admittedly, my sample is skewed because many men come to our store just for the p0rn and have other accounts elsewhere, but almost all of the men that come in do eventually go down to the p0rn section. And I don’t mean “almost all” in the 90% sense, I mean all but maybe two since I’ve started working there.
This is a lesson because I now understand that pretty much any man I date is going to at least occasionally rent and enjoy p0rn. I don’t think a lot of women have fully dealt with that. If one reads the advice columns, a lot of women can’t even deal with the idea that their mate m@sturb@tes at all. Ladies, please. Chill out.
I just ran across an interesting blog (and no, I wasn’t looking for it–it was sent to me in an email). It’s by a woman who works the counter, for $6.50 an hour, in a p0rn video store. Very fascinating insights into (the sometimes dark side of) human nature and, from what I sampled of it, it’s not X-rated–just R.
From yesterday’s post (note that the blog is upside down–the most recent is at the bottom, and it started back in February, and there don’t seem to be any permalinks).
Here’s what I’ve learned in my year-and-change as a p0rn clerk: men like p0rn.
Admittedly, my sample is skewed because many men come to our store just for the p0rn and have other accounts elsewhere, but almost all of the men that come in do eventually go down to the p0rn section. And I don’t mean “almost all” in the 90% sense, I mean all but maybe two since I’ve started working there.
This is a lesson because I now understand that pretty much any man I date is going to at least occasionally rent and enjoy p0rn. I don’t think a lot of women have fully dealt with that. If one reads the advice columns, a lot of women can’t even deal with the idea that their mate m@sturb@tes at all. Ladies, please. Chill out.
I just ran across an interesting blog (and no, I wasn’t looking for it–it was sent to me in an email). It’s by a woman who works the counter, for $6.50 an hour, in a p0rn video store. Very fascinating insights into (the sometimes dark side of) human nature and, from what I sampled of it, it’s not X-rated–just R.
From yesterday’s post (note that the blog is upside down–the most recent is at the bottom, and it started back in February, and there don’t seem to be any permalinks).
Here’s what I’ve learned in my year-and-change as a p0rn clerk: men like p0rn.
Admittedly, my sample is skewed because many men come to our store just for the p0rn and have other accounts elsewhere, but almost all of the men that come in do eventually go down to the p0rn section. And I don’t mean “almost all” in the 90% sense, I mean all but maybe two since I’ve started working there.
This is a lesson because I now understand that pretty much any man I date is going to at least occasionally rent and enjoy p0rn. I don’t think a lot of women have fully dealt with that. If one reads the advice columns, a lot of women can’t even deal with the idea that their mate m@sturb@tes at all. Ladies, please. Chill out.
Matt Labash has a hilarious dissection of the life and times of Angelina and Billy Bob. If anyone’s column had to replace mine of yesterday over at Fox, this is certainly a worthy one.
There is, of course, an immutable law of celebrity: The more nauseatingly and insistently two stars proclaim their togetherness, the closer they are to coming apart. (Witness Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, Jennifer Lopez and Puffy, or America’s Sweetheart, Julia Roberts, who has declared her eternal devotion to everything that moves, and several things that don’t). Meanwhile, celebrity couples that evidence staying power, like Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, tend not to conduct interviews with their legs coiled around each other’s heads. A stable marriage is about more than wearing each other’s panties and draining each other’s blood. Sure, that’s part of it. But these things are no substitute for the things that really matter: responsibility, fidelity, mental stability.
Gee, remember when everybody was frantic because AOL and Time/Warner were going to take over the known universe? Kind of like everyone thought that Japan was going to buy up America.
I don’t usually engage in schadenfreude, but I’ll make an exception in this case, because it’s so poetically just.
The AOL meltdown has busted Ted Turner. Guess no more big giveaways to idiotic causes for him.
And I found this sentence most amusing:
His ex-wife Jane Fonda was much luckier and escaped major damage from the wipeout. In her prenuptial pact with Ted, she got a maximum of $10 million in AOL stock, but in the past year she gave away most of it to environmental causes and liberal Democrats running for public office.
It’s not looking good for the miners in Pennsylvania–the drill that they were using to make a new shaft broke its bit, and they’re losing valuable time flying in a new one (one wonders why they didn’t have a backup already there).
But it seems to me that there’s another problem that I haven’t seen discussed. They’re pumping compressed air in to force back the water. Presumably the air pressure down there is pretty high, and they’ve been down there a long time, so they’ve got to be pretty nitrogen saturated. When they rescue them, how are they going to keep them from bending, perhaps fatally, when they come up to surface pressure? Are they just going to medivac them to the nearest hyperbaric chamber?
The government continues to go out of their way to avoid investigating anything that might show a Middle-East connection to Oklahoma City, even when it could bolster their case against Moussaoui. In fact, they may not only have avoided evidence, they may have deliberately disposed of it.
The motel owner said he and his staff reported this information to the FBI in 1995. “We did have an ATF agent come out and collect the originals of the room registrations for that period, but we never heard back from them. And I never could get the registrations returned.” He added that his previous experience with the FBI made him reluctant to contact them about Moussaoui. “But I decided it was my duty to tell them what had happened. So I did.”
Former Oklahoma City TV reporter Jayna Davis also interviewed motel staff and former guests. In the process, she collected signed affidavits about their contacts with McVeigh and the Iraqis. She tried twice to give the Bureau this information, but the FBI refused to accept her materials.
I don’t understand why Jim Crogan and Paul Sperry are the only reporters following this story. It could turn out to be a blockbuster, but most of the press seems to want to avert their eyes along with the FBI and the Administration. Perhaps because they too were all too eager to pin OKC exclusively on the evil right wingers…
Paul Sperry has a pretty ugly indictment of the Clinton Administration’s war on terrorism. As we’ve seen in stories continuing to come out about the OKC bombing, they directed the FBI (and other agencies) to focus on homegrown terrorism (you know, the evil right wingers) and to basically ignore anything from overseas.
No wonder they didn’t want to allow all the evidence to come out in McVeigh’s trial. It would have made it harder to hew to their political agenda.
The Clinton-era emphasis on “right-wing” terrorism wasn’t limited to the FBI. Other federal law enforcement branches also focused on the domestic threat from militia groups over the foreign threat from Islamic groups.
The head of security at the Commerce Department, for one, sanitized a Y2K counterterrorism report distributed to the Census Bureau by removing Islamic threats. Only threats from white “right-wing” groups were included in the report, Commerce security officials told WorldNetDaily.