legal

Prudent media write about porn, but won’t link to it

It is hypocritical and silly to attract readers to porn-related content on a website but then refuse to link to the source of that information in dubious deference to customers.

business

Amateur Weekend in Vegas

So we’ll all be dressed up in suits, as dictated by “Swingers” (1996), and will feel compelled to smoke cigars, eat steaks, and drink Scotch like we’re in “Mad Men” (2007).

Gram Is There

Thank you Charley Chase

“You have gorgeous boobs,” said Kayden Kross to Charley Chase. And not only does Kayden Kross know from good boobs, but she also knows good alliteration when she sees it.

geekery

Precogs, Anabots, and why dumb girls are hot

Wicked’s “2040,” which ends with Randy Spears walking south into the sunset with barely-verbal cyborg girlfriend Alektra Blue, reminded me a little of the 2002 film “Minority Report,” in which Tom Cruise drags around a barely-verbal and goop-covered autistoid precog Samantha Morton. In 2002 I remember thinking of the clingy, floppy Morton, who herself thought [...]

events

Clean living with Gram

As you well know, I am able to consume, process, and enjoy mass quantities of alcohol. With each glass, snifter, flagon, tankard, skin, or sadder-but-wiser stripper’s navel-full I become more charming and witty. In fact, I’m drunk now. But if Mary Carey’s appearance on “Sober House” has taught me anything, it is that only by [...]

geekery

Same time last year

Now that I have the World’s Largest Porn Journalism Archive1 I am going to regularly cash in on some gems from the past: Lexington Steele becomes a Buddhist (November 17, 2006) I name-check Sweet (November 17, 2006) I suggest adding an asterisk to the names of Porn Hall of Fame inductees who use performance-enhancing drugs [...]

Sadie West: checking under the clitoral, literal hood

As you know, there are not enough porn films about our country’s current conflicts in the Middle East. That is why New Sensations’ upcoming movie Hearts And Minds 2 (due Sept. 29) couldn’t possibly be more relevant to the national dialogue. What better way on this seventh anniversary of the day that launched a thousand [...]

gallery

Carmen Luvana: the mosaic is the message

The Wind tool is pretty impressive; it suggests that life is fleeting. But the Mesh disguise makes Carmen’s parts appear to be seen through a Mossad operative’s nightvision scope. Why would he be doing that? Isn’t the West Bank enough?

Manufacturing creampies: Noam Chomsky on porn

Linguist, MIT professor, and essayist Noam Chomsky said he’d never heard of “The Hustler” magazine, but consented to a 2005 interview because editors had sent him a list of his friends who’d also been featured in its sticky pages. He said that, after the magazine had not sent him a transcript to approve, he had [...]

I’m never going back to my old school

It was not the same in Bogue Chitto. There, you’d see old girlfriends suddenly working for the Post Office. Here it is not uncommon to see an ex show up in a porn movie. In fact, it’s common – what else would they do without you? But when you see the bedspread you had in [...]

WGL

Ava Rose: It’s what’s for dinner

Here is Ava Rose on the set of Rollerdollz. I want to create a series of pictures of America’s porn stars in front of price lists, like menus, gas station marquees, and Sotheby’s auction items to make a statement about relative worth in 2008. I will submit this as both a doctoral dissertation and as [...]

XRCO voting: One patriot’s story

The conversation went like this: “Grams,” said a director, “I see you’re on the voting committee for the XRCO.” “Do you mean the X-Rated Critics’ Organization which, since 1984, has been a true critics’ organization like the Golden Globes?” I said, “Not susceptible to politics and suspicion of venality?” “Yes,” he said. “Then Yes,” I [...]

Max Hardcore’s bumper sticker for a car I won’t drive

Other than chlamydia, my favorite piece of swag from January’s AVN convention is this Max Hardcore bumpersticker. Why do I bother writing about it two months later, you ask? Because I believe my car would be blown up if I stuck this to it, and I have no idea what to do with it otherwise. [...]

Brooke Haven provides thoughtful alternative to fucking her brains in

You know, I used to work for Corporate America, but I’m a butterfly, man; and butterflies are free to fly. I didn’t like being told what to do by no spirit-sucking drone, man. I make my own rules. I’m a straight shooter. I love hard and I drink hard. I take Life by the nipples [...]

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At the Armory

Gram Through the Ages

Coming Events of Personal Interest to Gram

February 19
The Tranny Awards
Joseph's Cafe
1775 North Ivar, Hollywood, CA
Hosted by Nicole Paige Brooks and Domino Presley
Red Carpet: 8:30 p.m.

Narcissism

Social Network Disease