Literally. If you email me, I won’t even read it until December 1. If you call me, I won’t get the message until December 1. I *might* post pictures here.

But here are some awesome emails I’ve received this week, a kiss before leaving:

(from the esteemed author, who did *not* write my Wikipedia entry)
“Neo Pornographia Vol. 2
also….much more vapidity where that came from:
Holiday Gift Guide DVD Reviews”

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“I just listened to your podcast (through Itunes) and I wanted to thank you for all of the helpful information. Half way through I called my wife in tears to tell her about the show, and we’re going to listen to it together soon. You answered a lot of questions and helped clarify some of the things we’re going through regarding my sexuality. What a great resource! Thanks so much!”
(male)

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“Panties 3 has moved! Well, mostly. We’ve moved to brettandhiromi.com .. just letting you know!”
(Brett and Hiromi)

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“Dear Violet,
I’m not quite sure how to even start this but I have wanted to email you for quite some time. One day I stumbled upon the porn stash of my husband and I completely Freaked out. That night was horrible. … What really turned my feelings around was when we both started listening to Podcasts and when he started to share websites he thought I’d like. … At first he listened to you and a few others… but he didn’t tell me about them until we had a Huge conversation. Since then we’re listening all the time and it’s bringing us closer because we have this new topic to discuss. Now, I’m exploring - in books, on the web, through Podcasts…

I’m sorry for rambling. I’m sure you get a million emails like this but, I am really appreciative of your work, your openness and your advice. I think you may have saved my marriage from serious troubl! e.
So, Thank You!!!!!!!!!!
Please keep up your great work and we’ll be listening.”
(female)

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> Thank you Violet for your mention of my work in your recent review.
>
> The attention received was unexpected & greatly appreciated.
>
> On your next cyber-travel to The Great White North if so inclined,
> feel free to stop by
> Faces by B. Jonathan Michaels - The Personal Reflections of A
> Shootartist
> here http:shootartist.blogspot.com
> It is my behind-the-scenes view of my work.

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“..you’re my friend no matter how busy you get and how often you have to duck out of the world to tend to all the awesome things you do. Unlike flakey friends I have who make-n-break plans like it was their job, you actually do stuff that matters. You’re rad, smart and inspiring. I know how much it gets you down when people in your life don’t understand how busy you get. But know this: their jealous. You’re busy doing what you’re passionate about while they work 9 to 5 and want you to come over for pizza and warm beer.

Okay, so I am being a bit hyperbolic. But I saw your latest blog entry and I just always wanna give you encouragement. I may not get to see you as often as I’d like. I am currently downloading some of your podcasts so I can check out the audio/visual action. Yay Violet!”
(male, friend)

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(in response an email I sent him, and after his offer to paint my portrait) Michael Hussar print of Daddy’s Girl now for sale.

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From SRL exchanges this week:
me: Let’s got to Croatia!
repsonses, multiple: Tesla Society, birthplace, Tesla, Croatia info, “why can’t we have cool money, too” one two

Photos thanks to Tony Comstock.

Here’s the text for my latest podcast, where I interview Nina Hartley via Skype and the video version features some really tasty photographs… (Yes, that’s the yummy, well-restrained Randy Spears she’s caressing in the photo.)

With an accompanying video slideshow featuring nearly 50 stills from her latest video “Nina Hartley’s Guide to Erotic Bondage“, I have a late night call with adult film legend and pro-sex, pro-porn sex educator Nina Hartley. It’s my first adventure with phone service Skype and in the beginning you can tell how nervous I am talking with Nina! We discuss how US obscenity laws are like organized crime tactics; her delicious new film that bends the rules of romance, bondage and sex; her amazing upcoming book and the roads that led her to becoming a pleasure activist; how she deals with detractors and much much more.

Open Source Sex 21: (video post with link to audio; .m4v file)

Click here to launch iTunes: Open Source Sex

I linked to Adam and Eve in the posts to buy the video, though I can’t account for their embarrasing typos in the blurb. (Ugh.) If anyone finds a reputable retailer with more care for their products, let me know and I’ll change the links asap.

After this, I’m going surfing. No, really. I found a cheap deal on Orbitz and I’m bailing out for the holiday to go surfing in Baja for a week — a diet of no computers or cellphones. I leave Wednesday morning and I can’t wait; my first real break in over a year. Of course I haven’t surfed in a looong time, so hopefully I won’t crack a tooth because I don’t have/can’t afford dental insurance…! But I’ll be back around December 1, I’ll maybe post photos to my photo albums while I’m gone (if I can find a wifi cafe that serves maragritas), and I’ve got another incredible podcast interview ready to happen when I get back. I hope someone remembers to save me a copy of the SF Bay Guardian set to come out this week — I’m in a podcasting article for their pirate radio issue and they might run a photo of me, yay! Too bad the article doesn’t mention my pirate radio shows (three pirate radio to podcast: 1 2 3) that I did with NPR, but c’est la vie…

Update — Adam and Eve responds to my comment:

For the sake of clarity, my comment was in regards to the typos in this blurb, formerly direct linked above:

Taboo Magazine loves this video and you will to! “Randy’s new…but perfectly game as Nina cuffs and chains him…then teases him mercilessly…they demonstrate…that shackled wrists are no obstacle to ****ing a motivated girl in the ass.” As her student, Carmen Luvana obeys Nina and performs the hands-tied blow-job of her XXX career! See how bondage stimulates the mind…and body! 80 X-rated minutes.

Incomprehensible text for a video that is so much more than an ordinary video, and one with a true star in it. I had a difficult time linking to it because of the typos, so I expressed my opinion about them. Here is Adam and Eve’s response to me in an email this afternoon:

> I read your interview with Nina, and saw your comments about our site (adameve.com). I’m not sure which typos or blurbs you’re referring to; if you can let me know I’ll make sure those typos get changed.

> Also, the link you posted doesn’t look like the link I found when I searched for Nina’s bondage video:
http://www.adameve.com/p-10060-nina-hartleys-guide-to-erotic-bondage.aspx

> Although I always appreciate your opinions, your remark about ” If anyone finds a reputable retailer with more care for their products, let me know and I’ll change the links asap.” seems a bit uncalled for. In the world of Adult retail, I think Adam & Eve is a lot more trustworthy and and credible than the majority of both online and direct retailers.

> I was very much looking forward to working with you on the [redacted] project we’d discussed, and was disappointed that you never bothered to email me back, even to let me know you were no longer interested. That was unprofessional. I know you’re busy, and I love what you do, but slamming Adam & Eve after we approached you to create a project that would have probably been fantastic is both rude and short-sighted. I don’t get it.

> Anyway, next time you find something that bothers you on our site, all you have to do is let me know what the issue is and I’ll address it. That seems a better plan than needlessly slamming us, even if you think we’re the Wal-Mart of porn.

> Cheers,
[redacted]

* I removed the links and changed them to Adult DVD Talk, whom I really like; I broke my own rules by linking to a site (adameve) that sells anal/penile numbing creams anyway so I’m glad to have a good reason not to link (and “Tight Stuff Oriental Oil”). As for not responding to them, or anyone offering new projects or TV appearances: They approached me about a project Aug. 15 and we had a phone conversation the same day; they followed up with an email Sept. 12 — start at the bottom to see what was happening to me up to and after September 12. I haven’t responded to non-urgent emails in months for several very good reasons. Like a hurricane, *multiple* book deadlines, a friend in chemotherapy, money going out and not in… Well, I guess I better get my “rude”, “unprofessional”, “short-sighted” bloggy ass to Mexico.

For the love of typos:

* Mobile Porn Dangerously on the Rise

For the love of ridiculous bullshit:

* Parents Beware: Porn-Casts Available For Kids (No one talked to me for this article, I am quoted without my permission and they snagged the quote from another article.)

For the love of god:

* Bathroom Moment Ends in Tragedy

For the love of Disney “Narnia” trailers at christian events:

* The Manly Men of God

Update:

* Carnival in Rio with Arnold Schwarzenegger “Arnold spends some time ogling and groping beautiful models in the Club Oba Oba, as well as uncomfortably sucking carrots with a woman at a local restaurant.”

And you made it this far — new, delicious videos on the Burning Angel ‘free videos’ page. Also, don’t miss Altporn.net’s spanking new podcast.

My day has just been totally, completely made by the discovery of my Wikipedia entry — and I mention this only in grave fear that it may be changed. But my pal Thomas just sent it to me, thus bringing it to my attention, and I had to share. How did they find out my secret?

From Wikipedia:

Violet Blue is an american sex writer, podcaster, blogger, editor, and sex educator. She resides in San Francisco, California, USA. Several of her books have been bestsellers, and has been translated to several languages. Her podcast, Open Source Sex, is among the most popular iTunes podcasts. In the fall of 2005, rumors arose that Violet Blue had accepted a position as welder at the US Navy docks in San Diego. This rumor, however, has yet to be confirmed.

Whoever you are wiki writer, I love you. I shall weld you a chastity belt. And maybe a USB breathalyzer.

Siege got a video iPod, downloaded Open Source Sex #20 (QT video), played it on his sweetie’s chest, took a picture and blogged it (free reg). Now I’m blogging it — because I’m so excited to see what the video poscast looks like! It looks fucking sexy: Open Source Sex in a gorgeous frame. Siege wrote, “I think that was a recursive metaclusterfuck, and I love it.”

By the hairy balls of Jesus, I am done with my books.

While I stare at my navel, water my plants, wash my panties and chase my kitten around for a few minutes, check out Xeni’s awesome article on Timothy Archibald’s new book, Sex Machines. (BoingBoing post) I had the chance to meet Timothy for the first time when we both read from Best Sex Writing 2005, and he’s really just one of the nicest guys in the world. His “Sex Machines” essay in my book is awesome, his blog is great… buy or steal his fabulous book.

Speaking of sex machines, I judged ComBots last weekend — my pictures begin here — loved the driveable popcorn bot. I judged both days in 8″ fetish heels (demurely beneath my tight black boot cut sweats). I met some amazing people, including sexy Sean Kelly (who I interviewed here), a woman who judged for BattleBots and has been in robotics for 20 years, and many awesome guys and girls who makes cool robots. I judged the final round of competition, and let me tell you, being responsible for a $10,000 cash prize is beyond nerve-racking. And yes, Dave Caulkins (whose personal money it was; they might have broken even on the event) played the music from battle of the Death Star during the combat. The guy who lost was *pissed off*.

Now, a drink. Tomorrow, email and figuring out Skype — you won’t believe who’s letting me interview them…

Photo via Softr.

Too much writing, I had to do a podcast: in audio (MP3) and video (M4V) formats, Open Source Sex 20, all about how to have a threesome. I’m thrilled to say that the video version has around 30 gorgeous images by Siege (of Daily Siege at Nerve, Operation Eden); totally worth checking out. Read the show notes here.

I’ve gotten tons of email about the video podcasts; overall, no one wants the audio-only versions to stop coming, and I can assure all that they’ll always be a staple of Open Source Sex. Accessibility is essential; it’s no effort whatsoever to broadcast both versions. One listener emailed me and suggested that I have two RSS feeds, one for audio and one for video; that way it wouldn’t suck up bandwidth for people who don’t want one or the other. What would be easier for everyone, since most of my downloads are now through iTunes, would be if iTunes had an option for subscribers; I imagine it’ll become more of an issue in the coming months as people see how easy it is to do a video podcast (I’m using iTunes and QuickTime Pro; I wish there were more options for QT slideshows and photo resize, but I’m working with it…). I thought about two feeds for a minute, but I’d hate to lose subscribers and have my feeds split, especially when not all of my podcasts will be video. Plus the download numbers from Libsyn are really interesting, almost even money on audio vs. video downloads.

And no, the download numbers didn’t start out even — for a few days it was about 2/3 audio, 1/3 video. I intentionally podcast the video first, and then the audio: iTunes auto downloads the most recent file for subscribers — this way, I figure people get the MP3 (audio) like usual, and can opt to download the video if they want. I know it may not work the same with other aggregators, but with other ags there are at least more subscriber options. I’m still working on all of it, and totally open to feedback and suggestions. It’s been interesting to watch the video downloads increase. (And the numbers increase every hour; #17 has been tapped 91,751 times since 9/25) I’ll see what happens as the days go by with #20. At least I know there’s *some* kind of an audience for visuals with the education and erotica, though MP3 is still the most-downloaded kind of file.

Also I need to do more interviews. Who should I interview?

I’m in the home stretch with my books… just one more chapter to write, hard copy to edit and I’m home free. I try to edit on paper over the weekend; I refrain from “strong drink” (okay, all drink) dring the week so I can have a clear head to write with, but on the weekends it’s cocktails and a red pen for me.

My inbox is stuffed to the gills, and I’ll be writing back next week, really — if you’ve emailed me with a sex question (most of my email) that isn’t urgent, you’ll get a good reply, and my friends, well… who’s left? Bacchus, for one, who finished his last email with “Don’t worry, I’ll still be your friend if you’re too busy to answer this email. ;-)” And Tony Comstock, whose email touched me in a warm spot (not *that* spot), “Now that I know you go subterranean sometimes, I don’t worry about it.”

Oooh, I need to start getting ready to go to ComBots and be a judge — I’m hoping for after-hours grudge matches later tonight…

Fun linx: Porn Mistakes (via Viviane), Porn Bloopers, Comstock Films — a 30-minute look at their upcoming film Damon and Hunter.

I’m so excited — lots of great news today. First, I’ll be a celebrity guest judge at a robot combat event next weekend in San Francisco, ComBots, “The largest fighting robot show in the world”. Next, it looks like for my next couple of video (and audio) podcasts I’ll be collaborating with and using explicit photos from Comstock Films and Siege (aka Clayton James Cubitt). Yay!!!

Of course, I immediately podcast the MP3 version of OSS #19, fully realizing the moment I sent it out that even I wouldn’t be able to listen to am m4v file on my older iPod… and not everyone wants to, or can, see images. Equal opportunity titillation, an important standard to uphold.

So for this book I’m working on… I’m doing quite a lot of research. One of the things I’m investigating is babelogs and how they operate. I was surprised to learn that many of the more “classy” or high-end gallery providers recommend some seriously unethical tactics to webmasters, like blind linking, meta refresh, redirects (on exit redirects, too) — it’s shameful, and highly lame. The kind of stuff that gets people barred from Google. To find this information out, I signed up for a number of affiliate programs to see how they work. A byproduct is having free access to babe galleries. I was just in the shower thinking that some of the pics are quite hot, especially the ones I’ve been seeing from Richard Kern. I really should post the links. They provide me with new galleries every day, and yes it’s an affiliate link but I’m adamantly *not* encouraging anyone to buy *anything* because I don’t want affiliate money from these sites. They never have guys in them, so part of me goes unexcited, but the part of me that gets hot looking at well-photographed sexy girls is happy about my research, so… enjoy, for what it’s worth, and don’t forget to clear your cookies after a visit — the below galleries are hosted at “newnudecash.com”:

Hegre-Archives, Gallery-Carre, NewNudeCity (Richard Kern’s site; photo at right)

What do you think, should I post these more often? They are a little too on the famished side, hmmm. Report anything strange to me as well, if you will…

I think I did it! I’m watching it download through iTunes right now… my very first erotic “video” podcast! I really hope it works.

It’s essentially an audio podcast with a slideshow of erotic images to go with it, and it should play in iTunes, in QuickTime or on an iPod with video. I’ve been working on this for two days straight, having taken a break from my books to do something fun… lube up my RSS and see what I can cram into it. I’ve got a number of photographers and indy porn filmmakers who are interested in collaborating with me if I can make it work the way I want it to. They’ll provide video or photo content and I provide words (my own and from contributing authors). But the stumbling block, of course, has been the software. I seem to want to do things that there isn’t quite the tech for yet… and then I discover that there is; I’m just using it for, let’s just say, not its intended use.

So enjoy Open Source Sex #19 (post @ libsyn.com with links to info and video/audio file)! Let me know what you think…

Tribe, with the nicest free gallery around:
Itty Bitty Titty Committee (thanks Sean!)

I know what you’re thinking. “Research.” Really.

Does anyone know of any good tiny tit, flat-chested or small boob blogs or sites? The world is overflowing with big boob sites. Anyone know of any itty bitty titty committee sites, ones that aren’t lame paysites? Please send me your links — it’s for the greater good of the boob world, I swear: violet at tinynibbles dot com

Switching gears — I have horrible writer’s block today. I’ve been working on Best Women’s Erotica 2006 a bit and mostly Lips Like Sugar for the past two days. I’m thrilled with the cover.

My pictures from Halloween are up, the highlights are:

* Best three costumes — Shaun of the Dead, Tyrone, and Shuffle guy. I dresssed my pal Chriso in drag (it was *so* much fun to make him a Goth girl), and with his boyfriend and Shaun we went to a friend’s house between a Muni stop and the Castro celebration, where a big group of us (lots of SFSI people) held up numbers to grade costumes and handed out shots of various alcohols to ‘winners’, or just hotties.
* No one got that I was Baby Firefly from House of 1000 Corpses. I even memorized her lines. Sigh.
* Tyrone was amazing: he had the high-pitched voice down and when when I told him I was giving him ‘liquid crack’ he squeaked, “oh, alright” and downed it. We all shouted, “You’re way better than season three!”
* The Shuffle costume was awesome! The huge earbuds were actually speakers run off a real shuffle he had stashed inside the costume — whenever someone hit one of the costume’s controls, he’d press the corresponding button on the Shuffle in his costume. Fully functional!
* One weird loser and his mulleted friend were unintentionally hilarious. He walked up to us lugging his huge wooden cross and we said, “What kind of costume is that!?” He told us he was here to pray for all of of us because we were all “sick.” I squealed, “OHMIGAWD, that’s hilarious!” and snapped this picture right after I said it — his expression says it all. In the next moment, a Jesus costume walked by and we were all like, “There’s Jesus! This is *so* perfect!” Jesus looked kinda drunk, and just waved and stumbled by.
* Saturday a group of friends and I went to the yearly party at a local dominatrix’s house and she took us intio her astoundingly beautiful dungeon for a tour; photos begin here.
* Also Saturday, don’t forget the “Whoo Girls“, a group of drag queens who showed up to the dominatrix’s party along with another group — a mob of angry villagers led by Frankenstein and Igor. It was quite a party. But the Whoo Girls were all named Katelyn, and were inspired by black drag Katelyn’s recent experience in a Mission district bar where she overheard two blonde Marina district girls talk about how they liked to visit the Mission bars because they are “edgy and dangerous”. (Meaning, poor and Latino.) So they all dressed like Marina chicklets, and ran around going “Whoooo!” like the women in the Girls Gone Wild videos. Hilarious! They later left and met at a bar with another costumed group of Abe Lincolns who were all gay and calling themselves the “G’abe Lincolns.”
* At that same party, someone I thought was a friend went on and on about he (and someone else I thought was a friend) had been joking about publicly ridiculing my blog and sex writing style — it was in a really mean way, and quite humiliating in front of a total stranger, and he really ripped into me. Fucking ouch. I egged him on to see just how far he would go, and now I know that I have a few less friends than I thought. He even quoted lines from my blog! Good to know. I was really hurt for a minute until I realized he was being cruel for the fun of it, which somehow took away the pain fairly quickly.
* Jackson made us all a killer breakfast Sunday morning. He’s kicking ass on Fleshbot.
* There were weird drunks in front of my house when I got home. I think they got lost on the way back to the Marina. Woo!
* Tonight if I can’t write I’m going to be working on a podcast experiment. More soon…