Image: me with gorgeous goth kitty housegirl extraordinaire Ruby O’Ghosts!

We’re liveblogging the New Year’s 2008 party here — please come join us! Photos, uncensored posts, comments and a live cam soon.

Scott just blogged this film screening event and sent me a nudge — so I’ll shamelessly repost and dedicate it to… a girl. She knows who she is. See also: Pedalphilia (image via).

Just in case you’re ticking down the hours of 2007 and want to make a donation, don’t forget about these extremely worthy places to put your scratch:

* Scarleteen. No one has done more for under 18 sex-positive, all-gender, all-orientation sex ed, and no one had suffered financially this year the most. In the time of abstinence-only education in public schools here in the US, they are a lifeline. Also, they suffer from discrimination by so-called “adult” money processing sites simply for talking about non-adults and sex in the same breath. They need our help.

* Teenwire. Sponsored by Planned Parenthood, and they are much like Scarleteen.

* San Francisco Sex Information. The org I lecture at, which trains educators from help hotline workers to certified therapists about real sex, not just the nuts and bolts in university sex programs. The students work the literal front lines and come from all walks of life. They’re like superheroes in training, and SFSI is a nonprofit.

* OutProud. They’re the National Coalition for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth. I wish kids like Matthew Sheppard had been able to access resources like this.

* The San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the STOP AIDS Project (I give to STOP every year, and volunteer when I have the time). They help nationally, not just locally.

* The Transgender Law Center. A resource we need more and more. Let me just say, I never get more virulent and violent hate mail than when I write about trans issues in my column — and my closest family is trans. Give to people who can protect and make a difference for a community that is only going to become more visible, yet attacked.

* Non-sex: Alive in Baghdad (Blip.tv, thank you for making this possible). They are the only indy journalists telling the story of Iraqis with no bias — they are video bloggers. This month, 22-year-old correspondent Ali Shafeya took 31 bullets between the chest and the head from Iraqi National Guard forces, and died immediately. Please do call the Committee to Protect Journalists and ask why they did not list Ali Shafeya in their annual list of Journalists killed in 2007. Call and ask them why, 212-465-1004, or leave them a love note about it.

* Non-sex: The EFF. Sure, maybe you think they get a lot of donations already but think of bloggers like me — I fought for two months of constant threats and harassment against Tyra and her lawyers, simply to keep my own content (and vlog, and blog) online with the help of an EFF lawyer and the incredible, brilliant, fierce and sex-positive Julie Turner. I have no resources, no family to spot me cash — just what I earn as a writer. Give to the EFF, in thanks that I was able to stand on my First Amendment rights to tell my own story in the face of more money, influence and power than one lone girl can stand up to. (It was all during my friend’s accident, which was harrowing, to say the least.)

A publisher just emailed me asking how I’m packaging all my files for Digita Publications (DRM-free, erotic and how-to audio and ebooks).

Publisher: What program do you
use to save your files to make your ebooks? I see that
you’re offering more than simply PDFs and I’m curious.

Me: I use Adobe Acrobat to make a .pdf
I use Word or Text Edit to make a plain .txt file
I use Palm Doc Converter to make a .pdb people can use on their Palm/Treos:
http://lokiware.info/Palm-Doc-Converter

Then I zip it into one file, and sell the one .zip so it’s a multi-platform package; people can pick and choose to what suits their device and reading preferences the best. No DRM, so they can put it anywhere they want, or share it. Yay!

I just got a holiday ecard from Low Tek Photography — thank you!

Since I’ve gotten access to peruse Kink’s gallery archives, I’ve made some fun discoveries. Above, check out my pal Dana Dearmond “losing” an Ultimate Surrender match! This link (and the above pic) take you to a page with more images and a couple teeny but yummy sample videos.

Then — check this out: I was clicking around the Fucking Machines internal galleries (for research purposes, of course) and found this set (warning: very hardcore) of the beautiful Sasha Grey. I don’t know her, but she’s one of the only porn vloggers I know of (and a hardworking one, at that). Most of all, she had pretty much the same problems with Tyra this year that I did, and she vlogged about it too. Here’s Sasha at FM (linked to the gallery/video page):

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/evg/523644984.html (Ad is down, success achieved. Text is after the jump if anyone was/is curious)

Update: the response was overwhelming, and I have many decisions to make! I found special amusement in seeing my post flagged for removal twice (easy to fix), even though it was not in TOU violation in any way — I can only assume it’s one of my obsessive, destructive stalkers who all think they’re anonymous but have left their tracks everywhere they’ve attacked me: hi Nina, hi Cheryl, and hi to my new troll Erin! This is like the bestest prom ever. I hope you all get jobs in 2008. Everyone on sites you’ve harassed me on all year know who you are. You were never anonymous, my Heathers. I have spoken to the police more than once, and they take same-sex cyberstalking *very* seriously. Keep it up.

Nonetheless, goth kitty hostess success!

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Spotted in Paxton Gate today and added to my wishlist (lustlist) — Jazz Age Beauties: The Lost Collection of Ziegfeld Photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston, by Robert Hudovernik. Jeezus in pearls and flapper fringe, it’s highly erotic and arousing.

Also: thank you sincerely, deeply, warmly to the person who got me The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmer’s Market Cookbook by Christopher Hersheimer and Peggy Knickerbocker. It’s *incredible*, and I cherished getting a holiday gift. Holiday gifts are a new thing for me, and the meaning is real. Thank you!!!

I was in total nirvana (not the band). Good food, lotsa drinks, great friends and sexy geeks. Woo! Here’s where we thought it might be a good idea over lunch friday, then Scott announced it, and off it went… my wee set is here.

Feels good already: the party earlier was terrifically fun. Set is on this guest pass; all pics spontaneously shot with my Ocean (thank you for a great year, Helio!).

Chanel’s Rouge Allure:

Oh noes! Another tiger attack! Photo via Tokyo Undressed.

* I told you to get your kids the PLAYstation, not the LAYstation. “MP3 Player Father Bought at Wal-Mart for Daughter, 10, Was Preloaded With Porn” (thanks, dr!)

* My good friends at Kink.com are now officially in the SF Armory! Congrats! Watch the kewl video. Also: is the Armory haunted?

* A sad end to 2007: Viviane’s post to dearly departed sex blogs. See also: Cory Silverberg’s Sexual Losses 2007.

* Did you catch this one? The Pogues’ timeless “Fairytale of New York” song (I *love* it) is always shown in MSM with the words ‘faggot’ and ‘whores’ edited out. But not in this version. (via Sex?)

* We Make Money Not Art (Sex) has a fabulous writeup about Yamila Fontán’s Nocturna, an installation at Barcelona’s 2007 art festival, BAC!.

* I am not divided on this issue at all: it’s just wrong, and proves that our society is broken. New Jersey Bars Some Sex Offenders From Internet, “(…) Acting Gov. Richard Codey signed bill S1979 into law Thursday and announced that it will provide the state with nearly unparalleled authority to monitor or restrict Internet access by convicted sex offenders. (…)” Like, phones with browsers, too? Sex offenders like these kids? Argh.

JBS has a terrific, racy print ad campaign going for their line of men’s underwear, depicting hot models doing bachelor-like things like shaving, suggested jack off scenes while sniffing men’s underwear, in rugby gear, etc. It’s really quite sexy, though most hilarious is the video where a pretty girl behaves like a “typical guy” in his morning routine. (Thanks, Courtney!)

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We (GETV) went to the Computer History Museum recently for the 25-year anniversary of the Commodore 64, and the whole wacky episode is fantastic! This week, Eddie started posting the extremely interesting and fun full interviews I did with each of the key players of the birth of modern computing and gaming. Previously posted was my full conversation with Commodore’s founder Jack Tramiel, and in it he revealed that his inspiration was youth — and specifically, his son Leonard. I’m so excited I got a chance to interview Leonard, and it’s an extra-nerdy, fun one. Enjoy: “Violet Blue’s full interview with Leonard Tramiel, son of Jack Tramiel who founded Commodore Computers.”

Friday: to a weekend of love, family and friendship — our best pic together yet. Me and John Law — (chosen) family for almost 12 years now!

Wow.

Image taken in my kitchen with my Ocean: more images here.

Obtained today in the Castro (where merchants were amazingly generous with me, thank you!) — a set of four adorable plastic pinup plates called “Naked Lunch” from my new favorite discovery, Pop Ink/French Paper. They also have the dirtiest soap (dig Skinny Dip and pulpy Soap Opera), and sexy-sweet wrapping paper. Actually, I love many of their dishware styles, and wish that they were not simply made of Melamine, or I’d beg, borrow and steal to deck out my kitchen.

Particularly enjoyed the Belladonna-directed free hardcore, extremely nasty trailer(s) for Belladonna’s Fucking Girls #5, which with big props to Evil Angel, comes in many viewable flavors. Joanna Angel’s in it, if you like her. Though some of it it too giant rubber-fisty intense for even me (gapes make me want to hork)… the first part is erotically interesting, though. Subscribe to EA’s podcast and you get it for free in your iTunes — though I’m not telling you that because they’re friends of mine or anything, because they’re not. They just have some hot free porn *sometimes*. It’s mostly shock porn.

This is hotter:

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The occasional flashes are people taking our picture, and Jack Tramiel’s son and grandsons were standing behind Eddie’s camera, watching us the whole time with a group of people. It was intense, and he is an incredible man, a true living legend from the history of modern computing (and games). Interviewing him, and joking around with him, was an honor. Click above to watch: GETV: “Violet Blue’s full interview of Commodore Computers founder and former CEO Jack Tramiel”

I have to admit, I love the Sugarplum Fairy music in this week’s hot freebee video at IFeelMyself. I’m emailing their webmasters to see if I can’t get codes/URLs to direct you right at free samples of my favorite content there (which I think is among the *best* amateur, female-made-and-empowering porn in the intertubes: “Our artists are not porn models and we require that all promotion is respectful and tasteful.”).

Until they can help me link more directly when I love something new, click and look in the right sidebar for “This week…” and choose your playa flava…

Image of viral-gasmic Japanese maid and hillbilly infomercialing the male jackoff machine: watch the video!

I love compiling this list every year — especially because it’s an open acknowledgment that the most popular and unforgettable virals on teh intanets are usually sex-related: and since MSM is the living embodiment of informational abstinence (especially when it comes to tallying up what’s popular), it’s a great way to poke them and say, o hai, there’s this, like, Grand Canyon of media ovah heah…

Plus, it’s extra transgressive to have it featured (on the front page, natch) of one of the most (historically) conservative papers in the nation. And by the way, I never told you how much I ruled the *fuck* out of their traffic this year, but I did (many weeks, even beating out top national news stories). So, thank you for reading, and following me wherever I go with this crazy column, and all the people who love and support me at teh Chronic, without whom none of this would be possible. And the people who work there who don’t like me too (ahem, not invited to the SF Gate holiday party *again*), without whom I would not be reminded why what I do is important, for the opposite reasons they suspect. When journalism is afraid of controversy (or anything, for that matter), it’s all over, people.

Read it, and I hope you love it as much as I do: The Top Ten Sex Memes of 2007 has celeb sex tapes, Republican closet queens, sex crimes, scary jackoff devices, that guy jacking off in Wal Mart and more — and below I added a few extra hardcore links — (special thanks to Fleshbot for #1):

The sex meme is the ruler of the Internet. It violates inboxes faster than a drunken Hasselhoff, makes the blog rounds faster than Brit-Brit’s latest upskirt shot, and goes viral faster than a new media marketer’s MySpace wet dream. Sex memes are the ultimate in trendy, often sexually explicit and wrong-ironic — or just plain wrong. You won’t see them in Time’s top 10 lists, that’s for sure.

This year has been a crazed year for the sex meme, and while I’m as supportive of animal- and cruelty-free dildos, harnesses, lubes and whips as the next San Franciscan, Vegansexuality’s wacky, tofu-licking babes and their PETA-approved new boobs are so two years ago.

Last year, I compiled a ribald list for Boing Boing but this year’s fresh batch of memes are ready for prime time, even though they’re mostly not safe for work (NSFW) and in at least one case, not safe for anyone seeking to avoid post-goatse PTSD.

Unsafe, yet as irresistible as slowing down to look at a car wreck … the sex memes of 2007:

1. Celebrity sex tapes that go straight to DVD. I hate to ruin porn for you, because I know it’s so believable and realistic. But those girls that get “picked up on the street” or solicited for “first time” on-camera sex are working for companies that have to abide by federal record-keeping laws surrounding documentation and contractual information. But we can pretend it’s never, ever a planned setup — that’s cool. I’m also sure that celebrities like Paris Hilton and Colin Farrell never saw it coming and are just victims of a ruthless porn-hungry populace.

And I won’t break the part to you about porn “lesbians” not ever celebrating Pride. Because I care about you, really. But this year’s C-list “leaked” celebrity sex videos got traffic even if they went straight to DVD, so on 2007’s scorecard of brokered “celeb” videos (thanks to Fleshbot.com’s reporting support, you can find stories on many of these memes and much more on its very NSFW site):

Winner for most obvious: one-time “American Idol” finalist Jessica Sierra making sandwiches with some dude (her “leaked” video got its own Web site, jshardcore.com, on launch and had pre-publicity on TMZ). Oh no! Her career was so promising.

“Amy Fisher: Caught on Tape“ wasn’t as deliberately marketed as Sierra’s — I can’t remember whether the “Long Island Lolita” threatened legal action for real or just threatened to shoot someone in the face, but her porn dialogue and stock porn positions and posing suggest that she was the only one looking to get shot in the face when all was said and, er, done.

Kim Kardashian: If C-listers had backup dancers, Kardashian would have been a contender — until she rode the “celeb sex tape” pony. (…)

Link.

Give yourself a well-deserved laugh and read my featured post 2007: The Year In Sex Toys — and also note that Jonno has indeed publicly verified that he has a “Mustache Rides: $1″ sign over his desk. (One dollar!) Now, go read about butt bongs and sex toys that elicit obscure cult horror movie references!

Advertising Agency: Draftfcb Kobza, Vienna, Austria. Spotted at AdsoftheWorld.com.

I now have access to select gallery and video pages at Kink.com. This one’s not new, but I love it because it has the gorgeous, feminist LGBT activist Madison Young in it (she’s the tasty redhead) This page with images and videos of the “fight” is from the girl-girl wrestling site that I love, Ultimate Surrender. The women wrestle, and the winner gets to fuck the loser any way the winner wants. Losing and winning mean different things here, I think.

(Yes: those links are also affiliate codes, thanks to my pals at Kink. And why not? We’re all in the 415 if you know what I mean :)

Office Max lets you upload a photo onto dancing elves — corporate viral crap, ya know. Could it be as fun as last year’s Chevy Tahoe DIY ad pranking? Hm.

In case you just remembered someone you want to send something a little flirty and cute at the last minute:

* Hipstercards has a sexy category and a snarky holiday section: “Bitchy Holidays” and “Office Holiday Slut” are just darn sweet.
* Nice: Taschen has ecards, and if you click though you’ll find plenty of sexy images. But use the link I found, which gives you 20 pages to choose from instead of the four linked from their main sidebar.
* Most delicious: Vampyres has a graveyard full of sexy goth photos that are ecard ready. Yum, yum, yum.
* Santa and the brass pole (name the pop song for bonus points; thanks Julie!)
* Kinkycards has the ultra-cheesy, truly porn circa xmas 1996 ones, so you’ll have to add your own irony. I think you can do it. They do, however, have a very pretty vintage erotica section.
* Just ecards has an amateur fetish section from adult babies and teddy bears to smoking and shaving, wow.
* Stockroom has their usual tasteful fetish ecard selection.
* Fetishclub has some nice kinky images to choose from, too.
* delivr is a huge letdown, by the way. Whoever can make a service like this work with one’s own Flickr images will be quite sucessful.
* Here’s PETA’s vaguely sexy Christina Appelgate holiday ecard. Page two of their “naughty” category is better.
* And of course, there’s always the cute and hot cards at RetroRaunch.

I maded you a prezent but my bowz came off. To see all, guest pass is here.

A la wiki: the fashionable representations of Ophelia depend on current attitudes towards women and madness. It is just a matter of portraying that madness with “stately and classical dignity”.

PS: It’s 2:30am, on that holiday. Do enjoy my (hopefully entertaining) self-portraits :)

Sainted: Shane McGowan (left) and Hunter S. Thompson (right). Had dinner last night with Aunt Queen and Mama Sparks at the legendary Holy Grail (set).

I’m really looking for hot pin-up boys for holiday cheer and hotness. Really. Queerclick is convinced that the lack of holiday boy porn is a sign of the slowing economy. Now *that’s* depressing. Hence: above — the (un)sexy male xmas set is here (image via, aptly tagged HO HO NO). You could always check out these two cute gayboys getting silly (and nasty) trimming the, er, tree (via). There’s also Broke for the holidays from brokestraightboys.com. Other than that, I’ll just be hanging mistletoe off the cinema display and watching “Trey5” again. And again.

I’m so excited to see this one go up: Eddie and I took GETV (us) to the Computer History Museum for the 25th year anniversary celebration of the Commodore 64. Now, if that’s too nerdy, you’ll still want to watch it to see me interview Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and a couple of other serious heavy-hitters from the birth of gaming and the modern personal computing revolution. It’s funny and will have you all smiley-faced, I promise.

Here’s a shot of me hamming it up with Wozniak — I’ll bug Eddie to put the rest of the Woz interview up soon, because I asked him how he cheats at games — which he at first, denied… I’ll also bug Eddie to upload the extra footage of me goofing around with Bill Lowe (”father of the IBM PC”) and getting him to sing and dance one of the “songs of IBM“*.

* Total side note if you parse the lyrics in the IBM songbook: years ago, I used to date one of Jane Watson’s nephews. She was his “Aunt Jane”, but I just called her “Jane IBM”.