a Risque Business
The State of the State (in a State)
Maverick Sojourns
by Oui Begin
If you've been a member here for some time, you've learned how our lives operate, at least on some level. It's a bizarre way to live, to say the least.
Well, we've given you the preliminary warning about the first of the massive AEE reports that we're likely to see, and so as you're catching your breath, we thought we'd give you a nice little pause in the action to consider how things work in "La Vida Risqué" — to coin a phrase for it. Back when Kristal Summers lived at the house she used to wear some darling sleep wear, which may come as a surprise to some of you. The image of porn stars always hanging around in skimpy lingerie really only exists in the pages of "letters" in men's magazines we'd have to say. Still, if you imagine Anais running around in just an oversized t-shirt with nothing on underneath it, you'll probably understand that you don't really need Victoria's Secret to get to the point of devastatingly sexy around here.
Eventually Kristal moved on into her own place, and naturally being friends, we helped her with the decidedly unsavory task of moving. You've heard the philosophy that a friend with help you move, and a good friend will help you move a body, right? Now as far as we know Kristal's never needed to move a body, but she does have a happy tendency to show of hers in the middle of what could be a boring task. Certainly what it lacks in intellectual stimulation it more than makes up for in …well, just awesomeness, we'd say. If you get to pick your friends, picking them like Kristal seems like a fine idea.
[Photos deleted from Free Side blog. Sensitive eyes, y'know?]
Now Kristal's not coming back into the active fold soon (at least as far as she's indicated so far), but we did receive a quite interesting call this past week from someone that you'll definitely remember around here. We have a few details to work out, but once again it looks like an interesting month coming up. We have so many large projects in the queue that it will honestly seem wonderful to go back to dealing in a much less technically challenging area. … Beautiful naked woman. Write down what she says. Show her off. … That will be a pleasant change for sure.
Speaking of complicated tasks, we did feel a need to include this final photograph that D.Minion has seen fit (minus the editorial comments in this jpeg) to print up and put right by the door where folks wander in to work. She's not heavily involved in the more esoteric Search Engine, Site Navigation, and general Geek Code Tasks around here, so she's continually lobbying for more traditional adult web site focus as we try to allocate our time. Should you agree with her, she'd love to hear from you, so feel free to drop her an email and let her know. We should warn you, however, that if you do encourage her, odds seem pretty good that we're going to have to keep listening to Sonny and Cher every Friday in the office.
Be really, really sure of your opinion. OK?
Knowing Diddly and Squat
Last Updated on Saturday, 30 January 2010 19:43
Understanding all of the sites, personalities, and experiences that make up risque.com … well … that can be a pretty tall order. So we'll try to be brief.
First of all, we have an extremely difficult time simply being brief. You should appreciate that from the outset. We've been operating our little internet commune for better than a decade now, and the list of contributors spans an amazingly diverse range. Essentially we report on the adult industry "from the inside" – a fact which actually makes some sense because the "inside" parts of adult entertainment seem to garner a significant degree of attraction, for whatever reason. We've basically been blogging since the concept had but miniscule recognition in an extremely geeky community. We have a social network of unique (and even potentially erudite – oooh) dimension. We enjoy sharing; think of it like that.
If you were anticipating a sales pitch for the membership site, we can give you the bullet points you might expect:
- 16,000+ PAGES of Completely Personal Experiences
- Over 250,000 Photographs of the Adult Industry in Action
- More than 96% EXCLUSIVE Content
- Thousands of cutting-edge Video Segments
- Follow the "typical" and very personal Lives of Adult Industry Performers.
Fairness dictates, however, that we be very clear about what we "do" around here, which explains the rationale behind this rather diverse section out in the free area of the Web. Certainly you have to be of legal age to view the vast majority of the Adult Diary that we publish. Even aside from that, though, you should understand that we traditionally use a lot of words in our presentations. You can skip them all and just look at the pictures and videos (and listen to the audio recordings) of course, but if you're looking for typical porn site fare … honestly, we're not that. We have been working in the adult movie business since 1990, however, and over the years many people have found the diary of the experiences entertaining to say the least.
When you never pretend to be anything that you are not, it becomes much easier as a general principle to remember what you are. That can be handy in life.
If you think we might be a group worth hanging with for a bit, use the search function up top to look around and see what you can find. Naturally, on the inside, fun little picture of Dee like this one get much bigger. Of course you could always register and see some of the sample entries to see exactly what we were doing at a few times over the years, that's fun too. And commenting on the blog (which should be functioning again just any time now) has always been free. Or you could click on any of the years to the left here and just randomly pick on some months. Surprise yourself. As we say, never underestimate the value of serendipity.
Consider us …
