So it’s Come to This… (for Octomom)
With the rate Octomom is going, she’ll be a bonafide porn star in no time. Which is sad, as she won’t appear in my weekly media roundups. (I generally stick to a no-XXX policy, as it would be way too easy for this column to get too “inside baseball,” if you know what I mean.) So savor this while it lasts… or throw up your hands and thank god that the end is near — though I’m betting most of you are feeling both …

There are few, if any surprises at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo.
It’s like a play or opera that’s so familiar that every nuance and subtlety is not only known, but expected like an old friend. If the show were an elaborate production, it would play out as such: the opening trade and the first fan day on Thursday and Friday: rising action; the AVN Awards on Saturday: the climax and Sunday, last day of the show: the denouement.
In the hours leading up to the awards show, expo buzzes with activity, …

There’s something special about the day of the AVN Awards. It starts out like any other on the AEE floor — do some business, meet some fans and try to wedge a halfway decent lunch to fend off those oh so sexy stomach growls.
The tension in the air is thick and it envelops every booth and everyone in the industry. The topic of conversations always turn to who’s going to win what later in the evening. Everyone gets in on it, which is …

Before I got into the adult industry, over six years ago, what is now the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo was a part of the larger convention that dominates Vegas this time of year, the Consumer Electronics Show.
You’d have to be a real old-timer to remember those days. We’re talking the time when the big-haired bleach blonde look was in — think Ginger Lynn, Seka and the legendary Savannah (not Samson). If the AVN show and CES were separate animals, biologists would say that sometime in the ’90s was when evolution …

If you were anything like me, you had your parents chiding you that you were going to school to learn and how it’s not a fashion show. A pre-Hollywood action star and pre-Scientologist Will Smith said as much when he was the Fresh Prince.
But at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, it’s as much a fashion show as it is a networking and business opportunity. There is more wardrobe changes for each day I’m there than I have when I’m on set, and I’m including those scripted, big budget features.
Here’s what …