I get email

Greetings Dear,

my name is miss maway simon, i saw your email contact address during my searching for soul mate, i became interested to make friend with you.Some friends are remembered because of their smile.Some friends are remembered because of their style.But you are remembered because you are so nice to remember.pls i will like to know more about you.

if you can contact me through my private email address here
I really look forward to reading from you soon.
Thanks
Yours Truly friends

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Come with me

I wrote a big piece for my Forbes blog about a porn convention I attended.

It's called: "The Porn Convention."

Jenna Jameson’s unattainability, her Barbie-on-a-pedestal unknowability, has been replaced by an independent contractor who works from home and is paying off her college debt with your virtual tips by having virtual sex with you. She’s a bombshell or the girl next door, the naughty teacher or the punk rocker, the MILF or whatever it is that your wife isn’t, that you don’t have, that you can’t get, that brought you right here, right now, rather than watching some stale free clip on an X-rated tube site that stole their content from a porn producer who is on the verge of declaring bankruptcy in a Chatsworth office park, thanks to you.

Read it, won't you?

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An excerpt

Here's an excerpt from my "cancer novel" in progress. I wrote most of the first 30,000 words while doing chemo. Why, yes, I do experience everything as a competition. Thanks for asking.

The best thing about getting married, she had found, was that after you got married, it was like everything else in your life had never happened, and that was what she had always wanted.

Sometimes she watched the husband sleep at night. His arms up over his head like a little boy. His dark lashes on his pale cheeks. His breathing like he was pretending he was a freight train in his dreams.

The husband was always there.

"You used to live in a tuna can," the husband liked to say. "I found you by the side of the road. I call it the grand experiment."

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What I'm reading

Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife

Ryan Holiday, Trust Me, I'm Lying

Lydia Netzer, Shine Shine Shine

Damon Brown, Playboy's Greatest Covers

How to make friends in advertising

I got a ton of traffic here recently because of a link from THE BLOG OF TIM FERRIS, thanks to Ryan Holiday, who wrote this new book he wants you to buy.

The post references the now infamous Sasha Grey American Apparel ads that ran on this site many moons ago. Look how racy they are here.

I'm not sure what my point is. Something about how things have changed, or how they haven't.

I still like the ads. I don't think they're shocking.

I think they're cool because they show not enough of too much.