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Party for Duck Duck Wally by Gabe Rotter
by Amelia G : September 24th, 2007

I’ve been meaning to go to one of the Media Bistro shindigs for media professionals, like yours truly, for ages. After seeing Laurel Toby speak, I even moved the post-it reminder a bit higher up on my monitor. I finally managed to roll over to one a couple of weeks ago. Horror author and poet Maria Alexander and I rolled over to the Luxe Hotel on Rodeo Drive, which is a fairly swanky, if odd, location for a book party. Aside from just hanging out being, you know, media-like, the Media Bistro party was also to celebrate the release of Gabe Rotter’s first novel Duck Duck Wally. Maria and I missed the hotel the first time we drove by because it is a boutique hotel and thus not very hotel-looking, so it blended into the landscape. I almost always stay in boutique hotels when I travel. The service and the suites always feel more personal than in like a Hilton or whatever. And there are usually bowls of green apples, no matter which boutique hotel it is. As I live in Los Angeles, I don’t stay in hotels here and neither Maria nor I had been to anything thrown by this particular organization before. We both went with mildly dressy professional and black. I know the color scheme is a shocker. When I saw that the hotel was actually next door to the Michael Kors store on Rodeo, I thought it was perhaps some sort of weird psychic flash which had caused me to just buy a bunch of black Michael Kors clothing this season. A good omen.

The party was fun. Maria and I chatted with a variety of interesting people. It . . .

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Amelia G Interview Tonight on OutQ 109
by Amelia G : September 21st, 2007

Diana Cage and I most recently worked together when she had me and Forrest Black do a Bettie Page-themed shoot of writer/actress Guinevere Turner and Blue Blood hotties Smokin Mary Jane. Guin was a screenwriter on The Notorious Bettie Page, which was about to come out at the time, so Forrest’s and my photographs ran both in Girlfriends Magazine and on the cover of the late lamented On Our Backs. Diana was totally on it through every step of production, making sure everything went just right.

I’m looking forward to chatting with her again. Tonight, she will be interviewing me for her show on Sirius Satellite Radio for her show on Sirius OutQ Channel 109. I am scheduled to go on at 11:13pm Eastern/8:13pm Pacific. If you already get Sirius, then you are set, but you can also sign up for a free three day trial on the Sirius site and listen online.

We will be talking about BlueBlood.net, BlueBlood.com, and Blue Blood magazine in print. And, naturally, that conversation will include us chatting about beautiful imagery, tattoos, looking at women, booking models, and what turns us on.

Diana Cage
Weekdays 10 pm – 1 am ET
The author of Girl Meets Girl, Box Lunch, and other sex and dating guides, Diana gets down and dirty with talk about relationships, gender politics and all things personal. Diana blasts stereotypes with an irreverent and smart look at GLBT lives and culture.

Tattooed and corseted wishes for a Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day!

This September 19th holiday was founded by two guys named Mark Summers and John Baur, with assistance from their friend Brian Rhodes and boosting from one of my favorite humorists, the talented Dave Barry. And Blue Blood celebrates it, yarrr.

Although our Blue Blood discussion boards here are known for their intelligent and rational conversations on hot button topics, we all are also familiar with the long-running pirates versus ninjas battles. Critical thinking is vital, but being good at pirate lingo is always a plus. So, for International Talk Like a Pirate Day, we just had to feature a photo set of Halloween Jen Vixen. Famous corsetmaker Isabella Costumiere donated black pirate pantaloons and a white corset for the cause. Jen already had her own eye patch with a skull and crossbones on it. Now that be a fine lass, yarr. Ms. Vixen is now featured on BlueBlood.com in a dozen sets with a whopping 611 photographs lensed by yours truly and Forrest Black. Reminder: In addition to images of the beautiful tattooed Jen Vixen, membership in the BlueBlood.com mega site includes an additional 80,154 pictures, of 348 other incredibly gorgeous hotties, shot by a variety of cutting edge photographers, quality fiction from established genre authors and Blue Blood’s world famous signature couples photo sets.

When you think about it, the Blue Blood skull does have a hint of the Jolly Roger about it. Avast, all scurvy dogs, prepare to be boarded!

A Little Black Dress and No Vomiting Blood

by Amelia G : September 18th, 2007

My mother’s generation had a saying about how you could go anywhere so long as you had a little black dress. I’ve been working on putting this to the test this September. Every year, I tend to feel kinda gothic during the summer and I perk up as soon as it is Fall. I don’t know if this is some sort of Reverse Seasonal Affective Disorder (Disorder is such a judgmental word.) or if I just really like school to be in session, whether or not I am attending it. My birthday is also in August and I tend to use my birthday and New Year’s as times to make adjustments designed to perfect my existence. This Fall, I’ve made a commitment to get out and enjoy what Los Angeles has to offer. So I bought a lot of little black dresses and have been trying new things and enjoying it a lot as it happens. The only weird thing about doing so much which is brand new is that it creates a bit of social anxiety.

The feminist blog/site Say Object referred to me saying,

“One of our favorite feminist thinkers, Amelia G of BlueBlood.net, recently weighed in on the “Captivity” billboard controversy, and some of what she says suprised us (plus, Girl clearly did her research).”

Writer/editor/cupcake fetishist Rachel Kramer Bussel and I were chatting about the Say Object mention and she told me they were having a party.

So Tuesday night, although I knew I was eventually headed to the West Side to help Blue Blood hottie Superna celebrate her birthday, I started all the way on the East Side at The Echoplex in Echo Park. The first event on deck …

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I swear I will keel over if I do not get some sleep soon.

Wow. I think I just have kind of inexplicable social anxiety. I was totally nervous before going out tonight. Only the Universe pretty much couldn’t have been any nicer to me if its entire purpose for existing tonight was solely to be incredibly cool and nice to me.

What do you do when there are things you really wish you could make someone else understand . . . when you know that (a) there is probably no getting anything through their thick head and (b) it wouldn’t really make a difference if you did communicate successfully to them? I find it so difficult not to try to educate people when they are being unreasonable, even though any interaction at all with unreasonable people usually just makes them more unpleasantly unreasonable and not more rational.

Do you go ahead and communicate with (really at) irrational and unreasonable people?

Do you write down your thoughts and not send them or speak to the person?

Or do you just put it out of mind?

I always like to do projects to support the scene. I understand that this means that a lot of time I will be doing things which pay less than I could otherwise make. What I don’t understand is how the scene seems to be becoming populated with more and more people who want to suck my dick but can’t communicate anything creatively or professionally important to save their lives. If I had a dollar for every time someone told me I was the goddess of the universe and inspired their whole existence . . . and then, either through guile or incompetence, kinda didn’t come through on their end, that would be a lottah dollahs.

This bums me out.

And I was having a really great day too. Grrr.

Some folks have been asking about the instructions for entering the Rob Zombie Halloween Screening Contest. Just head on over to BlueBlood.net and check the comments on the feature for clarification of instructions. Good luck to everyone!

Julie Simone Audition Party at Bar 107
by Amelia G : August 26th, 2007

I had dropped the luscious Michelle Aston off at Bar 107 in downtown Los Angeles before, but had never gone inside. For some reason, I had assumed it was a teensy hole in the wall dive. I figured I’d stop in anyway to help Julie Simone celebrate the 12th DVD Release by her company, Julie Simone Productions.

I was happily surprised when the inside of Bar 107 turned out to be larger than expected, with red plush booths and a small stage in the back. The bar could have had more of a selection, especially in the sparkling water department, but it was still very cool.

Julie Simone’s new flick, Audition, was playing on televisions mounted up high by the ceiling. I’m not sure if that violates some sort of zoning ordinance, but I always wonder about such things and the crowd was sufficiently naughty all on their own.

Luminaries in attendance included, of . . .

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Fuck. I thought I was going to a BBQ today, but it was actually Friday. I need a new calendar solution. Too much to do and not enough way to keep track of it.

Anyone here use a calendar system they like?

Yes or no, guys, when I post photographs in my LJ, do you or do you not realize that I am posting my own work, stuff shot by me and my photographic partner forrestblack?

Someone just sent me an email telling me that someone on my friends list actually does not appear to realize that I post photos I shoot. I realize Forrest Black and I have a large body of work and all, but, for fuck’s sake, I think I’d specify if I were posting something by someone else. If I do not explicitly state that something I post in my LJ is a sample of someone else’s work (which has probably happened like 3 times ever) you can definitely be 100% certain it is by me. I mean, this is my journal and all, so it makes sense to post my work.

Blue Blood dot com updates pretty much every day with erotic tattooed gothic punk deathrock hottie pictorials and I don’t even post samples of a quarter of everything Forrest and I shoot, so I’m certainly not posting tons of stuff by other photogs in my journal, even though, of course, I publish other people, with compatible visions, on Blue Blood dot com as well.

Seriously, did you or did you not realize that Forrest Black and I shoot the photos I post?

Blue Blood and Gothic.net would like to bring you all the opportunity to win a screening of the Rob Zombie re-imagining of one of the original gangsters of slasher flicks, Halloween. The grand prize is a screening of the film for the winner and twenty of their most intimate friends, as well as a Rob Zombie grab bag including a limited edition T-shirt, CD’s, the Devil’s Rejects DVD, and the House of 1000 Corpses DVD. Four runners up will also win their own grab bags.

You know how sometimes you and your friends like to smear yourselves with vanilla-flavored corn syrup with a lot of red food coloring in it and take pictures? Well, if you are familiar with the Halloween series, go ahead, bust out those mask and knife collectibles, and take the most Halloween iconic shots you can and submit them over at the Rob Zombie’s Halloween Contest site to win.

Fine print: real murders void eligibility to participate.

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Forrest Black and I shot this image of the vivacious Nikki Vega with inspiration from vintage war effort posters.

More images from this series free at this link. Whole set on BlueBlood.com

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