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I really want to buy a sofa and a workout thingie and a couple of dining room chairs. I have more than enough money for a sofa and a workout thingie and a couple of dining room chairs. If I get those things, however, they will be in the way when I do certain types of photo shoots. So I do without them.

Anybody know a source for compact stair masters and weightlifting machines? How about lightweight foldable sofas?

I’ve had a headache at least part of every day for the last week. I feel like getting a coffee because it would relieve some of the headache now, but I think it would make it worse in the long run. So I’m going to try taking a really hot bath instead of getting the coffee I want.

I live in a neighborhood where I am walking distance from a good iced latte from 5am to 2am most days of the week and a short drive 4am to 2am most days of the week. And I am really not taking full advantage of this.

This is from the most recent update to Blue Blood’s Barely Evil and Pinkgasm. We shot this in a real place where we had to worry about getting busted being naughty. I love stuff like this.

This is from a recent shoot ForrestBlack and I did with Scar 13 for both Scar13.com and for Blue Blood’s GothicSluts.com.

Scar did all the awesome decorating. I love working with her. Great person and so talented.

More recent updates for Scar13.com are at this LINK

Oh yeah, couple cool news things:

Forrest Black and I shot the image for the new flyer for Sexy Fandom with Molly Case

Also shot the cover of the new On Our Backs and the cover of the new Spread, plus some stuff for Girlfriends and Marquis and some other stuff I’m not thinking of right now. We are all over the newsstand right now. I love print and I especially love magazines.

Okay, I haven’t been updating this thing much lately. Been crazy busy and kind of jacked up my ankle again to boot. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so I’m going to post some picture updates today and try to post more words later. Got a magazine deadline I need to make which I am procrastinating, even as I post this…

This shot is a sample from the most recent update to Blue Blood’s Gothic Sluts. This is from one of the shoots Forrest and I did on our most recent East Coast trip. I miss some things about the East Coast more than I knew. And I knew I missed some stuff as it was beforehand. Good friends who actually know me, people who read, beautiful wedding, higher education.

Okay, I spent this weekend mostly dealing with computer headaches.

I missed three parties and a gallery show. I had to cancel dinner with friends. I didn’t get my laundry done.

I did get the computer problems fixed. I did get a great haircut. I did get a combo housesitter and computer babysitter.

I am shooting every day for the next week. I am going to Comic Con. I am leaving momentarily.

If I am shooting you, you have my cell number. If you emailed, odds are good I didn’t get it with the computer problems I’ve been dealing with. Usually, I am a digital girl, but please phone in this instance.

If you emailed me something which can wait a couple days, odds are good I didn’t get it and it would be great if you could please email me again on Monday or Tuesday.

Whoo-hoo! I’m going to have fun at Comic Con! (Assuming I can get it together to get my laundry done.)

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Here is what I wrote about this set on Blue Blood’s Gothic Sluts “I really like how you can feel Nina’s sexuality in this set, but it is muted, like she is teetering on the cusp and could become submissive or dominant in the blink of an eye. Which is really pretty representative of what she is like in real life.”

Look out!

There is an entertaining anecdote that goes with this most recent update to Blue Blood’s Barely Evil, but I’m too tired to retell it. Forrest Black posted a bit about it here

Short version of day’s events is: Alex rules.

I have been in and out of town so much lately, it is sort of a whirlwind. Totally exhausted from shooting. It was worth it. I really need to get back to my physical therapist, but I need to get another x-ray first. Soon soon. Sort of want to detail my adventures, but feeling more visual than verbal at the moment. Today’s update to Blue Blood’s Gothic Sluts shot by yours truly and Forrest Black:

If you heart Scar, you can see naughty NSFW samples of the most recent updates to Scar13.com at this link and this link

There is a new site called Scar13.com which just went live which I’m really pleased to have worked on. It is a really artistically satisfying collaborative effort by Scar, a bunch of the Blue Blood usual suspects, and a whole bunch of fun guest photogs. There are a slew of sample shots from the members area at http://www.blueblood.net/boards/showthread.php?t=3825 I’d love to hear feedback on what people think of the tour.

Went out last night to an event which turned out to be completely different from what I expected. Turned out to be an interesting and different experience, although I would have been able to do better press on the event if they had been more organized about facilitating having me and Forrest shoot the most newsworthy participants. I had a good time anyway; it just turned out less like work than expected. Can’t really knock that even a little, unless you are a workaholic.

Most surreal highlight of the evening was when I went up to a girl and told her I liked her outfit and she was like, “didn’t we shoot years ago.” She was wearing pretty spectacular makeup and this headdress she had made herself, so she could have looked pretty different before. I’m all racking my brain for events I might have met her at. Shots Forrest and I did of her ran in Tattoo Savage and I think Marquis. Then she pointed out that we shot at her house, with this super hot guy, and she had a helmet with flames which shot out the top. We shot years ago, but, hell yeah, I remembered her. Felt like I should have picked her out even years later and in costume, once she reminded me. We shot all sorts of unusual different films on her. I’m sort of hungering for a darkroom to play in today. That was such cool stuff.

Anyway, here is a shot I really love from Forrest Black’s and my most recent shoot for Blue Blood’s GothicSluts.com.

Another teeny bit more NSFW shot from another recent update is after the cut – click here

I’ve been watching the early seasons of the West Wing on DVD lately and really enjoying them. I talked to my mom for a long time this weekend and I asked her how accurate the show is in portraying what working in the West Wing is like. She told me that the show had been recommended to her by friends and she and my father had started to watch it, but my dad didn’t like the show, so they stopped. She says that means she can’t say how accurate it is. I think it probably means it must be pretty accurate.

I just realized that I totally left the house with my pants on inside-out. It was just to get coffee, but still . . . I guess I really needed that coffee. LOL I am apparently prepping for an alternative career as an absent-minded professor. I’ve forsaken every vice but coffee and really I need to have my pants on right way out.

Actually, the other day a few of us were playing the what-if-you-didn’t-have-to-work game and I realized that one thing I would do is spend more time in academia. I’d do mostly what I do anyway, which is a cool realization, but I’d concentrate more on the creative side of things which I love best and I’d spend more time in the academic world studying and teaching. Ah well, what if, what if . . .

I’ve had an unusual string of dinners with people lately whose primary focus is thinking and it has been really stirring the mental juices in a good way.

I’m super pleased with this new photo set Forrest and I shot of Dana Dark. Full set is of course on Blue Blood’s GothicSluts.com.