The great outdoors

Just posted this in Gothic Babes, but don't want to deprive my personal journal readers, although probably most of you have seen this before:



This is an image from a shoot for GothicSluts.com. We did it in an outdoor park. The first place we found where we liked the look turned out to contain a fire ants nest. Not being from TX, I had no idea how scary fire ants should be. Ow. It was worth it though.

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Continuing with the graveyard theme . . .

Ah, the great outdoors:





These two pix feature another cool model of ours in the Gothic Sluts graveyard series we have been doing.

Internet Alternatives

Not that I haven't been trying to think of things I could do offline. I've been trying to remember what I used to enjoy before I was online so much. But the problem is that a bunch of those things just don't exist any more. People know how to forward jokes and memes, but they don't remember how to converse. At least, most of the people I know don't. If I go out to a club and greet an acquaintance, more often than not, their conversation is just to tell me to read their journal online. Everyone seems to think they are a celeb with fanatics now. Frequently, people I am only peripherally aware of believe that I must have read every word of their journal for years and have joined every membership site they were ever on and have seen every mention of them ever on an E/N site.

Mind you, these same people will not bother to find out the most basic things about me or anyone else they sort of know. They are that self-absorbed. Today, I actually saw an email someone sent to Blue Blood suggesting that an erotic publication in print would be a good idea. No way! Really? Maybe I will do something like that some day.

Loathing, Catch 22, or How the Internet Makes Us Evil

I think the internet makes people evil.

The internet addicts people to a certain sort of conflict. Humans are often allergic to the same things they are addicted to.

With the vastness of the internet and the number of conflict junkies online, even people who try to steer clear of drama will get pulled in.

A lot of the people, who are the most unpleasant online, do it under fake identities. But if you speak up to one of these phonies, then their real life alterego can develope a complex about you. And you won't know.

Eventually, the sense that unseen foes wish you ill will cause you to be less sociable in real life. Raise your hands if you are more freaked out about real life interaction since you started spending time online. Thought so.

But, in real life, no one would walk up to stranger and tell them that they are ugly and shabbily dressed. Anyone who did would be considered a lunatic.

On the internet, people seem to genuinely feel like it is okay and even appropriate to try to make other people feel bad about what they look like.

In real life, if you walked up to someone who you could hear talking about you and politely mentioned that the facts were different from what they were presenting, they would not spew invective uninterrupted for ten minutes.

On the internet, people deliberately say rude things in public forums about those more famous and successful than they are in the hopes of getting to have an interaction.

In real life, people with nothing going on in their lives are not the ones most likely to dominate conversation.

On the internet, businesses feel like they do not even need to explain their actions or fees; form letters rule interaction.

On the internet, people treat the personal touch as a sign of lack of success.

Which brings me to the way the internet is a constant Catch 22 i.e. if you are accessible, then people discount your accomplishments, but, if you have trained monkeys/interns answer your email, then people feel you are fake somehow, and, if you don't pay enough attention to some people, they make it their life's mission to be irritating.

If you are beautiful, strangers will assault their fabricated perceptions of your morals online. If you are ugly, strangers will hold you up for ridicule by a cast of thousands.

In the real world, people who are all talk don't get press coverage. On the internet, people who brag more than they work tend to get more positive reinforcement than people who actually do something. I get more newsletters from people claiming they are about to make an announcement than I get actual announcements.

I've set my life up so that it more and more revolves around the internet. Hell, if I feel pensive, I jot my not-ready-for-primetime thoughts down in my journal. Maybe I'm doomed. :-)

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Artists

So I thought I would find lots of cool new artists at the comic convention, but I did not see much which really jumped out at me. I'm looking for artists who can draw (paint, photoshop, painter, poser, pen and ink, whatever tool works) cool-looking people in clubby and/or fetish clothing, some preference for clean Gothic looks. Seeking both dimensional color work and clean black and white work suitable for merch. I prefer working with people who can accept paypal or barter or check in dollars drawn on a US bank. I don't have the time to send an international money order from a Swedish supermarket with denominations in rubles via carrier pigeon any more.

If this is you or someone you know, please post your sites (or your friends' sites) with samples here or email to artists@blueblood.net I had someone in mind for a specific project which is current, but she was all booked up and it pointed out to me that I really need to have a roster of talented people to contact when needs arise because I do periodically need people to work on various one-shot projects. Feel free to repost this call at will.

Thanks, Amelia

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Astronomy

Apparently, this was just posted on the NASA site. It would explain so much.

Forrest does not agree with me on what it looks like. What do other people think it looks like?

What rating is your journal?

Okay, this quiz I just found in vaughnb's journal is definitely defective.


What rating is your journal?
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BLT ::: Black Leather Times

Hee hee, here are some of the key words people have found the online archive of my punk rock humor zine BLT ::: Black Leather Times with since the last time I posted a funny list of these:

accountant sluts
adam thompson
allergy to nonoxynol-
amelia g
b.l.t
black assmaster
black atlanta bitches
black fucking house parties
black horny erections
black leather
black leather curtain
black leather daddies
black leather goddess
black leather punk-rock jacket
black leather times
blackleathertimes
blacksluts
blt
cabineri
circle jerk sluts
colombian sluts
confession leather company
cover fantasy
crossdresser sarah
cum in my hair
david morehead
diversification or dishwater or accompanist or determinable or tease
dogfucker
evil leather sluts
forrest black
fucking leather
gas mask sluts
georgia gun laws
gothic fucking
gothic mohawk fashion
gothic sarah blt
gothic sarah blueblood
gothicsluts
hillbilly sluts
hot for teacher
intel fuck -intel.com
kinky black leather clothes
la black refridgerator
leather
leather booted sluts
leather cops
leather fucking swing
leather fun
leather saps
leather tarts
leather teacher
leather tech
leathersluts
lesbian
literacy intervention
mamma.com
micro-thongwear
mistrusted or cartographic or ernie or articulator or glider
model rocket bazooka
mohawked gothic sluts
mohawks and leather
molatov cocktails
no doz
opiate painkillers
pierced sluts
pinkboys
porn
pros of marajuana use
punk leather
rate black fuck picks
rumpleminz
sarah mckinley oakes
sarah mckinley oakes california
sex purity test
sex tequnique
sibling homicide
sluts
starting a grouphome
strip chess
summer of love cover
tetracycline prescription
the black phallus
uzo liquor
valentines or tippecanoe or histograms or stile or inroad
vampires
vineyards for sale in france
william spencer-hale

Blue Blood's SpookyHotties.com, Best SM Erotica, Lollipop . . .

HERE’S YOUR BLUEBLOOD NEWSLETTER:
- SpookyHotties.com
- Best SM Erotica
- Lollipop Interview with Amelia G Online
- Orlando Weekly Press Mention
- Barely Evil Updates
- Gothic Sluts Updates
- Contact Reminder: Jps.Net E-Mails Discontinued, West Hollywood Snail

SPOOKY HOTTIES
http://www.spookyhotties.com/
Forrest Black and Amelia G's photography appears on the new Spooky Hotties site and yours can too. Models and photographers and artists and all sorts of spooky web folks are invited to post and rate photographs and drawings on this dangerously addictive internet playground. There are sections for Spooky Girls and Spooky Boys and even Spooky Pets! The site officially launches today, but just through word-of-mouth already has built up more than 350 profiles and a quarter of a million hits a day since Forrest mentioned it in his journal July 5.

BEST SM EROTICA
http://www.blueblood.net/store/
Amelia G's erotic short story "Something for the Pain" first appeared in Blue Blood #7 where it was illustrated with the same hot Trevor Brown artwork which adorns the BlueBlood.net T-shirts. Amelia's fiction was honored with inclusion in Marcy Sheiner's Best Women's Erotica. The same story was then also awarded inclusion in M. Christian's Best SM Erotica anthology which was published in hardcover by Doubleday last year. Best SM Erotica is now out in trade paperback from Black Books as well.

LOLLIPOP
http://www.lollipop.com/newrel.php3?special=t
http://www.lollipop.com/article_dyn.php3?reviews_id=2106&band_id=3612
Scott Hefflon's interview with Amelia G which appeared in the last issue of Lollipop is now online in extended form, along with some cute Amelia G and Forrest Black-lensed pix of Yolanda, Lydia Ivy West, Mistress Domiana, Analyn, Scar, Szandora, and Genesis LaVey. The interview is billed on the Lollipop site as, "Scott Hefflon laps up every drop of fetish photographer Amelia G’s intoxicating elixir. The world-traveling rock journalist/photographer/award-winning smut writer founded the original Vampire Goth porn magazine Blue Blood, shoots Gothic vixens in (and out of) corsets, and helped break open the idea that pale girls with freaky hair could be objects of erotic attraction." Hey, it's erotica not porn, buddy. Amelia sends a big internet smooch to Scott for all the cool press coverage.

ORLANDO WEEKLY
There was a brief mention of both GothicSluts.com and BarelyEvil.com in one of the free Florida weekly newspapers last week. They did absolutely zero fact-checking, but, hey, they spelled the URLs right.

BARELY EVIL
http://www.barelyevil.com/home.html
Even though the last Blue Blood newsletter was so recent, Barely Evil has 800 new images posted to the site. Forrest Black and Amelia G photographed Szandora with pink hair and pink Converse, Miss Conduct armed and dangerous, and beautiful Scar showing how to very very improperly use a jumprope. There is a new model interview with Raven Dorman and an interview with the delightfully depraved Midnight. Plus a luscious latex devil and Gemini as an evil cheerleader and the triumphant return of Gia in (and out of) a geisha dress and more.

GOTHIC SLUTS
http://www.gothicsluts.com/
There are just over 800 new pictures on Gothic Sluts since the last newsletter. Amelia G and Forrest Black shot a hot ponygirl series of forked-tongue beauty Jax and a post apocalypse fetish set of Kendra wearing a stitched-up rubber dress she made herself. Sexy new stuff featuring Masuimi Max, Jezabelle Bond, Mary Jane, Mystere, Gauge, Paige Richards, Raven Dorman, and Gemini. And European cutie Nikki Dane and Vegas livewire Midnite Isis are welcomed to the site.

CONTACT INFO REVISITED
You probably all know this by now, but, if you still have any of the JPS.net e-mails in your address book, delete them as they have been discontinued. Do not attempt to get in touch using Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, or Beverly Hills contact info. All swag, contracts, review materials, requests for interviews, etc. should be sent to:

Blue Blood
8033 Sunset Blvd #4500
West Hollywood, CA 90046
USA

Thanks!


--AMELIA G & FORREST BLACK
Amelia@BlueBlood.net & Forrest@BlueBlood.net

http://www.BlueBlood.net/

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Mobster Fetish

All right, enough politics. I am working on an update for GothicSluts.com featuring two of the coolest girls on the planet Scar and Szandora. Whoo-hoo!