Posts from — December 2006

Trends of the year: 

Many Bloggers started up spin off blogs for special projects, such as music, writing or off topic.

People are running their own domain or servers, like LazyGeisha, AlexSuze, ABH, Blogstormz, Bubblegum Meltdown, just to name a few.

Best Novelty of the year:  The Secret Brain Funnies  

January

•  V Day is a global movement to stop violence against women.   Supportive of the cause but unfamiliar with it I did a spot on it.  Thank you Shay who featured her own article at Shay’s Other Spot . 
• The S-Spot , AlexSuze.com , Tara Tainton , Sexoteric , Late Starter , (Sexualité)  These were the participants in the second Adult Chat session I hosted.  Lot’s of fun! 
• Visitors of AlexSuze , Still on Blogger at the time, saw all the front page toys move to an area called the Backroom , thus leaving more space on the front page for new stuff.
• A poll in January, resulted in 8 out 10 people keep their privates trimmed.

February

• The poll with the most responses.(16) Multiple Sex Partners .
• The post that’s had the most hits…Probably because of the title Cheap Thrills. 
• Early in February, AlexSuze.com decided to come back and continue with their blogging project, after being hacked.  Great decision guys!

March

• My first and only HNT . 
• AlexSuze introduce Cell Phone  wallpapers.  Funny, but very innovative!
• Lots of reviews in March!

April 

• April marked one full year of reviews.
• I came up with a link to logo for DH Spicy.
• I got bit by a Trojan virus exploring for a write up on Voyeurism.
• Last big update for the Link page 
• Launch of BlogStormz 

May 

• Random Adult articles, opens up a new category "Stuff for Adults"
• Failed attempt at lauching a Wet T-Shirt photo contest. 
• AlexSuze set up a Suggest a Toy review page.

June 

• Summer schedule kicks in.  Posts slow down.  More time outdoors with DS.
• Guess Who Concert review.

July 

• Geared up for camping and spent a disatrous week end.  Still lots of fun!
• The lauch of ABH .
• Upgraded to Wordpress 2 
• Changed lay out and added a second sidebar to create like a sideblog.
• BubblegumMeltdown is reborn.

August 

• I manage a remote log on from the cottage.
• Users who posts comments can now have their own Avatars. 

September 

• Added a photo gallery as a new way to display feature artists.
• BlogStormz gets its own domain!
• Added a music player in Wordpress to feature music from a Strip-Tease post.

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• Dawson College shooting.

October 

• After almost a month off, following the shooting, I came back with a Halloween project. 
• Scenes, Sic and BSC - 3 projects I missed while not blogging! 
• Hosting battle begins - Too many bots, hogging band width, Server slow downs…Things have never been the same.

November

• Hosting Battle continues
• DH Joins the Gym to keep in shape .
• The Sexy Back contest was my second bad idea this year.  No takers.

December 

• Random predictions 

This little walk through has only been from my perspective.  What about you?  What would you consider some of your better moments, in 2006, vis a vis your time on line, working on your blog or some of your better adult exploitations, discoveries.  How will you remember 2006?

With a little more time on my hands and at home this week, I’m having a wonderful time catching up on some of my favourite readings.  Of course as I visit your blogs, I look carefully at who you’ve added to your sidebars and check their links too.

A year and half  ago, my method was very different, and I still resort to it, to find totally new material.  It would be too easy for me to just drop in on BlogStormz or ABH and review the authors there.  I like to think, I can still dig up fresh blood from different circles and bring them out or in.  So you can expect a bit of both.

From Scotland, I found Vahri’s blog on Blogger entitled Vahri’s Dreams .  Personally I would love for her to do a Podcast.  Just to hear the accent.  Her Mission Statement:  "The sexual fantasies of a thirty-something horny Highland girl".  Vahri has been posting since May, and her writing is very hot.  She certainly achieves her objectives. 

In her opening statement, she refers to her writings as pornography.   Interestingly enough I like to draw a line between pornography and erotic or adult writing.  My line is drawn here:   Pornography is mostly just a lot of straight screwing around going on.  Graphic, either through a video, or a magazine.  Erotic or adult writing has elements of script and story line, character development, setting, building up to a graphic scene which can be described in either a gentle or coarse fashion.  I won’t go on to all the elements of writing, as some of you are far more qualified to do this.  You get the idea.

As for Vahri’s writing, it’s very good.  In some entries, she just gets down to business and puts sexual elements  in our faces right away. In others, that definitely qualify as stories, she falls into the writer’s category .

 Great read and I will  likely add her to my little repertoire.  Her blog design is simple, but it delivers her goods.  That’s what its for!  Her blog categories are presented in different types of Sex, such as First Times, Lesbian Sex, Oral Sex…etc.

 Vahri’s blog has a few pictures placed appropriately.   Usually one per post, pertaining to the subject matter.  Her repertoire of Blog links is modest, however I found a lot of "sponsoring" in the sidebar.  From Amazon.com to Sugar Adult DVD and Passion:  An adult Sex shop.

 All in all this is a great blog, with its unique style.  (I just wish she’d do a podcast 

Blogging

MySpace will improve its format to entice more users.  It will be good enough to draw a considerable amount of adult bloggers. 

Blogging is not going away.  The general public is still curious and there are still many developers eager to please the needs.  We can be ready to see new comers as well as improvements on the present platforms. 

Blogging continues to evolve in different directions in 2007, serving much more than the original personal journal crowd.  It makes publishing websites so easy we can expect different types of CMS to spin off from its format.

Sex Toys

Always innovate!  And with Internet and blogs, you’ll find a lot more people putting their ideas out there.  Some home made.  More and more blogs on masturbation…   Some with a purpose, others not really!

Fashion

Look to Gaudi for patterns and colours, seek warm earth tones in fall and winter.  Say goodbye to wearing your joggers out on the street.   People want to look good and unique in 2007.  Fashion will look to shape the body in certain areas rather than to conceal it.  Be prepared for new purchases being tight in certain areas. 

Plus size fashion will flourish. 

Big breasts take a back seat.  It won’t be as important anymore and people will accept themselves as they are.  I can still like big breasts!

Hair

You will keep your hair shorter but messier.  Big points, for going to work with as little fuss on your hair as possible.  Messy hair at the office will be in line will the growing statement “I got laid last night” and that’s becoming more and more popular!  So keep them guessing and go into work with messy hair everyday!

Jewellery

Lots of it!  Lot’s that you can’t see.  Big stones.

Self Improvement

Eat better, take time to look after yourself:  This a concept that we saw the beginnings of in 2006, and it keeps on flourishing.  People use to say I do it for my partner, now people don’t say it.  You do it for yourself.  You want to feel good, look good.  There may not be a partner right now, still you will take those few moments to work out, eat properly and since there is no partner, you may also take a few quiet moments and bring yourself on and off!  If you don’t already belong to a health club or gym or spa, chances are you will by the end of 2007.

Technology

Spam is not going away, expect lots more!

Also expect to see Mp3’s and online multimedia targeted with a new generation strand of virus or malaware or spy ware.

In the last big computer evolution, the Internet, Microsoft missed the boat.  It  scrambled and sabotaged for two years to gain a foothold.  This time Microsoft will be at it again by introducing RSS to it’s next operating system.  As a result, existent RSS tools will improve and will no longer be free for its advanced features.

Consumer

Most of what you’ll buy, yes even your sex toys will have been manufactured in China.  China still the leader in manufacturing, stick to the service industry.  More stuff to come from China and if your looking for something and you can’t find it, you may want to take a trip there and look for it!  Large western companies, will keep on establishing branches in China to facilitate many aspects of business.

I missed God!  Global Orgasm Day!  December 22^nd, I was out Christmas shopping all day.  An interesting web site if you want to check out what you missed.  Stay tuned for next year.

Ok, so you’ve all your rest after the party…Now I’m curious to find out if you got anything interesting over the holidays.  Please share with us! 

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Every once in a while I discover an artist or a photographer that I share with you.  My latest is Robert Coulter, who stands behind many erotic achievements in the field of photography.  Perhaps one project which may be better know is Bad Girls Hotel.  The previous link will take you to Amazon.com where you can also browse some of his other published works.

So, I got curious and started examining and digging up what I could find about where the shots were taken and the subjects (models) used in the photography.  A New Yorker himself, Bob Coulter chose “Ye Olde Carlton Arms Hotel” located on east 25^th Street in New York.  As I browsed the pictures, I felt like I had just received an invitation from Jerry Garcia of the Greatful Dead.  The rooms are kept in a “on the magic bus” ambiance.

About the models, well they really are models!  It was a little more difficult to get info about the ladies.  But I got enough info to attest, that despite the theme, these were models and perhaps not bad girls as we would be lead to believe.  This just goes to show how far a photographer with a great imagination can go. 

Fortunately, much of his work is available on the Internet.  You may see the gallery in the sidebar for what I’ve gathered for you.   You will also find an extensive collection of photos work on Bob Coulter’s My Space.

Other Robert Coulter resources…

http://www.badgirlshotel.com/contact.html

Writing through this media we call "the blog" has opened up sevaral doors to many people.  It’s kind of fun!  Mind you around this time, some have less time for writing.  This is most likely one of my last posts for 2006.  As I roam around I see the trend, people spending more family time, Office parties, Holiday shopping.

So, I’ve been peeking around at some blogs.   Perhaps they’re too busy with the above or perhaps they just post once in a while.  Certainly not daily or regularly like some I drop in on.  Yet you find content and quality. 

Someone who’s taken their time to put a piece together in a few precious moments and therefore, worth reading, by my standards.

Since September, Bad Influence Girl has put together a Wordpress project and achieved a re-birth.  Reading the earlier entries, I get the impression, this was to get a new start.  I couldn’t figure out the previous identity, obviously for good reasons. 

With over forty powerful entries on Wordpress,  Bad Influence Girl can bring on, out of most stories, a quick arousal factor.  Very well written and entertaining.  You can even get a review of Doc Johnson’s IRabbit reading through the archives.

 Really hot stuff here!  Reading Lil_Bit on the Side from the beginning, you get a feeling of someone sitting down to tell all about the sexual encounters she’s had.   Simple presentation on Blogger, which serves the purpose here.  Entries date back to October.