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In my life, the passing of another year is most noticeably marked by the Adult Entertainment Expo (everyone still calls it AVN), which occurs in early January. As I sit here preparing my interview questions for this year’s show, I’m thinking over last year’s show; how to improve, what people really want to know about these girls, what’s happened since the last AVN?

How can I Improve?

• I should be picking up my video camera today. I have two different microphones that I’ll be testing for performance in ridiculously loud situations.
• I’ve scheduled 17 (!!!) interviews so far and I don’t think there’s any way to get through all of them without pre-written questions. So I’m writing those.
• I think the best thing I can do (for myself at least) is to be a little less nervous throughout the whole process. Maybe Xanax = better interviews?

What Questions to Ask?

• Researching and writing questions for all of these girls is more difficult than it probably sounds. I also wonder if what I consider an interesting question is really interesting to the people who will eventually watch the interviews.
• I’ve gone and watched/read other peoples’ interviews with porn stars. Most are bad/boring. The blame for this is shared by all parties involved. There are questions that I simply won’t ask this year (ex: What’s your favorite position?)
• Seriously, what do you guys want to know about these girls? Please tell me.

What’s Happened this Year?

• After my employment transition (is that even a phrase?) in March, I’ve been writing, taking classes and working on my own projects, including this blog.
• It’s been a pretty good year, and without getting too sappy, I just want to thank you guys for sticking with me. Having readers is a good thing for any blogger, but having awesome ones who make me laugh, make me think about a variety of perspectives and put up with my erratic posting schedule is an honor that I am very grateful for.

The show starts in a week. I won’t specifically be covering the convention for VideoBox this year (although I’ll probably write about it once or twice while I’m there), so I’ll be posting my updates and pictures here just for you. Happy New Year!

As an occasional watcher of golf (just the majors) and a sometimes fan of Tiger Woods (I usually root for Padraig Harrington), I’ve watched Tiger’s infidelity scandal unfold with mild curiosity.

Now that such illustrious publications as The Sun, The Examiner, and the Daily News have broken the unsurprising news that a porn star was among the ranks of Tiger’s “other women,” the story is just relevant enough to mention.

Porn star Holly Sampson is either mistres #6 or #7 (depending on who you ask).

This made me chuckle.

As you probably already know, Captchas are the boxes of wonky words you have to type in to verify that you’re a human being when filling out forms or buying concert tickets. Many of them are provided by a program called reCAPTCHA that helps to digitize books (and, the New York Times, currently) that machines aren’t able to read.

I have to wonder what book or New York Times article this particular combination of words emerged from: