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Remeber the Porn Tax bill that the FSC is so vehemently against?

Well yesterday was the deadline for registering opposition to that bill.

Guess who didn’t bother to register opposition?  If you guessed the good old worthless Free Speech Coalition….You guessed right.

This industry is beginning to make me sick Between AIM and the FSC and the rest of the money sinks and two bit con artists in this biz by comparison we really are disgustingly fucking stupid.

Damn CNN just change the letters to MJNN.  Yes he was a good entertainer, but he was also a weird, fucked up, a freak and a fucking fruitloop. He is dead, he will be dead tomorrow and nobody of any importance really gives a fuck beyond that.

Speaking of  Look at the race whores Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton competing for time with Michaels Dad Joe Jackson, who only seems to want to pimp his new record label…..no wonder Michael wanted to be white, these people are a fucking disgrace.

And Sarah Palin is stepping down as Alask’a Governor, presumeably to run for President in 2012.  No doubt as a “family values” Republican…Lets see The Palin Family, The Bush Family, The Cheney Family…Hell The Clinton Family…picture them all in your mind

Now Picture the Barack Obama family.  Which one better conjures up “family values” to you.

Surprised?

You have all heard it many times:

Its no big deal, its just minor surgery

she will be fine it’s just minor outpatient surgery, it doesn’t even require a hospital stay

Well let me tell you, that’s all fine and dandy when it aint us having the surgery.  It makes us feel better about not calling and not really caring about whoever is having the surgery.

Now, as someone who has been there, allow me to give you the real truth.

When a doctor or doctors have to put you into a medically induced coma to keep you from dying because of the effects the pain of what they are doing will have on you…There ain’t nothing minor about it.

So the chances that you will survive the surgery are very high, and the fact that they can send you home from a surgery center an hour or so after bringing you out of your medically induced coma truly is amazing. The truth is, it isn’t minor.

In the coming days you will hear a lot about a drug called Propofol, aka Diprovan. It will be related to the Michael Jackson death.  I have some experience with this drug, it has been used on me twice. It’s what the anestheologist uses to induce that coma that allows you to survive surgery, be it major (as in the case of my spinal surgery) or “minor” as in the case of my recent sinus surgery. It’s an amazing drug that only came into use less than twenty years ago.

But when it’s used on you, or someone you even care a little bit about, It means that they are about to undergo some very painful days.

For me, in some ways this sinus surgery was worse than my spinal surgery, for sure it hurt more, a lot more, not because of anything except the fact that I had a morphine drip with on demand delivery for 8 days after the spinal surgery…that and a massive dose of percocet every three hours kept me null and void.

This time there was no morphine, yes I had the Percocet but they didn’t stop the pain, not even a little.  I have an extraordinarily high tolerance for pain, but persistant pain over days will wear down anyone. Fri, the day of the surgery wasnt too bad because of the lasting effects of  the anesthesia combined with the pain meds and lack of swelling and what not.  Saturday it got worse, and Sunday and most of Monday were excruciating, the throbbing and the stinging and the constant pain could be dulled, but they didn’t go away and you couldn’t be distracted from them. Sleep was all but impossible and the nose bleed was a constant.

Eventually on Tuesday it lightened up, and when it did it got better quick, the nose bleed stopped mostly, and the pain meds could mask the pain to a level where I could actually sleep for more than 15 mins at a time. Today I have been able to gently blow my nose, as long as the percocet was kicked in.  I blew out a LOT of coagulated and congealed blood.  Eventually it got to the point that I don’t feel congested anymore.  I still use the saline spray 10-12 times a day and Im still on the Percocet but I have halved the dosage, instead of 2 every 4 hrs I can do one every 4 to 6 hours without much discomfort.

You may be wondering why I’m telling you all this.  I’m telling you my experience because every one of you will either have this surgery or know someone who will have to have it.  It’s commonly refered to as having your sinuses roto-rootered and thats pretty much exactly what they do to you.  I also had a deviated septum fixed, which no doubt added to the pain.

As people who know me say all the time…Damn South you’re a tough motherfucker dude.  Well I dunno about that I’m just me, I probably am pretty tough, I don’t bitch about being uncomfortable, I face my problems and trials in life head on and I have never once said why me, nor will I, that’s a pussy thing to even think.

Like the spinal surgery I said simply one of two things will happen, I will own this or this will own me. Like The spinal surgery I owned this.

So the next time someone you care about is having “minor outpatient surgery” remember what you read here today, remember how this tough old mother fucker was brought to writing this by pain that I hope NONE of you EVER has to endure. And remember the one thing that makes that person feel better, is knowing that you care enough to email, call, text, send a card or whatever.

What few moments I had that made me feel even a little better came from friends and family who thought enough to say how are you feeling. I even got good wishes from someone who I know doesn’t like me, and he admitted he doesn’t like me but he also has enough humanity in him to appreciate  and empathize with my situation.

I now have a lot more respect for this guy because unlike other pussies who tell everyone else they don’t like me  but pretend to be my friend to my face this guy admits he doesn’t like me but tells me to my face he doesn’t want to see me suffering. I respect that. Same as I respected Kurt Lockwood doing it when I has my spinal surgery.  I know some so called friends who could learn an awfull lot about being a real man from this guy.

There’s a lot of lessons in this post, a lot of things for y’all to remember, one day you will in a position to use this info so dont forget it.

Thank you again to all the people, friends or not, who have sent me a little cheer. And thank you to all my real friends who have offered anything I need, I’m lucky to have you in my life.

There ain’t that many people in adult that I have even a modicum of respect for. But one of the ones who has earned my respect over the years called Bullshit on me.

Said that by not speaking my mind to the L.A Times, I was selling out, just making noise and masturbating myself in front of my readers.

And he was right.

So I called the writer at the L.A. Times  and told her exactly what I think, of Sharon Mitchell, her degree, AIM, the industry and the fraud that we perpetrate on ourselves in this business. Maybe someone is listening or will read it and will have both the resources and the desire to make it right before complacency and ignorance kills more of the people in this business.

Thanks Brudda, you know who you are and you were right.

 Her Grades from her ACCREDITED College were posted today

History 011                         A

Theater 200                        A

Finance 002                         A

Child Developement 001    A

Straight As…way to go Kayden We are proud of you…Now stop using school as an excuse for not writing….

making them eligible for parole in ten months.

Remember me telling you they got a sweetheart deal?  They did, their total fines: $0.00

In other words they didn’t have anything, so instead of money they will pay with time in jail, most likely a minimum security club fed.

Did they make the smart move, without a doubt, but the smarter move would have been to avoid the situation that landed them in this position in the first place, challeneging the feds to come get you is …well…stupid.

Rob and Lizard will be out before Max even gets transferred to his permanent digs most likely.

I have heard conjecture that Rob cut a deal with the Feds in exchange for information on his family members including his Uncle Chuck Zane and his father, but that kind of rumor is always going to come up in a situation like this one, it isn’t that I don’t think Rob would because basically he is a pussy, and he would, I think. But I doubt he did because I dont think he knows anything they wouldn’t already have.

I do think it sucks, I don’t like the concept of obscenity being a crime to begin with, but the whole arbitrary nature in which something is decided to be obscene is an affront to anyone who believes in free speech and  justice.

And honestly I have been avoiding them.

What can I say to them that they couldn’t read here?

Everyone thinks I have this big hard on for AIM and want nothing more than to burn them to the ground.  That isn’t entirely true.  I do think AIM has become what all bureaucracies become, whatever noble purpose it once may have had, it now exists only to feed itself.

I think that as an industry we can do a lot better than AIM.  Sadly I think we won’t.  We will become complacent and it will be business as usual once again until finally the government regulators will have their way with us.

It’s sad really, because we could set up what should be the premiere  resource for STD research in the world. We have an amazing study group, but we squander our assets by asserting that we are something we are not.  We don’t use standard testing, we risk our performers in the name of AIM making more money, and do any of you really think that putting forth Sharon Mitchell as a “Doctor” isn’t going to bite us in the ass?  She is NOT a doctor in ANY sense of the word.  She may be a nice person, I think she is, but It just further exposes AIM as the scam that it is when people call her a “Doctor”.

Lets clean it up, before it’s too late.  AIM needs accountablity, real doctors and real health care professionals on it’s board of directors, I mean Ernest Greene is married to Nina Hartley, who once played a nurse in a porn movie…that’s about as close as he can claim to any sort of qualification…what does that say about AIM?  About Us?  Is that the best we can come up with?

Thanks again for all the kind wishes…I’m doing as well as can be expected.  Yup my whole face hurts but hell….I been worse.

One thing I am noticing about acute pain, it tends to clarify things.  It’s weird but if there are things that you don’t quite see clearly serious pain will bring them into very sharp focus.

I will be back to normal in no time I expect. I’m already weaning off the pain meds, i tend to prefer a little pain to being null and void.  I can’t sit up and do much of anything for any extended period of time, even this little update kind of stretches it, causing my nose to bleed.  A few of you are facing this in the near future…It isn’t any fun, let me tell ya but the way I see it is every day past is one less day till Im back to 100%  I have about a week and a half to go….

Well I am busy replying to emails and I wanted to say a very “public” HI to Mike.. I know you are sitting at home in misery..I’m sorry baby!  That’s the unfortunate side-effect of the “practice” of medicine..lol.  Seriously though, I talked to him about an hour ago and you may all feel secure in the knowledge that he is a little sore, a little perturbed….and onery as ever.  Mike we all are wishing you a speedy …and free breathing … recovery.  I personally want to thank you for all your hard work on my behalf, along with Eddie at Studio 9, in producing, designing, and getting my website up and live…thanks guys you ROCK!

And really quickly I want to publicly “call out” Felicia Fox and her hubby Tim Case…get your asses down here to Atlanta as soon as possible dammit!  Mike and I both wish we could have been  in Dayton, Ohio at the “Flamingo Showclub” for your big 1oth Anniversary party but we will make it up to you when you come here..lol.  By the way, answer your voice mails.