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My Ex-Student Is A Cuckold

Blacks on Blondes

I shit you not.

You know I don’t talk too much about my past, but a long time ago, I taught high school seniors how to write. No, I didn’t take perverted pictures of them, nor did I behave inappropritately around them – ever. And if someone would have told me then that I’d be shooting porn now…well, I wouldn’t have believed them.

Not for a second.

Think it’s weird an ex-teacher is shootin’ porn? Ron Jeremey used to teach…special kids, too. So there. Plus, I’ve told you no one really aspires to be a pornographer…it just sorta happens. But yea, it might be weird, but oh well. Take me for what I am, but let’s not digress.

There was one student who was a real pain in the ass. Actually, I had lots and lots of Pain In The Ass Students. Tons. This particular student was in my class for the two or three weeks he actually showed up one semester. If he didn’t ditch my class, I gave him the boot most of the time, mostly cause he was a discipline problem.

Then he dropped out forever.

Let’s fast forward about a decade. Eight and a half years to be exact. I’m now the main guy shooting for Blacks on Blondes, and Erin Moore calls me. She’s excited, cause she’s kinda seeing this new guy, and he’s down with watching her get plowed by a big-dicked brother.

I’m serious.

I book the scene with my main most man Boz The Animal. He’s been known to tear a white pussy to shreds, especially when Hubby is watching.

I’ll cut to the chase: Erin walks in with her boyfriend, and it’s that Pain In The Ass Kid. To reiterate, I shit you not. If that wasn’t weird enough, here’s where it gets weirder: I actually remembered him. I taught for a few years, which tallies up to hundreds and hundreds of students, most of which were a pain in the ass, and I don’t remember 98% of them. In fact, to this day, I remember less than a dozen of them.

But I remembered Erin Moore’s cuckold.

The second he walked into my studio.

Thank God, Allah, Jesus, Buddah, The Pope, Joseph Smith and George W Bush that he didn’t recognize me.

I shot the scene. I didn’t mention a thing. Not a word to anyone, except maybe Spring Thomas, and, I think, Erin…a few days later, when she broke up with the guy. The whole thing was so fucking weird it’s painful to talk about even now, years later – my ex-Pain In The Ass Student who gets off watching his chick fuck a big-dicked brother.

Nice, huh?

But I got the scene. And that’s all that counts.

Right?

Blacks on Blondes

Amber Rayne Christens My New Studio

Amber and Naudia

Joe hit me up on ICQ around the first of October for a favor – he’s working with Amber Rayne on her site, and he wanted me to blast off some content for him. He wanted a new look for some of her scenes, and he wanted to know if I was interested. I was flattered, and I took the gig.

Turns out the gig was a lesbo anal fuck fest with Naudia Nyce.

I hadn’t met Amber until that day, but I have a history with Naudia. She was Sophia’s pal, and whenever I’d see Naudia – and it was usually when I was hanging out with Sophy – she’d always refer to me as “Sophia’s Friend From Arizona”, and I always thought that had kind of a nice ring to it. And of course I’d ask her when we could work together, and the answer was always “soon” – which never happened…until just this week.

I love Sirius Radio. I really do. It kicks a whole bunch of ass, from Howard Stern – who’s practically reinvented himself on satellite – to The Underground Garage and Left of Center. I blast the radio whenever I’m working in the studio, and my Amber Rayne / Naudia Nyce day was no exception. I should have known the girls wouldn’t be digging Wilco or Sonic Youth or Ben Kweller, so when Amber asked if I had any Motley Crue, I bolted to my radio and tuned in Hair Nation.

Ever see what happens to porn girls when The Crue is turned to up to 11? Or G n’ R? It’s a lot like George Romero’s zombies in his latest masterpiece Land of the Dead. Remember when the zombies get distracted by fireworks? So much so they stare into space and leave The Living alone?

Don’t believe me? Next time you’re hanging out with porn stars, blast “Sweet Child O’ Mine” and watch, in pure amazement, as the girls suddenly lose all train of thought in whatever it was they were doing to start prancing around the room like they’re working a strip joint for 20 dollar bills. It’s amazing, it really is. One second Naudia and Amber are filling out model releases, the next it’s just like the front stage of your favorite club, and they’re looking into the air like Romero’s zombies, strutting their stuff and leaning up against anything that’ll hold them up. The only thing missing were brass poles.

OK – I’ll skip to the good part – where each girl had a glass dildo shoved up their butt, and they were racing to see who could cum first. It was a close call…really close. But I’ll give it to Amber. After both girls busted a nut and gave each other a gentle kiss on the lips, I flipped off the camera, said the same thing I always say at the end of a good scene, and started off to unload content.

Do you think the girls stopped what they were doing?

Fucking Amber started heavin’ and shakin’, and I sat there for a second, foolishly thinking she was just goofing, and when it dawned on me she wasn’t, I ran and got my camera and flipped it back on. Naudia was going nuts too – working her butthole – as Amber pounded on her clit. Naudia moaned and groaned and so did Amber, and I said, more than once, “but girls, the scenes over! Time to get paid!!” and they told me – in unison – to shut the fuck up, and the next thing I know Amber really busted a nut…all over my brand new studio floor. They kissed again, looked up at me, and smiled.

Wrap scene.

That’s about the time Cherry Poppens walked in, looked at the floor, then looked at me and said, “Don’t expect me to clean that.”

Fair enough, Cherry. Fair enough. She grabbed my cameras and unloaded content while I did the dirty work…loving every second of it.

Amber Rayne

My Pal Phyllisha Anne

Gloryhole

The very first porno gal I ever met was Phyllisha Anne. It was August of 1999 in New Orleans at an early Internext show. The Internext show is a national convention for scurvy porno bastards like myself who push their dirty movies over the internet.

I knew Phyllisha Anne from a scene she shot with Jake Steed. This was back in the day when I whacked to porn. She took Jake’s massive load directly to the kisser, and after watching it, I took a load all over myself…from myself. Fun, huh? I often wish I could get off watching porn again…but now it’s just weird. Don’t ask me to explain why.

Anyway, I walked on to that Internext floor in New Orleans, and there she was. I recognized her almost immediately, and I walked up to her and told her I was a fan. It was almost a surreal experience – talking to a porno star – and it’s a feeling I lost long ago. Sometimes, I kinda get that feeling again…the last time I think I got kinda “fanish” was when I met Aurora Snow at her agent’s house. I think I’d act kind of fanish for Kacey, too, if we ever get to meet.

Maybe not.

Phyllisha Anne was super nice on that convention floor in New Orleans, and she was super nice when she walked into Dogfart’s Secret Mansion high on that hill in Malibu, three years later. I was really surprised when I saw her, and I said hello, and brought up New Orleans, and she remembered, and then we went to work. First, I drove her to that secret gloryhole near Oxnard I’ve told you guys about (she got a big kick out of the gloryhole action), and then we headed back to the mansion for Blacks On Blondes.

Take a look at these free Dogfart pictures. Note the guitar in the back, leaning up against the sofa? Well, my friend S.S. worked a song into the cheezy porn scenario that day, actually singing a song to Phyllisha right before three brothers pounded the shit out of her. When S.S. walked into the room with that guitar, I thought he was going to sing a nice song to her – a stupid thought on my part. I don’t remember the lyrics to S.S.’s song, but the opening lines went something like “You’re a filthy whore / and a dirty, dirty slut” and he sang them sweetly, and of course Phyllisha Anne was a sport, and we all laughed afterward, and then I lent her my flannel PJ’s cause it was cold outside when she left and right then and there I developed this kind of schoolboy crush on her.

I never saw those flannel PJ’s again.

I won’t tell you about the time Alec Metro called me to shoot a girl he knew…a girl who was in dire need for money – such a dire need that she was willing to commit the most intimate act we do as humans to film. I won’t tell you about that cause the shoot didn’t go down, cause, to be honest with you, she wasn’t shootable…not physically or mentally. But I went to the house Alec and his girl were at, and guess who’s house it was?

Phyllisha Anne’s.

And we talked about New Orleans, and Malibu, and gloryholes and S.S.’s song, and it must have been 2 years ago since Alec Metro made that call to me.

How does time work? Why is it that the older we get, the faster it goes away? How did Charles Bukowski put it?

The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills.

Just a few days ago, my pal Nicky Milo was shooting a MILF scene, and I was running around, stressed to the max, trying to make my new studio work, and there she was – Phyllisha Anne.

And we talked about New Orleans, and Malibu, and gloryholes and S.S.’s song, and Alec Metro’s girl I wouldn’t shoot, and the shape our lives have taken since then.

Because our days do indeed run away like wild horses over the hills.

Super fun e-mails.

Kacey

JA writes:

Are there any girls out there you haven’t worked with, that you wish you had worked with? Is there ever any chance of seeing the unbelievable Aurora Snow again on one of your sites? I am so in love with her.

Hey JA:

Yea, there’s one, and it may – or may not – be a surprise.

Kacey.

Here’s why: Just before I got into this crazy biz and I was still actually pleasuring myself with dirty movies, I flipped over Kacey in one of her first scenes…I think it was with Mr. Marcus and Eric Everhard. I thought she was the hottest porno chick, ever.

(I’m a sucker for brunettes, by the way.)

Not too long later, I got the gig shooting 2nd camera for Blacks On Blondes in Dogfart’s secret mansion way up on the top of the hill in Malibu. And I got there just days after the Blacks On Blondes Kacey scene went down, and I was so pissed I missed out on not only shooting her, but meeting her, too.

Fast forward two years, and I’m at my pal Chico Wang’s, and he’s telling me this crazy story that went down only days earlier, about a crazy girl who got really wasted and a whole lotta drama went down at his pad, and when I asked who this girl was…well, you guessed it – Kacey.

Again, I was totally pissed I missed out on a meeting (and witnessing the drama).

Not too long ago, one of the agents who has my e-mail sends out one of his mass mailers – featuring Kacey. I’m booking and shooting and directing, and of course I wanna shoot her, and I call, and try try try to hook it up…but she’s far away from LA, and doesn’t have much desire to return, and even though I got to chat (briefly) with her about coming out.

It never happened.

So after shooting like 400+ scenes and being in this whacky game for 4 years, Kacey’s the one. And no, she doesn’t read my blog (at least not to my knowledge)…I just got lucky with the fan sign she made for me, and in exchange for the picture she sent me, I’d send her some traffic. So, click on Kacey’s pic and check out her new site. It’s Kacey’s official site, and it turned out really, really nice.

As for Aurora Snow, well, she’s out, again. Aurora was bookable for a spell after her contract expired, and I met her at her agent’s, but she’s gone again, and, from what I hear, she ain’t coming back…not until she’s out of money.

Cause that’s how it works with all these silly girls.

Your pal,

Billy

Suddenly, I Was A Suitcase Pimp…Kinda.

Jayma Reed

I’ve clocked four years in this business now. Which is a funny thing, cause I’ve had a lot of other jobs in my life – some would even call them careers – but I’ve never really stuck to one for more than three years.

Three’s always been a sticking point for me as far as work goes, and I have no idea why.

In the four years I’ve done this, I’ve never asked a porno girl out on a date – let alone take her to a swanky hotel for a few days or a Hawaiian Island.

There’s reasons for this, too…the one I want to talk about today is what I think I’ll call “The Suitcase Pimp Factor”. Maybe this isn’t the best name for it, but shit…it’s almost 1 in the morning, and it’s a Sunday, and because of those two things alone, I’m going with The Suitcase Pimp Factor.

(I think, even though I’ve defined “suitcase pimp” here before, and even though The Minion blogged about it as well, I’d like to state here and now, very emphatically, I’d never, ever ask a girl for a penny of her money. Never have, never will.)

Anyways, it’s a weird thing to watch a girl you’re dating having sex with different dudes for commercial purposes. (You can always count on an internet blogger to fancy things up a bit, huh?)

It’s a weird thing to know the girl you’re dating fucks for money.

It’s a really weird thing to have a porno star for a girlfriend.

I have to imagine it’s a really weird thing to have a porno director for a boyfriend; in fact, my past two relationships ended for pretty much that very reason.

Here’s where things get really, really weird – imagine dropping your porno gal off for a porno job. If you’re having a hard time picturing it, let me help you out a bit: you pull up to the place where the scene’s gonna get shot, and the dude who doubles as the owner of the site and as male talent comes out to greet you. He’s a nice guy – sure – but soon he’s gonna be pounding the shit out of her, as well as having Jayma swallow his load.

Jayma and I walk into the place together, hand in hand. My stomach is kinda doing that thing that happened to me in grade school…you know, when you had to climb the rope to the roof of the gym in PE class.

I just kept telling myself – over and over – it isn’t real.

Not Really real, I mean.

Did you read my blog yesterday? About “real” and “really real”? If not, you might want to skip to it now, then come back and finish up here.

Anyway, after the intro and all, I asked some techincal questions about the lights he used – not because I gave a shit about his lights – but more out of being a polite person and not just hauling ass after I dropped Jayma off. And, of course, after he talked to me about his lights (and his silly wireless mic) I did haul ass outta there – but not before giving my gal a smooch on the lips.

Easily the weirdest kiss I’ve ever experienced in my life – hands down.

I had an epiphany right there and then, as our lips touched: this is what I’ve gotten myself into, and it’s something I’ve got to accept – for the most part – if I don’t want to be alone. I’m in the sex industry, and pretty much anyone I choose to spend time with outside of my silly business is gonna have to be part of my silly business.

Anyone see the Showtime/Seymour Butts reality thing? I forgot the name of the show, but in episode one the cameras watch as Seymour plays the internet dating game, and, as always, “hey so what do you do for a living?” popped up almost immedaitely after the date started, and Seymour was brutally honest about his job.

And the girls fled. En mass.

At my brother’s bachelor party, we ended up at Sugar Daddy’s for a few rounds. It’s a local bar, and one of the ones we hopped to as the night went on. A girl made extended eye contact with me – more than once – and sure enough, she was interested. I went to talk to her, and she smiled, and we had a nice thing happening, when that same question came up.

“Hey, so what do you do for a living?”

I usually lie, but I was drunk, so I told the truth.

And the girl fled.

I couldn’t even get 1/2 through my response and she hauled fuckin’ ass. Fast. One second I was George Clooney, the next second I turned into The Elephant Man.

So, Jayma honey, gimme a kiss, and go make your money, and I’ll freak out a bit, but I’ll try to keep it to myself, and afterwards we’ll go get some dinner and maybe catch a movie. A scarey one.

Go make your money and I’ll make my money and we won’t give each other any shit whatsoever.

Go make your money and I’ll make mine and we’ll be OK with it cause that’s one of the rules of the Porno Game.

We’ll make our money and understand that none of this is fucking real and keep what is real private.

And she’ll understand why I won’t kiss her when I pick her up from a job…not for a while, anyways.

Jayma Reed

Kelly Wells. Kelly Fuckin’ Wells.

Kelly Wells

Take a look at Kelly Wells.

She’s getting choked out by one of the three dudes I hired to pound her for Blacks on Blondes. I say “one of the three”, cause honestly, I don’t remember which one actually did the choking. I think that’s Brian Pumper’s hand wrapped around her throat, but it might be Nathan Threat’s, too. I don’t think it’s Byron Long, cause that’s not his style.

I’d like to add Kelly is one of my favorites to work with, and, in fact, if you scroll down a bit or poke around my blog, you’ll see where I wrote about her recently.

I’d also like to add a few things here:

1) Kelly requested the good, old-fashioned choke-out session, cause that’s something she claims to be into

however

2) Nothing from Porno Land is real.

Oh sure, she’s getting choked out, and sure, her eyes are rolling up into the back of her hear like a pair of window shades, so I guess in that aspect it’s real. But we talked about the scene before hand, and the sceanario for the scene, and how she was going to get fucked, and how she was going to suck, and all that…so, in that way, it’s kinda staged, you know?

Where am I going with this? Well, I think even though things aren’t real in porn, they’re real, ya know? Especially if you’ve never worked in the sex biz. An outsider looking in, I guess.

I’d like to ask you a rhetorical question – do you think Kelly’s getting choked out? Or getting fingers jammed down her throat?

Let’s put it another way: it’s a lot like going to a strip joint, which I know you’ve done before. Suddenly, there’s a beer in your hand and a girl dancing in front of you, and it’s real, and she’ll grind the shit out of you, and blow in your ear, and damn that beer is cold and soothing, and she’ll whisper nice things to you, and sit and talk with you between songs, and ask about your life, and you’ll ask about hers, and bladda-bladda-blah, but in reality, she’s there for your 20 dollar bill.

And the next one.

And the next one.

And that’s it.

And when you’re out, so is she.

So, does that make it all real?

Did I ever tell you that there’s times when I’m rolling tape and have out-of-body experiences? I’m serious. It’s fucking weird. I’ll be shooting and thinking to myself this isn’t real and suddenly I’m on the perimeter of the set, watching me work, and thinking never in a million years did I ever think I’d be shooting porn for a living. And then I’ll think I’m watching two people doing something almost all of us see as the most intimate act we’ll ever do, and it’s really no big deal – cause it’s not real. None of this is real.

Back to Kelly. She’s doing things that many people consider obscene – and things you’ll probably never do in your lifetime.

Those fingers in her mouth? Real.

The spitting and choking? Real.

In a sense, I suppose. But really, it’s not real. Not that real.

Because at the end of the scene, everyone cleans up, and puts on street clothes, and walks into my office to collect their check for an acting job. Because, in the end, that’s the only reason Kelly’s on my set.

The only reason any of them ever come to my set.

So next time you watch a porno girl doing some filthy and despicable, remember, it’s not really real.

Not that real, anyway.

Cuckold

It Was Love From The Moment She Tasted His Brown Eye

Taryn Thomas

Things have been slow in Porn Valley, cause, well…it’s the slow time of the year. For models, anyway. So when Taryn Thomas called me up for work, I wasn’t all that surprised. From time to time we keep in touch: we’re both from the same place, and we’ve known each other for years, and we know a lot of the same people, so every few months one of us will ring the other up just to say hi – or whatever.

Anyway, Taryn called for some work, and of course I’ll find work for her, cause she’s Taryn Thomas, and she kicks a whole lotta ass, and I did: we started with a Taryn Thomas hand job, then went on to a scene I’m not really going to talk about now cause the time isn’t right (new site, new fetish…and too new to show you anything, anyway) and we finished our work day with Taryn eating some ass.

I might as well talk about J. Sinn, too.

He had been living in the green room of our studio for a while, cause he was in between places, or maybe looking for a place to crash cause he was running low on funds – I really don’t have any idea, cause I don’t ask him those sorts of questions; however, I will ask him questions about his sister, Bella Donna, or about how his work is going at Shane’s World, or about Mormonism, cause he’s a Jack Mormon, and there’s nothing more I love to do more than bag on Joey Smith and Brigham Young and those lovable kooks who call themselves The Latter Day Saints.

J.’s been asking for work, too, and I’ve been giving it to him – mostly as male talent for Eat Some Ass. He loves to get his butt munched, and I can’t say the same thing for most of the Porno Dudes in Porno Land. I think it’s mainly cause there’s something covertly gay about a guy getting in, say, doggy position, and letting a chick lick his brown eye. Maybe it has to do with it being a submissive thing. I dunno. But booking a scene for Eat Some Ass isn’t as easy as booking a scene for Spunkmouth, or JOMG, or anything else I book.

But J. Sinn takes the work, so I give it to him. Taryn licked his butt, and all went well, and it was a good scene…but something more came of it. Cause lately, J. Sinn hasn’t been living in the green room at my studio anymore. That’s because a special sort of connection happened that day Taryn cleaned J. Sinn’s dumper with her tounge…something special indeed. Perhaps it’s that intimate feeling two people share when one of them is licking the other’s tooshy. Anyway, J. Sinn is gone, and word has it Taryn Thomas’s apartment smells the same way our green room did after J. Sinn would finish drinking one of his hi-fiber protein shakes.

I think I’ll leave it at that. I never intended for my blog to be a place for gossip, or to spread rumors, or news, or anything else for that matter.

In fact, lately I have no idea what my intentions are with this blog.

Taryn Thomas

My New Gal? (Part 5).

Jayma Reed

We left Bungalow 3 and walked the property a bit.

We held hands.

We got to know each other.

We kissed some more.

We snooped around, hoping for a celebrity encounter of some sort. (I was the one really hoping for a good celeb sighting).

We took pictures. (I took pictures).

We went back to our room.

I can’t being to tell you how soft and comfortable the beds are at the Chateau Marmont. Or the linens. Or her skin. We made out and talked and then made out some more. We laughed and discovered things about each other. We watched TV. We ordered room service. We made out and I touched her skin and it was soft and I started to take her clothes off. We made out like middle school kids after the dance.

“I wish I wasn’t broken,” she said.

She was still hurting, and I knew that. Her tonsils were swollen to the point she couldn’t really eat anything from room service.

“I wish I wasn’t broken,” she said, again.

“You’re not all that broken,” I said.

She stopped me when I tried to take off her panties and she said it again: “I wish I wasn’t broken.”

What’s that mean, exactly?

Well, for starters, it wasn’t just her throat that was broken, and after a minute or so of some oral pleasure, she was all done – because her throat hurt so badly. And it didn’t take very long for her to tell me that, in addition to her tonsils, her V-Jay Jay was broken, too.

V-Jay Jay is her word for vagina.

Ba-gina is my word for it.

Either word works just fine for me.

“Turn off the lights,” she said. “I have something special for you. Just lay back and close your eyes.”

“Now that’s what I’m taking about!”

In an instant the room was dark, and I was naked and my dick was hard enough to open a beer bottle. And I laid back on that wonderful bed after the lights went off and I closed my eyes. She got on top. She rubbed around a bit and then she slipped it in…to her open hand.

After she licked it.

And it took a few strokes before I realized that, while this tight wet thing kinda felt good on my weiner, it wasn’t her V-Jay Jay. Or her Ba-gina. Because it was broken.

She rode me a bit, and she moaned a bit, and she grinded a bit, and finally I asked, “um, what are you doing?”

“Almost sex.”

“Almost sex?”

“Almost sex.”

I looked up at her. I said it again. She confirmed. She continued to ride. Then I asked, “are you using Almost Sex as a proper noun? Like, did you name this thing you’re doing “Almost Sex”, or are we just almost having sex?”

She said, “I call it that. Almost Sex. It’s got a name. I do it to all the Mormon boys back home. They love it.”

I laid my head back in my pillow. It was the softest pillow I’ve ever rented for a night. She kept giving me Almost Sex while I looked up at the ceiling. It was dark, but not too dark to see her, or her swollen throat, or my dick going in and out of her hand as she rode me. It wasn’t too dark to see the ceiling either, and it was a very expensive ceiling. To my right was the $28 dish of spaghetti she didn’t eat, on the nightstand, next to the tiny piece of $12 flourless chocolate cake she didn’t eat, either. The powdered sugar on that cake looked like very expensive powdered sugar. Probably the most expensive powdered sugar in the whole wide world.

Then, I closed my eyes.

I did my best to enjoy Almost Sex.

I closed my eyes to Almost Sex and prayed for her to slip it into her V-Jay Jay.

Super Minion

Super fun e-mails.

Nikki Lynn

K writes:

Enjoy reading your Blog about the different girls you have shot over time. Did you shoot the scenes of Nikki Lynn on Spunkmouth??

I’ve never have seen her again, except for JOMG, did she disappear??

Cheers,
K.

Hello K.

Yea, I shot Nikki Lynn, and for more sites than JOMG or Spunkmouth. In fact, one of the kookiest scenes I ever shot was with Nikki Lynn for Blacks On Blondes. Guess who her co-star was?

None other than her hubby!

Yes, that’s him, for real.

I did one of those cuckold scenes with them. I think you remember what a cuckold is, right? When Hubby watches Wifey get banged by a big, black cock? Anyways, I told Nikki and Hubby all about cuckoldry, and they were into it, and the scene went down – and it went down without a hitch!

And just when you thought that was crazy enough, I managed to drag the poor girl out to a filthy, dirty gloryhole, where, over the course of about 15 minutes, she managed to suck a stranger’s dick through a hole in the wall.

We got back to my studio, and Hubby was there to pick her up, and they drove off into the sunset, and that’s the last I ever saw of them ever again.

If you’re a fan of Nikki Lynn, check out those scenes!

Your pal – Billy

My New Gal? (Part 4).

Bungalow 3

I’ve been weirdly obsessed with the Chateau Marmont since John Belushi drew his last breath there, in Bungalow 3, in March of 1982.

I was a senior in high school, and I was a Belushi fan, like most 17 year old boys then. I was nuts for his work on SNL, and in Animal House, and even though Neighbors was a bit uneven, I still liked it. (Maybe I should watch it again…the last time I saw it was in the theater, and I’m thinking its humor wasn’t targeted at the same audience as, say, Animal House).

I even forgave Belushi for The Blues Brothers…but I’ll never forgive Aykroyd, Belushi’s little brother, or John Goodman for Blues Brothers 2000.

In 1982 I was almost an adult, driving my dad’s El Camino and listening and listening to one of the bad FM stations then. I remember driving down Tatum, near Shea, which is a big intersection in the neighborhood I grew up in. I think I had just left McDonald’s (which is still there) cause my friend Ellen L. would hook us up with free cheesburgers. That’s when the radio said John Belushi was just found dead at his bungalow in Hollywood and I was immediately bummed out – as well as curious.

What’s a bungalow? And why in the world is he dead?

Knowing where you were and what you were doing when someone who mattered to you died – long after it all went down – is an interesting thing. Remember where you were when either Kennedy was whacked? (I wasn’t born yet for number 1, and way too young for number 2). How about when Hinckley tried to take out Ronny Reagan? Maybe you remember what was happening when Cobain stuck the gun in his mouth (on my way home from teaching school), or maybe, even, um, when Tu Pac or Biggie got whacked (…when did that happen again?)

Anyway, I wanted to see Jayma after our first date, and I did. It was the next day, as a matter of fact, and it was a totally non-porno, non-sexual event. Well, kinda, anyway. I picked her up at The Porno Hotel in Porno Valley, and we just hung out. We went to a used book store (I scored a first edition of Crumb’s Fritz The Cat and a review copy of Harry Crews’s Florida Frenzy!!!), ran a few errands, got to know each other better, and (somehow) ended up at Chico Wang’s to watch him direct The Minion and Haley Scott; Chico was shooting his Minion scenes and now calling them “romantic”…today The Minion is terribly concerned as Miss Scott’s had a foot injury. The Minion picked her up at the hospital, took her home, and brought her into the room in a wheel chair.

From there, they made beautiful music as Chico rolled tape.

Afterward, I was kinda bummed, cause Jayma had to go home, and I had to go home, but I really wanted to see her again.

How about you come when I’m out in LA working, and we stay in a really nice hotel? We can just hang out. I won’t expect sex, and I’ll be a gentleman, and we can just get to know each other better…

She agreed, of course, cause here I am, telling you about The Chateau and John Belushi and myself and Jayma Reed. We were pretty much holed up at the Chateau for three days. She still wasn’t feeling well; her tonsils were ridiculously swollen and instead of looking like tonsils they more resemled a small fruit – like a tangerine, maybe. I really can’t say I was holed up, cause I would leave during the day to make dirty movies…but she didn’t leave at all, even when I told her Parker Posey was roaming around with her little white doggie – or there might be some fun celebrity sightings down by the pool.

I don’t think she ever left the room, and that was fine by me.

We learned some things about each other during those three days, and she asked I watch what I say here. At first, I wasn’t sure I could keep such a promise, but I have, so far. But I’ll tell you this: I made her come with me to Bungalow 3, and we talked about Belushi, and she told me she’s spoken to dead people in her past, and that’s fine by me, too.

We stood at the door of Bungalow 3.

We kissed.

I took a picture of the door they wheeled John Belushi’s dead body from almost 25 years ago.

We stood there a bit more.

Then we kissed, again.

We stood there a bit more.

“Do something,” I said.

She looked at me. “What do you want me to do?”

“I dunno. Something that would make his ghost smile.”

Bungalow 3