Tag: wrap-up
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Au Revoir, 2017! It’s Been Intense.
It’s been a hell of a year. For everyone. The kind of year that you look back at and feel truly, deeply thankful for what you still have. Together we’ve seen our political system taken over by buffoonery and mean spirits. As a country, we’ve lost forward momentum on civil rights, health care, environmental issues,…
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Bye 2016! Don’t Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out!
Time for the obligatory year-end navel gaze, everybody! And what a navel gaze. This year has been really crazy for the world, and for me personally. Sometimes in a good way. Sometimes in a holy shit what just happened way. Sometimes in a don’t let the door hit you on the way out, 2016, way.…
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AEE/AVN 2011: WHAT I REMEMBER
As a WHACK! stapher, I like to think I answer to no man, and at the AEE Expo and AVN Awards this year, I made a point of being as irresponsible as my sickly constitution and weak mind would allow. As such, I can’t say for certain whether my memories of the debauchery in the…
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WHACK! TAKES OVER EXXXOTICA EXPO: NEW JERSEY WILL NEVER BE THE SAME
You may all be wondering why it’s taken so long for us to do a little info-laden writeup on the Exxxotica Expo in New Jersey this past weekend. Well, my lovelies, the answer is that we’ve been hungover ever since, and our eyes were so dazzled by the 140+ adult stars we hob-nobbed with at…
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AEE/AVN 2010 – “It was difficult to move through the crowds of fanboi creeps, strippers…and entourages of performers…but get there we did!”
In the neon-backed glare of the Las Vegas morning on January 7, in a flourish of bleached hair and bouncy bobbling, adult star Bree Olson cut the ceremonial ribbon with a pair of oversized scissors, looking for all the world like a very bubbly fictional character and thereby opening up the festivities at the first…