Allen's Blog

I'm voting for Barack Obama & Joe Biden.  I hope/pray that they can fix this fucked up mess.

You've gotta' love the "Bush's Last Day" throw pillow. I'm buying one for grandma!

i thought this was cute, so i'm sharing.  the graphic you see was my just doing something quick n' easy without reading any help files or spending time on it.  i bet if someone takes the time, they can do something groovy :)  the software is free at http://www.snapfiles.com/get/stickfigure.html

For those of you not in the porn loop, the FBI has been visiting tons of porn company's offices to inspect their records.  This is the first indictment of which I'm aware.

The Dept. of Justice has just indicted Max Hardcore on ten counts of obscenity charges labeled as "transporting obscene matter via mail and computer".  The DOJ press release describes Max as a "nationally-known director, producer, and star of films featuring acts such as anal penetration, urination, insertion of an entire hand into a vagina or anus, vomiting, and severe violence" toward female performers.

I feel this porn persecution is yet another attempt by this failed administration at winning some votes back from their party.  They have screwed up our nation, our world, and our lives, so maybe they're hoping some seized piss porn might make the public forget the most obscene fuck of all?

The indictment can be found at thesmokinggun.com.

i don't praise a whole lot, because i'm bitter and jaded. just kidding...i praise quite often :) i hate most tv shows, especially daytime tv, but i do find myself addicted to some of the cartoon shows like family guy, south park, and frisky dingo. i lose myself in them and i need that. with the exception of documentaries, et al, the rest is just crap for the empty masses. i especially detest shows that you have to keep watching every day or week to find out what happens next. give me closure, goddammit!

netflix, a dvd rental company, was a brilliant idea and i joined them in their infancy. this is where i discovered, among other brilliant dvd's, "the west wing" tv series. i knew aaron sorkin, the director and writer of "the west wing", from a unique show that had a brief run called "sport's night". it was an eclectic show with excellent writing, so when i saw his name on "the west wing" i gave it a whirl. after watching a few episodes, i thought it was ok but nothing grabbing me. it was the winter of my discontent, so i watched a few more episodes to give it one more chance. i'm glad i did. i'm so glad i did, that i'm going to give a praise that i don't think i've given in over a decade...aaron sorkin is definitely one of the greatest writers of the 21st century.

what a pleasure it was to watch the characters form and find their voices. i can't help but wonder if others enjoyed watching that transpire as much as i did. then when the story development kicked in, i couldn't stop watching. i had to make myself stop putting in the next dvd and get some sleep. absolutely brilliant.

but then...a strange thing happened around season four (or five?). i noticed that the passion had left, the characters became mundane and predictable, and the writing left me empty. i kept watching each episode, waiting for stella to get her groove back, but it never happened. i got up and went to the web to see if others were writing in their blogs about this and found out that sorkin had left and someone else had taken over. that's how noticeably brilliant his writing and direction were.

he has a new show out, "studio 60", but i'm not seeing his talent in this one yet. regardless, i strongly encourage anyone reading this to watch "the west wing" (up to when aaron leaves the show, that is :) it's very rare that i will buy a dvd, but i now own the entire west wing series.

entering sweepstakes has been a side hobby of mine about 17 years. no, not that crappy clearing house one, but actual sweepstakes that people can (and do) win. i've won so many prizes to date that i couldn't possibly list them all. trips to disney, shirts, electronics, gift cards, you name it. i wish i had the time to do more of them, as it gives me some weird thrill. sort of like the lottery, where my friends make fun of me. my favorite line was "allen, you crack me up. you genuinely believe that you're going to win, but then you're genuinely suprised that you didn't". yep.

for the sweepsatakes newbie, let me give you the easy version in case you want to take a crack at it. the cost is very minimal....just the price of an envelope, a 3x5 card, and a stamp and you're entered! here's how it works... every company from pepsi to your local store seems to offer some type of sweepstakes drawing for cash and/or prizes. the cost of these things are not only promotional advertising for them but is also a tax write-off (per se) for all the incurred costs to them for the promo. all the big guys (i'll continue to use pepsi as an example since everyone's familiar with them) uses what's called a "third party judging agency". this simply means that they pay an outside company to be objective by running the sweepstakes, randomly picking the winners from all entries, and then getting the prizes out to those winners. the logic here is that the sponsoring company keeps the whole thing as objective as possible and their hands aren't in the proverbial cookie jar. the law is that in order to offer a sweepstakes, it's illegal for them to require you to make a purchase of their product to enter (i'll assume that most of you have heard the term "no purchase necessary" when a sweepstakes commercial hits the tv stations?).

so...if there is no purchase necessary, then what's the alternative to enter the sweepstakes? easy...they want you to jump through a couple of hoops to enter the sweepstakes. about 99% of the time they want you to write your name, address, phone no., and birthdate on a 3x5 card (a pack of 100 is about 60 cents) and mail to them in a stamped envelope. for every sweepstakes, there must be rules and inside of those rules is the alternate entry information on what they want specifically. or....to make it easier just do what i (and almost all other sweepstakesaholics do) and get a subscription to one of the newsletters that gives you the list of sweepstakes and entry instructions in an easy to read/understand format. one of my favorites is the "best sweepstakes newsletter". the only real rule of thumb is to follow the rules to the letter or your entry is disqualified. nothing difficult, but they are unforgiving from what i understand. on a side note: even those "peel n' win" prize pieces that are on cups and fries at mcdonald's, taco bell, etc. must have "no purchase necessary" instructions. those are usually an address to send a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) to and get free game pieces mailed back to you.

anyhoo...the entry arrives at the judging agency and then, when it's time for the drawing, a random entry (or entries) are drawn. if you won something of real value, then they will notify you by certified or registered mail and request that you complete, notarize, and send back their form and affidavit. this doesn't mean you've won yet, until they check you out to make sure you're not a relative of an employee of that company, etc. if you haven't broken any rules, they'll send you your prize (which can take anywhere from days to months to receive). if it's a smaller prize like i usually win, you'll never know you won until the prize just shows up on your doorstep one day. there are more details and caveats, but that's the foundation to get you started if interested in seeing if have beginner's luck.

please remember me if you hit big as a result of my introducing you to this eclectic hobby (and forget me when you realize that you're addicted! :)

one of my pet projects (yet another thing i have no time for) is my geek-ish blog, called groovy or not. my intent was to do a video blog (vlog) of stuff i use, own, or test out...but  to do it right, it requires a chunk of my time....so i devote a bit of time to it when i can.

i probably won't move it over to hellopenis because i'm going to try to keep it "family-friendly"

i also need to include some of my programming (php, mysql) stuff that i've accomplished, to bring out more of the geek in the site, since right now it just looks like i'm more electronics whore than geek 

i am the co-owner of on the edge of cyberspace, inc. with my friend and business partner, david.  our company owns and manages amvc.com, hellopenis.com, groovymovies.com, and adulthire.com.  as you can see, we keep pretty busy

people have preconceived notions about porn company owners and producers.  to be honest, i'm just a regular guy who didn't go looking for a career in porn...it just found me (although i certainly didn't turn it away

i'm just a regular guy, a closet geek, ethical, a horny gay male, and lover of porn.  some would say a bit eclectic, while others would call me average.  i love porn, air-conditioning, chicken, corn, smoking cigarettes, coffee, nice people, funny people, and boys.

i lived most of my life in north carolina before i moved to seattle, so i still have a fairly strong southern accent (i mention this because guys not from the south seem to really like hearing me talk :)

i'm a workaholic.  seriously.  i'm usually too busy for anything other than work (or boys of course)

i'm 6'3", 225#, built like a football player, brown hair/eyes, and a good sense of humor.