Worker Owned Peep Shows in History - Part 1

Here I am pretending that I leave my laptop long enough to, if not have extravagant sex, at least contribute to and facilitate some for others.

+ Excerpts from the "Sovereign Whores and Seditious Technology" Panel Presentation podcastat Eyebeam, with artists Norene Leddy & Andrew Milmoe, and my fellow panelists Krzysztof Wodiczko, Tracy Quan, Natalie Jeremijenko, and panel moderator Amanda McDonald Crowley. There's a longer version of this I hope to get and put into whorecast (hey, I know -- I owe you all), but this one covers the conversations we had together and with the audience on the tracking of cops and sex workers, proprietary GPS vs. open API's, tensions between safety and technology, and potential commercial plans for the Platforms Project.

+ Michael Butler's Rock and Roll Geek Show sound seeing tour of the Masturbate-A-Thon, which I'm listening to right now -- lots of narration of the cocks we saw, Adam Curry's tranny chasing, my accidental impersonation of Cheryl Merkowski, and our impromptu interview with a quite erudite veteran volunteer who has lots to say about how he & his wife negotiate his sexual adventuring and his own take on why he wouldn't see a pro. (Also: disclaimer, in a big, big way -- Michael, judge not lest ye never get to jack again. You're on notice.)

(PS: I'm giving the reporter at the Chronicle another few days to respond to my request to correct my quote before I get into the whole story, but let me say for now, if you get a call from the photo editor there asking if they can come shoot you "at work" and you're an even occasionally hot/naked/girl, I don't believe it would be too over-the-line to preemptively assume that they want you to do implied nudes for them. The one-woman camera crew they sent was pretty fair about it, but I still didn't know they wanted me at all undressed until about 5 minutes before we shot. Note to the mainstream press: if you want to ape porn images, learn to speak with at least as much candor as your worst stereotype of a feel-good feminist smut monger er. "You know, shoot you, like, while you're at your computer..." does not cut it. Even with a naked cam-girl.)