Every chance i got, today, I steered the direction of the conversation towards "And, what do you do?" with various people I encountered in the course of my San Francisco Day.
Fun results:
Subject: Female, Race: Asian, Age: About 60|
Location: Lobby of my building |
ME: "I'm a pornographer... I sell porn, dirty pictures..."
HER: "Ooooooooooooooh... dirty pictures..."
ME: "Uh-huh"
[2 MINUTE SILENCE]
HER: [With sudden alarm] "You are in the dirty pictures!?"
ME: "No, I just sell them."
HER: [Somewhat puzzled] "You make the dirty pictures!" [makes camerman gesture with fist, round and round]
ME: "No, no...I... you know the Internet...?"
HER: "Yah."
ME: "On the Inernet... sell... on the Internet
HER: [On the threshold of understanding] "Web site?"
ME: "Yah."
HER: [Hold hands to mouth, suddenly] "Oh, you make a lotta money!" [Laughter]
ME: "I do a'right"
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Subject: Male, Race: White, Age: About 45 |
Location: Smoking outside Japanese restaurant |
ME: "I'm in online porn, I'm a pornographer."
HIM: [Does a double-take] "No kiddin'! Oh, you're gonna love this... I've got a list of friends by e-mail..."
ME "Right."
HIM: "I'm the one that gets them all the porn!"
ME: "Is that right" [Grins broadly]
HIM: "Yeah, I know all the good sites."
ME: "Cool. Like which ones?"
HIM: [Scratches chin for a second] "Ive got 'em all bookmarked... Oh, I know! Sleazy's Dream, that's one..."
ME: "Oh, you know SleazyDream.com? I'm actually friends with the owner..."
HIM: "Well, how 'bout that... I always send my friends stuff from there."
ME: "Very cool. So how many friends on this little list of yours?
HIM: "Oh, man, a lot... These are really friends of friends of friends. I never really e-mail with 'em or anything. Just send 'em stuff."
ME: Hmm! Very interesting. Well, you know, if you'll send some good stuff around to your friends, I'll take real good care of you..."
HIM: "Sure, that's be great!"
[Exchange business cards]
Anybody else got tales / transcripts from
Pornville?
2HP