What's up with this?????

[Hell Puppy]

First off, regarding Steve Lightspeed and Jordan Capri, I said it earlier, there's some marketing genius there. But I think the initial reaction of a seasoned webmaster when seeing the thing with the laptop being stolen or whatever is "bullshit!". It's so obviously a publicity stunt to anyone with half a brain in the biz.

But then, we're talking about the GFY crowd and surfers. They want the fantasy. How many of them you reckon still think Bang Bus is real?

So I think there's a tendancy to knee jerk it because it insults our intelligence. But if you look thru it and see what he's doing, he's basically created his own viral marketing strain.

Now watch every guy who has a non-nude, non-expiclicite or softcore only solo girl try to duplicate it. This biz will milk the shit out of anything til it's so oversaturated no one can make a buck with every good angle anyone comes up with.

[Hell Puppy]

As for Oprano....GonZo put his money where his mouth is. He bought it, cash, no lease, no fucked up financing, no partnership. No one prior was willing to do that, same one who now bitch about everything he does. They could've done the same thing.

It's his, he deserves the opportunity to try whatever business plan he likes with it. He bought that chance. Agree or disagree with what he does, time will tell.

It was stagnant the way it was. The old timers club was in here and were clearly hell bent on continuing the tradition of running off anyone new. Combine that with doing everything they could to subvert anything GonZo would try to do and they needed to go. And they did with a little help from the ban-bot.

Now they're over on their mayflower where it is just them, they SHOULD be happy, it's what they wanted, a place to remember things the way it was and talk about stuff that they like without newbies in the way daring to ask questions about things like what TGP submitter is the best or whatever.

But no, Oprano is like that big-titted-ex-girlfriend who gave great head that it just kills you to see with someone else. You gotta put him and her down to your buddies to feel good about yourself.

All that said, is Oprano going gangbusters? Certainly not. It's definitely still evolving. The Fat Fucking Think Tank was engaged this evening, and there's some very very interesting ideas on the table that are very radical and might be just what the old girl needs.