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This week, it’s time to show your “O” face as we sit around the Virtual Kitchen Table and chat with Cyrano Jonze, proprietor of Blogoporno and a few other sexy blogs.
Cyrano was one of the first online acquaintances I made when I began blogging two years ago. He freely shared advice and link-love that helped give me a leg up in Liquid Whispers’ earliest days, which means he’s at least partly responsible for the degenerate I am today fact that I’m still here, still blogging, and still awesome.
LW: “Cyrano Jonze.” That sounds like a nom de porn. Is it and, if so, how’d you come up with it? What does it signify?
CJ: “Nom de porn” sounds like a name I use while doing porn. Unfortunately (for me), I am involved in no porn production so I feel like nom de porn is, perhaps, not the best way to refer to it. Nom de pervert? Nom de voyeur? Nom de blog? But yes, to actually answer you question, it is a lie.
How did I come up with it? It’s been a name floating in the back of my head for years. I’m a big Star Trek nerd. Cyrano Jones is the man who sells Tribbles in the classic episode “The Trouble with Tribbles.” It seemed a thematically appropriate name to use for porn blogging.
LW: You’re a Star Trek nerd? What’s your favorite iteration of the Star Trek franchise? Least favorite? Please elaborate.
CJ: I grew up watching Next Generation. I am a pretty big fan but not a “dress up and go to conventions” fan. At least not since I was about 13. I still watch it now that all the existing series are on Netflix Instant Watch.
My favorite iteration of the franchise is the six movies based around the original series characters. I like all six movies for different reasons. That includes the much maligned odd-numbered movies that are often dismissed. I have this whole thing about the movies basically thematically revolving around the idea of what happens when heroes get old. When they’ve had their adventures and survived, defeated their dragons and brought home the prize, what happens then? The first six Star Trek movies are the last part of Beowulf. That’s what I like about the movies and what I think the Next Generation films are missing.
My least favorite iteration of the franchise is Voyager. It was everything bad about the franchise crammed into a single series. Despite having a woman captain it manages to be more sexist than the original series (something you really would have to work at, honestly). Women on the show tended to be wildly irrational (Torres), Barbie(TM) dolls (Seven of Nine), or overbearing and ultimately incompetent mother figures (Janeway). At least that’s my take on the show. I could be wrong. I admit to not having watched every episode, though. I’ve tried to watch the episodes friends who defend the series point to as examples of it being good. It just never clicked with me.
LW: When we first met, you were spelling the name “Cyrano Jones.” You now spell it “Cyrano Jonze.” When did you change it, and why?
CJ: About a month ago, I think. I wanted to fancy up the name a bit. Move it a little bit away from the nerdy Star Trek reference it was. Now it’s a Star Trek reference and a reference to Director Spike Jonze. Also, everything is cooler when you replace “s” with “z”.
Blogoporno Model O the Month Ash Hollywood
LW: You run an adult-themed blog. How did you get started, and what made you decide to begin working with adult material?
CJ: I got started way back in the year 2007. Because I’m such a trendsetter, I was laid off from my job before the economy really started going to shit. I had tried a few different approaches to blogs but never really got anything going. I decided one day that I should blog about what I’m doing anyway, as that seemed to be what all the cool kids were doing. And what was I doing? I was looking at porn. So, I started a Blogger blog and it has been evolving ever since then.
LW: Your site is impressive, but it’s not the only place one can find free porn. What sets you apart? Why should people spend time on your site rather than somewhere else?
CJ: Well, I would say, for one, because I’m not just trying to serve up “free porn.” My goal (today) isn’t exclusively about giving you free boobs to wank over. I try to share what I consider the best. I share a lot and link to where you can get more. I don’t believe that we should all just get all the porn we want for free. Porn is a business and the people who do it should be paid for the work they do. I want to point people to the porn that I think is of a higher quality or to the performers that I enjoy. I want to see those people well compensated for their work.
I slip sometimes and share things that are just convenient or that I think people want to see, but the blog is an evolving entity and I try to keep focused on what I consider the best. This is why I like to promote people like Camille Crimson and Richard Avery and sites like Juliland and the other sites and blogs in the Juliland universe. I want to share the best or most interesting.
I do interviews (like this one). So far I have done interviews with Camille Crimson, Lilyanne Bloom, Samantha Bentley, Diana Prince, Vicky Vette, Misti Dawn, and Richard Avery. I’m not going to say my interviews are groundbreaking or really that in-depth but I strive to make them different. These aren’t just your standard porn star interviews. I don’t care how much they like sucking cock, I don’t usually care how they got into the business. I want to interview only the people who interest me. Usually, these are people who’ve struck out on their own on some level or who are vocal about some aspect of the industry that others inside don’t talk that much about. I tend to prefer to interview people who aren’t as well known and I like to focus on who they are beyond the porn.
That’s what you’re getting that others might not be offering. Quality and an ethos.
LW: That’s an impressive list of interviews. Who was your favorite? Why?
CJ: First of all, they’re all awesome and I love all the interviews they gave. Second, I hate picking favorites. I’ve nearly gotten into fights over not having a favorite color. (Seriously, I don’t have a favorite color).
If I HAD to pick, I would pick my interview with Diana Prince, because it appeals to my nerdy side. Plus, I find her perspective on the “MILF” niche and being identified as a MILF or “mature” by the industry interesting. She’s barely over 30!
But everyone else was awesome, too. I just posted a new one with my Model O the Year, Samantha Bentley, and I think she had some fun answers. Camille Crimson and Lilyanne Bloom were also amazing and I love Misti Dawn’s interview (also for nerdy reasons). Vicky Vette was also interesting and I have to give her credit for what she does on her own and her amazing Twitter presence. She knows how to work Twitter.
Blogoporno Model O the Year Samantha Bentley
Other than the ladies I was also really excited to interview Richard Avery. Juliland is amazing and his work is phenomenal. Sometimes I consider making my blog exclusively Juliland content, I love it that much.
LW: You’ve already answered this next question (at least in part) but screw it, I’m asking, anyway. Do you consider yourself a pornographer? Smut peddler? Affiliate marketer? Writer? What does a typical day look like for you?
CJ: I’m not a pornographer (though, I’d love to shoot a short porn film some day). I consider myself more of a smut peddler and I guess I’m technically an affiliate marketer, though my interest is less in pushing the affiliate programs and more in providing good content (that, hopefully, can make me a little money). I used to write more on the blog but everything else I do on it takes up so much time, I just don’t have the energy for it anymore.
A typical day working on the blog involves me waking up and skimming through email notifications and twitter. Twitter is a big part of what I do and I try to be communicative and friendly on there. Then, it’s checking a schedule I have made up to try and make sure all my daily and weekly posts are up to date and not lapsing soon. That’s the most time consuming part of what I do. I’ve made this gig much harder by having defined posts every day. But I like having them and I think the readers like them. I sometimes lapse and something will slip for awhile and if I think people don’t really dig one of the daily post themes I re-evaluate whether or not to use it. Then, I stare at my stats and wonder if someday I’ll actually start making enough money off doing this to justify my time investment.
Actually, now that I think about it, I’m probably going to scale back my daily posts and switch to a weekly format, to give myself more time to blog and share more beyond those regularly scheduled posts.
LW: “Success! You made it! You arrived!” What does that mean to you?
CJ: Success would be the blog covering my rent monthly. Also, if I could be posting short naughty films I make (filmed by me, not starring me) with some of my favorite stars on a regular basis, I would consider that success.
LW: Ben & Jerry’s (TM) is coming out with a new flavor of ice cream based on your sex life. What’s is called? Please describe it.
CJ: This is hard. Um. Let’s call it: Married Without Children. It would be vanilla with a chocolate swirl and just a few nuts. It would come in a container with its own spoon so you can eat it anytime in any room you want. Random packages of it have another flavor layered on the bottom. Just to vary it up every once in awhile.
LW: Let’s get back to porn. You’d like to shoot a porn film some day? Cool! Have you taken any steps toward making that happen? Any experience with photography or filmography?
CJ: I think shooting a porn of some kind would make an interesting challenge. Or maybe not so much a “porn” as a “film with explicit sexual content” (which is typically classified porn). I have taken no steps to make this happen. Outside of doing my blog I am an experimental filmmaker. By that I mean I make odd short movies that probably don’t make much sense and no one sees.
While I would love to shoot something, I don’t really have the funding to make a porn and I don’t think anyone would be that interested in something I made. If there’s someone out there who wants to give me the money and produce it with me, then I’m ready to go. Let’s do it. Hopefully, someone out there will dig it.
LW: Your blog is an evolving project. Do you have an end goal in mind? What about an exit strategy? How will you know when (or if) it’s time to stop blogging?
CJ: Not really an end goal but the overall goal is to make it profitable. I would like to, eventually, back off from working on the day-to-day of the blog and bring in other people to work the various aspects of it while I served more as an editor. That will take a lot of coordination to get off the ground, though, and just maintaining the blog as is takes too much time for me to start working on that.
My exit strategy is to just stop creating new posts. Let the posts I have scheduled continue until they’re gone, then, eventually, delete the site and all my profiles out there in the porn universe and disappear. It would be nice if there was someone out there who wanted to buy the blog and domain and everything associated with it from me, but I don’t think that’s in the cards, really.
I’ll know it’s time to stop when I just don’t have time for it anymore or when it becomes more work than it’s worth. I’ve almost quit a few times but I’ve come back. Eventually, I just won’t have the time or energy to keep it going.
LW: You have at least one guilty pleasure. Name it. Describe it. Tell us how we can have a similar experience.
CJ: I have lots of guilty pleasures. But the one most appropriate for this conversation is that I love fucking when I could get caught. Or really any sexual activity when there’s a danger of someone interrupting it. And I don’t mean someone who would want to get in on it all sexy; I mean the sort of situation where everyone just gets embarrassed and apologizes and doesn’t know what to do. I love that.
Fun instances of that have included that an ex and I pretty much screwed around in every parking lot of my home town. Sex only a few feet off of a heavily used trail in a busy public park. Fucking my wife in the bathroom at a relative’s wedding. Fucking my wife while waiting for people to show up for a party. Fingering my wife in the back room of a party with the door wide open. Fucking in a friend’s bathroom during a Halloween party. Fucking while we have visitors staying with us in our little Brooklyn apartment. Fucking and not knowing when our roommate was going to get home. There are other instances I’m sure that just aren’t coming to mind right now.
How can you have a similar experience? Next time you throw a party start fucking about ten minutes before people are supposed to show up. Next time you’re at a party wait until it’s really busy and sneak off to the bathroom. Best to wait until after people have started drinking so you know someone might need the bathroom. And I’m sure you can figure out lots of other fun iterations. Road head is always a good option.
Lexi Belle seems to agree; Road head is always a good option.
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