"If I tell you I'm weak and I'm scared, will that seem absurd? I'm the loneliest boy in the world."

Okay, no, the song lyrics in the title have nothing to do with this. It's just the song that was playing.

Moooving on...
I sometimes like to look at the way fans interact with their celebrities. It's amazing just how much it varies. And not just between industries. Just taking a look at the blogs of some of my favorite porn stars, the behaviors of fans are SO different.
(There is an order to this, see if you can figure it out.)

Take, for instance, Mason Wyler's Myspace Blog. Up until the last entry, he has gotten so many rude and disrespectful comments, like he's little more than an expensive prostitute. Like people have totally forgotten there's a person who's doing these porn videos? I mean, he also gets a good amount of normal people who actually treat him with a certain amount of respect and don't say shit like "i'll pay you 500 bucks to have sex w/ me!!!!!11oneone"
Seriously, morons, the boy has a boyfriend. And honestly, if you're willing to pay that much (or more!) for sex, what makes you think you're attractive enough for it to be worth that amount? Geezis.
Anyways, that's not the point. The point is that I see a lot of this rudeness on his blog. Why? I don't know. He always seems like a sweetheart to the people that don't treat him like a toy. Sure, he cops an attitude if you earn it (and even then, I'd probably give these people so much more attitude than Mason does. He's usually along the lines of "Excuse you, I have a boyfriend" whereas I'd probably be like "Yeah, so, with your face you better add a whole lot more zeroes to the end of that number and pray a lot.")

Meanwhile, we have Pete Ross, whom I adore. Now, I'm sure I don't see all of his fan interaction since he approves the comments on his blogs and I'm positive he's very selective about the fan e-mail he posts. That's cool, though. Actually, I think that's probably better because that's sort of like...if you're one of those people who like confesses secrets to the stars you love, you're able to do that and you can feel safe that it's still going to be a secret.
Anyways, what I've seen though is a lot of respect, but there is still sometimes that sort of "Hey, you must be a whore, please sleep with me?" thing that crops up, mostly in the subtext, of some of his fan's messages.
Which, honestly, kind of disgusting. It's subtle though, tolerable. And Pete handles it really well. But, and maybe I'm just being all conceited here but...what kind of fan doesn't know that Pete is madly in love with his boyfriend? Not like either one of them is hiding it, for serious now.

Jason Ridge is much the same as Pete, in a lot of ways (although he is less open about his romantic life, although I'm pretty sure he's seeing someone? I could be wrong.) Pete and Jason also seem to be near the top of the "compliments" heap, with a higher percentage of "omg your so hot" comments and such than most of the other porn stars. Not that the others don't get a TON of that as well...
(And how about the first result in my Google Image search for "Jason Ridge" came up with my blog? Awesome!!)

The only one who tops Jason and Pete, percentage-wise, in the compliments area is Jonathan Vargas. This is mostly because he's still a newcomer, really, so it may change. As more fans discover him, I'll have to revisit this idea...but I am pretty sure he's going to join the same category as Pete and Jason.

Then you get Francois Sagat. I can only judge Francois' fan interaction from the letters that I see and can read, because of the whole foreign languages thing butttt...Francois, aside from the compliments, gets ine thing I think is highly...well, stupid. People asking him to plan performances at clubs near them. I know I'm on the edge of that with my "Gosh, I wish I could get to your show" comments that I sometimes leave him but I at least understand that someone else is scheduling these appearances. I'm sure Francois gets some say, but you want him to show up at a club, he's not the guy to talk to. Talk to the owner of the club...duh. :-P
But, anyhow, his fans (in general) seem more respectful than any of the other porn stars I've addressed yet in this post.

Then you hit upon Francesco D'Macho's blog. For some reason I can't figure out, he has, by light years, the most respectful fans (unless there's something in the ones I can't read because of the foreign language thing) (some of those fans are so fluent in Italian, it's insane...and probably because they're from Italy :-P). Like, his posts end up being conversations because his fans (myself included, but I tend to be like this for everyone I'm a fan of) are...relaxed and conversational in their comments to him. I'm sure he gets a fair amount of the disrespectful comments, and since he screens them maybe he just leaves them out so no one sees them but...the point is, his fans are so much more polite and treat him like much more of a human being rather than a toy or a tool.
(Ha, and I adore how much my blog shows up in these Google image searches...I haven't even featured Francesco D'Macho and I'm all over his image search.)
Only Johnny Hazzard also has this quality in the comments on his blog, but I'm sure that's because commenting on his blog requires membership to his site and also reading through his posts that tend to be long, scenic, and descriptive of his life. (Which I enjoy each and every post, but I can't afford membership, so poo!)

So, here's my question: why do fans act in the way that they do regarding different stars? Is it a regional thing? The attitude of the star? Both? Neither? Is it how much you screen your comments and such? Am I thinking into this waaay too deeply?

My other question, and this is the hugely important one: when is Roman Heart going to get a blog???? :-P (SO kidding, guys, I don't want to stalk him. No, really...)

"Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey." -Lord Byron

Today is Thursday, which means we need to have our Pretty Person of the Week. I've had a few options for today, though I'd been planning since last Friday who this week would be. I was obviously going to stick with the plan, and indeed I have. I am, however, having a very Kate & Leopold day today.

You see, I wrote a paper on the 19th century poet Lord Byron today. I have never concentrated on him much, but he does come up in passing whether you like it or not (particularly when you've been involved in the play Arcadia, where he is a central character though he never appears on stage). He always struck me as rakish and I could never understand how it was he was such a womanizer. I discovered some time ago that he's actually bisexual and then I theorized that he was actually just omnisexual -- that he loved sex so much he didn't much care who he had it with. Yet, somehow, in my researching him today all of those presumptions about him seem to have vanished. He's actually kind of enthralling and fascinating...and not absolutely ugly, if the portraits I've seen today are any indication.
As I said, it's been a very Kate & Leopold day.

Anyways, the actual Pretty Person of the Week is the third porn star whose blog I read regularly. Yes, that's right, Jason Ridge!
Like all my favorite everyone, the face is gorgeous...but I love, especially, how expressive his eyebrows are.
You can always just picture porn stars are just these people who are sex-sex-sex-sex all of the time. Just like Pete Ross and Jonathon Vargas, Jason Ridge breaks that stereotype, especially in his blog. Just like anyone else he's a person. He's got depth, charm, and he's continuing to learn about the world around him and life in general. That's what is most fascinating about him -- he acknowledges the lessons that he learns and tries to incorporate them into his life.
His hotness is also really versatile. He's hot with hair or a shaved head, scruff or clean shaven, clothes or naked, back or....you know I'm just gonna leave it at that. :-P
Jason is another one where I could go on and on and on about him, his physical beauty, his personality...which I could do about pretty much anyone I post as a pretty person of the week...but I think I'm just going to give you a few more pictures and call it a post.