ONE OF THE redeeming features of my day job is the free rein it gives me to people watch.
And whilst it's fairly common to see actors, singers and other public figures, the real thrill comes with spotting porn models.
A year or two ago I spotted Bel Ami model Tim Hamilton (above left) twice in one day, and was sadly unable to stop myself gaping shamelessly at the porn royalty.
More recently, I've spied Machofucker model Jiggy Mann (right) a few times, once parading around with his shirt off. He even caught me staring and gave a friendly nod (he's really a pussycat off camera).
On Monday, a gym-pumped white boy asked directions to Wimbledon. As cute as he was, I was more distracted by the vaguely familiar black guy hovering in the background, but it didn't click until they'd gone that it was Markus Ram (below), star of the sizzling Black Balled 6. He's also worked for heavyweights like Falcon and Titan.
It's particularly surreal seeing porn models out in the real world - and especially so when it's one's workplace - when you've watched (and, ahem, "enjoyed") them on film.
Shame I didn't recognise Mr. Ram sooner. It would have been a pleasure to show him some real London hospitality...
*BRAZIL: In São Paulo, 3 million people celebrate gay pride. Made in Brazil has a comprehensive list of links to pictures and footage. But the event was marred by homophobic violence; a bomb injured 21 of our brothers and sisters, and a "17-year-old boy who took part in the parade remains in a coma at a São Paulo hospital after being attacked by a group of unknown persons who found him alone on an empty street after the parade".
*UK: Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow, the millionaires who were the first gay couple in the UK to become fathers, are expecting their fourth child. Gluttons for punishment or what?
*UK: Londoner Alan Cutkelvin Rees could face up to 14 years in jail for helping his partner of 28 years, Raymond Cutkelvin, to die in a Swiss suicide clinic.
*US: Gay Iraq veteran Anthony Woods is interviewed by CNN:
*US: What has he done that's good? Wockner's indictment of a President turning a blind eye to the plight of the SGL community.
*And the award for most bizarre headline of the week goes to... "Female ducks fight back against 'raping' males". Better still, the article contains the words "defensive vaginal features". Call me juvenile, but I think that's hilarious.
*Yay! More new animals (for mankind to destroy)! And one of them is based on ET!
*Ofcom, the communications regulator, wants to crack down on sexual content. Gee, that's just great. Meanwhile, Disturbed People can watch sick and revolting fare like the Saw series and Kill Bill. That's a great set of priorities you've got there.
*SGL conglomerates Here Networks and PlanetOut have merged. I'd like to think the boardroom discussions were Dynasty-style campfests, but they were probably Quite Dull.
*DJ Sonqiue has breast cancer. Later in the week, it's reported that the cancer has spread to "lymph nodes and possibly other organs". The original video for the singer's hit It Feels So Good featured a black boy and a white boy dancing erotically together in a forest. Sonique is aa good 'un.
*Like white on rice... Bel Ami (left) and Corbin Fisher (right) join forces. I'd have been more excited if Flava Works and Bel Ami had joined forces, but you can't have everything.
*Cristiano-Watch: the plastic one gets fiddled with by another "masseur". Poor boy, he doesn't have a clue what's going on, does he? And I bet he only complained about a headache. Later in the week, no doubt dazed and confused by what the bad man did, he slipped into some little red shorts.
THIS IS THE photography of Los Angeles-based Tim Ricks. Much more after the jump, below...
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ONE OF THE redeeming features of my day job is the free rein it gives me to people watch.
A year or two ago I spotted Bel Ami model Tim Hamilton (above left) twice in one day, and was sadly unable to stop myself gaping shamelessly at the porn royalty.
It's particularly surreal seeing porn models out in the real world - and especially so when it's one's workplace - when you've watched (and, ahem, "enjoyed") them on film.
