· Rob Rotten's Punx Productions (punxproductions.com)

· Digital Playground (digitalplayground.com)

· Burning Angel (burningangel.com)
· Adam & Eve (adameve.com)

"There's a steak joint on every corner in Dallas and Plano," she said. "Seasoned, not cooked to death. What they sell in Los Angeles isn't steak. Only Claim Jumper comes close."

Maybe not news, but now we know what we're doing next time we go to Northridge.

· Digital Playground (digitalplayground.com)

· AVN Awards (avnawards.com)
· 2008 Adult Entertainment Expo (show.adultentertainmentexpo.com)
· Naughty America (naughtyamerica.com)

· Adult Entertainment Expo (adultentertainmentexpo.com)
· See Sophie in "Bi Accident 2" (gamelink.com)

· AVN Awards (avnawards.com)
· 2008 Adult Entertainment Expo (show.adultentertainmentexpo.com)
· Red Light District (clubredlight.com)

· AVN Awards (avnawards.com)
· 2008 Adult Entertainment Expo (show.adultentertainmentexpo.com)

· AVN Awards (avnawards.com)
· 2008 Adult Entertainment Expo (show.adultentertainmentexpo.com)
· Jesse Jane (jessejane.com)

The driving beat of "Cherokee" song stylists Europe is ideal to convey the excitement of the last day before the AVN Awards, as porn fans replace human beings in their zeal to take up every last parking space in the Venetian's ten-story garage just to squeeze off a blurry snap of someone who might be Jenna at the AVN Expo.

Join us after the gap for a few photos from last year's AVN Awards festivities at the quaint Venetian, in anticipation of tomorrow's Mandalay Bay/Ticketmaster production.

Leading off is our dear Kami Andrews, whom I fantasized would just show up in my hotel room saying that her decision to leave porn last year was a cruel joke. No such luck. - GP

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Devyn Devine, about 4'8" in one direction as well as a cantilever of the same dimensions, is a favorite among Gent Magazine readers.

Kylie Ireland defining the classy porn star.

Unidentified starlets who haven't received the memo that they are supposed to be smiling all the time (good for them; close the memo basket and run far away, ladies).

"Alpha 15: Reform School Girls" directrix Cat P., some loser, Hollie Stevens, Daisy Layne, and two hangers-on share a Scorpion Bowl with the last of their money.

Now that the 2007 Adult Entertainment Expo has begun, we have the unique opportunity to show you your favorite stars from last year's convention and this one. Here the 2006 version of Puma Swede is only vanquished in legginess by the 2007 model. Puma (pronounced Poo'-mah), from Sweden (hence "Swede") says: "Sometimes I get to be many meters taller than anybody."

Alas, last year she was also pastier, and we couldn't find her friend on the show floor this morning. But she looks far less solemn now that she has more of a shirt on. - GP

· AVN Awards (avnawards.com)

Previously: Porn Valley Dispatch Archive

Today's opening of the AVN Expo raises the gate on a flood of memories. As a people, how far have we come since one year ago today when this picture was taken?

We are not sure if Missy Monroe will be at this year's convention, but hers were the most prominent pasties last year, God Bless Her.

Stay tuned for Fleshbot's exclusive coverage of the goings-on all week.- GP

· AVN Awards (avnawards.com)

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This is Carmella Bing. You can see her in numerous gonzo movies along the lines of "Bang My Tasty Twat" (the ending is predictable) and "Double Decker Sandwich 8" (you can imagine). Readers accustomed to contract stars and alt darlings would probably be surprised how much more traffic this woman generates by comparison.

I met her at a Billy Glide party in Las Vegas last year. I wasn't able to make the connection between her degree in child psychology and her opening line, which was "I've done a D(ouble) P(enetration), a DP, a DP, and an anal this week," but I seem to remember the nail in the coffin of her child welfare career was a vague feeling of futility. - GP

· AVN Awards (avnawards.com)

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You can imagine the groping and pawing that goes on at the AVN convention—and if you think it's tough for me, well, try actually being attractive like Jana Cova here. Last year, Digital Playground hired Larry as the DP Girls' personal security guard.

"Sometimes people get grabby," said Larry, avoiding eye contact and scanning the room, "but that's with the other girls. No one's laid a hand on our girls."

Just the thought of Larry has kept my crotch from being grabbed by any of the Toshiba staff at the Consumer Electronics Show, also happening in Las Vegas this week.

Fleshbot's countdown to the AVN Awards this Saturday will continue amidst our coverage of this year's Adult Entertainment Expo beginning on Wednesday. Stay tuned.- GP

· Club Jana Cova (clubjanacova.com)
· AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2007 (adultentertainmentexpo.com)
· AVN Awards (avnawards.com)

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The ever-virginal (it doesn't count if you don't do guys) Justine Joli heads up our end-of-the-week look back at last year's Adult Entertainment Expo Las Vegas experience as we count down to next week's AVN Awards. With second-to-last-minute preparations underway for next Saturday's show, join us after the gap for more pictures from a simpler time 12 months ago. - GP

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Here is the delightful Gina Lynn, stripper first, porn star second. "I have size four feet," she said. "I didn't realize how much people were into feet until I took my shoes off once at a shoot and then the session became all about that."

I didn't know that about feet either. This year has been a voyage of discovery for me.

You ever hear of Shane's World? Have you wondered, like I did, who "Shane" was? Here she is. After starting the company with some advice from her ex, one Seymore Butts, Shane sold ownership of the company that still bears her name. She has never met Casey Parker, and for that I am sad.

Standing next to "Memoirs of a Modern-Day Geisha" director Jennifer James is Joanna Angel. The exchange went like this:

Me: Joanna, may I take your picture?

Angel: (Something to the effect of) I would do anything for you, in public, at your slightest whim.

Me: Right. Except convert.

(Small commotion. Jennifer James appears, walks into shot)

James (to Angel): I'd really like to work with you. Do you have a card?

Me: I'm working here. Wait a minute. May I get a picture of the two of you?

It is one of my favorite pictures ever.

· AVN Awards (avnawards.com)

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As part of our countdown to this year's AVN Awards, we look back at the porn version of a media conflagration that was Britney Rears, which burned so bright that it toasted poor Jessica Sweet, star of "Britney Rears" 1 and 2. Seen here promoting the living shit out of the first installment of the pop-shot princess saga (now fronted by Hillary Scott), Sweet was sanguine about the title role going to someone less nasal later in the year.

"Britney Rears is bigger than one person," she most certainly did not say, not continuing, "It is time for the nation to heal." - GP

· Jessica Sweet (videography @ searchextreme.com)
· AVN Awards (avnawards.com)

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Our breathlessly expectant countdown to this year's AVN Awards continues today with corn-fed cutie Katja Kassin, uncharacteristically not greased up and pointing her ass at us, who explained the meaning of the German term Landmadel when we asked her if there was a similar expression in her own language for "corn-fed".

"A Landmadel is a woman who might not be smart in books but who is sturdy and strong," Kassin, whom we love, said. "She is ready to go most of the time." So now we know.- GP

· Katja Kassin on MySpace (myspace.com)
· AVN Awards (avnawards.com)

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As part of our continued countdown to this year's AVN Awards—and in the wake of Digital Playground's exciting new Contract Girl A Day initiative—we present old pals Jesse Jane and Kirsten Price, exclusive to Digital Playground and Wicked Pictures, respectively, and co-hosts of Playboy's "Nightcalls". Does the hectic life of a porn studio contract star leave time for healthy interpersonal relationships? I have no clue, because I lack the understanding that Evan Stone's parts in me would convey. But maybe.

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Meanwhile, alt cutie Riley Mason, star of the Fleshbot-acclaimed "Girls Lie" and fan, like me and you, of potassium, mentioned that a Japanese fan had demanded she pose with a banana, which he proceeded to throw on the floor when the picture was done.

"I don't know if that was part of the turn-on," she mused. Fumes and limited funding prevented our photographing her with 78 tons of toxic waste on a barge in the East River. - GP

· Digital Playground (digitalplayground.com)
· Wicked (wicked.com)
· Vivid-Alt (vividalt.com)
· AVN Awards (avnawards.com)

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Fleshbot's rabid Pursuit of Truth continues with this week-ending joyride of photos from last January's AVN convention in feverish anticipation of next month's awards show. Join us here and after the gap for some choice picks to take you through the weekend and into Ought-7, starting with Fleshbot Crush Object™ Sophia Santi looking suitably vixenish. - GP

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Through the year, the J.C.'s Girls spokesMILFs have become blonder in their media campaign to introduce Jesus to porn stars, or whatever it is they say they're doing. All I know is that none of them thought to wonder WWJD while their SUV blocked parking garage lanes at one of the many adult conventions they attended this year.

"Surely Our Savior wouldn't impede the flow of traffic while chatting on His cell phone or unloading His outfits," I thought.

Here is Hillary Scott rocking the classic finger-in-the-mouth vogue whilst posing with technology that is currently so 20 gigabytes ago.

Finally, anonymous Shane's World hirelings for some reason rep their company by sitting in a tub. Still, they were fun to look at.

· AVN Awards (avnawards.com)

Previously: AVN Countdown Archive, Porn Valley Dispatch Archive

Our relentless coverage of the advent of the AVN awards continues with this snap of Fleshbot Supreme Comandress and birthday girl (yes, she shares her nativity with the Messiah) Joanna Angel and fellow alt porn hearththrob Kylee Kross, who braved the Sands Expo Center's recirculated air to show off their alabaster parts in a sea of spray-on tans.

"What is alt porn?" someone in the crowd asked Angel.

"Please ask someone else," she replied. - GP

· AVN Awards (avnawards.com)

Previously: Porn Valley Dispatch Archive