Most of the industry's big names are planning on attending (Exxxotica Miami drew about 22,000 people this year), so we're talking about pulling the plug on what is potentially the biggest porn event on the East Coast at the very last minute. Pit bull Mayor Dennis Elwell is obviously deeply concerned about what goes on in his town, which is why he apparently had no clue that the three-day expo has been booked at the Meadowlands since June and he's willing to fight a few lawsuits to keep legitimate business dollars out of his town. Now that's change we could believe ... if it wasn't so predictable. Stay tuned....

· Mayor: City Will Take Legal Action to Shut Down Exxxotica NY (avn.com)
· Mayor wants to block erotic convention (newsday.com)
· Exxxotica NY (exxxoticany.com)

Update: The show has been moved. More info here.

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Born in New Jersey, Tommy Gunn was a Chippendales dancer in Florida when his then-girlfriend introduced him to Wicked director Brad ("Flashpoint", "Coming Home") Armstrong.

"We were at the Saddle Ranch on Sunset Blvd. and I asked him what was the best way to break into the porn industry," Gunn said. "He just jerked his thumb at my girlfriend and said, 'She's your ticket in.'"

While that relationship didn't work out and Gunn was soon back on a plane to Florida, he was already making himself indispensable to ladies.

"I was working as a clothing designer and one day Janine and Julia Ann bought bikinis that I'd sewed," he said.

You sew?

"I have three sewing machines," he said. "One does leather. When I was dancing the other guys would come to me when they needed to replace the velcro in their pants."

Gunn's porn career began in 2003; he started when he was 36.

"I think if I got into this when I was 21 I'd be washed up," he said. "But I like the story about the Old Bull and the Young Bull: The Young Bull says, "Let's run down the hill and fuck that cow." And the Old Bull says, 'No, let's walk down there and fuck them all.'" I'm the Old Bull."

Gunn currently lives with Ashlynn Brooke in a house that he's fixing up to look like the Hard Rock in Las Vegas.

"I'm extending the beach to my pool," he said, strolling around the back yard where he has built a fountain and a tiki bar.

So what's the secret to a long career as a male porn star?

"Smell good always," he said. "and when I'm with another guy's girlfriend, I want to deliver her back to him unharmed."

· Assassin Pictures (assassinpictures.com)

"I was the only porn girl at this one," she said. "I was signing copies of 'Cum on My Tattoo'. There was a huge line. I think that at porn conventions guys just want a pretty girl to smile at them, and any one will do. These people were there to see me."

Stormy Daniels, Jesse Jane, and Carmen Luvana proved that contract girls for different companies can exist in the same place at the same time without Lionel Stander declaring that "it was murder". Here they are at Tampa's Nightmoves show last week.

(Jesse has a tattoo of the Playboy Bunny under her navel.)

The ubiquitous Michelle Aston sprawls on a bench outside Justice Howard's Toys Kill show in Hollywood last week. Aston was featured in the photo exhibition and just about everywhere else. "I'm tired oof teaching 20-year-olds how to fuck," she mused. I reminded her that I was 22.

Finally, Marco Banderas and loveely Newcastle-born wife Lisa DeMarco (get it?) pose in Tampa. We are not sure if either member of the couple has tattoos, but Banderas could probably focus the white hot rays of the sun with his teeth to cook up a workable one of those coccygeal butterflies.

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Previously: Popshots Archive

Video and more pics after the jump.

· "Burning Angel's New Jersey Adventure" (photos and report by Audacia Ray @ wakingvixen.com; more @ Flickr, though you'll have to sign in to see them)
· Burning Angel (burningangel.com)

· Demi Moore's is careful to cover her head, but can't be bothered to cover her nipples. We think she made the right decision. (egotastic.com)

· A city attorney steals a work laptop carrying important legal documents? Big deal. The laptop is filled with porn, you say? Sound the media alarm! (rockymountainnews.com)

· New Jersey wants to put a "porn zone" for adult businesses near the Meadowlands Sports Complex and based on the quotes from concerned citizens, they are also planning to place this zone in the 1950s. If they have their "druthers," that is. (northjersey.com)

· There are a lot of ways to get hurt on the job, but a sex worker getting workman's comp after the client who hired her drove their car in to a gully is a pretty unique one. (nzherald.co.nz)

· An infection chain is redirecting several hundred pornography URLs to Mpack tool kit servers which uses a FRAME manager to automate malware attacks from compromised domains. Go find a nerd and have him explain that to you. (computerworld.com)

· In a delightful twist on your typical air rage incident, an Indian man took off all his clothes and danced in the aisles of a Thai Airways flight. It's was probably better than whatever crappy movie they were showing. (bangkokpost.com)

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Previously: Morning Wood Archives/Wet Spots Archives