The pornoverse has a dialect

A while back, when Omaha was on vacation, I was bored and the kids were in all bed upstairs, so I rented a high-end all-girl porn film with a pornoverse plot: two girls, age 19 and 20, live with their mom. Scene one: younger woman and her girlfriend, scene two: younger woman and her girlfriend, scene three: mom and her girlfriend discuss finding younger daughter's dirty magazine stash, which when on camera looks suspiciously like the film studio's catalog of all-girl smut and then mom and girlfriend go at it, scene four: mom's girlfriend seduces older daughter, scene five: mom seduces younger dauther's girlfriend, and so on.

("All-girl" porn is very distinct from "lesbian" porn; in the latter, the woman typically takes more than three minutes to reach orgasm and usually has more than one facial expression and sound effect to exhibit while doing so.)

The odd thing that got me while watching it was the dialect of the heterosexual pornoverse: there are no "gays" in the pornoverse, no "straights," and naturally there are no "dykes," no "butches," and no "femmes," although everyone in this film is one. There are only "lesbians," and it's said with a peculiar emphasis, an accent that exists only in the pornoverse. When one of the two women protests, "I like girls but that doesn't make me a lesbian," it's as if the word does not mean what the dictionary says it means, but has a wholly different connotation that the audience should understand.

I guess I'm not part of that audience. I didn't get it.

I have mad hardware hacker skillz.

I fixed my iPod! Who-hoo! There was even a part left out, a small rubber bumper that probably protects the hard drive from bouncing against the bottom of the unit (either that, or it secures the USB connector), but the whole thing is intact and I have sound again! I can hear music. The ribbon cable for the battery gave me a scare, but it turned out to be nothing. Works fine.

Damn, I now have no excuse for not going to the gym anymore.

AIDS awareness videos you have to see!

Okay, you absolutely have to see these fabulous AIDS Awareness ads from France. They are the sweetest, most wonderful PSAs I've seen in a long time, so much better than that horrific HIV awareness poster I posted about a few weeks ago. There are two of them, one for straights and one for gay men.

The funniest (or perhaps weirdest) aspect to the ads is that the one for gay men uses as its music Sugar Baby Love, the theme music to Kouryou-chan's favorite Japanese anime, Little Snow Fairy Sugar. It's so かわいい!!!!!!

[Edit: Lest anyone forget that the French do AIDS Awareness better than anyone else, recall this poster campaign [NSFW] from two years ago.]