Common Sense

My penchant for self-destructive behaviour has led to the demise of Cinema Toast with Nate. Oh, don’t be sad. I brought it on my self.

It all started last night (wavy dream sequence with thematic music) I got a bulletin from on of my Top 4 Myspace friends, Eva Angelina, that she was a finalist for HottestGirlInPorn.com’s Hottest Girl of the Year.

So I pushed the envelope a little too far. Ok, I went way out there without a safety line. I thought it was one of the better posts I had ever written. I started off talking about how my blog was designed to be a niche blog about horror and sci-fi.

I went on to describe how porn crosses all social boundaries and is becoming more mainstream. I mentioned IFC’s 4-part series on porn and last year’s Deep Throat documentary.

Then I kind of crassly had multiple links to the site (http://www.hottestgirlinporn.com/finalist.php) asking people to vote for Eva Angelina. I said that the site was in no way, shape or form suitable for viewing at work. But The Man decided that was much too flagrantly, well flagrant. So when I got in tonight, there was an email from the Web manager saying that an editor had demanded that the site be taken down because of the post and the linking to a porn site.

So Cinema Toast is gone. Kaput. No more.

I’m falling back on the fact that I kept this blog up and running the whole time. It’s just a shame that I can’t even login to the Trib site and scavenge the archives for some of those reviews and interesting posts. They probably just deleted everything. And mine was one of the more well-trafficked blogs on the site, too. Oh well.

First and foremost, I’m still not going to write about politics. It’s just too excruciating on my nerves. This will be the new home of ‘To be determined new movie blog’ until I convince somebody else to give me a blog for movie news and reviews. Hey LYT, is the OC Weekly hiring?