Porn Valley There’s been another purge at Metro- the revolving door of porn companies- over the last two days. Among employees gone in the bloodbath are Joey Wilson and Charlie Lynch.
Lynch, an art director was fired out of the blue, according to him, by general manager Neil Persky Wednesday when Wilson was out of the office- Wilson not knowing he was next on the list. Lynch said he was told that Kenny Guarino didn’t want him there any more because he didn’t like his work. Which is odd because Lynch said he had never spoken to Guarino during the course of his employ.
According to word on the inside, Persky, who’s relatively new to the adult business and Wilson, who was the creative director and director of sales, were having a severe power struggle. Wilson was let go Thursday.
I also heard another employee was fired because he was caught snooping on other employees’ computers.
On another note, Adultbeat.com writes the following headline: “Mike South Takes the Battle to Gene Ross” and quotes the following graph from mikesouth.com: “Gene Ross enjoins Jim Holliday in a rant against JimmyD, saying that he should be “shunned” for volunteering his services to do a Public Service Ad stressing that parents should be responsible and keep their porn out of the hands of the kids.”
Gene sez: What we seem to have here is a failure to communicate with the situation of one man not being able to read and the other not being able to write. The first definition of the word to “enjoin” is to admonish, meaning, to warn or notify of a fault; to reprove with mildness. As suggested by adultbeat’s headline, enjoin as used in South’s sentence is totally incorrect if it’s to suggest that I was being taken to task for somehow sanctioning Holliday’s comments. Which I’m not doing. The second tier definitions of the word “enjoin” are to instruct or command with authority- which, obviously, neither would apply in this context. If South meant to write “join” then it’s meaning is absolutely incorrect because I took no sides in that story which appeared on adultfyi.com on March 16, thusly:
“It may become the most famous commercial since those featuring Madge the Manicurist. But the news was all over the Internet yesterday including a story on churchcentral.com about the ongoing Jimmy D saga in which adult film director James DiGiorgio has grouped with a Christian anti-porn group to make a public service announcement urging parents to keep adult videos and magazines away from kids.
It’s also being reported in the news that “some” in the porn industry aren’t happy with his message and are calling DiGiorgio a turncoat. Although that “some” is never, specifically mentioned.
In a phone call that we got from Jim Holliday, Holliday apparently didn’t mind being identified as one of the some. Holliday, who’s traded Internet barbs with Jimmy D in the past, said he heard the news on an AM station and that it reminded him of an instance years ago when Holly Ryder, no longer finding lucrative employment in the adult industry, went over to the Holy Rollers and traded inside information like the secret porno handshake. “I mean where do you go when you’re through in the industry,” asked Holliday. “Answer, you sell out to the real world. The penalty for that should be immediate and permanent shunning.
“He [Jimmy D] obviously did it for nothing,” Holliday also comments. “Those people don’t pay anything. With his abilities as a director I have great confidence that his next 58 commercials for them will be every bit as good and remunerative. I also hear that the government of India is approaching DiGiorgio to do their next birth control commercial.”