Former AVN'er Tod Hunter posts some comments about AVN's seedy little drama. First Tod has his say, then I will have mine.

Tod Hunter posts on www.tod-hunter.net: And if you haven't read the complaint, in all its lustrous detail, click here. All praise to Luke for finding and posting it.

So now, the question is, whose head is going to roll on this? Obviously the AVN Media Network will demand a blood sacrifice to show that "we fired the offending employee and fixed everything." All crap, of course, but the formalities must be met.

Paul and Darren are safe, of course. They run the place. They don't take the fall, they decide who takes the fall. And it ain't them.

Tim Connelly has a contract, no doubt, so he's relatively safe. The last thing they need is another breach-of-contract suit. Besides, Connelly got to the party late, having been there only about a year now.

Thanks to the sexual-harassment charge, Heidi Pike-Johnson's job is as safe as if it were in Fort Knox. They're probably prepping her for public appearances now - a crash diet to get her down to 300 pounds, speech coaching, and a quick trip to Stepford for final programming preparation right before CES.

So who is the poor bastard who's going to take the fall?

It's gotta be Mike Ramone.

It gives me no pleasure to say this. Mike has always been fair to me even though we never had a lot in common, and we have been cordial since I was fired from AVN. But Ramone was "Editor in Chief" for a while there after Bryn left, and although he is a nice guy, he can look scary. Selective reading of his reviews from AVN could give Jennifer and her lawyers enough ammunition to shoot more holes in him than a screen door.

And AVN Insider isn't doing him any favors. Take a look at Ramone's remark about temporary tattoos in Friday's Seen/Heard story. Not exactly the words of the Post-Oprah Sensitive Male.

Anyway, that's my guess. If you have an idea of who's going to take the fall, I'm setting up [email protected] for guesses.

Gene comments: For starters, Tod, a link to the Rosenblatt lawsuit was surreptitiously circulated among several writers. Sorry you weren't on the mailing list. And, frankly, I'm even surprised that you're commenting on this at all, because I thought one of the parting conditions when you left AVN was money and a gag order. At least that's the impression I was given. But for you to even suggest that there might be a sap, a sucker, a patsy, a fall guy in this scenario is naive beyond the realms of your length of stay at AVN. And experience, I assume, would have made you the wiser man to know that AVN doesn't act in this fashion. Which I should know.

As much as it might be wishful thinking on your part- come on Tod, you're not completely leveling with your readers regarding your history with Mikey - Ramone is staying put. Aside from the fact that any change in the upper echelon would be way too obvious and an admission of guilt, managing editors well versed in porn ways don't exactly fall off of trees. For the same reason that Kernes sustains his place there, grunting out the legal news. In Kernes' case, he being a former AVN managing editor that didn't cut the mustard, no one else wants to do it. In an experienced managing editor's case, find one at the salary AVN is paying. Besides, there's more to it than that if Ramone learned anything under the tutelage of his mentor Bryn Pryor, the master of illusion and escape.

And, in your cloak and dagger suggestions about selective readings, I can certainly picture lawyers with magnifying glasses scoping between the lines of Ramone editorials looking for clues and hidden agendas. This ain't Umberto Eco or The DaVinci Code, it's porn.