http://tonybuff.com activist, educator, performance artist and player in the fetish/Sm scene Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:40:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Palm Springs, CA – A very interesting thread hit my inbox a couple weeks ago from the GLPW mailing list. What apparently began as a question regarding Sashes became a discussion about titleholders, and I was called out by my brother Gene Romaine (pictured right on the left at ... http://tonybuff.com/posts/titles-sashes-bashes-and-crashes Chicago, IL - The 16th Annual Hard Choice Awards were announced on XX-Factor yesterday. With sixteen years, the Hard Choice Awards are the second-oldest continuously running honors for all-male erotica. All gay adult films released in 2009 and reviewed in XX-Factor were eligible for consideration. Unlike the ... http://tonybuff.com/posts/hard-choice-performer-of-the-year Chicago, IL – Generally, it's not my practice to respond to bitchy queens and bitter fucks who make nasty, mean-spirited blowhard posts or comments (and I most certainly will not be linking to them here). It seems, however, that some play that my boy Derek da Silva and I ... http://tonybuff.com/posts/top-10-reasons-to-play-in-a-leather-bar 30,000 ft – This past weekend I was down in San Diego, California to serve as the head judge for the Mr San Diego Eagle contest. As you can gather from the title, this is neither a big regional event nor a huge audience draw. Rather, it is ... http://tonybuff.com/posts/mr-san-diego-eagle-2010 San Diego, CA - Of all the scenes we do, it is our impact play that seems to freak people out the most. Impact play is a common yet misunderstood part of the Leather-S/M scene. Whether delivered with bare hands (our personal favorite) or through a variety of implements designed ... http://tonybuff.com/posts/anatomy-of-a-scene-impact-play Seattle, WA - With just over twenty-four hours in Seattle I'm already about to head back to the airport. This evening's destination is San Diego, California where I'll be staying the weekend while serving as head judge for the Mr San Diego Eagle contest. I'm quite excited ... http://tonybuff.com/posts/mr-san-diego-eagle-contest-this-weekend San Francisco, CA – This past Tuesday Titan Media released the fourth video in the Rough line of fetish/Sm features I'm co-directing with Paul Wilde. Abuse of Power is a solid feature with three sex-filled vignettes that explore three different examples of how some of us play with the ... http://tonybuff.com/posts/released-rough-abuse-of-power Portland, OR – On September 29th of 2007 I posted my first entry to this blog. It was a quick and not-so-dirty little post coinciding with the release of Fear and my public foray into the adult industry. The Blog has evolved over the past couple years. ... http://tonybuff.com/posts/best-of-the-blog Portland, OR – This is going to be a far more personal and reflective entry than most of those that I have written before. A couple weeks ago XBIZ, the adult industry association, announced their nominations for 2010 awards. Among nominations ranging from Toy Manufacture of the ... http://tonybuff.com/posts/why-the-fuck-am-i-doing-this 35,000 FT – By the time I get this posted, I will have already arrived back home in Seattle, but as it is, I'm writing this post on the last leg of my trip inbound at about thirty-five thousand feet above somewhere in Texas (and yes, Fuck Texas!). As ... http://tonybuff.com/posts/community-building