Say Anything

Just in time for Valentine's Day, we received a book in the office titled Speaking of Sex: Funny, Wicked & Joyful Remarks About Almost Everybody's Favorite Subject. It is a Bartlett's-style book with quotes about love and sex, which aren't always synonymous at Full Frontal's crib. It is, perhaps, the worst book ever published (at least since Prozac Nation). There are no citations for the quotes. One of the chapter titles is "Her Lips Suck Forth My Soul," which was the name of Full Frontal's first album, oddly. Some of the quotes are wrong. (Author John-Paul Sousa perpetuates the Zsa Zsa Gabor, Johnny Carson, "pet my pussy[cat]" myth). And he quotes himself--on the first page. (We always wait till the second.)

That said, Full Frontal couldn't put it down, which shows you what a great idea for a book this is. Unfortunately, for every funny or insightful quote ("I believe that sex is the most beautiful, natural and wholesome thing that money can buy"--Steve Martin) there is a dud. "What do women find most attractive in a man? A big, throbbing wallet"--one of several quotes by the author.

Even worse, if he was going to put together such a slapdash book, the author forgot to include some lines we've heard local people say about sex, at least in our darkest, dampest dreams. According to a friend of a person who knows a good friend of ours who went to high school with somebody else, these quotes should have made it in the book:

"There is nothing sexier than a fake bust." --Terrell Bolton

"What is it about the mayor that makes me so hot?" --Ted Benavides

"Sex is something you have with someone not as pretty as you." --Rhett Miller

"I have pictures of people peeing in public. On my Web site." --Avi Adelman

"Plastic surgery is never attractive." --Jerry Jones

"I never met a politician who didn't want to screw me." --Sharon Boyd

"Make sure to keep it firm and moist." --Stephan Pyles

"Down, set, hike." --Troy Aikman

"Pink isn't a color. It's a flavor." --Mary Kay Ash

"There's a warm front approaching from the south." --Kristine Kahanek

"He's got a hot bat." --Eric Nadel

"Sex is something you do between meetings with Tom Hicks and Ross Perot Jr." --Ron Kirk

What a Boob

Never has a story been better suited for Full Frontal. Or for me. Just in time for Valentine's Day, and with all you ladies out there wondering what to get your man, I had an idea. That is, I talked with Joe Francis, the 29-year-old, rich-as-sin entrepreneur who brought the nation the "Girls Gone Wild" series (drunken girls flashing the camera for the viewer's amusement). The following is an, ahem, bare-all interview with Francis.

You're a hero to men everywhere. How did you get started?

Well, I had an idea, and it turned out to be a good one. I came across some footage when I was producing some other videos...remember the "Banned on Television" videos?No.

The one where the woman gets hit by a train?

Wait...You mean, the banned on

television videos?

Yeah, you remember them?No.

[Pause] Funny. Well, I was working on them when I came across some footage of women showing their breasts, and so I thought, hey, that might work.

How inspired. So, aside from getting hot chicks to flash you, what's the best part of the job?

No. That's pretty much it. I have a Gulfstream [private jet], and I fly around and girls show me their breasts. It's the best job in the world.

I hate you...Anyway, Snoop Dogg did a celebrity video for you titled

Girls Gone Wild Doggy Style. A brilliant title, if I may say so. How'd that go?

Oh, Snoop's real cool. He's a great guy. It was just a lot of fun. He's hilarious; that's who he is. I mean, he's a character, you know? He just added, uh, another whole layer to the whole thing.

Are you telling me a nudie shoot with Snoop Dogg is

deeper than the usual nudie shoot?

OK, fine, you're right. Call it another element. Not deeper, another element.

Some people think you're a misogynist, or that you're out there exploiting women. Me? I think you've empowered them.