Journal entry 'four':
Okay, okay I am DUPE!
I sit here, naked, at the computer. It is a Thursday after the fifth weekend of the Minnesota renaissance festival. We have been so damn busy. I am going to try and catch up on my journal finally.
What has been keeping us busy? Well if you haven't noticed we have been putting our heart and soul into this Member's Only section, and it is requiring LOADS of extra work. We have been writing and filming (Yes filming!) segments for TortugaPalooza. I have been doing updates to the site all of this time. (More on this later) Still having to take care of contract negotiations (we have signed two private parties, one in October in South Carolina, and one in December in Mankato, Minnesota. Brrrr!) Then somewhere in there I still have to have a life. I have to workout and tan and go out on the occasional dates.
Do me a favour, those who are reading this go on over to the contact section and write me a note; I want to know how much you want to hear about me. Do my readers want to hear about the girls I am doing? I kind of want to tell you kids everything, but I'll allow the masses to decide okay?
Anyway, I am a little angry that the two-day workweek I have been celebrating for so long has become a seven-day-a-week gig. I tell you what, we better get hundreds, and hundreds of members into this part of the site, and you guys better LOVE TortugaPalooza!
I am Dupe
Actually I am nervous. I am always a little nervous. It's become axiomatic; if Ronn isn't worried about a new gig, then something is wrong. The tickets have been selling well, we have been writing really funny material. But this thing is so vastly different from what we have ever done before --- what if the rest of the tickets don't sell? What if the crowd riots, and demands their money back?
No really I am Dupe
But then again, I'm nervous about the two private parties we have signed for, and we'll do fine. We always do. I probably won't get to relax until the Monday after TortugaPalooza, but it will all be worth it. The show will sell, and be great. The DVD will sell. The second 'Palooza will also be a success' but I am nervous.
Didn't you know I was Dupe?
We have had a website for around eight or ten years now. It has certainly been worthwhile. The website has benefited us in so many ways; everything from generating us business (we get paid really well for private parties!), to allowing old, lost friends to contact me again. The website was originally created by a friend of Jef's, and then I went and learned how do this crazy crap, this site creation and maintenance myself. I wanted to make a place where you could hire us, buy our merchandise, and find out more about us, I have progressed a lot along the way, and I have a lot of people to thank for their help, including, even though she doesn't know it Porn Star Asia Carrera, A lot of what I learned about HTML came from taking apart her site. Since the inception however, I wanted to create this alter ego, that could write about the boys, (us), and still maintain some distance. Also I used to dream that I was going to start a side career as a web designer. So Dupe was created. Another secret, every fanpage update that I have written starts with the letter "W". A few people have figured it out over time, but I have also heard some really weird suggestions as well, everything from it must be one of our wives, writing it , we only have one wife between us, Jef's , to the idea that it is maintained by a fanatic that travels with us.
Do me a favour, read back over the old entries, who else could it have been?
A lot of people have no idea how intelligent I am, Most folks don't realize that I do most of the contract negotiations, a most of the writing; I am also the whip of our group. It is me that is constantly pushing for more, and then getting nervous about it. Actually we have a pretty broad division of labour these days. With all of our various quirks and dysfunctions we really seem to get things done.
Do me another favour; don't tell anyone about my secret identity. It will be a'Members Only Secret. I'll still write with the illusion of objectivity, and only tell the true stuff to you guys.
So I think I am caught up for now, and can do what Riki and Jef are doing, which is writing about what's going on currently. Lot's of things to write about, Like the fact that Friday, we are shooting a porno parody --- you go ahead and think about that.
Great times going on in my life, just lot's of stress; Next entry I'll include more current events, but I DO want to hear more on what you want me to divulge.
Finally; I am at wits end. My cat London, who I love, has gone from Just peeing on my bed (while I am in it) to Crapping on my bed, My favourite thing about this damned cat is that she sleeps on my head every night like some wacky teddy bear, but I am sick and tired of having to wash all of my comforters and whatnot every couple of weeks. Are any of our fans cat ,knowledge-able enough to help me out with this problem.
Future entries will have more photos, and be more up to date, ciao
