Sirius listeners,
Catch me on Maxim Radio today at 2 pm EST/11 am PST for the Level-Up video game show. Host Scott Pitek and me will be talking about – what else – Porn & Pong. It should be a fun discussion!
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Porn & Pong – and me - are on the road!
This week catch me at East Lansing’s MSU bookstores and next week in Chicago. Come by, get your book signed and say hi!
More dates and cities are being added every moment - keep abreast at Porn & Pong central.
October 10, 2008
MSU Meaningful Play Video Game Conference
Roundtable – When Will Video Games Grow Up?: Handling Adult Topics In Video Games
Michigan State University
Barnes & Noble (across from MSU)
Book reading and signing, 8 pm
East Lansing, MI
October 11, 2008
MSU Student Union (At the Entrance)
Book signing, noon to 1 pm
East Lansing, MI
October 16, 2008
Quimby’s Bookstore
Book reading and signing, 7 pm
Chicago, IL
October 19, 2008
Early 2 Bed
Book reading and signing, 6:30 pm
Chicago, IL
Salon.com has a fun Q & A with me about Porn & Pong. I was also lucky enough to be one of the first users of its new podcast office, so you can listen to the interview on the website as well. And be sure to check out the comment section, which, as Salon readers know, is where the fun really starts. Ha!
It’s out – early! You can now grab a copy of Porn & Pong: How Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Our Culture. It won’t be hitting bookstores until October 1st, but you can get it now from your favorite online bookseller:
And I’m packing my bags: We’re hitting East Lansing, Chicago, Los Angeles and other cities for The Official Porn & Pong tour! Things kick off next week with the big Porn & Pong San Francisco launch party on Friday, September 26th. Come by, say hello, get your book signed and party with us if you’re in the city.
If you aren’t in the Bay, grab the book online and find out when I’ll be visiting your neighborhood! I’ll be signing books the whole way. Keep an eye on Porn & Pong central – dates and cities are constantly being added.
My new book, Porn & Pong: How Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Our Culture, is available for pre-order! It is the first book to use video games to look at how technology, sexuality and pop culture have evolved over the past three decades. Available in late September, Porn & Pong will be a fun read for fans of my magazine and newspaper articles, or anyone interested in modern pop cultural history!
Hit the great Powell’s Books, Barnes and Noble or Amazon to make sure you get your copy as soon as it is available.
However, if you’d like to wait and buy it directly from me, I can promise signed copies and other goodies. The best bet is to secure one now, and then grab a signed copy from me later for friends and fam. It should make the perfect gift for the sexy gamers in your life!
Visit the book website for more information (may be NSFW, depending on, ahem, where you work at).
In this week’s Village Voice I was interviewed by the wonderful Bonnie Ruberg, the sex and video games columnist for the legendary New York paper. We talked about Internet porn, the importance of Leisure Suit Larry and why my upcoming book is called Porn & Pong.
Check it out at the Village Voice website.
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Grab the latest issue of Playboy Magazine! The April issue has my first full-length feature story, The Body Shop. I talk about 20 ways scientists are rebuilding our bodies using technology: robotic eyes, synthetic tongues, and so on. It was a blast to research, and working with Playboy, as usual, was a great experience.
You can also catch my smiling face on the contributor’s page and a mention of my upcoming book, Porn & Pong. Nice.
There is no online version – it is a visual piece – but you can read the April table of contents here.
Lots going on the Porn & Pong website. Now we’ll be doing a Hump-Day Wrap-up every Wednesday to catch you up on the latest sex and video games stories, anecdotes and developments – starting today!
Back from Vegas after two days of sex and tech conferences. As others have noted, the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show and Adult Entertainment Expo were more revolutionary than evolutionary. No mind-blowing products, just improvements on the previous year’s stuff. (The AEE is continuing through the weekend, so there is still time for surprises.)
My CES/AEE-related stories are coming later via some newspapers and magazines, but in the meantime check out the blogs of my buddy Regina Lynn, head honcho of WIRED’s Sex Drive, and of the wonderful author/director Audacia Ray (both cover sex and neither are safe for work). They both are giving a perspective you wouldn’t get in the mainstream press – and wouldn’t necessarily get even if you were there.
Now it’s time to pass out after 36 hours in Vegas. To any new friends or associates visiting the site: Please feel free to leave a note!
Damon Brown writes about sex, technology, music and video games for Playboy, New York Post and Family Circle, and is the tech columnist for AARP Online and PlanetOut. He is the author of several books, most recently Porn & Pong: How Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Our Culture.
Damon has a Masters in Magazine Publishing from Chicago’s Northwestern University and a degree in Journalism and Computing from Detroit’s Oakland University. The Jersey native considers New Orleans, Chicago and Lansing (Michigan) his hometowns, but recently established his secret headquarters in Southern Northern California. Reach him at damon at damonbrown dot net.