So I came home, and in about one hour I unpacked my camping bag and then packed a porno convention bag- then got picked up to go to the airport. The packing for this trip was a little confusing because this was a “business to business” convention. I was not signing, or selling movies… I was speaking on panels, to other people in the porn industry. How do you dress like a girl who owns her own Alt Porn Company, and performs in her own movies, but knows what she is talking about? Not quite sure. A summer dress from H and M seemed to scream all these things… I think?

Coming here straight from camping led to one big problem. My toes very much looked like hiking toes, and not like educated porn star toes. So before I spoke, I woke up early and indulged in the hotel’s overpriced spa and got a pedicure. I should have taken a before and after picture but… I didn’t. While I totally trust all my fellow blog readers, I don’t know if we are quite at that level yet for you to see my crusty camping toes. Maybe one day… but not now… particularly in a recession.

Here is the result of the pedicure that cost about $40 more than what I usually spend on a pedicure. It does look pretty sweet.

I was asked to speak on three different panels.

One was about building a brand with social networking- a fancy title for a panel that should really be called “talking to a bunch of old fashioned people about twitter.” Another was about niche marketing where I shared a panel with someone from JT Stockroom, someone from Good Vibrations, and the transsexual superstar Wendy Williams- that one was a lot of fun!

The other panel was about a very scary law that could get passed one day where all websites associated with porn would be forced to have a .XXX domain name.

Stuart Lawley from ICANN (the registry that controls domain names) has spent over 10 millions dollars on this campaign, and has tried to convince the media- and even a lot of people in porn that this could be a positive thing. He claims that this will “protect children” and be something positive for porn consumers… but it’s very obviously a way for him to make a shitload of extra money and put every pornographer/ porn retailer on the web into a ghetto, and make us all look extremely illegitimate.

The .xxx domains will supposedly cost $60 per domain.

Your average porn company owns about 500 domain names… that adds up really quickly. It can also seriously fuck with the way porn sites appear in Google and Yahoo search engines. I could go on and on- it would NOT be a good thing, and I hope the Free Speech Coalition is able to fight this. If you care to read more about this you can at http://dotxxxopposition.com/.

Anyways- here I am on the panel with Diane, the president of the Free Speech Coalition, Colin Rowntree the webmaster and owner of Wasteland.com, Christopher O’Connell a chief programmer for Mikandi.com, and Michael Klien, the president of Hustler. It was quite a group!

Here I am looking official.
Don’t fuck with me Stuart Lawley!!
I don’t want to pay $60 for every domain I own!
I have pedicures to get!!

xoxox

Joanna Angel

My friend Lexi Love has her own Youtube channel where she posts a bunch of random clips of her daily life – and does some interviews at conventions. Here is a video she made of me and her at Chicago Exxxtacy. In the video you really get to see how my degree in English has become useful in my career as a porn director.

Well Chicago, you and your porn convention have impressed this porn star!

Just when I thought that porn conventions were coming to a depressing end- Chicago restored my faith. It was awesome! Thank you to everyone who came out to see me. read the rest of this entry….

Alright well- these next two weekends me and the BurningAngel girls will be hanging out at porn conventions.

This weekend we will be at Exxxotica LA and next weekend in at Exxxtacy Chicago.

Come see us! We will have our own booth- with all your favorite movies, stickers, pictures and OF COURSE … my Joanna Angel Blow Up Doll will be there as well. You can get your own and film a video at the convention and enter it in my awesome Blow Joanna Up contest.

Speaking of awesome contests- we are having a WIN TWO FREE PASSES TO EXXXOTICA contest which you better enter like, right now- because it ends tomorrow night at some point. Note- this contest is JUST to win a free pass. I will not be supplying you a ride, or a flight or a hotel… or anything of the sort. Just a free day pass to the convention. Got it? It’s a simple contest- here is what you do.

Twitter at me @joannaangel with the hashtag #BAXLA and why you are BurningAngel’s biggest fan and deserve to go!

Um, it’s not really a rule to follow me on twitter to enter this contest but- basically… if you’re not following me… there is no way in hell I will pick you to win because what kinda biggest fan is not following me!! So I’m like, not forcing you… but I am. Got it?

The winner will receive TWO TICKETS for entry to LA Exxxotica on the DAY OF YOUR CHOICE, AND can come to the BURNINGANGEL BOOTH and get a FREE DVD and a picture with all of the BA GIRLS at the convention!

Even though I just told you all the contest info, you can read it all here if you want to read all that stuff again in a more um… “professional” kinda format, or something.

Here are the girls who will be at the LA Exxxotica Show Draven Star, Kleio, Dana Dearmond, Sparky and me, Joanna Angel! These are actually JPGS of the actual 8 x 10s we will be signing so… getting these in printed form WITH our signature on them should be quite the incentive to go… right?

and MEEEEEEE

Thanks! I look forward to meeting you all there.

Before you go, if you want to see how much fun these porn conventions are click here to see my Photos from This Years Exxxotica Miami!

xoxox

Joanna Angel

Here I am at the 2010 Warped Tour!

I have been to a lot of warp tours in my day. To think that the first time I ever went- there were no energy drinks sponsoring the tour! Crazy.

Well here I am! Wooohoo!

The BurningAngel superstar and my good friend Jessie Lee helped me tag up the back of um… something. I can’t remember if this was a trailer? Or someone’s booth? Or just like, some kinda board. Whatever it is- we put my picture on it. It is almost as exciting as some Attack Attack shirts, and “indie power”.

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