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Oh, cool! We made it into the DateDaily, another site about sex and relationship news. This is what they had to say:
“Sex and the 405 is your online newspaper with the latest headlines on sex and all the good (and atrocious) stuff that comes with. This is one sexy site, complete with all the news you’ll ever need to know about sex. Best part: The 101 section.”
Our editrix was on This Week in Twitter, talking about tweeting while having sex, why she won’t do ChatRoulette (those services never provided her the legendary cybersex everyone else is having using them), harnessing Twitter to find people to date, the myth of transparency as an oversharer, how to hit on her (use Twitter), and all kinds of other geekery none of us really care about.
But she did it in lingerie. Literally — she walked into the Mahalo offices in lingerie and was on air the entire time in lingerie and hung out afterward in lingerie. Watch the hour-long show or skip to the end of this post to see a picture of her after Jason Calacanis’ dog Taurus knocked her down for a big gooey bulldog kiss.
Counter-clockwise around the table from the left: Lon Harris, Mike Bracco, Melissa Jun Rowley and AV Flox. Off-camera: Mark Jeffrey.
Special thanks to Mark Jeffrey, Lon Harris, Mike Bracco, Melissa Jun Rowley, the This Week production team at Mahalo, and Amanda Coolong.
Oh, yeah! How could we forget to mention this? Sex and the 405 is in this Sunday’s Los Angeles Times! Image journo Whitney Friedlander got in touch with our editrix, who’s notorious for using Twitter to screen all potential lovers (her mating ritual involves grammar, punctuation and word sparring. We’ve seen her sext. She uses words like exegesis — WTF, right? Approach at your own risk).
Anyway, they dished the goss for a few hours, which resulted in a little mention for us, her loyal newsroom monkeys (who were slaving away in the word mines while she was lounging around for an awesome photo op with one of the Times most hardcore photojournos, Francine Orr, btw. Not that we’re bitter).
From Friendlander, the Times‘ excellent piece on love online:
Online dating sites aren’t the only way to find that special someone. There will always be the lucky folk who find kinship in the unofficial dating pools of social networking sites. Witness local blogger A.V. Flox, who edits Sexandthe405.com and has vowed to date only guys she’s met on Twitter.
“[On Twitter], you’re having a conversation with people without any external factors like physical looks,” she says. “It’s just really raw. It’s just who the person is. You edit what you say on your blog [or e-mail], but on Twitter you will tweet ‘Ow, I stubbed my toe.’ It’s really great stuff and indicative of personality.”
Like, totally, A.V. ROTFL. You know we had to go there, right? We still love you. Now please can we get a Clover in the newsroom? kthnx.
Image and excerpt from the L.A. Times.
We weren’t the only ones excited to see Zivity’s founder Cyan Banister take it all off on our site. VentureBeat reporter and tech-popcult commentator Paul Boutin jumped right on it.
As a result, we got into VentureBeat riding on Cyan’s n00dz, and since VentureBeat is syndicated to the New York Times…
Check that out, you guys. We’re officially relevant. Irreverent, but relevant.
How about that?
Via Paul Boutin.
On Thursday night, your humble editrix attended the LA Weekly‘s L.A. Web Awards, a ceremony awarding the best Los Angeles-based sites in 36 categories.
There was no sex blog category, so we didn’t expect to be party to more than the usual shenanigans–as shown in the photo on this post.
(Yes, that is your humble editrix noming on a certain Mashable contributor and former CNN reporter who shall remain unnamed. Nom nom! That’s how we roll!)
We were delighted to find, however, that Sex and the 405 had been first runner up for LA’s sexiest site.
We came thisclose to pwning SuicideGirls, which, in our opinion, far exceeds us in sexiness, but still!
How hot is that?
So we want to take a second to thank all of you, because this blog wouldn’t be possible without your comments, tips, ideas, stories, etc. You make this blog, people. We’re just your creatures, sitting here to string the words together. It’s all you. So thank you. You make this half-magnum opus-half-sweatshop gig worth it.
We adore you.
We’d also like to congratulate our friends at Lalawag, who won best tech blog; Caroline on Crack, who took best drinking blog; The Streets Are Calling, who won for best low brow art blog; Alana Joy, who took most shameless self promoter; LAist, who won best news blog; Sorting with Style, who took best retail site; and Sarah J. Gim, who won for best commenter.
The photo in this post is by The Streets Are Calling–those guys are dangerous, they’re so good at capturing shenanigans. If LaLaWhat got hold of their outtakes, I’m fairly confident we’d all be screwed!
We’re in UrbanDaddy’s Los Angeles anti-resolutions roundup! In case you don’t know, this is the equivalent of being immortalized with the about-town crowd.
The best part? We were labeled as a weapon of mass decreased productivity!
That’s right, our sweet orchids of decadence and depravity, we will waste away your afternoons “like some cheap magazine, when you coulda been learnin’ something, oh, well you know what I mean…”
(That’s a song, we’re not that clever.)
Not sure how they got the idea that we were like Sex and the City. The column, the show or the movie? That matters. Whatever the case, we’ll blame it on Adora. She’s been the favorite too long anyway.
Screengrab from UrbanDaddy.
Keep your friends close and the press closer, right? What happens when your friends happen to be press — or, more insidious still — run a gossip blog?
And they just so happen to have scandalous photos of you? OMG, it’s our editor in lingerie. Not sure we wanted to see that.
Thanks for the welcome, lalawag. We are happy to count you among our friends. Long live #shenanigans.
“The heat is on in Southern California and we don’t mean the weather!”
KTLA’s News Central’s Melissa McCarty took it from the studio to give Los Angeles the 411 on Sex and the 405.
Our editrix had just flown in from somewhere and was just about to take off at the crack of dawn, but who tells KTLA no, right?
Suck it up, Flox. Take one for the team. That’s right.
Image and information from CBS2/KCAL9.
Those guys at the LAist — let us tell you.
They don’t miss anything.
Sex and the 405 wasn’t even technically launched when they got wind of it and ran their piece “Foreplay or Death.”
Next thing we know, bam, we’re getting slammed and we have something ridiculous, like 30 articles up.
They do not mess around.
(We’re sure rumors about our editrix trying to steal Mr. Behrens from his date at Blogger Prom 2009 had absolutely nothing to do with any of this. Or the fact that she’s, you know, almost naked on our blog header.)
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