So Lisa and I do the Cybernet recap, as I feel we will be doing a Cybernet recap for quite a few shows (we have some possibilities on interviews with peeps we met at Cybernet but we don’t give anything away yet). Really, it’s probably the most free-wheeling show we have ever done, but it all relates as Cybernet was about B2B in this adult business thing we all do. Writers like me and Lisa (well Lisa’s much more than just a writer as anyone who went to her class at the convention will attest), Internet billing sites, talent (well, we’re all talent actually) and those great guys Jay and Connor; we give you the real skinny on what went down when we went down to Frisco for the convention. In our usual fashion there is some self depricating humor, great stories and the usual name dropping. But what we wanted to impress upon those who were not there was how much you should have been and for those who were, a great big radio hug. We explain pannels and classes too, what one should expect when attending them and Lisa’s personal experience with putting her class together and executing same. Like I said, this will not be the first show about Cybernet, I am sure.

Ah sweet Cybernet, how I love thee.
From ‘The Warf’, to Jay’s moderating to those big breasts of Kelly’s.
Meeting Christian and Josh and Jean Marie and Jay.
It was straight, it was bi, it was trans and it was so so gay.
So I say big love to you all, from Frankie to that spread at KINK.
I will go again and again me very much thinks.

Lisa’s added comments and attempt at writing poetry:

As the proof of Ralph walking into our hotel room wtih two beautiful women,

As Lisa finds all her Gluten-Free cookies missing…

To eating at Ghiradelli’s (not once) but twice, (Happy B-day to me!)

Hanging out with amazing business owners and creating long term connections,

MTC, Kelly, Housekeeper, AFA, Sascha, Frankie and more!

Sharing a nice time with AFA and Ralphie at the San Fran Gay Pride Parade,

Thank you LAJ and Connor for a well organized expo and tons of fun!

Through it all we attempt to eek out a living doing what it is we love to do, but most of us sadly don’t, so we steal moments when were not trying to earn money to buy our daily bread, to do this writing thang as much as we can. Given the above, when two writers meet it is often an interesting scene to say the least. It’s a misery-loves-company situation at the best of times, a knock-out-drag-out competition at the worst. Since what we do we do in private we tend to protect that ‘thang’ we do often times to such a competitive edge that we act more like Mel G. in Thunderdome than we do like regular law abiding citizens. But, for me, at Cybernet this past weekend, and especially meeting the afore mention M. Christian, this wasn’t the case…in fact it was the complete opposite.

I have been to comic, horror, sci-fi cons galore. I actually attended the second- ever Star Trek convention in NYC, the infamous one where they oversold by thousands and there were near riots by Klingons, remember that one? I have been in the music ‘biz’ for as long as I have been writing prose and that is one cut-throat backstage shmooz-til-you-die scene, I tell ya! Cybernet couldn’t have been more different. I felt more a sense of blind acceptance for and from everyone who walked down those Holiday Inn steps than I ever did any kind of a “ok, so who are you, what do you do?” posing. In fact, I happened to speak to Jay and Connor’s female temp (yes, I’m drawn to pretty girls like the proverbial moth-to-flame…and usually end up getting my ego burned) a sweet-faced brunette standing at the bottom of the steps directing us to certain panels and she remarked how wonderful everyone was, how nice and open and smiley the faces around her were and how surprised she was given the nature of the convention. I couldn’t do much more then agree; this was a group of really nice people, made more so because we all shared the nefarious business of a business most people think is nefarious but is anything but. And for a writer at a convention like this, these Theremin®-backed good vibes went a very long way.

It’s not often I discuss what I do, I simply do it. I am not a braggart (or at least hope I’m not) and am usually too embroiled in getting my latest masturbatory fantasy to computer screen while I type with one hand that I don’t have the time to do much else then write. Like everybody else at Cybernet, I was just trying to learn a few things, meet some folk, try to make it through another day with the terrible jet-lag dragging my ass while I stored what little energy I had for the KINK debauchery. Really, my mind was on business for sure, as I know all of us had our mind on business, but it was so damn life-affirming to be with people who not only understood what I did (writers, webmasters, Internet radio programmers, etc.) but who really cared about what I did. I guess, and I hate to admit this cause I really do think of myself as a dour old fuck, but I really do like people.

Along with my partner in crime-and-cookies Lisa, we really were tickled pink to meet all these wonderful folks at Cybernet and feel part of the community. And that M. Christian guy (yeah, yeah, I’ll stop gushing) I couldn’t have met someone I have more in common with if I had written him myself! He was gracious, warm, exuberant, you name the positive attribute the man exhibits it, introducing me, chatting about films, laughing…he is the bomb man! See, the writer’s life doesn’t have to be that locked-away-in-a-garret-bemoaning-a-lost-love existence (but if you got her or him locked in that garret with you, alls the better). You can find these moments, like I did at Cybernet, where you feel the true value of what you do with people whom you come so quickly to value.

(Lisa did not edit Ralph’s voice or style )

Ok I’m not really scared and I have hit the local Kohls, so I am prepared, still, it’s been a while since I attended a convention, let alone one like *Cybernet*. But Lisa and I had the good fortune to interview LAJ who’s puttin’ the whole thang together, and he seems like a great guy with exactly the right concept about this convention.
   

Sure it’s gonna be fun, sure they’ll be wacky peeps walking around, and sure there’s gonna be lots of talk about sex (and I’m sure a lot more than just talking during those parties) but what Jay said and Lisa and I are going for is the B2B oppportunites where social adult media is the focus (Lisa is also teaching a class at the convention, yeah she’s kind of a big deal, I know, I know). It’s gonna be great seeing San Fran again, one of my favorite cities and being together with a bunch of people; writers, website owners, talent who are in this business we are in and know the ins and outs of stuff that I don’t know of and sharing what I do know with them.
   

I have been to "Star Trek" conventions (the very first one held in NYC way back in the 70’s…thank you very much) as well as horror cons, writer’s conventions and a few fetish meets, but Cybernet Expo is gonna be great, really. We’ve already done a few radio shows about it, talked to Jay, Lisa and I have a few people to meet (and there is her class…yeah yeah, she’s kinda a big deal…did I tell you that before?) so I am way into it.
   

So as Lisa and I have been kidding each other ever since we got our tickets way back when: “Hey, we are going to San Francisco!”
   

Next stop Cybernet baby! San Fran June 25-27, 2009! Adult B2B Tradeshow!

So listen Wed. night at 9pm EST on Radio Dentata and come chat with Lisa and Ralph during the airing.