Review 'LA Raw,' some thoughts on Jeff Palmer

I usually don't review videos that I wouldn't buy myself, and though I didn't much care for LA Raw, this dvd is a curious offering that features porn legend Jeff Palmer, not as a star with top billing but only as a performer in a threesome sequence that's all...so it cannot truly be called a Jeff Palmer video. This reality, of course, is unfortunate. Jeff Palmer truly is a porn legend, whose career switch from mainstream gay to bareback was characterized by uncommon self-promotion...not just as a major porn figure but also as a concert performer and wannabe rockstar. I have his cd, a gift from my friend Jimmy Z formerly of the Palm Springs Gaymart (who also had some interesting tales to tell about Jeff), and that cd is something else, as they say...I'm not quite sure what it is, but it is definitely something else. Jeff's website was fascinating. Here was a pornstar totally into being a pornstar, living a glamorous life in Miami, LA and Oregon with sugar daddies, sporty duds, sportscars, trips to high end resorts, and lots of scandalous sex. Jeff had no problem fucking fans, his handlers and promoters, managers, presidents of his fan clubs. It's all on his blog, in the section called The Scoop and it goes back a few years, related in his own personal Ricky Ricardo-ish dialect. It's the best blog I've ever read, and if I had any influence over Jeff, I'd encourage him to publish The Scoop as a paperback book...it is absolutely the sexiest accounting of the bareback/pornstar/rockstar lifestyle of the 21st century, so far. Jeff, Jim Bentley did it and so can you. So, buy LA Raw if you want to complete your Jeff Palmer library...otherwise mail Jeff and encourage him to add publishing to his extensive resume. Jeff is a famous AIDS denialist and while I disagree...yeah, AIDS does exist, dammit...he's always made a good argument against letting your HIV-poz diagnosis turn you into a victim. Fight back and don't waste your time left feeling sorry for yourself...use everything that works for you..in Jeff's case, that includes a dash of his personal brand of Christianity, but he doesn't preach...except when it comes to the guy he sees as the ultimate victim, Michael Brandon. Jeff, please get The Scoop into print, let's get some financial backing, it won't take that much.