Kelley Brooke Thompson

I go from no job (and no money) to new job that sucks every spare hour from my life. I’m not complaining, I just wish this job had showed up *before* GC did. Would have bought more stuff, gotten more snapshots. Ya, I know, cry you a river.

One of the first women I talked to was Tera Patrick since she was right by the entrance. She has a lot more tattoos on her (and makeup) than I remember seeing in the past. I asked her about that, if it was a porn industry thing or a personal thing. Based on her expression she thought that was an odd question. But she said she got her tats because she wanted to get them, not for any sort of “it’s the thing to do now” in porn. And she couldn’t speak for any other porn stars.

I got a ticket for the Hugh and Crystal signing. That was a waste, though I didn’t know till later that Hefner was feeling pretty terrible and manned it through an hour. Would have been nice to get his signature and Crystal’s but not my day.

What was my day was seeing Claire Sinclair in person. Except for Tiffany Taylor, Linda O’Neil was the only model at these shows who could make me just stand there and look at her like I’d forgotten how to walk. But now Claire also does that (and my wallet is afraid again). If she’s not PMOY then Hugh must hate Playboy fans. I’ve seen retro models before at GCs, the standard bangs/Bettie Page hair look and the polka dots dresses, but they usually look like it’s not really them. Claire is for real, she looks like she should have been born in Bettie’s era. Her smile is like crack. She was hired for the Bettie Page stores as a spokeswoman, which defines “no-brainer”, her outfits for both days were from that clothing line and they killed. Her sister was there with her but I honestly can’t remember what she looked like. I remember she was very pretty but she must have hated feeling invisible.

It must have been Retro Weekend because Deanna Brooks was there on Sunday with the Dancing Playmates (Serria Tawan, Neferteri Shepherd, Hiromi Oshima) and they were dressed up like they should have been in Christina Aguilera’s “Candyman” video. I told her they looked like the military version of the X-Men which got a laugh out of her. She is fantastic, could pose right now, and the four of them had a good vibe to their dance routines (lots of people taking pictures of that!). She says they travel everywhere doing that routine.

I like meeting mother/daughter Playmate duos (spread those beauty genes!), Gale Olson and Crystal McCahill sat together. Crystal wasn’t listed (said her mom dropped the ball there, haha) but looked fantastic, very Megan Fox/Taylor Cole-ish, she took that as a complement. Gale said all she’d really done since Playboy was be a mom (give her a medal for having that daughter) and wasn’t aware of Glamourcon at all until her daughter became a Playmate. Crystal wants to act, directors have told her not to take lessons, which makes sense in the don’t act like every other young actress acts sense.

Ida Ljungqvist looked great (crazy curves for a girl so small), she said she is still modelling for Playboy and had 6 months left on her contract. She is one of those models who is suspicious of requests for atypical poses. Hey, I just want something beyond the standing-facing-forward pose.

I had no idea that Bridgett Rollins was suffering from anything when I met her, she didn’t even mention it. She was cute as hell, like if Calista Flockhart was hot, and told me that she’d modelled before and after posing for Playboy. I’m really glad I got to meet her at this past show.

Kelley Thompson looked really good, said she had her baby and was now going to get back into modelling. Funny how my view of her cute/hot level was changed so much after meeting Claire in person.

It was good to see Carmen Berg again, she hasn’t done GCs for a while. She still looks great, says she acts in commercials and TV. I didn’t know she interviewed Hugh Laurie for Playboy, hope she does more of that.

This shows how little I pay attention to whatever’s printed in the Playmate pictorials. I had no idea that Lee Ann Michelle, one of my favorites from 1979, was English! What a great accent and she’s still so beautiful. It’s hard to remember but I believe she told me that she won the Page 3 Girl of the Year 2 years after she posed for Playboy. Now she runs a modelling agency for Page 3 girls (please hire me!), been doing that for 20 years? No wonder they find so many hot girls out there.

While Claire is the most retrotastic cute/hot Playmate at this GC, Shera Bechard takes the prize for being the most, I don’t know, elegant-looking. She has such wonderful facial features (and a perfect body), I told her she looked like the best-case-scenario combination of Stormy Daniels (porn star) and Jenny Wade (from “The Good Guys”). Her beauty is that type that looks like she should always be wearing an evening gown, gloves, heels and pearls. Her Mystique modelling name grandmother’s, I think so her family wouldn’t know. I think she also said she’ll model more (not just for Playboy).

Lindsey Evans sat near her and said she’d also model more, too. I love her look but it’s infuriating because she reminds me of someone but I can’t remember who. Amazing smile, prettier than her pictorial.

Henriette Allais was not one of my favorites from 1980. I don’t know why after meeting her in person because even now that she’s not in her 20s, she still looks beautiful. What a wonderful French accent she has, she said she lived in France during her Playboy years and totally missed out on that whole experience. She modelled in France for people like Helmut Newton, she has grandkids now. We talked for a while about natural beauty (she has that in spades) and the idiocy of women in their 20s getting plastic surgery when they’re already models or really pretty, all it does it make them look more fake. I wish more pretty girls thought like Henriette.

Another mother/daughter duo was Terri Lynn Doss and her daughter, Maddie. Terri looks like her pictorial (great) says she moved to the O.C., and works for a dating agency. I’d just ask if I could be set up with the owner, haaha. Maddie looks almost exactly like her mom, only with brunette hair. She said she’ll be a Playmate within a year, I can’t wait.

Cynthia Brimhall can still fill out a pair of jeans. She was hot without even trying, very Carrie Stevens-like. She mentioned something about being involved with Vegas productions (like stage shows) but honestly she was so pretty that went right past me.

I didn’t know that Kara Monaco was a rocker. She loves rock and metal, we started talking about Dream Theater (I think because of the concert shirt I was wearing) and she said Mike Portnoy’s drumming was “sick”. Ok, her stock really rose with that statement, I hated to inform her that Portnoy had quit the band.

I almost didn’t recognize Heather Rene Smith. She was thinner than before, to the point that it affected her face. I like the new look but I liked how she looked before, too. The reason she was slimmed down was training for a bike ride (Delaware to California) for the Tour De Sight charity. Ya, that will burn everything off you. She also did or was going to do a mud run for charity. *And* she’d been sick for a week. No wonder she looked so different.

Stephanie Larimore was another new mom, but she said she wanted to do more modelling soon. Same for Olivia Page, who looked fantastic, said she’d been modelling since she was 12, used to do cheerleading catalogs which was funny since she was one of the only models who wasn’t a cheerleader. Ya, I wouldn’t care, either.

Tailor James said she is designing men’s clothing, the line will be out soon online & in boutiques (she wouldn’t reveal the name). She said she’d done catalog lingerie modelling, like for Shirley of Hollywood.

How did I miss Christine Smith being in (and on the cover of) Easy Rider magazine? It was an odd picture in terms of colorspace, but still. She said she was going to be in a Cameron Diaz movie (“Bad Teacher”) soon, and she somehow made it onto a stamp in England. That’s cool, she made some 50 top celebs list.

Jessica Burciaga was finally at a GC! Man, she’s hot in person, like an improved Kim Kardashian/Jennifer Lopez. Unbelievable smile. She’s been in Show magazine a few times, says she loves their photography (if you haven’t seen it you’re missing out) but isn’t so high on them as an organization (they sold her pics to other people). She’d work with them again with a new contract. Damn straight.

Aria Giovanni looked really good, as usual. She said she was going to school (in Northern California, those lucky bastards), still doing her website. She wanted to keep her major private, which I understand.

Like most people I steered clear of the Angie Everhart/Erika Eleniak/Tahnee Welch wallet-crushing machine except to talk to Tahnee for a bit. Man, at times she really looks like her mom. I didn’t know that Raquel was Bolivian.

There were some pretty models there, too. I bought a calendar from Rali Ivanova who is a stunning Russian girl, very cool to talk to. If you saw Tara Babcock (how could you not), she was blonde model who nailed the white-hot stripper/Barbie thing and she wore two very revealing outfits. She said she doesn’t like going to clubs and is a video game nerd. We need more of those.

I missed a lot of Playmates, both due to time and lack of funds. Of course, there were about 5 I had planned on meeting. And then there were a lot of no-shows this time.

It was good to see some of the PMLers who frequent GCs, especially Hairball because he, like I, could not get enough of Claire. And I cost him $60 because I mentioned that I couldn’t afford the Olivia giclee that she was selling. The second he heard that he went over to her table and bought it. Ya, I could have used that job showing up sooner. I like the hotel (the longer drive sucks but is offset by the layout and location away from an airport). I’m sure I’m forgetting a lot.

Alfred.