First up this week it is my sad duty to confirm the passing of our of our own. Bodybuilder Rod Roddick died Thursday, August 18th of a heart attack. He was 34 years old. Information is still coming in and I have not been able to confirm what he suffered from, although director Blue Blake tells me Mr. Roddick had been sick for some time.

Update: New column posted below]

Howdy to loyal listeners of the “Derek and Romaine Show” on Sirius OutQ satellite radio. I just got off the air (Wednesday, August 24th) after another bout of gossip and porn shenanigans. (Congrats to Romaine for discovering her virginity!) Thanks for clicking over to my humble archive.

In a nutshell for newcomers: Columns going back to July 2004 are archived to your right. Earlier columns have yet to make it online. Soon, I promise. The current “Adams Report” can be read via the Not-Work-Safe links to your right, while the next most recent are below. Thanks muchly.

As summer winds down, the latest iteration of the L.A. Gay Erotic Expo unspooled August 20th and 21th at the Convention Center in downtown Los Angeles. I dropped by on the second day and observed a packed crowd of hundreds of horndogs perusing booths, checking out videos and doing their best to feel up as many porn stars as possible.

Fredrick Ford, to cite one example, did his best to accommodate them. He actually rented a booth to promote Fredrickford.com and decorated the space with a “weenie roast” theme. That meant he sat in a director’s chair with a rock-hard cock, his ridged abs gleaming, and gave fans the chance to grab ahold of that stiff sausage and pose for a picture. Clever idea, and his booth was swarmed from the moment doors opened.

Summer is winding down in GayPornLand and the weather is finally cooling off a bit. This week in the “Adams Report” we bring you another installment of our trusty Press Release Roundup, in which we clear our desk of press notices and other items of information that have piled up during our summer vacation. In this installment we’ve got the latest on David Forest’s legal woes, updates on all of the ForestMen, a bit about Paul Barresi’s career as a private investigator, and we take note of the latest examples of how porn, both gay and straight, has completely infiltrated mainstream culture. On with the show.

It’s too damned hot in GayPornLand, in more ways than one (keep reading!) The “Adams Report” staff may never return from their air-conditioned hideaways. So this week it’s one of my favorite games, Six Degrees of Porn Separation. Or should that be “Sex” Degrees? Ha-ha. Anyway, let’s pull a train with some of gay porn’s hottest performers from Hollywood to New York City and back again.

The “Adams Report” summer vacation continues apace. In the meantime, we’ve got more of your burning questions. This week we dish hilariously bad porn titles, the peerless Owen Hawk and Chi Chi LaRue skin flicks popping up in the oddest places; plus, I take a few pissy readers (and one distributor) out behind the woodshed. Let’s get a move on, shall we?