The sad thing (I think?) is that I actually had to wiki Holmes myself, because I kept thinking, no, that can't be right, it has to be Jack Holmes the Porn Star or was it Joe Holmes because this can't possibly be... uh... it is...
And then I just stared at the PDF for several minutes in total, unblinking surprise. It's amusing enough if this were mainstream fiction, but it's detective/thriller meets gay erotica genre, and you'd think of anyone, an author writing gay literary porn should frickin' know at least the name "John Holmes", or at least his/her editor, y'know, someone.
What makes it especially wacky/boggling to me (that it was missed?) is knowing the real John Holmes' best work is considered a series of parody-gumshoe flicks, in which he played a private *cough* dick.
[I keep thinking of that line in EW that I never got, but now I think I do: "If you're trying to be funny, you're not, and if you're being sarcastic, that's worse."]
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Date: 28 Sep 2007 09:10 pm (UTC)And then I just stared at the PDF for several minutes in total, unblinking surprise. It's amusing enough if this were mainstream fiction, but it's detective/thriller meets gay erotica genre, and you'd think of anyone, an author writing gay literary porn should frickin' know at least the name "John Holmes", or at least his/her editor, y'know, someone.
What makes it especially wacky/boggling to me (that it was missed?) is knowing the real John Holmes' best work is considered a series of parody-gumshoe flicks, in which he played a private *cough* dick.
[I keep thinking of that line in EW that I never got, but now I think I do: "If you're trying to be funny, you're not, and if you're being sarcastic, that's worse."]