France is a wonderful place: squishy cheese abounds, the world is sunny, small children fascinate me with their superior language skills. Still, when it comes to reviewing, this whole expat thing kind of blows.

I’ve officially been waiting now for almost a month for my copy of Mario Galaxy. The day I sent Nintendo PR my new address, they picked up and stopped answering my emails. Then there’s Imagine Babyz. Nintendo isn’t worried about a lack of coverage for Galaxy, I get that. But wouldn’t you think the Babyz PR people–when their game has exactly one review on Metacritic–would be interested in a little more coverage?

Okay, maybe they read Heroine Sheik. Maybe they realized I’d analyze it and tell it it had penis envy, or something wacky like that. But still. The most annoying part is that I can’t even break down and pay good, old-fashioned, non-American cash moneys for my games here. Not only are they mad expensive now that the Euro is so much stronger than the dollar, they’re just straight up not compatible with my systems. I’ve got a Wii and a PS2 literally three feet from my face, and I’ve still got the Ireland problem.

Oh, the price of living in a land where there are so many palm trees to hug…

P.S. Sorry for the continued technical problems that have made it hard to post this week. Heroine Sheik is now officially updated (from the back end, at least) and ready to go!

Sure, you know how to get naked in front of a webcam. Heck, you even know how to get naked in front of a webcam in style. But do you know which webcam to buy? Or what video-editing software to invest in to ensure the sexiest possible return from your nudie footage?

Ever since Click Me covered the webcam basics, the internet has been a land of advice for online sex enthusiasts who like taking it off for the camera. Okay, that might be an exaggeration. Still, first there were these tips from Boinkology.com. Now, there’s a super helpful post up at Sexerati.com, the blog of sexpert Melissa Gira, with a load of technical details. Prepare to have a geek-gasm.

Or, if you’re more in a porn-browsing rather than porn-making mood, check out this week’s Click Me. It’s about a new community-based, pay site called Zivity where female models can post sexy pictures of themselves and get paid according to popularity. It might just bring a jolt of web 2.0 to the online porn world–except, strangely enough, that the site refuses to call itself porn. Once Zivity finally comes out of beta (and out of the pornography closet), we’ll see if it fizzles into internet sex oblivion, or whether it can put its million plus dollars in investments where its cyber mouth is.

I got a lovely email the other day from the one and only Trixie. You might remember her as the indie “webwhore” who runs three websites, including TastyTrixie.com, complete with spycams, phone sex services, and general expectation-defying awesomeness. Trixie wrote, “It’s pretty rare for people in our industry to see one of their own profiled by non-industry media in a positive way. It means a lot, so thanks!”

You’re welcome, Trixie! I hope I can keep on being a positive voice for internet-based sex workers in the mainstream media. Not to go all sappy, but it really is something I care about. In fact, in a few weeks, you should see another Click Me profiling a sex worker who uses the internet. Who will she be? What will she do? Will her web address also use tantalizing literary devices like alliteration? The suspense!