Well, now, that was a pleasure to wake up to!

One of the Yahoo Groups that I’m at has an annual “Fan Favorites Contest”…Rope_Dreams, specifically…here’s the address:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rope_Dreams/?yguid=192089596

Well…this year, your very own “Tolstoy” made it to the next round of the competition for “Best Rigger/Photographer”!!  Better still, I and my other winners (Jerry, the “Badman” of NaughtyTies, and James Bertoni of ModelsTied) all recieved “byes” in the competition and have all moved to the FINALS!!

This is a real KICK for me as it’s the first time I’ve recieved any kind of nomination in anything for my rigging/photography work…the fact that it’s a FAN voting contest makes it all the sweeter! 

If you’re not a member at Rope_Dreams, sign up and give ol’ Tolstoy a vote in the finals!  Right now, because of the “bye”, voting in the finals won’t happen until Round 2 of three other competitions (Fave Model, Nicest Breasts, and Best Legs) has completed around October 5th, but you can still join up and vote in those categories!!

“Best Rigger/Photographer”…sigh.  😉

“Tolstoy”

It just ocurred to me that there’s many a place out there that ol “Tolstoy” has pages at…here’s some linkage…visit me often!

http://www.tucsontied.com/     My Site
http://bondagetokens.com/query.asp?rSiteID=215&rWebmasterID=1024  Token Page
http://www.clips4sale.com/store/30889   Clips4Sale page
http://tucsontiedblog.com/   Blog
http://tucsontiedblog.blogspot.com/   Old blog
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TucsonTied/     Yahoo Group
http://fetlife.com/users/18809    FetLife page
http://www.facebook.com/tucsontied?ref=profile  Facebook page
http://twitter.com/TucsonTied    Twitter  (or, @tucsontied  from your cel, naturally)
http://www.youtube.com/user/Tucsont    YouTube page

(Hit those top 3 especially, k?  😉 )   The YouTube page was an expirement…I wanted to see if I could advertise there and not get booted off…I nearly did.  😉  It is a good catalouging of some of my fave YouTube community bondage clips that don’t seem to get deleted, tho.  😉

“Tolstoy”

The following is a reposting from my Yahoo Group.  It’s relevant here as well, so I thought I should share with you  here as well.     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TucsonTied/

Angel

Well, now that my emotions have calmed down, I can write about this. Brace
yourselves, this may get long or full of sap, tho…lol.

You all know about Angel. Model of mine…we first started as producer and
model, grew to become friends, became better friends, then “adopted” each other
and now think of each other as brother and sister…even call each other that in
all our communications between each other.

Hadn’t heard from her in a bit, so I wrote her to see how she was doing. Got a
scary answer back from her this morning…she has Cancer.

Scary moments for me…had no other info, just “Cancer”. This hit me just as
hard as it did when my blood-Uncle was diagnosed with it…I panicked a bit, let
some raw emotion go.

She called me just before I went into work…it’s bad, but not as bad as I
thought. Ovarian cancer, caught in the very early stages. She next sees the
docs on the 8th of next month and they decide the next phases of the treatment:
remove the ovaries, chemo, or what’s necessary. For the most part, she feels
fine right now (had an IM convo with her while at lunch too)…so far so good.

I’d like to make a call-out to the Group to send her some well-wishes. If
you’re a fan, or would just like to send her some good wishes, either send them
here (I’ll forward them on to her) or you can send them to my e-mail:

immortal6265@yahoo.com

and I’ll see to it that she gets them.

Thank you, gang…and keep my “sis” in your prayers.

Sincerely,
“Tolstoy” Tony

Meh.  I’ve recently gotten a Facebook page for TucsonTied…

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/tucsontied?ref=profile

Add me, friend me, stalk me, whatever.  😉

It’s really funny how bondage-y that site has gotten of late.  When I first went on, it just seemed like another “social” page (I even made my page “vanilla” and devoted it to me), but now I that I have the TucsonTied page, it seems more models and producers have found me than so-called “normal” folks…lol.

Had a run-in at FetLife that is making me think twice about keeping this page…the higher-ups at Fetlife threatened me with a 48 hour deletion notice unless I made changes to my page; mainly making it about “Tony” more than about “TucsonTied”…mainly because if read wrong by the average page visiter, the page could be taken as one big advertisment for my site.

I didn’t care much for being threatened (I can play by the rules without deletion motivation, thank you very much), but I do see their point.  If the focus of the site is to help folks find a mate with a fetish bend, then putting the “TucsonTied” name at the top of the page is kind of misleading.  At FetLife, am I looking for a lover and full-time gal pal to help with the site and possibly model for it as well?  Indeed…tho I also enjoy the social aspects of hanging out with fetish-minded people who enjoy the work that I do.  If I get a subscription or two (or thirty…lol) from my Fetlife page as well, then that’s great!!  It’s not like I’m putting the page up for that purpose, but if it happens…

Ah, I’m at peace with it now…it’s their site and their site rules; and I also understand why they made it like that.  Makes me wonder if I should keep the Facebook page at all, tho…fortunately, I’m not overly attached to it, so I could dump it at a moment’s notice.  Facebook seemed like the place everyone was going…and I can’t put my own real name to my TucsonTied page as my BOSS AT THE VANILLA JOB is already on my personal page.  The crew there is pretty ok about personal lives and could deal, I suppose, but why take chances, right?

Well, anyway…friend me at facebook if you already have a page there…it’ll be a change-up from all the horny s.o.b’s who can’t read text and for some reason think I’m a hawt chick named Stacie Snow.  😉

“Tolstoy”

PS: I’ve already been HIT ON at FB by these morons…I’ve never “played along” with the fantasy because I’d really be playing in Stacie’s name (as these morons think I’m her).  Told her about this and she died laughing…and told me to go ahead and have fun with it, as long as I set it straight at the end.  If this happens, I’ll run an edited (names removed, natch) play-by-play here.  If you can’t read, prepare to flirt with a 265 lb, 6’2″ hairy ass Italian MALE…lmao!!