Yet another year has passed with Trannies in Trouble online now for eight years. I’m always amazed when March rolls around, and usually this time of year I mention the Iraq war, which was just gearing up when I went online with the site back in ’03. Well, the war’s apparently officially over, though of course things are still a mess over there. Barring any unforeseen catastrophe – such as the internet imploding – I’m looking forward to the site humming along for many more years to come. I’ve really got my eye on year nine and especially year ten, which will be here in no time, and then onward into double digits. Really the site has been one of the best things in my life so far and I can’t imagine not doing it. And I have to give a huge thank you to everyone who’s supported the site over the years – I really couldn’t do it without you! So here’s to the next year and the next and onward!

I promise I won’t turn this into a big Biblical blog, but this guy the Reverend Smith (who is described as “both highly presumptuous and extremely vain”) made a bunch of Bible illustrations using Legos. The one on good ol’ Deuteronomy 22:5 about crossdressing is pretty amusing. You can check it out here and be sure to click on the little forward arrows on the right side of that page to see the other illustrations. They’re all really clever – I especially liked the ones on “Homosexuality,” “Bestiality,” “When to stone your children” and “Sexual Discharges.” Funny stuff.

I almost feel sorry for the folks at MySpace, what with their recent redesign of the site, which frankly is completely unextraordinary and still as slow and sluggish as it’s ever been. I only log on there a few times a month to quickly answer some emails and click on friend requests, but it’s always an exercise in frustration. You click on something and the site churns away for ten seconds before it replies. Facebook, while it has its own negatives (and the recent David Fincher movie is fabulous!), does seem to be much peppier and responsive.

My favorite is still Fetlife, which has become THE site for kinksters. There’s another one that I also feel sorry for, MyDungeonSpace, which has just been blown away by Fetlife, with good reason – not to be rude, but it is stunning in its lameness. Then there’s Alt.com (where I actually met a very close friend) and Bondage.com (rarely ever check it anymore) and CollarMe. I’m on almost all of these sites, except CollarMe, but Fetlife is the one I use the most. If you’d like to look me up on any of them just search for Sandra Gibbons or my old kitty_friend_99 (I think I use that on ALT but my profile may be turned off at the moment – Yeah, I check it that often). They’re all major time wasters but we seem to be stuck with ’em. You won’t however ever find me playing “Farmville” on Facebook. Even I have my limits ;-)

An online friend sent me the link to the New Releases Page at that terrific Japanese bondage site (Bound Beauties Photo Salon) that I like so much. The pictures down at the bottom of the cute girl in the nurse’s uniform are incredible! And the stewardesses are pretty awesome too. Enjoy :-)

I recently saw some really nice free full-size pics of a pretty girl in a leather sleepsack over at Straitjacketed.com. If she were gagged they would have been perfect, but they’re still very nice and sexy and worth checking out.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that Tyler’s Porn Reviews just posted a nice review of Trannies In Trouble. It’s listed among the transsexual and shemale sites, which may not be the best fit, but I understand it’s hard to pick a category – bondage or TV/TS? But hey, I scored 8 to 11 points better (there’s two different scores) than Kink.com’s TS sex site TS Seduction – and they’re a huge company! Thanks, Tyler!

Recently on Fetlife I saw some amazing 3D damsel in distress pictures from a very talented guy named SPAZ who runs ActionBondage.com. We’ve been exchanging some emails and he very graciously agreed to let me post a guest gallery on Trannies In Trouble. Here’s the Preview / What’s New? page that links to it. He also sent me a couple cool pictures with me tied up with my favorite of his heroines, Vicky! I’ve toyed around with a little 3D animation over the years and it’s really hard! So I was just amazed when I first saw SPAZ’s site. Not only is he technically very skilled, but he’s able to really capture that sense of danger and peril. Check it out and enjoy!

I was surfing the web late last night looking at naughty pictures and found the most amazing YouTube video called “Voodoo,” (update: the link has since been removed but go to my post of 01-05-09 for a link on MySpace) from an Italian guy who goes by the name AgenteWGA. It’s pretty dark at the end but has to be one of the sexiest things I’ve seen in a long time. There’s a nice set-up scene with the girl wearing a fabulous outfit and walking around in a shopping mall while being watched that really creates a feeling of impending danger. He also has another shorter video on the above profile page with some nice moments. Enjoy them while they’re still online.

Whew, I’m so relieved to finally have this password problem all resolved. If you’re still having any troubles, just go to the public homepage and send me an email from the email link.

There are a few manually entered passwords for some of the models and photographers and other friends I’ve worked with that got lost in cyberspace, so if you have one and it’s not working just let me know and I’ll add it right away. Whew, I got a few new grey hairs from this! Thanks so much for everyone’s patience – I really appreciate all the support!

Just a note for members of the Trannies In Trouble paysite. I’m having
some technical issues right now with passwords and will be continuing
to work on it through the weekend with my webhost and CCBill to get
everything back up and running as soon as possible.

I really really apologize for the hassle if you’ve had trouble logging
on. Please bear with me and I’ll get this worked out as soon as
possible. I really appreciate everyone’s support and patience!

I was just checking my stats and saw that Jane’s Guide just gave me a real nice review for Trannies in Trouble. What a nice surprise! You can check it out here on the Fetish TV and TS page. Or click through the what’s new pages.

A very talented online friend whom I met on MySpace recently sent me this terrific drawing that she did, inspired by one of my pictures from Ts in T. Her name is Leena Legarsi and she has more great work on the Deviant Art website. It’s not always the easiest site to navigate, and you’ll probably have to sign up for a free membership there to see all her work, but here’s the page where the drawing was originally posted. There are links there on the left to Leena’s other drawings and her profile. It’s definitely worth signing up for a free membership on the site. Thanks so much, Leena! I love the drawing!

In my ongoing goal of having every bondage loving tranny and tranny admirer in the world know about my website, I set up an affiliate program where you can actually make some money if you send someone to my site and they join. It’s actually very simple. If you have a website or a blog or even a profile page with links, you just sign up and post my banner or a text link with some simple html code to track things and you get 50% of every sale that’s made through that link, including recurring sales. It sounds more complicated than it is, but it’s run through CCBill, my main billing processor, so you’ll be guaranteed to be paid by them if you generate any sales. They’re very reliable.

I actually belong to a couple of other affiliate programs myself and although you’re not going to pay the rent with them, it is possible to get a little surprise check in the mail every now and then. Of the ones I belong to I usually get a check a few times a year. Some programs do pretty well and some never generate a dime. A lot depends on the amount of traffic you might have coming through your site or blog or profile. In any case, if you’d like to try it out just sign up here and you’ll be directed to the necessary banners and html code and all. Let me know if you have any trouble signing up (my email link is on the main page of my website.)

(Update: Thanks to everyone who replied to this post and sent me the link for the site!)

Someone on MySpace reposted these terrific Asian bondage pictures on their profile and I’m dying to know which website they come from. I’ll join it in a second if they take US dollars. I normally wouldn’t repost someone else’s pictures but I’m just really really curious. I don’t know if those are Japanese or Chinese characters on the text, but I do know they’re some hot pictures, and just the kind of office girl / girl next door in bondage stuff that I really love. And hey, they’re Asian girls too, so that’s even better. So anyway, if you know where these pictures come from, just post a comment with the link or feel free to email me directly. My email address is on the email link on my website.

I got some much needed sleep last night and am still on a high from the weekend at FetishCon. Forgive all the name-dropping in the following post, but there were so many wonderful people there and everyone was really nice. First off, after being hit by the heat and humidity outside the airport, I hopped on the minibus to the Hyatt and was delighted to find Tom/Cindy and KKY, both of whom I’ve shot pictures with for my site. I also got to meet a couple other lovely ladies going to the show – Mistress Sable and Mistress Gemini. A very nice start to the weekend that put me in a relaxed mood.

However, one of my least favorite things in life is to walk in alone to a big cocktail party where I don’t know many people, so I began to feel a little nervous about the Meet and Greet party that was coming up. After getting ready, I went downstairs for a while and checked it out, but my nerves were getting to me so I took a little break in the ladies room, regrouped and got myself together, and tried again. After a while I started to get into the flow of the evening and it turned out really well. Obviously there were dozens of gorgeous women there, lots of them in full-on fetish wear, with lots of corsets, stockings, and heels. I mingled around and met several nice people, including toon guy Andre, whom I’ve known online for quite a while – a really sweet guy with whom I got to chat several times over the weekend. And I also got to meet a lovely tg girl, Angela, whom I’d written a few times just before the show. She was very cute and a really fun person to hang with.

Friday morning, I arrived a little early at the show and chatted with a cute girl doing security, whom I later learned was Michelle Peters from Dizdat. She also was the model for several bondage demos over the weekend. She did one later that afternoon with Dominic Wolfe that was one of the hottest things I’ve seen in years. (I’ll be posting more pics from the weekend on my Yahoo Group in a folder called FetishCon 2007.) And she did a great demo with Phil Carson showing some thin-lace bondage, which was equally amazing and hot.

Once the show opened I got to meet quite a few of the big name guest models who had booths there. I was pretty nervous approaching Emily Marilyn and was afraid I’d pee myself, but she was really cool and actually very nice and graciously let me take a picture posing with her. One of the things I love about her is that she has a dark unknowable quality to her persona. Mysterious enigmatic women are always terribly attractive. And of course she’s so stunning that I can barely form intelligible sounds in her presence. Meeting her was just amazing.

Later that day I had a chance to sit down for lunch with my new friend Jeff Jamm, whom I’ve been talking to online for the last several months. I was really glad that he was at the show, as we’d been talking about shooting some pics for some time, and he recently sent me some nice new ballgags, which he makes himself. I remember seeing and admiring his work from way back in the old Harmony Concepts days, so it was nice to actually meet in real life. I had a nice visit with him and his lovely girlfriend K. and we made plans to shoot later that night.

When I showed up that evening, he was just finishing up a shoot with a cute young model named Trinity, doing a nice set of pictures with her in a stretchy spandex dress. It wasn’t till later that I realized that it was Trinity from Hunter’s Lair. She’s a really cute girl and she and her boyfriend were both really nice. Once they finished their set, Jeff and I shot two sets of pictures that I’m looking forward to posting on the Trannies site in the future. I asked Jeff to tie ’em tight, and boy did he ever. For the second set that we did I was on my knees on a small rotating platform, tied to a short pole in front of me. Jeff clicked away and then finally after fifteen minutes or so my elbows were just dying and that was it. No more bondage that night! But I sure slept well. ;-)

I met lots more people at the show that weekend, including the amazing Darla Crane, whom I’ve loved for years. I also talked to a nice guy from New York who said he knew an AES model who wanted to do some shots tied up with a tranny. My hand went up and I immediately volunteered. To my great surprise, though, when we finally got together, Annie, the model, brought a friend with her to do the rigging and it turned out to be none other than fellow AES girl Lyndsey Sinclaire, who’s absolutely stunning. So yeah, I can now say I’ve been tied up by Lyndsey Sinclaire! Pretty cool. I don’t have the pictures just yet but I’ll be posting some of them on my Yahoo Group once I get them.

Later on that Saturday I finally got to meet my friend Judy from Florida. Judy and I have been emailing each other for a few years now and it was really nice to finally meet her and her lovely and supportive wife. We had a nice visit down in the bar and briefly tried out an arm binder back up in her room. Then later that evening I went to the Midnight Masquerade party, held at a club nearby. Wow, that was amazing. I’ve been to lots of parties where later you come home and say, “Well, that was kind of fun.” But this one was a total blowout. The energy level was really high and I spent most of the night upstairs where the bondage and bdsm people were playing. I got to tie up my cute new tg friend Rachel, whom I’d met the day before and had a really nice time with her. I really got into the zone and felt her up and she seemed to be enjoying it too, with her eyes closed and her head rolling back. I love it when the bondage sends you away like that. There was also another ultra-freaky tg girl with these huge pink platform shoes and watching her dance to the music was hypnotic. I just sat there with my eyes glued on her. She danced really well, in this bizarre and exaggerated manner, like she was possessed by something. The whole vibe of the evening really brought on the feeling of an altered state of consciousness, and hell, I haven’t drank or done any drugs in well over a year. But I was definitely zoning out. I’m so glad I didn’t miss this one.

Sunday the show was winding down and after spending a few more hours meeting people and buying some new heels from the Shoe Guy, I took a much needed nap before heading down to the Sunday night afterparty. This party was held in the hotel ballroom itself so there was no way the energy level could compete with the previous night’s bash, held at a private club, but it was still a lot of fun.

I missed the very start, but Midori and Kumi Monster did this amazing performance where Midori, as a sophisticated Japanese mistress, puts her maid Kumi through all kinds of bizarre torments as punishment for her numerous errors. At first I thought is was kind of slow but then it just got weirder and weirder and I couldn’t look away. At one point Kumi, wearing white kabuki makeup, ends up bound and has japanese symbols painted onto her body, then gets doused with black paint and finally is whipped with a couple of dead squids, which she’s then forced to wear on her head, while Midori lets the tentacles slide down into her own mouth. It sounds nuts but it worked really well as a performance and Kumi was a mess by the end of it, bound and utterly degraded and objectified. Sounds good to me!

The last twenty four hours hours I barely got any sleep at all, so by the time I packed and sat down in the lobby waiting for the shuttle bus, I was beat. There are a lot more people that I met and things I saw but if I keep on writing, this’ll be as long as a New Yorker magazine article. Oh, yeah, like I mentioned earlier, Rubberdoll was amazing. I paid five dollars to spin her “wheel of pain” where she then puts you in the stocks and does wicked things to you depending on where the wheel falls – “spanking,” “violet wand,” “mistress’s choice,” etc. The violet wand was great. I’d never done it before and she was an expert with it. I enjoyed it so much that I went back twice. Best ten dollars I ever spent.

Other people I met include Vivian Irene Pierce, who’s super hot and a really fun person. She was one of the last models I got to talk with and I’m glad I did. There was also Diana Knight, Eden Wells, Smoking Mary Jane, Anastasia Pierce (really sweet), and of course Stacy Burke. What a fabulous weekend. I was floating on a cloud by the time it was over. It’s good to be home again, but I’m definitely planning to go back next year for more.

(More FetishCon photos here at Eros Arts.)


Dominic Wolfe with Michelle Peters


Rubberdoll and furry friend

Michelle Peters bound by Phil Carson


Sandra and her furry friend


Miss Stacy Burke and Jim Weathers’ hand

It was a fun and busy weekend here. Saturday evening my friends Bettie Cho and Chainguy got to shoot at a friend’s house and I had a great time. I put Bettie into an inescapable leather strap and rope tie and did a really severe gag and blindfold on her. That bitch was bound and gagged! Usually I hold new stuff in reserve since there’s older material to post waiting in the queue. But I really like this set so I’ll probably post it this Friday. Here are a couple preview shots.

Then later today, I did the monthly Bondage Workshop, presenting a few hogties and variations, and tying up my friend L. for the demo. It was a small group, only five or six people, which can be challenging, but I was feeling pretty relaxed and in the zone. Afterwards I stayed late for a presentation with author and speaker Jack Rinella, a guy who’s been into the gay leatherman scene for years and who’s written a few books on BDSM subjects and a weekly online column. He spoke on Subspace and Altered States of Consciousness and it was very interesting.

So then tomorrow I’m finally going to go in to start getting some laser hair removal treatment on my beard. Shaving is such a pain in the ass. I have a pretty heavy beard growth so whenever I’m dressing I scrape and scrape till my face is nearly raw. I finally took the plunge, got some recommendations from friends, and made the phone call. I’ll have to do a series of treatments over time, of course, but I really hope it works for me. Even just thinning the growth would be a plus.

So like I mentioned earlier, I’m going to be doing a little traveling for a week or so, just visiting family and friends, till after the 4th. Updates on the trannies site will be the same as usual, though my chances at checking email will probably be limited.

If anyone has password problems or anything with CCBill, while I’m on the road, they have a good help page here.