It's a long story, as those involving former porn stars and Las Vegas gay trash often are. But it's worth hearing if you recall the days of my rivalry with Ethan of BratBoySchool.com.

Since I don't have the time to cobble together a seamless narrative based on the incoherent online ramblings of the hottest messes Sin City has to offer, allow me to point you in the right direction.

Whoever seized control of BratBoySchool.com has posted an intriguing rundown of "the facts" - namely, that the "Ethan" we all knew and never quite understood was merely the "face" of a manipulative, middle-aged mastermind who operated the site, wrote Ethan's blog entries, and communicated with readers as "Ethan" via e-mail and MySpace. In other words, if you've ever corresponded with Ethan, you were in fact corresponding with his 40-year-old manager.

Oh, but it gets better! Keith, BratBoySchool.com's webmaster, tells all, as well. Something about how he was never reimbursed for the time he spent designing BratBoySchool.com and TheProjectBE.com. Keith was led to believe by Ethan's manager that "the boys" had not yet cashed in on their Ginch Gonch endorsement due to complications with the IRS. After months of not being compensated for his work, Keith shut down the site and deleted any entries that were not actually written by Ethan himself (i.e. all of them).

And if you really have some time to kill, stare into the blank, soulless eyes of Blair, an amateur porn actor who recorded a 30-minute "confessional" of vague accusations, limp-dicked allegations, and something about giving $1,500 in an unmarked envelope to Ethan's manager. Yikes. It gets good at around the 12-minute countdown mark. He talks about how Ethan and Ben didn't actually purchase their new house - it was paid for them by some television network. I don't know if any of this is true, but it certainly makes things interesting.

Finally, there is TheProjectBE.com, when Ethan's better, tanner, more muscular half, Ben, promises a video apology in the near future. (Let's hope his long-winded friend Blair isn't the executive producer behind that endeavor.) I happen to like Ben. He seems to be the lone Ginch Gonch boy at this point, which means he dumped Ethan and held onto the one legitimate product of their ridiculous enterprise: the Ginch Gonch endorsement. The question is: What happens to that empty Las Vegas McMansion of theirs?

There's a lot of drama here, not to mention a lot of unanswered questions. All I know is that it's probably a matter of time before Ethan turns to the other kind of male modeling - you know, the kind that doesn't involve clothes. What a sad and inevitable ending to a corrupt and exploitative journey that will be.

Many of you lashed out at me two years ago for daring to criticize poor, innocent Ethan and his quest for blog stardom. And to that I say, "I told you so." Ethan is a fraud, plain and simple. He exploited the anonymity afforded to all of us with blogs and used it against his readers. He is an embarrassment, and if you've ever stood up for him, you should be embarrassed, too.

As for me? Well, I may not disclose everything about my life, but I will never lie to you. What you see is what you get, for better or for worse. But at least what you're getting from me is real.

Update (11/15/2007): Comments for this entry are now closed. Thanks for playing!