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p.s. Hey. Since a bunch of you asked me about the Google/Blogger policy change thing, I'll talk about that up here. Yes, I got one of those emails and, in my case, one that seemed specifically directed at blogs that already have the warning label since it said my blog might be particularly affected and might be monitored via the changed policy. Taking the email's words at its word, my understanding is that the policy change is specifically and only about sexually explicit images and videos. If they had demanded no more sexually explicit text, this place would be in big trouble. Even though I think it seems like I post a lot of sexually explicit images here, I actually don't, or rather I haven't in years other than maybe 4 or 5 images per each escort or slave post. So, I won't be posting full frontal/hard-on pix or asshole shots or xxx images in the escort and slave posts anymore. I'm guessing/hoping that simple butt shots aren't going to be a problem, although maybe I'm being naive. The rules's "out" that sex images are okay if the intent is artistic feels pretty subjective and unreliable. I mean, I think the escort and slave posts are art/literature, but I kind of doubt I could persuade Google that that's the case. I've started going back and removing the "offending" images from the older escort/slave posts. It's a time-consuming hassle and a headache and a drag, but it's not a big deal to me since those posts have never been about sexually titillating viewers. Years ago, I used to occasionally do posts centered around pornography. In those cases, I'm going to go back through the archive and try to find them. If I can maintain their original intent with a bit of editing, I'll do that, and, if I can't, I will take them offline. Sucks, but this blog is not a porn or sex blog, and I'm willing to lose some old posts if it helps the blog from being shut down or forced into privacy. As far as the option of migrating the blog elsewhere, I've looked into that, and it is really not an easy thing to do. Blogger's code and formatting is specific, and if I moved the blog elsewhere, I would need to reformat each individual post by hand, and there are 4,325 posts as of this morning, and I'm just not able or willing to do that incredible amount of work for now. If the changes I make to the blog are not enough, and if Google forces me to make the blog private, I will reconsider the idea of migrating the blog at that time. So, that's my plan. Now, I'll catch up with the comments starting with the few I missed last weekend. ** Saturday ** Steevee, Hey. Nice about the temperature's return to niceness, obviously. How was 'It Follows'? ** Misanthrope, Hi. Oh, so those are the monsters of Rock. I always wondered who Rock's monsters were. I'm Facebook friends with Cody Cachet. He's a really sweet guy. Yeah, he's had some problems, and, in fact, he's currently in rehab. I don't think he looks bad now, but then I never objectified him even back when he was doing porn. ** Kier, Hi! Drat, or, rather, so lucky lucky you about the snow. No, Berlin was exactly like Paris, very mildly coldish and rainy. Bleh. 'The Babadook' isn't good? Oh, that's disappointing. I've been kind of excited to see that. I guess I already gave you my Berlin day report last time, so I'll do the succeeding day below. ** Cap'm, Hi, Cap! Wow, awesome story. I was in one of those SF Victorian houses once. I couldn't decide if it would be cool to live in one or not. But I wasn't on mushrooms, sadly. Anyway, wow. Thanks, sir! ** Monday ** Damien Ark, Hi! Mm, your decision on how write/edit, i.e. focus on less, on a chunk, a single thing, on a new thing is probably a really good one. Based on my experience. Dude, throwing stuff aside and starting over is an incredibly writer thing to do. I do that all the time. It's a sign that you are a writer if anything. Mushrooms seem like they're totally in the finals for best drug, at the very least. Enjoy, man. Yeah, an unfortunate snag currently and hopefully momentarily in our post-production, but that's my life's goal for the immediate future. ** David Ehrenstein, Morning, sir. ** Steevee, Cool, interview. Everyone, here's Steevee interviewing the Argentinian dude Damián Szifron, director of the new film "Wild Tales".' Bill, Hi, B. Yeah, I just don't get Berlin's charm, or maybe it's been overhyped, or maybe I feel like the justified praise has just been hype or something. It's okay, but I really don't have a feel for whatever is supposed to be so great about it. Granted, this just-ended, truncated trip was really not a happy one, so that could be part of it. ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T. No weirdly, I didn't take a single photo of the theater work, which is weird. I'll start doing that so I can cover the construction of the piece to some degree on the blog like I used to do because that was fun. ** Etc etc etc, Hi, Casey. Thank you for the lovely response to Mark's book! ** Tomkendall, Tom! Hey! Really, really good to see you, man! You good? What's going on? ** Kiddiepunk, Masterful work and achievement, sir! There's some news, and I'll talk to you later about that. ** Keaton, I haven't sprung for a box set in ages. Or not music. I think I've bought a couple or few film box set things. Ooh, 'A Sentimental Novel' is so great. And Radiguet. That's some very good input there. ** Schlix, Hi, Uli! Well, if we had stayed in Berlin and done the post- the way the producers wanted, the film would have suffered, but we're hoping to find an appropriately really skilled person or persons here in Paris to do it, and I would imagine we will. Or, well, we have to. ** Grant maierhofer, Hi, Grant! Thanks for the awesome response to Mark's and Kiddiepunk's achievement. Well, yeah, I would love a copy for damned sure. Simmons and Kilpatrick are both great writers, so that's pretty great and deserved couple of blurbs you got there. Best to you, buddy! ** Misanthrope, Hi. Oh, well, silver lining: you're working, but the added metro time sucks, duh. Yeeks about the furnace. My last morning in Berlin, I plugged in my coffee maker and blew a fuse in the hotel that knocked out all of the electricity on the entire floor I was staying on. And since I was on the ground floor, that included the hotel's lobby and dining room and offices, and etc. I was not their favorite ever guest. ** MANCY, Hi, Stephen! ** Sypha, Hi, James! ** Mark Gluth, Thank you again so much for the launch post. I'm very honored, and the book is just gorgeousness and genius central man. Oh, fuck, my very best wishes and luck to Erin's mom. That's terrible. My mom broke her hip twice. Ugh. ** Tuesday ** Keaton, I don't even know what to say about that dream, wow. I'm ... honored? I am, ha ha, even without the ha ha. Wow. ** David Ehrenstein, Thanks, David. It just means more fucking work and more money and time that we thought we wouldn't have to do/pay, but so it goes, I guess. ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh. Yeah, as I stated up above, I did get that email, and I guess that (up there) is how I'm hoping to approach it in a hopefully successful way, at least for the moment. ** Sypha, Hi, James. Ditto. ** Heliotrope, Hi, Mark! Ain't that the truth. Presumably it shouldn't be too, too difficult to find the right person or persons here in Paris. Why it proved to be so difficult in a major culture center like Berlin is a very strange and good question. Jesus, Mark. That's really fucked up and, obviously, very worrying about your incident and the unwillingness for your insurance to pay for tests. I mean, wtf about the insurance assholes! Gosh, man, if you think it's best or the only option to just go on and hope, I mean, that is very worrying, as you can easily imagine. Not that I wouldn't do the same thing, because I almost for sure would, but ... okay, Jesus, take whatever care you can of yourself, okay? I might get to see you pretty soon if travel plans pan out. This mess with the post-production has thrown a wrench into things, but, ideally, I might be in LA at least for a short time in the next few weeks to month. Mega love to you! ** Kier, Hi. Well, if I'm understanding the new rules correctly, I don't think I need to stop doing or remove the escort and slave posts because the xxx in them is largely in the text. I will delete possible "dangerous" images, and maybe I'll give those posts a more ambiguous title so as not to draw undue attention to them in the future. I don't know. It sucks in any case. The big mess in Berlin slows things down, mostly. And could well add more expense, and we're already over budget. But if we can find people to do the work, it's a lot easier and more pleasant to do the post- here in Paris. I should know soon. Only 10 works? That must be hard. Are you choosing, like, a selection that shows how you work in different areas, i.e. drawing, collage, sculpture, photo ... ? Or are you concentrating on the works you think are best irregardless of the medium? Or ...? Do hang in there and try to destress yourself as much as you can. I predict a superb outcome, not that my prediction is any help. Yesterday, ... first I told my hotel that I was leaving early. I had booked the room through Monday because that had seemed like the minimum amount of time we would be in Berlin. And the hotel will not refund the money I'd paid for the additional days, and that really sucks, obviously, but so it goes. Then Zac and I met with one of our producers and with the editor who's hopefully doing the compositing and special effects for our film. That went okay, I guess, but we'll see for sure once he starts showing us what he's done. Then we basically packed our stuff, went to the airport and we flew back to Paris. I got home around 9:30 pm, did this and that, ate, and crashed. Blah. I'll try to have an interesting first day back in Paris. How was Wednesday for you? ** Steevee, Thanks. Hopefully we'll sort out the post-production stuff right away, and time will tell, I guess, if I can manage to get the blog to fly under Google's censorious radar. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Hopefully everything will work out okay. We'll see. Fully enjoy the Members Show and Tell, and knock them out, which I have no doubt you will. ** Rewritedept, Hi, Chris! I haven't seen you in ages, and now I know why. Thank for the blog day! Such a thing is badly needed right now. Thank you! I'll write to you with the launch date. ** Mikel Motorcycle, Hi, Mikel! Good to see you, man! Thank you a lot for the offer of help. We'll see if I need it. I mean, if they mean what they say, then it's just a matter of removing some photos and backburner-ing some old posts. Not great at all, but not a massive change. But I guess I won't know until late March if I've done the trick or not. Take care! ** Keaton, Decency is as decency does? ** Misanthrope, Yeah, I'm a big optimist too. I should know if we're going to solve the problem in the next few days. You make me wish I had a hillbilly Facebook friend. ** Okay. Back to normal, so to speak. Here's a strange old post from ye "good" olde days. Have at it. See you tomorrow.
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p.s. Hey. Since a bunch of you asked me about the Google/Blogger policy change thing, I'll talk about that up here. Yes, I got one of those emails and, in my case, one that seemed specifically directed at blogs that already have the warning label since it said my blog might be particularly affected and might be monitored via the changed policy. Taking the email's words at its word, my understanding is that the policy change is specifically and only about sexually explicit images and videos. If they had demanded no more sexually explicit text, this place would be in big trouble. Even though I think it seems like I post a lot of sexually explicit images here, I actually don't, or rather I haven't in years other than maybe 4 or 5 images per each escort or slave post. So, I won't be posting full frontal/hard-on pix or asshole shots or xxx images in the escort and slave posts anymore. I'm guessing/hoping that simple butt shots aren't going to be a problem, although maybe I'm being naive. The rules's "out" that sex images are okay if the intent is artistic feels pretty subjective and unreliable. I mean, I think the escort and slave posts are art/literature, but I kind of doubt I could persuade Google that that's the case. I've started going back and removing the "offending" images from the older escort/slave posts. It's a time-consuming hassle and a headache and a drag, but it's not a big deal to me since those posts have never been about sexually titillating viewers. Years ago, I used to occasionally do posts centered around pornography. In those cases, I'm going to go back through the archive and try to find them. If I can maintain their original intent with a bit of editing, I'll do that, and, if I can't, I will take them offline. Sucks, but this blog is not a porn or sex blog, and I'm willing to lose some old posts if it helps the blog from being shut down or forced into privacy. As far as the option of migrating the blog elsewhere, I've looked into that, and it is really not an easy thing to do. Blogger's code and formatting is specific, and if I moved the blog elsewhere, I would need to reformat each individual post by hand, and there are 4,325 posts as of this morning, and I'm just not able or willing to do that incredible amount of work for now. If the changes I make to the blog are not enough, and if Google forces me to make the blog private, I will reconsider the idea of migrating the blog at that time. So, that's my plan. Now, I'll catch up with the comments starting with the few I missed last weekend. ** Saturday ** Steevee, Hey. Nice about the temperature's return to niceness, obviously. How was 'It Follows'? ** Misanthrope, Hi. Oh, so those are the monsters of Rock. I always wondered who Rock's monsters were. I'm Facebook friends with Cody Cachet. He's a really sweet guy. Yeah, he's had some problems, and, in fact, he's currently in rehab. I don't think he looks bad now, but then I never objectified him even back when he was doing porn. ** Kier, Hi! Drat, or, rather, so lucky lucky you about the snow. No, Berlin was exactly like Paris, very mildly coldish and rainy. Bleh. 'The Babadook' isn't good? Oh, that's disappointing. I've been kind of excited to see that. I guess I already gave you my Berlin day report last time, so I'll do the succeeding day below. ** Cap'm, Hi, Cap! Wow, awesome story. I was in one of those SF Victorian houses once. I couldn't decide if it would be cool to live in one or not. But I wasn't on mushrooms, sadly. Anyway, wow. Thanks, sir! ** Monday ** Damien Ark, Hi! Mm, your decision on how write/edit, i.e. focus on less, on a chunk, a single thing, on a new thing is probably a really good one. Based on my experience. Dude, throwing stuff aside and starting over is an incredibly writer thing to do. I do that all the time. It's a sign that you are a writer if anything. Mushrooms seem like they're totally in the finals for best drug, at the very least. Enjoy, man. Yeah, an unfortunate snag currently and hopefully momentarily in our post-production, but that's my life's goal for the immediate future. ** David Ehrenstein, Morning, sir. ** Steevee, Cool, interview. Everyone, here's Steevee interviewing the Argentinian dude Damián Szifron, director of the new film "Wild Tales".' Bill, Hi, B. Yeah, I just don't get Berlin's charm, or maybe it's been overhyped, or maybe I feel like the justified praise has just been hype or something. It's okay, but I really don't have a feel for whatever is supposed to be so great about it. Granted, this just-ended, truncated trip was really not a happy one, so that could be part of it. ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T. No weirdly, I didn't take a single photo of the theater work, which is weird. I'll start doing that so I can cover the construction of the piece to some degree on the blog like I used to do because that was fun. ** Etc etc etc, Hi, Casey. Thank you for the lovely response to Mark's book! ** Tomkendall, Tom! Hey! Really, really good to see you, man! You good? What's going on? ** Kiddiepunk, Masterful work and achievement, sir! There's some news, and I'll talk to you later about that. ** Keaton, I haven't sprung for a box set in ages. Or not music. I think I've bought a couple or few film box set things. Ooh, 'A Sentimental Novel' is so great. And Radiguet. That's some very good input there. ** Schlix, Hi, Uli! Well, if we had stayed in Berlin and done the post- the way the producers wanted, the film would have suffered, but we're hoping to find an appropriately really skilled person or persons here in Paris to do it, and I would imagine we will. Or, well, we have to. ** Grant maierhofer, Hi, Grant! Thanks for the awesome response to Mark's and Kiddiepunk's achievement. Well, yeah, I would love a copy for damned sure. Simmons and Kilpatrick are both great writers, so that's pretty great and deserved couple of blurbs you got there. Best to you, buddy! ** Misanthrope, Hi. Oh, well, silver lining: you're working, but the added metro time sucks, duh. Yeeks about the furnace. My last morning in Berlin, I plugged in my coffee maker and blew a fuse in the hotel that knocked out all of the electricity on the entire floor I was staying on. And since I was on the ground floor, that included the hotel's lobby and dining room and offices, and etc. I was not their favorite ever guest. ** MANCY, Hi, Stephen! ** Sypha, Hi, James! ** Mark Gluth, Thank you again so much for the launch post. I'm very honored, and the book is just gorgeousness and genius central man. Oh, fuck, my very best wishes and luck to Erin's mom. That's terrible. My mom broke her hip twice. Ugh. ** Tuesday ** Keaton, I don't even know what to say about that dream, wow. I'm ... honored? I am, ha ha, even without the ha ha. Wow. ** David Ehrenstein, Thanks, David. It just means more fucking work and more money and time that we thought we wouldn't have to do/pay, but so it goes, I guess. ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh. Yeah, as I stated up above, I did get that email, and I guess that (up there) is how I'm hoping to approach it in a hopefully successful way, at least for the moment. ** Sypha, Hi, James. Ditto. ** Heliotrope, Hi, Mark! Ain't that the truth. Presumably it shouldn't be too, too difficult to find the right person or persons here in Paris. Why it proved to be so difficult in a major culture center like Berlin is a very strange and good question. Jesus, Mark. That's really fucked up and, obviously, very worrying about your incident and the unwillingness for your insurance to pay for tests. I mean, wtf about the insurance assholes! Gosh, man, if you think it's best or the only option to just go on and hope, I mean, that is very worrying, as you can easily imagine. Not that I wouldn't do the same thing, because I almost for sure would, but ... okay, Jesus, take whatever care you can of yourself, okay? I might get to see you pretty soon if travel plans pan out. This mess with the post-production has thrown a wrench into things, but, ideally, I might be in LA at least for a short time in the next few weeks to month. Mega love to you! ** Kier, Hi. Well, if I'm understanding the new rules correctly, I don't think I need to stop doing or remove the escort and slave posts because the xxx in them is largely in the text. I will delete possible "dangerous" images, and maybe I'll give those posts a more ambiguous title so as not to draw undue attention to them in the future. I don't know. It sucks in any case. The big mess in Berlin slows things down, mostly. And could well add more expense, and we're already over budget. But if we can find people to do the work, it's a lot easier and more pleasant to do the post- here in Paris. I should know soon. Only 10 works? That must be hard. Are you choosing, like, a selection that shows how you work in different areas, i.e. drawing, collage, sculpture, photo ... ? Or are you concentrating on the works you think are best irregardless of the medium? Or ...? Do hang in there and try to destress yourself as much as you can. I predict a superb outcome, not that my prediction is any help. Yesterday, ... first I told my hotel that I was leaving early. I had booked the room through Monday because that had seemed like the minimum amount of time we would be in Berlin. And the hotel will not refund the money I'd paid for the additional days, and that really sucks, obviously, but so it goes. Then Zac and I met with one of our producers and with the editor who's hopefully doing the compositing and special effects for our film. That went okay, I guess, but we'll see for sure once he starts showing us what he's done. Then we basically packed our stuff, went to the airport and we flew back to Paris. I got home around 9:30 pm, did this and that, ate, and crashed. Blah. I'll try to have an interesting first day back in Paris. How was Wednesday for you? ** Steevee, Thanks. Hopefully we'll sort out the post-production stuff right away, and time will tell, I guess, if I can manage to get the blog to fly under Google's censorious radar. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Hopefully everything will work out okay. We'll see. Fully enjoy the Members Show and Tell, and knock them out, which I have no doubt you will. ** Rewritedept, Hi, Chris! I haven't seen you in ages, and now I know why. Thank for the blog day! Such a thing is badly needed right now. Thank you! I'll write to you with the launch date. ** Mikel Motorcycle, Hi, Mikel! Good to see you, man! Thank you a lot for the offer of help. We'll see if I need it. I mean, if they mean what they say, then it's just a matter of removing some photos and backburner-ing some old posts. Not great at all, but not a massive change. But I guess I won't know until late March if I've done the trick or not. Take care! ** Keaton, Decency is as decency does? ** Misanthrope, Yeah, I'm a big optimist too. I should know if we're going to solve the problem in the next few days. You make me wish I had a hillbilly Facebook friend. ** Okay. Back to normal, so to speak. Here's a strange old post from ye "good" olde days. Have at it. See you tomorrow.