Summer's Shenanigans

I got the following email today in regards to this eBay auction:

"What store did you buy these at?What brand are they?How many days in a row did you usually wear them?What pair of shoes did you wear with these most? I'd suree love to know how you get socks so dirty.I think they are more comfy and sexy this way.Please send a few pic.of the shoes you wear most with these socks to me at...Thanks!"

Um...yeah...Next thing you know he's going to tell me how sexy my mannequins legs are...

This is actually pretty amazing. All of the life-sized horses below are constructed of drift wood:

Labels: Art, Weird

If you're bored, head over to Watching-Paint-Dry.com and suck up some energy over at my friend Alek's house. He has a web cam set up in his basement and it is actually way cooler then watching paint dry. He has it set up so you can remotely turn on and off some goodies in his basement. I have to admit, I think the internet is pretty amazing...haha.

I've been working out fairly consistently since I was 15 years old and I think I've pretty much hit a fitness wall. I like high impact, high energy stuff, but I am SO bored with everything that I don't really enjoy going to the gym any more. So, I have decided to take up Strip Aerobics! I've already ordered the Carmen Electra Striptease Aerobics DVD's and guess what else I'm getting...a full blown STRIPPER POLE!

Kevin Ray Underwood (pictured to the left) has been accused of killing a 10 year old little girl and planning to eat her flesh. The girls body was found in a large plastic tub in Underwoods bedroom closet and investigators also found meat tenderizer and barbecue skewers that he had planned to use on the body. Any how, I'm not trying to sensationalize this sick murder, but what I do find interesting is that Kevin Ray Underwood has kept an online blog since 2002. So, if you want to peek into the mind of a sadistic wanna-be cannibal, you can check out his blog, while it's still online.

I just received the following spam mail through my MySpace account:

"Jesus loves you!

Repent.

Have a nice day!

Dannyboy

(Ex-gangsters for Christ)"

So, I sent back the following:

"Jesus Christ!

I have nothing to repent about. Thou shall not spam in the name of the lord!

Cheers,
Summer"

I thought about it and religions really are the original spammers, as they try and distribute unsolicited information. It reminds me of the time that my mom came home from work as some Mormons were trying to convert her 12 year old daughter. And let me tell you, if those Mormons hadn't seen the devil before, they sure as hell saw Him in the form of Robin (my Mom). She gave them a good tongue lashing and swore that she would release our dogs on them if she ever caught them on our property again. Haha.

Okay, I think Paris Hilton tops my list of "People I want to hold down and shave their eyebrows off". Here is a video taken of Paris at a fashion show at the last Fashion Week:

Paris obviously can't get enough of...herself? She sitting at a fashion show taking picture after picture of herself. Not her and a friend, not the awesome fashion show going on in front of her, just her. She's just sitting there taking pictures of herself! Are you kidding me? Someone please bitch-slap that SideKick II out of her hands and punch her in that ugly ass witch nose!!!

So, it's been a while since I visited my official "business" website ViciousEnterprises.com and when I visited it today, I couldn't believe what a pile of crap the web design was. What can I say, with no formal training, that was the 1st website I had ever built ;). Although I have already hired an extremely talented web designer to do an overhaul, I couldn't look at that pathetic site any more and threw together a new site until the professionally designed one is ready. It's nothing great, but I like our new tag line: "Vicious Enterprises - Droppin' the bomb on fashion!". Sometimes I just crack myself up...haha. =)

Everything is working out so incredibly wonderfully with my business and I've put off expanding for as long as I can, but I think it's time. I have employees, but I have them come in only 3 days a week because I work *so* much better when the office is empty. I'm just about to pull the trigger on two interns which means I will probably have to start working normal hours, which I don't quite know how I feel about yet. At this point it doesn't even feel like I have a job, but when I commit to more employees and/or interns, I have to be, oh I don't know, responsible and a good example? I know I have to do it soon, but I'm having so much fun already!! =)

So, DMOZ has the name of my lingerie store listed incorrectly:

http://dmoz.com/Shopping/Clothing/Undergarments/Lingerie/

They have it listed as "Vicious Enterprises" when it is (obviously?) Hustler Panties. I've known this for a while but didn't really care until I noticed that DMOZ's incorrect information is being plastered all over the internet (Google, Alexa, copy-cat directories, etc). So, I mustered up all of my fake-nice power and posted over at the Resource Zone (DMOZ's forum, for those you that don't know). Here is how "well" it went:

ViciousSummer:

"Hello there,
One of my sites is listed in the following category:

http://dmoz.com/Shopping/Clothing/Un...ents/Lingerie/

The name of the site is listed as "Vicious Enterprises", which is not the name of the store (it should be "Hustler Panties"). I noticed this quite a while ago and didn't care until the incorrect DMOZ data started showing up everywhere (Alexa, other directories, Google, etc). Is there any way that this can be fixed before any more damage is done?"

jimnoble:

"It's quite normal to use the business name as a listing's title. In this case, both the page footer and whois confirm that the business name is indeed Vicious Enterprises."

ViciousSummer:

"Well, that's unfortunately that it's "normal" because in this case it's wrong. This is a completly inaccurate company description for Vicious Enterprises:

"Offering lingerie, pasties, costumes, stockings and rhinestone jewelry. Brands include Hustler and Leg Avenue."

That would be a somewhat accurate description of *one* of our stores (HustlerPanties.com). Vicious Enterprises is a conglomeration of retail stores as well as a clothing line that is completely unrelated to lingerie.

I can easily change the copyright to "HustlerPanties.com" if that will help. If you're going off of "whois" info, do you think "Evolution Marketing and Development" would be better then "Angel Bodywear"? I suppose "Belabumbum" should be changed to "Heidi Rauch" and "Club Lace" should be "CSP Media"?"

Eric-the-Bun:

"I am afraid we normally don't go into the ins-and-outs of a particular site on this forum. Because the content of the site can change, descriptions may be out of date and thus the 'update option' is provided.

The best advice would be for you to review your site and its listing according to the guidelines and make that update request if there are any factual errors in the listing.

It will then be up to the editor reviewing the request to agree or disagree (which is unlikely to be anyone on this forum)..."

ViciousSummer:

"I appreciate your help, Eric. I did fill out the request as you mentioned before.

The real problem is that this is actually *hurting* my company so it is an urgent matter for me. It's not a matter that the website or company has changed, it's just that an editor made a mistake AND which ever random editor that stumbles upon my update request (months or years down the road?) will probably deny it because they don't have the information that I have provided here."

bobrat:

"It appears to be listed correctly (and the editor did not make a mistake)

The mailing address/contact info on that site is:

Vicious Enterprises

While in fact there are several related sites under that name, only one will be listed so there is no conflict."

ViciousSummer:

"The reason the mailing address on HustlerPanties.com says "Vicious Enterprises" is for privacy reasons, most customers do not want mail delivered to them with the name of the company "Hustler Panties", for obvious reasons.

Yes, the editor did make a mistake, and you telling me that some random editor knows the name of my company better then I do is inane. What exactly do you think I'm doing here? Do you think I am lyeing to you about the name of my company, because that seems to be what is being implied.

You're also saying that the (incorrect) listing for Vicious Enterprises is the best description of the company, even though Vicious Enterprises has been around long before HustlerPanties.com, and none of our other, competely different websites will be listed in DMOZ. Not exactly the smartest thing I've heard today, but you seem to know best.

Other websites that are listed in the same catagory:

CrazyLaces.com is listed as Inetmedia on their contact page, whois and footer, but somehow they are listed as "Crazy Laces" in DMOZ? EssentialLingerie.com is listed as "Essential Lingerie", yet that domain is just a portal to woods-online.co.uk? I could go on, if you'd like...

Can someone please just erase the listing completely? DMOZ is such a joke."

It only gets worse...

Seriously, DMOZ is such a joke. I tried to go about doing this the right way by posting in the public forum (when I easily could have emailed an editor internally, since I'm a FUCKING EDITOR), but instead a bunch of morons try to pretend they know more about MY company then I do. I own the company, I edit the fine lingerie catagory in DMOZ and you're going to tell ME that I don't know the name of my very own LINGERIE WEBSITE. I have no patience for stupidity, sorry.