Tuts My Barreh

On A More Serious Note

Sorry to be a Debbie Downer right now, everyone, but I feel I must share something with you; especially those of you with your own blogs. I received an email today from EntreCard, which is an advertising system I signed up with a few months ago that basically allows you to trade advertising space with any other site in the system that chooses your website, specifically, to advertise on. If you scroll down towards the bottom of the page, you'll see it in the right-hand column. Anyway, this is what they had to say:

"Your account 'Homemade Hilarity' on entrecard.com has been warned. The administrator provided the following message:

Please be aware that nudity on your blog is against the TOS - please remove the images - thanks.

Please contact support@entrecard.com if you have any questions regarding this warning.

PLEASE NOTE: You are expected to resolve this issue promptly. Failure to do so will result in the removal of your Entrecard account.

Please include the following:
User ID: 39883"

So, after chewing it over for a while, this was my response:

"I think it is clear that I do not have any nudity on my blog. Especially not any pornographic images. My website pokes fun of bad art and misguided crafts, and what it does not do is post gratuitous images of nudity for people to get aroused by. I feel there is a massive and inherent difference between a painted depiction of the human form, especially when it is laughable, and pictures that are simply lewd and mature. I am not a porn peddler, and I must admit, I am extremely offended by your threat and your insinuation. I will not be taking down any aspect of my writing, as I have done nothing wrong, and I am very miffed that you feel you can dictate to me what I can, and can't, write about in the world of art. Would you censor Reuben or Matisse because of their affinity for the naked female form? Certainly not. So, as an art critic, I should not be made to feel that I am doing something smutty and undignified by simply sharing these (pg-13 at the very worst) art pieces and writing about them. Shame on you.

JuliaD
http://www.homemadehilarity.blogspot.com
mizzdrake@hotmail.com
User ID: 39883"

Feel free to add to this discussion in the comments here, or alternatively, you can email Entrecard at support@entrecard.com and let them know what you think about this decision (just make sure to quote my User ID: 39883).

I'll be back with funny pictures later on today, I promise.

You Have Got To Be Effing Kidding Me

(To be read in an exasperated and I-don't-have-time-for-this-kind-of-shit tone, as frankly, I am exasperated and I don't have time for this kind of shit.)

Oh come on. A knitted knock-off Mrs. Piggy air-freshener cover?! Really?! Really?! Did we learn nothing, nothing at all from the now-famous wall-eyed cat air-freshener cover? Seriously, I'm done. DONE, I tell you, with all this ridiculous knitted tomfuckery.

Listen, crafters, and listen closely: IF YOUR AIR-FRESHENER COVER IS UGLIER THAN YOUR AIR-FRESHENER, YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG.

This Is What Bat-Shit Crazy Looks Like

Yeah, I don't know either. It's a peanut. A peanut with accessories. An accessoried peanut. And I have a feeling that it's waaay more fug than the artist assumes it is. Because it's a freaking peanut with accessories. In a walnut. With an acorn hat. An acorn hat with a pom-pom. It's a peanut in a walnut with an acorn hat with a pom-pom. And a letter E. And I officially give up.

Good Golly Miss Molly

Note to crafters: When you find yourself turning your mom's kitchen curtains into an oversized floral bonnet for your mildly-retarded looking plastic doll, it's time to put down the wine coolers and back away slowly from the sewing machine.



That's right, Rhonda, I'm talking to you.

On a different note, this site was recently featured in The Times, Acadania's weekly newspaper! Yay for Louisianaianans!