Yesterday evening I received word from my host that someone had filed a complaint against me and was demanding that one of my posts be removed.  Here’s the text of the complaint, sent not to me, but to my host: From: [XXXXX]@hushmail.com Date: Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 7:41 PM Subject: Defamatory blog To: help@[redacted] —–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– […] Please can you give us guidelines on getting this removed.

[Note:  when I posted this back in Oct of 2012, Google asked me to remove it or else give up my Google ads account.  Which, yeah, fuck you, Google.  Anyway, now seems a good time to revisit it. Because one of the many things we’ve never learned from the Benghazi cover-up is the state of Ambassador Stevens’ body; reports surfaced that he’d been sodomized, including with a broomstick handle, but

You know who was popular?  Corey Haim.  And now look at him:  dead as a suede boot and slowly learning what fresh hell he’s in. You know who else was popular?  Corey Feldman.  And now he appears bloodless, is reduced to hiring bored, scantily clad female party goers, and he wears a freaking cape. Madonna?  Yeah, that’s a role model.  Nothing like a ripped fifty-something pretending she has anything left

That’s right: protein wisdom turns 10-years-old this month (Dec 17) — though it started as creatical.com, wore a pea-green backdrop, was comprised of “several” co-writers (all of them me, though I gave them loaded, tongue-in-cheek names like Dr. Ann D. Kaufmann; recall, at the time I had no readers and there was no such thing, as of yet, as a “blogosphere,” so the format for what a “respectable” political blog

Well. Now that the $27 million reward I was counting on is off the table, it’s back to my original mode of financing. A shame, too. I was hoping to use the bounty to finance an off-Broadway production of “Prayer of the Rollerboys,” as well as to commission a 50′ Corey Haim sculpture — tentatively titled, “Corey Befriends a Stray Border Collie and Feeds it Peyote, then He and Seth

This will be an especially personal post, but as it brings into sharp relief many of the ideas I’ve spent years writing about here, I figured it’s worth sharing. As many of you know, a few evenings ago I received the following email from one of my old creative writing professors:

More reviews of upcoming teevee pilots from the indefatiguable Marc Weisblott — who joins the annoited few who’ve come to recognize the genius of Jami Gertz. Yes, Muffy Tepperman is back (starring with Mark Addy in the CBS sitcom, “Still Standing“), and she’s back strong, according to Marc — amazingly, within a year of Lost Boys co-star Kiefer Sutherland’s unexpected return to showbiz stardom. Which can only mean one thing: