Well, that was fun...

I guess I spoke too soon. Just as I dropped this website to join the upstart blogging community poweredbyeverything.com--being the sole writer for both poweredbyshows.com and poweredbymovies.com--the company goes belly up less than two weeks after it launched. I got a total of 34 posts in during the last eight days, and was finally getting a hang on having to write so damn much to be paid only in ad revenue.

Here's the e-mail my "boss" sent to all the contributors. I believe in Stevi's vocabulary, this situation would be referred to as a "sack of buttholes."

"All,

Yesterday we noticed some isolated database abnormalities. This morning at around 11AM Pacific Time the problem spread and affected the entire server causing it to be down till around 2:30PM Pacific Time. When the server came back online we noticed that there were still some major underlying database issues.

The bottom line is that the entire network has been compromised. The site may look fine on the outside but it is no longer operating as intended. We no longer have the ability to syndicate feeds or posts stories live. The software has simply corrupted itself.

We have exhausted all options and at this juncture we are going to have to take the site offline indefinitely. We are aware that there is a sought after software update that is soon to be released that may alleviate our current issues. Unfortunately we have no workaround at this time.

Furthermore, the network is causing the server to become unstable at regular intervals. The database/software corruption has also caused numerous posts to be be lost permanenty (or) seem to be lost, but only be temporarily disabled.

I can't tell you how sorry we are. We have invested a lot in this venture... and you all have done your best to invest in us in such little time.

We will be mailing out payments on the Agreed payment schedule for the services provided this month. Because this issue has come about so early on, we have decided to surrender all posts from the network, and we agree not to redistribute them in any future ventures. We will provide you with a backup copy of all of your posts by request. Please note that it will take a significant amount of time to receive a backup copy because we are concerned that there may be malicious code embedded within the backup. We will need time to evaluate the backup and clean it of all unnecessary & privileged/private information.


*This email shall serve as written notice of termination of our Agreement.*

Once again we sincerely apologize.

Regards,

Brandon"


Well, looks like Media Whore will once again walk the streets, turning tricks and telling the world all about it.

For the next few days, I will post all the articles that were on the two sites before they were shut down. It'll be 31 of them, since two were part of the "'Tis Lousy to Have Loved and Lost" series on canceled TV shows I already posted here, and one was a draft about Bringing Up Baby that was never finished. Some of them were to be read during the day in which it was posted--references to upcoming shows that have now aired, for instance--but I still think they should be here.