Peggy C, The Other Half

It’s kind of hard to explain the tension over the last few weeks, waiting for Damon & Hunter to finally get here already. Definitely a learning experience, that’s for sure. And it really makes me happy to see how patient and good-willed our customer base has been for the most part. There were a few grumblers here and there (I’m surprised there weren’t more, frankly!) but the vast majority of people have been amazingly supportive of our efforts and understanding about the difficulties we ran into.

So, you know, to put it more formally: Comstock customers rule, dude!

Now I’m mostly in a state of nervous excitement, waiting for people to receive their copies of the film, and to see what they think of it. I hope you’ll let us know.

Okay, enough celebrating…back to Matt & Khym…

Battling referrer log spam. Oh joy. Because I really don’t have anything better to do with my afternoon than figuring out why our site’s access logs are clogged with hits from bogus sites about horny Russian teenagers with webcams. (Although, to be fair, the party poker and online casino sites are just as bad with this practice.)

As I was muttering curses under my breath researching this phenomenon, it also made me think about the place of porn in our society — how sad it is that sexually explicit material treads almost exclusively in the gutters and bad neighborhoods of our awareness, presenting itself like a marginally criminal enterprise even when it’s perfectly legal. Vice. I realize that for some people, the illicitness is part of the thrill, but when it’s always like that? All the fucking time??? It gets old.

I’d like to be able to tell people what I do, what Tony and I do without it being met with suspicion. I’d like to not be assumed off the bat to be a merchant of sleaze — see Tony’s recent experience on the Ovusoft bulletin boards (Hard times at Ovusoft) for an example that left me seething.

If there’s going to be a revolution, can it start already? Huh?

p.s. for anyone curious about the referrer log spam thing, I found the following article helpful — Proposal on referrer spam with some recommendations for bloggers to help make this practice less appealing to spammers.

Long time, no blog. I’m still not used to having this thing. I’ll try to be better going forward!

One of the things that’s been occupying my thoughts now that Damon & Hunter is done, is a long (long) needed redesign of the Comstock Films Web site.

Are there any features of the current site you feel strongly about one way or another? Things you wish we did that we don’t? Things you really wish we’d stop doing? Drop me a line, either here in the comments, or via email (peggy@ the domain here) and let me know! I’d love to get input from people who actually use the site.