Belly Aching: AKA should I worry about Google or should I worry about Ashley & Kisha?
A few years ago I went to a very Sad Place to make a movie about some very Bad Things. Along the way I taught myself a Silly Trick.
Not knowing quite what do do with all the anxiety about being in a Sad Place making a movie about Bad Things, I bundled up all my worry and put it in the pit of my stomach.
When I got home from the Bad Place and started editing the movie about the Sad Things, I started to feel sick. The obvious answer was that I must have gotten a Bad Bug in Sad Place. But when no manner of poking or prodding or looking at my shit under a microscope could find any Bad Bugs, my doctor and I were forced to conclude that I was manifesting a classic symptom of stress. I had quite literally worried myself sick.
Knowing my inside were not being devoured by a Bad Bug was a huge relief. I didn’t get better right away, but I did get better. But the Silly Trick stayed. I don’t know where my worry used to live (probably nowhere because I was too stupid to worry,) but now it lives in my belly. Take it from me, this is a stupid place to put your worry.
This morning I’m worried about the fact that some time in the last 36 hours Google’s index of ComstockFilms.com has become seriously weird and our search-related traffic has dropped by 50%.
I’m worried that we may have inadvertently done something to trigger this strange re-indexing and I don’t know how do fix it. But I’m worried that we may have done nothing, and that we are powerless to fix it.
But this mornign I’m also worried about the fact that Ashley & Kisha’s interview is still over an hour long, and I’m already into hard choices about what to keep and what to let go.
If it were Summer, I would take the morning off. I’d go to the beach or the lake, or go fishing, or do something else to take my mind off of things. But it’s not Summer. It’s the dead of Winter, in the middle of a cold snap, and we don’t even have any snow. There’s not much to do, except fret, and worry, and belly ache. Which I am, and it does.
But it’s not all belly aches and belly aching this morning. Here’s a nice passage from Ashley & Kisha’s interview, about how Ashley used a deftly applyied tongue to seduced Kisha, and what it means to be out and in love:
http://www.comstockfilms.com/quicktime/akpreview0207.mov
(approx. 6 minutes, 20megs.)
Still a rough cut, so please, be cut me a little slack on the mix and the edits. I can see how I could cut it down by 30%, but I’m worried about being too heavy-handed. Somes the best thing to do is just give people the time to say their piece.
February 7th, 2007 at 10:31 am
Our Google-related search traffic is off by about 70% over the past few days. I blame you, not Google.
We’ve are the recipients of the little-known Comstock Google penalty. Tony Comstock suggests a “quality” site to a Google employee in his blog and then bam! 30 days later those same sites get hit with a -90 penalty in the Google serps.
But don’t be gloomy. The interview clip has me curious. (And not in that emo bi-curious fashion.)
February 7th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
The results for Ms Naughty have been mad since December. I’m tweaking it all the time, madly checking Google Webmaster Tools… it’s all fairly hit and miss, and completely perplexing most of the time.
Anyway… a question. Is it feasible to release two versions of Ashley and Kisha? One that has the short interview and one that’s a bit longer? Or even to add an “extended version” to the DVD as an extra. I have no idea about the cost or technical aspects with this, but it’s just an idea. I love the interviews, they’re always fascinating. It seems a shame that you should have to edit bits out.