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Well that’s nettlesome! Technorati has evidently flagged this blog as in violation of its Blog Quality Guidelines, which read, in part

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When I log into my account I get

Sorry, we can’t find that blog

We’re sorry…we don’t have a blog by that name. If this is your blog, look over our Blog Quality Guidelines and submit your blog for review by pinging us. Or better yet, claim your blog to get into the high priority queue!

When I go back and try to “claim my blog” I get

This URL has been flagged by our systems. Please read our Blog Quality Guidelines for more information.

I know I’m a bit repetitive but not, I hope, excessively. And I have to assume I haven’t been flagged for excessive commercial intent. So… anyone else in the “pink ghetto” been unable to directly track their blog through Technorati? (I can still indirectly track it, for now anyway, via their standard search .) Or do you suppose it’s some other problem?

If it’s just me it’s just me, and I’ll just switch the rest of the way over to Google Analytics, which has some very nice tracking features. If other sex bloggers have been getting the boot, though, that’s annoying.

In a post titled “Once a Stripper, Always a Stripper” Lux Alptraum of BOINKOLOGY says of a promo for a new HBO series.

“It’s being written by smart stripper Diablo Cody, and produced by a man named Steven Spielberg. Great, just what we needed—another reason to watch TV.”

Get it? Diablo Cody took her clothes off! That’s all you need to know about her. Isn’t it funny? She was a sex worker, and now she’s a screenwriter! That’s so cute!

It’s a laugh a minute, all right.

Read the quote in context here.

Yeah, I always wonder if my more political posts would get linked back to more often if a) I was ever right or b) if I’d never posted photos of my booty or c) both.

Shoulda thought of that years ago though.

Oh well, since I did and since Lynn Gazis-Sax and Sungold are still celebrating female desire week I’ve included three of the photos most often marked “favorite” from my Flickr photo stream after the “continue reading” jump.

(Oh yeah, and while the first image isn’t as not-work-safe as it appears, you probably still wouldn’t want to try explaining it to someone else from work.)