Announcing Absurd to Sublime.Net

 

 

Here’s the dilemma:  Wordpress.com won’t let bloggers monetize, and Blogspot, owned by Google, won’t communicate.

As the old saying goes...you get what you pay for. Absurdtosublime.blogspot.com was removed by Google on April 14, at 2:00pm. At the time, I had 230000 hits, and over 200 posts. No spam or viruses were found on the site. 

I never received an explanation from Google.  Did someone in Orange County  known for tampering around with blogs, newspapers and message boards have a hand in this? Perhaps.

Anyway, I launched REALLY ABSURD as a temporary blog while I considered my options.  My option: Purchasing my own domain.

ABSURDTOSUBLIME has been a difficult and time consuming venture. One thing about blogspot, they do make it easy!  I have had many false starts, and I’m still having glitches and problems.  But it’s up and running.

Timely and interesting posts about The Real Housewives Franchise and all the wacky characters can be found at the new blog.  Wordpress.com linkers, some of the old blogspot links are irretrievable, many are posted at Boxxet and Zimbio. Blogspot: Many will link back to really absurd, at least the older posts will.. The Gretchen Rossi/Jay Photoglou/ Slade Smiley  story is still at MORE ABSURDITIES

Thank You for making this move with me.

Really Absurd is Relocating

Over the next few weeks, all posts will be moved to ABSURD TO SUBLIME.NET

Visit my new site....it is a work in progress.

I have my own domain!

The Real Housewives of DC: Political Drama

Washington's "Real Housewives"? Not quite sold: from left, Edwina Rogers, Susanna Quinn and Andrea Rodgers. (Courtesy Can Can productions; Courtesy Cashman Photography; Courtesy Andrea Rodgers)

Who wants to be a "Real" housewife? Who, that is, in Washington?

That's the question now that Bravo's boobs-and-Botox reality series is turning to the nation's capital for the sequel to "The Real Housewives of Orange County" and its ilk. Network officials told our colleague Lisa de Moraes they've already taped 25 local women -- but some of them told us producers were less than candid about what they were auditioning for.

Susanna Quinn, wife of superlobbyist Jack Quinn, was repeatedly assured that Half Yard Productions wasn't wooing her for "Housewives" -- and she wants no part of it. Lobbyist Edwina Rogers thought the show was about D.C. lifestyles. Would she do "Housewives"? "I don't really know," she said. "I'm not a housewife. I run a trade association."

Could producers snag authentic D.C. power players and get them to let their hair down? Um, no. In Washington, "discretion is key to marital and professional success," Nathans owner and New York Social Diary blogger Carol Joynt wrote. "Most of the husbands here -- those who are the real deal -- live off the public dollar."

Still, one of Half Yard's execs, Abby Greensfelder, moves among the political/media elite; she's the wife of New Republic editor Franklin Foer. Half Yard shot footage this spring at a party hosted by GOP lobbyist Juleanna Glover, the District Sample Sale and the Washington Humane Society's Fashion for Paws gala, where the cameras trained on fundraiser Mary Amons, the wife of a NoVa tech guy.

Excerpt from "Cop Without A Badge"