So things have been going pretty well. Got a new job. Continuing good relationships. Headless is about to make it’s place fixed. And things have sorted themselves out, like in the case of Flickr.

After they set up my account, I had to wait a couple of days to get my login info sorted out. When I finally got into my account, the first image I uploaded was the tiled image that I use for my twitter background. I captioned the photo, “Hello again to all my friends. ” I wrote a brief description about how I was glad to be back and was hoping my old contacts could find me since they were deleted from my account. And that I would be rebuilding. And I linked to ipanemic to explain the story of what happened (which I see now is the last post I wrote).

The next 7 or 8 or 10 photos I uploaded were from a fashion/implied nude shoot here last week (one implied nude marked Moderate). All of the photos were watermarked ipanemic.

Building up my new Flickr account… this was going to take a while. My total number of views was now, at day 3… 158. It was goign to take time to get back to 1.6 million.

The next day, I uploaded three photos of Madison, two in lingerie, one implied nude, all marked Moderate. They were watermarked for HeadlessBuddha.com. I joined a few of the groups I remembered from my old account and added my photos to various groups. And I left a note on each photo that I had lost all my contacts, hoping my friends would find me, and I left the link again to the story.

I was just going to upload the photo appearing in this post and, um…. my Flickr account has been deleted. Again.

I’m sort of wondering if I should even bother mentioning it to them or just… what? I don’t even know! I mean, seriously? As far as comedies go, I couldn’t write material this good. I’m sure it’s just a mistake. And I can’t be on a path of negativity right now. I’m certain I was having a panic attack the night I went to the ER and that set me back a couple of days.

But really, what’s up? This is so just… so just entertaining me.

what. the. hell. Update!
OK. Well, now, I don’t know whether to laugh at the absurdity of it or cry at the lunacy of this. Flickr reinstated the account with the following email:

Hello again,

I’m very sorry for the inconveniences.

I’m gone ahead and again restored the account (without the
photos) and sent an email to the following address with log
in information:

xxxxx@xxxxx.com

Regards,
Omar

What’s that song? I hear Dolly Parton singing “Here you come again” in my ears.

But wait! There’s more!!!!

A mere 13 minutes after receiving this notification, I received a wholly separate email with the subject line “Flickr Terms of Service.”

The body of the text is here:

Hi ipanemic Street +/ Life,

Voyeur content is a violation of the Flickr Community
Guidelines.

www.flickr.com/guidelines.gne

# Don’t be creepy.
You know the guy. Don’t be that guy.

Read the following help forum discussion below about the
definition of voyeur content on Flickr.

www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/95223/#reply625343

You need to delete(not mark as private) all voyeur content
from your photostream or you risk deactivation of your
Flickr account.

-Terrence

At first, I was entirely, entirely, ENTIRELY baffled. What the hell? Everything that was on that stream was shots of models (with a straggling photo here and there from when I tried to separate the 5000 photos on my account into two streams, the other one being street/life). So what the hell?

Then I realized that the email was addressed to my street/life account! It comes to a separate email account on ipanemic but it shows up in my email client grouped together with everything else.

But wait… what? Don’t be THAT guy?!

Is this a warning? Like a mob kind of thing? I don’t see where any photos have been deleted. My account is still there? I didn’t have any photos marked as private, soooooo what. the. hell?

And on the heels of the other issue? Why do I feel like these incidents aren’t entirely unrelated?

But…. THAT guy?! Wait…. WHAT?!?!?! I think my good name is being besmirched here. Any lawyers in the house? I kid.

This is totally off the charts in terms of nutty. I think I need to respond to this in a fashion similar to this. Because what. the. hell? I really have other things I need to be doing tonight. Flickr, you so crazy. I just want things to be good. Dozens of photographers, dozens of friends who aren’t photographers… they will all defend what it is I do and that I’m NOT that guy and that the very notion is absurd.
(By the way, I’ve never really been crazy about this line in your terms of service. Little bit vague for such a large corporation. I know you’re trying to be cute and all, but it really doesn’t work in Terms of Service.)