After I posted about my designing friend Zang Toi’s Spring 2012 show this week, someone asked what had happened to the post I wrote about Zang’s appearance in the January 2011 issue of Food & Wine magazine. A magazine reader was so overwhelmed by the beauty of one gown that she had written to Zang to thank him for creating it. I remembered that post well, because I’d been a part of the Food & Wine feature, but I too couldn’t find it anywhere on my blog. It didn’t exist as one of my nearly 1,700 published posts and wasn’t lurking among my 200+ draft posts.
I was beginning to doubt my sanity when I had a “Eureka!” moment. I’m always waging war with content-stealing spam blogs but I figured one of them might have republished the missing post. I Googled all the key words I could think of and, sure enough, one asshat blog had stolen that post (and many more). Once I identified the content, my diligent programmer was able to dig the original post out of an old backup of my blog, though all the comments may be permanently lost. Sad! Anyway, I’ve republished the post so you can read that wonderful letter without giving content thieves any traffic.
Speaking of Zang, I found a photo of me lurking in back of Ivana Trump at Zang’s Spring 2010 show. (I had been very intrigued by her ponytail that day.) This is a photobombing FAIL because I’m not making a crazy expression.
Courtesy Fashionwindows.net. Click for source.
This is how a photobomb should look!
Jennine does it right. Click for the original post.
UPDATED TO ADD: My gorgeous programmer, Avanti, found the comments for the original Food & Wine post. She said, “This is the weirdest thing I have ever seen. The post had a different ID and the comments were files under another ID and so was the meta data.” Any tech experts want to weigh in on that?
I love how Jennine’s all like, “Heeeyyyy!” while you played the straight man.
Cool plaid dress in the photo before, too. You looked very busy there.
Wow…you look great in everything you wear…but that green dress is incredible!! Content thieves so depress me…but I guess they served a purpose here…I just hate it that people do this…it is frustrating to see something you worked hard on, with just a few words changed…enjoyed the top picture with Trump.
oh these asshats indeed!
I’ve been digging a bit and finding content theft left and right. Have contacted web hosts and getting emails and sending cease and desists with success.
I am glad you found the missing post, it was fun to read and I love the photos. That is so funny you two were seated in chairs facing away from the camera!
I didn’t realize you got sick of delivering bad news as a journalist. I can relate, as I got sick of delivering bad news as a financial consultant.
It’s way more fun making people happy :-).
i’m by no means at all a tech expert, but were you ever on google blogger? when it went down last spring posts on our bryant park blog were revived first, but not the comments. those came later. have no idea if this relates to that data weirdness.
And I love the shot of photobombing expert jennine!
Oh. I thought that Ivana was photobombing *you* . . . 🙂
You’re blowing my mind right now. It’s like you’re speaking Chinese. I am SO not tech savvy…
Love the schoolroomish look of Ivanka and you … but yes, bombshell smile is killer
this season, unforgettable, is a Zang Toi ensemble … a minor season (I think) for the #NYFW as a whole but his clothes were line up to buy, sell out at trunks, stop and stare in windows
so impressed
where’s my mystery backer, I want a store again so badly (do stores sell anything??)
he is so talented. you look fab.