This is really amazing, in a “I can’t believe how lame people can be” kind of way. A fan just wrote me to tell me that my podcast address has been hijacked, and the guy is saying really bad things about me:

“Hi Violet,
Something VERY strange just happened. I was sitting at my laptop, minding my own business, when some guy’s voice starts playing over the speakers.

I was going to cut it off when I heard your name, so I listened. His name is Mark Hopkins and he apparently has a podcast called rizWords. He was badmouthing you. He said you were hogging bandwidth at rizen and that you suck because you haven’t told your listeners that you were switching to a different service, so he’s taking it over. This fucker’s sent me two of his “broadcasts” which quite frankly suck. He actually begged to be listened to even though, as he put it, he’s “not a hot chick who talks about sex.” Pathetic. I just checked it and iPodder was downloading 52 of this idiots podcasts. I stopped it.

I just thought you should know what this guy’s doing, hijacking your subscribers and putting you down. I know you probably don’t give a flying fuck that some dick’s saying bad things about you, but it pissed me off….”

My new podcast address is http://violetblue.libsyn.com/rss which has been on my site for well over a month now. I just sent off emails to online listings to update and make changes, so now I guess I’ll re-boroadcast the old casts in the new service, as I think this guy will take them down… and I’ll get my podcast station running (I’ve been having technical difficulties with microphones, sound and Garageband). What a dick!