We owe it to the adult entertainment fans

Since some of our audience has experienced this URL mix-up, it occured to us that Live View visitors might be having the same problem. Imagine the dismay of the scores of Live View clients who fire up their modems for a playful bout of onanism, only to accidentally arrive at our site. The dozens of impressionable, horny youth who are denied their rite of passage simply because of a typo. Who'll be forced to troll the dark alleys of adult book stores before a disapproving public, in order to slake the fire of their passions. I say it is our responsibility, nay, our duty to provide the youth with a safe haven for self-pleasurement - under the warm, comfortable glow of a computer monitor. Let objectification and degradation of women begin at home, damn it. (Editors note: The preceding paragraph was intended to be sarcastic. Please don't flame me.)

The name "Live Online" doesn't say music

Live Online's name has never reflected the music aspect of the site because InfiNet, our parent company, has always toyed with the idea of turning it into a guide for all live web events, ala NetGuide or Yahoo! Net Events or the late, great NetClock. My decision to limit the content to music boils down to this: I'm only one guy. I don't think that I could produce a comprehensive guide for all web events - sports, news, etc. But I stand by my mission to list every web music event that I can. No matter how obscure, no matter how distasteful.

Case in point: As I was about to leave work Tuesday, I ran across a Starship concert on AudioNet. Instead of laughing maniacally, shrugging and shutting down the computer - as I was tempted to do - I stayed and dutifully added this music "event" to the calendar, fighting my gag reflex all the while.

At the risk of alienating all of the Starship fans out there, I have to say this: Hellooo, it's Starship. Their last hit was (shudder) "We Built this City." They long ago lost all vestiges of coolness remotely related to The Jefferson Airplane. They don't even have Grace Slick anymore for Chrissake! (she is still alive, isn't she?) Whenever I hear Starship, my ears give me a funny look. Not that my ears have eyes or anything, but if they did, they'd give me that shocked/confused look that my Great Dane, Canyon, has whenever I blow air in her face. A look that says, "I don't know what you're trying to do, but I don't think I like it very much. Please stop."

To quote Al our ad guy, "Long story short..." - which it never is, and which, as you know by now, this isn't: We need a new name. Please send in any suggestions you have to kilgore@infi.net with "Rename" in the subject line. And check out Richard Grimes' take on the whole name game in Cool Site of the Day's Bad Webmaster! Bad!

- Wes Kilgore