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Well, most of our traffic is from unregistered visitors. I think VS is a little different from other forums or community blogs in that a lot of people just use us as a good source for quality videos- and that's OK.

I feel like it's a rabbit hutch - we sifters are all the rabbits finding and eating the juicy video carrots. Visitors are perhaps the snails and slugs waiting under the hutch for the nutrient rich videos that we have digested to fall upon them. It's a lovely Web ecosystem.

Must be time for bed ...

Damn, should have gone with videohutch.com, instead of the sifter metaphor.

I agree with paul's interpretation of the Precious backstory. Babies were definitely going to be dashed on radiators. But I wanted to know more so I called Precious Taft in her Brooklyn flat and she spoke to me for about 5 hours.

To make a very, very, very, very long story short, it turns out that "Hutch" was this man:

http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=10464


It explains a lot.

yay, precious taft is back! thanks, james.

for people who are confused about the story (everyone), paul has a theory about the precious taft story:

she's talking to her ex-lover. they had a boy together who died tragically (accident or illness?). he then left her and it ended badly (cheating?). maybe the fact that their boy died was the trigger for their relationship to fall apart, who knows.

so the "he" who she hugs, who is cinnamon (smelling?) is her baby boy, "equal parts you and me". and he is "the love of the Hutch, embodied" (the lover's name is Hutch). maybe Hutch didn't want the child, so that's why she says "i wanted him".

now that she hates Hutch's guts, the thought of their baby "curdles" her -- makes her sick (because the boy was the embodiment of Hutch's love for her, and he's now broken her heart). she's so angry with Hutch that if their boy was still around, she'd kill him herself.

so she thanks God that her baby boy is already dead.

...

honestly, i (paul) didn't understand the story either until yuka asked me what it meant tonight (on the 387th viewing). it was just so compellingly weird, i didn't care what it meant. now that we have this theory, it's not so funny -- just so raw it's hard not to watch. all the details (the pianist desperately searching for a chord, the earrings, the long pull-back on the camera) added together are irresistible. her speech is still beautiful -- so dense, it might as well be poetry.

and it's obvious the host didn't understand it either.

still, maybe we're wrong about this interpretation. any other guesses?