Robin Dumolin has added business titan
to her legal genius and
scholarly intellectual accomplishments.
A Quick One Today:
I was noodling around the interweb for something called "blowing roses". Yeah, I know you were expecting me to search for some other kind of blowing but you'll have to take my word for it this time.
I landed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office which has registered a trademark for "Blowing Roses" by none other than Robin Dumolin, who was working on behalf of the Spiritual Rights Foundation.
Here is what was registered at the USPTO:
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if you have a strong stomach...
Yep, it's that infamous VHS video we foisted on an unsuspecting public and we were coerced into buying so the leaders can perpetuate our nightmare of mind control at home as well as behind the prison walls of the Academy for Psychic Studies.
Now as with all media, the VHS video "Blowing Roses" had its days of fame. Unfortunately it was longer than I would have liked. Fortunately, as the old VHS stand-by began to give way to the DVD revolution, "Blowing Roses" had a hard time making the transition to digital. In fact, I don't recall ever seeing "Blowing Roses" ever in a DVD case. If you look at the "Health and Wealth" e-commerce site, you won't find it there either.
"Blowing Roses" had its heyday up until the early 2000's when sales fell as DVD became the format of choice and people were letting their VHS decks start gathering dust. That's about the time "Blowing Roses" began gathering dust as well. By 2003, "Blowing Roses" had blown through it's run and was no longer desired by consumers.
So when I spotted this record at the USPTO, I knew I had to laugh. I just wasn't sure for how long:
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You know you want to.
I had to blink several times before I could believe Robin Dumolin, business genius, intellectual superpower, psychic-ly gifted clairvoyant and incomparable expert on legal matters did something so fucking stupid, stupidity would have to be re-defined to accommodate her inexplicable action.
In the year 2003, Robin Dumolin paid $600 to renew a trademark on a product they were not selling.
Yep, you got it right. Robin Dumolin paid $600 to protect a trademark on a product that they not only sold so few of, paying for a trademark registration was not worth the time or money when they did it the first time, she compounded that idiot move by paying even more to renew the trademark when the product was essentially dead.
Now in 2003, there was a long-standing international agreement called the "Berne Convention" which gave products like "Blowing Roses" copyright protection for free. If you wanted US copyright protection, you'd fill out a simple form and pay about $25 for 35 or so years of protection. Trademarks are generally used for products that are established as a market leader or that have such a long product lifetime you can create related products to complement your original one. Why Robin Dumolin decided to pry $600 from the grip of her gnarled fingers when she could have protected the video and the title "Blowing Roses" for free boggles the mind. However, she did it.
In case you need more proof, take a look at the declaration of use letter Robin Dumolin signed in 2003:
You Gotta Click This!
Those dot-matrix numbers on the declaration that looks like the cash register receipt you get from the supermarket is pretty much a receipt from the USPTO for $600 and it is dated as of 2003 - when there was no one buying the original VHS version of "Blowing Roses" and the resident video and computer experts at the Academy could find no way to convert it to DVD (I know this as I spoke with the guy trying to do it; yes I did know how to do it at the time and no I wasn't about to give the guy any of my help).
Besides, by 2003, the "Health and Wealth" line of products were so dated and unattractive, the public had little interest in them. A sale was a rarity and some of the items were being hawked on Ebay for idiotic prices that couldn't even cover the cost of listing.
Paying $600 for eight years of trademark protection when you don't have a product to sell and no one was buying it anyway is either pure clairvoyant genius or the action of a drooling idiot.
I'll be sending Robin a bucket to hang under her chin.
Now I am sure you are asking why would I or anyone rub the face of saintly and benevolent Robin Dumolin in the mess she made. Revenge? Vengeance (which I guess is the same damn thing) or maybe it's the deep, unhealed psychic wounds inflicted by an uncaring and ignorant world on my spirit and body.
Hell no! When was it that Robin Dumolin, Angela Silva or Bill Duby ever let even an minor inconsequential error on anyone's part go unnoticed, unpunished and un-excoriated in public? Considering all the public floggings and waterboardings we witnessed over the years, I think we all know the answer.
So this exposure of the idiotic, reckless and brain-dead actions of Robin Dumolin can't possibly be vengeance.
It's justice.
funny, the "rose" on the cover looks more like a "balloon knot" if you know what i mean...
ReplyDeletethe guy trying to convert the video: was he corpulent?
ReplyDeleteok so that doesn't completely narrow it down: was he the wifebeater or the possibly closeted one? tweedledee or tweedledum?
ReplyDeleteBoth Tweedledee and Tweedledumb considered themselves video, print, computer and networking experts. Unfortunately, neither one could pull their 2 inch cocks out of whatever they got it caught in so they usually called me to pull it out - after blaming the problem on whoever the fuck was standing around.
DeleteThe large person who stays in his bedroom using his essential oils to maintain an erection had been the cult's video expert (by default - no one else was stupid enough to go there, especially the one person who was educated and trained as a video editor). He tried to convert the old VHS tape but failed (using a method he wouldn't talk about - so I guess it meant he didn't know what it was or what the fuck he as doing).
Wifebeater made an attempt but realized as it required that he pick up the goddamn video deck and carry it to the computer, it was a non-starter.
I had some simple gear that accepted the cult's S-VHS gear and spit out a digital version of their tapes. No, I didn't buy it for them - I had some family tapes I wanted to convert. I did realize it could be used for the purpose of digitizing their crap videos. When I did, I kept my mouth shut.
They were dead in the digital waters until Wendy gave them a multi-thousand dollar video camera she had lying around. Unfortunately, it was an early model and created videos not quite as nice as my $300 Panasonic camcorder or my $30 Flip camera and these days, nowhere near as nice as an iPad. It was digital, though.
Still since all they did was plop a camera on a tripod and point it at whoever they wanted to shoot, does how nice the picture looked make you more interested in watching?
Yeah, I didn't think so either.
Actually, the Witches pulled me aside one fine day - one where I would have rather been out changing oil or getting a colonoscopy, to tell me a secret they received from Bill Duby himslef. Whether that secret came from his live self or his dead countenance, I have no fucking idea.
ReplyDeleteAfter a drawn out session of small talk and other bullshit, Angela Silva revealed it was Bill Duby's wish that I teach the "Year Class", for the ten or so "Years" it took to get someone through it and become an impotent member of the Board of Directors.
Hey, that kind of fills a fantasy. Too bad for their asses I left not too long after that. And not long after that, I started this blog - which really got under their skin.
So, I guess I can say I was there as well.
Lucky for us both, we saw the light of an oncoming train and got the fuck out of Dodge in the nick of time.
they wanted YOU to run the year class? it just shows how UNpsychic the supposedly gifted higher-ups are. seems like you were too independent, but maybe they wanted to keep you on the hook because they saw you as a cash cow. i'd think they'd give that slot to someone who was more committed (or should be committed) - someone who weighs at least 300 pounds or so...
ReplyDeleteyou really missed your golden opportunity. you could have spewed incoherent gibberish, humiliated followers, controlled their sex lives, and vampirized copious funds from members. you could have revived the cult and been a real piece of shit, just like reverend bill! i guess the chicks just don't have what it takes.
i'd like to take this opportunity to thank the cu- er the bitches of ellsworth and their corpulent underlings for losing their lawsuit thus helping keep this blog alive, and for unwittingly providing such good-natured entertainment at their own expense.
all the money they managed to finagle from their victims must make all the ridicule worth it, right? it must be satisfying for you, knowing that at least a couple of them must read this blog.
Thanks. I do refer to a "FUCKING SRF troll". There was at least one person who had to read the posts to Angela and do their level best to translate my university English to the gutter slang Angela speaks.
ReplyDeleteI've discovered the first thing the more recent escapees of the Academy do upon finding freedom is to read this blog. One person in particular who, aw fuck, it was (without a doubt) the now-former SRF Bishop who hit the blog several times a day for weeks. Ironically, the former Bishop was one of the losing parties in the lawsuit.
It was great as the corpulent turd read through the entire blog (don't ask how I know) and the Witches attorney had to give them copies of the blog which Robin scrutinized thoroughly between reruns of Oprah and Angela used when she ran out of Charmin.
And of course, there is the occasional search hit on "Witches of Ellsworth" by what I think is a former member.
So, yeah - I like that this blog will continue until THEY die and that not only do they know about this blog and can't do a thing to stop it, they can't stop hearing about it either.