The Grand Vizier has been keeping quiet lately reflecting the tenor of the business. But the Vizier called me today with some news.

“This business has never been so bad,” he says. “And I mean bad. It’s over. There are probably a handful of companies that are doing okay. The rest of them are all lying through their teeth because they don’t want to come out saying they’re hurting. Everybody’s full of shit.”

According to The Vizier if you go to www.becomingjennie.com, you’ll discover that it’s Penny Flame’s new site written as her alter ego Jenny Ketcham. Flame appeared on the VH1 reality show Celebrity Rehab and is now coming to grips with many of those issues on this site.

“She’s completely quit the business,” continues The Vizier. “In fact she walked into Metro and quit. She was running the studio over there. She’s been out a couple of weeks but they still haven’t paid her her money over there. The word on the street is that Ben over there owes tens of thousands of dollars to people all over the place. It’s funny because he was voted Businessman of the Year.”