How quickly they forget…

People, you gotta love ’em.

With all the Susan Sarandon/Tim Robbins bashing going on, I was on Mykeru.Com, where he brings up an article about 9/11… and oh lookie… Susan Sarandon cooking for the rescue workers, and Tim Robbins rounding up steel-toe boots for the crews at Ground Zero.

Yeah, they are sooooo damn un-American, aren’t they?
No one remembers that, they just want to remember how outspoken they’ve been on the war lately. Blacklisted from certain events for it.
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Bored Stupid

Man… if I had one of those “I’m feeling…” buttons on my site, it would probably say “cheap & used” right now.

<~~~ Cool! Thanks DIZ!

How are you supposed to feel when you make amends with someone, you write nice stuff about them, they write nice stuff about you (well, more like USE YOU as a cheap tool to keep people from dropping out their project like flies in a mass exodus…) have these hundreds of people come here overnight to read my post…

….and then they read the next one, which looks like a “pig party”, and makes them look like a REAL asshole?

Eric Brooks, as played by Judd NelsonWould YOU remove all that nice stuff that you wrote about ME, and declare it a “useless rant”?????

*sigh* THE TRUTH: It’s not for everyone, y’know.

Yes… ignore me now. I’ll go away.
*SNORT* Oh Yeah, like *THAT’S* ever worked before!
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*whistles*

So, how about them Yankees?

You’re not expecting me to talk about the shit hitting the fan tonight, are you?
Hey, I just made my peace. And I gave my word I was staying out of it.


On second thought… FUCK IT! I’m hearing a lot of lies and PR damage-control at Blogshares, and I’m sick of it.
Here is a copy of the page where my friends and I are CRUCIFIED at Blogshares. (I suspected my comment was going to be deleted, so I saved the page.) Maria was run off the web, because of me. She defended a friend, and he sicced trolls on all of us.

Sayed has no control over over the trolls??? BULLSHIT!
He has my name in big-ass letters, my URL on it and singles out every one commenting on my site as “nazis” and “doting supporters”. One of them was Maria, who didn’t agree with my remark, but said my frustration with the game “echoed her sentiment too”.

The very first response was one of his asshole friends suggesting “Perhaps blogs that link to him should suffer horrendous losses too.”

HEL-LOOOOO???????
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Web Skirmishes 101

In this day and age of worldwide dektop publishing, various temperaments, political views, and viewpoints… I find you can just about offend ANYONE with a minimum of effort. What causes flame wars on the web? What makes them worse? What is the best way to resolve them? I offer my 2¢ on the matter as somewhat of an “expert” in online warfare.

It’s a more homogenized version of a post I made on WHUZZUP, as apparently a lot of people missed the point the first time around. The ceilings are pretty low in SoApBox… so those coming in riding your high horses may experience neck and back problems later…

As I planned to resurrect this site over the summer, I VOWED that this kind of stuff was not going to happen here anymore.
I wanted to come back and be a POSITIVE force in the community. At a time where people are being polarized and torn apart over a war that affected the entire planet… I wanted to help bring the web community back together, torn apart from all the debate and harsh words, and I wanted to work with the same people with the same mindset.

Consider me somewhat of an “expert” on flame wars…
Here are your common elements of a flame war (see if this looks familiar in over a thousand different Web Dramas.)

  • Someone says something.
  • Someone takes offense and goes public
  • Everyone takes sides (because, well, it’s a public issue now, right?)
  • Everyone loses their temper, they do and say stuff they regret later…
  • NO ONE wants to admit any wrongdoing directly (“I know what I said/did was wrong… BUT he/she didn’t have to…”).
  • The real issue gets buried, as everyone spends hours trying to convince the spectators that, in reality, they are actually good people deep down inside (and they are.)… but their opponent will eat your children if you turn your back on them.
  • POP QUIZ: (This is based on…)

    The Blogshares War

    The Summer-Free-For-All
    The Hoopty Debacle
    The Little Green Racists Controversy
    The CDs=The Holocaust Debate
    My Feud with Joe Jenett
    My Feud with Faith and the Digital Divas
    ALL OF THE ABOVE

    It’s counterproductive, petty, childish, bullshit.
    And Gawd… I am so FUCKING TIRED of it.

    I guess a guy’s got to grow up sometime?

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    The reviews are in…

    This will bring me (and by osmosis, all of us) maximum exposure. Let’s face it. I’M A “PROBLEM ADULT”!!! I love a good spanking as much as the next guy, but I need positive reinforcement and encouragement every once in a while or I end up doing stuff. I mean, I would take a bullet for you guys… is asking for a couple of votes gonna kill yas? I mean, really. I’ve already spammed sent notifications to a few of you from NewGrounds.

    Spread the word. Vote for me….
    EricBrooks.Com® – Cuz I’d run over a kitten just to entertain you.™


    Klondike Kate stopped by yesterday, to review the recent controversy for her Sunday bounce-a-thonfeature (Much like my “Newz & Gossip” section, except I don’t have the time to deal with petty details like “research” and “the facts”.) Here’s what she says:

    “I understand you Eric, especially after I read hours and hours of your tar-and-feathering incident on many different sites. Curiosity finally won and bid me to take a gander at both the offended party’s site and your site to see what all the hoopla was about. (BTW? I had a lot of fun at your site. You have cool shit to give away, you embrace life with big sweaty arms…)”

    Big sweaty arms???
    *sniff sniff*
    okay… well she says more…

    “And what did I find? I think you are a smart-ass, just like me. You possess a wicked, irreverent wit which oozes out of every pore. You are a pestering pixie, a mischievous leprechaun, a spirited sprite. You thrive on danger as you skateboard down the railing, whizzing past our heads in a rush of air”

    Wow. It’s like she’s known me all my life! :0)

    So now, Kate has inspired me to find a way to lay tribute to all of my friends who have said nice things about me this week… without causing trouble.

    “Hang in there E, we know you’ve offended lots of good folks… and we love you for it ” – Daphne, Villa Santiago

    “Eric made a wiseass comment (uh, AS USUAL. Nothing new there, folks.)” – Angel A. Fish, KissMyFish.Net

    “Eric is the kind of guy that prefers to use gasoline when putting out fires so they burn really bright before going away. Asinine, perhaps, but not racist.” – John, Linkworthy

    “Eric may be a stupendously outspoken jackass, sure, but racist? Hardly. He’s an equal-opportunity misanthrope.” – Graham, Virulent Memes

    “I myself have called Eric many, many names ;), but racist? Never even crossed my mind.” – Lee, of Dailee (in Faith’s comments)

    “So that was the spirit the comment was intended in. I knew this instantly when I read it, because I know E very well. He is one of the finest people I have ever known. Period.” – Maria, Dayzed & Confused

    There was more… and I’ll add them later.

    (Past commentaries…)
    “If Don Rickles were a web author, he might come up with something like this. Otherwise impossible to describe. Addictive, in a guilt-inducing fashion.” – Jeffrey Zeldman, Exit Gallery

    “If an asteroid were to hit the earth, it would hit Eric Brooks’ House. It wouldn’t stop him or slow him down.” – Alan Herrell, Pixelview Interview

    For reasons that completely elude me… YOU PEOPLE LOVE ME!!!!
    (I think.)

    I kinda rule the latest mess more of a “cultural” thing than a “racial” one… Americans get me. Australians get me. Canadians get me. Brazilians get me. Colombians get me. You guys rule!

    Most of Europe (particularly parts of the the U.K.) never seem to understand where I’m coming from (ok, except Germany and the Netherlands… you guys FUCKING ROCK!!!).

    Why is that? And did I leave out any of the other countries that appreciate mean-sprited pricks like me?

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    Patriots Day

    Gonna be back-to-back-to-back posts today, so much stuff is going on (and yes… the pilot episode of Super Dudes is done and online. Link to follow.)

    God Bless the troopsDaphne reminds us today is Patriots Day.

    You know, anyone can cheer on the winning team, root for the home team in an “easy war”. When the going gets tough? When things go really wrong? That’s when you see what people are made of. Our troops need our support more than ever.

    Whether Saddam and Oday Hussein are hiding on a farm dressed as peasants somewhere, or they’re primordial ooze underneath a pile of rubble… either way, they’ll never be a threat to anyone again. No one will shed a tear for them, least of all me.

    Where are all the holy men? You know the ones who scream “Death to America” everytime their coffee is too cold, or their eggs are too runny? Why aren’t they putting out a plea to the Iraqi looters and say “Hey, stop stealing other people’s shit, and destroying 7,000 years of history and artifacts!” ?

    Just something new to blame America for.
    It’s always America’s fault over there, isn’t it.
    When the U.N. sends peace-keeping troops to some hotspot on the planet, they only see it as “The Americans interfering again.”

    So now, on top of dealing with mercs, suicide bombers, and snipers, they’re expected to stop people from stealing their own shit? Give me a fucking break. Sorry we’re more concerned with combat and finding our people who are being tortured somewhere. Amid the gunfire and chaos, these ingrates are whining “this is democracy???”. What, they don’t have the balls to stop the looters themselves?
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