Month: August 2001

Pocono People: Kitty Jones

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I had the honor of featuring my dear friend, Kitty Jones in Pocono
Life today. Every week, the Pocono Record picks someone, and features them in a section called “Pocono People”. (Last week featured one of the many constables that have tried to arrest Carole over the last few months, but let’s not open that can of worms, ok?)

When the Tribe called Brooks was stranded in Stroudsburg (as usual, thanks to the vehicle we lovingly refer to as “THE DEATHMOBILE”), Kitty was there for us, with her tour van, to get us home safe & sound.

Visit the Kit's Kaboodle Website for booking information, or to catch a show in your area.She puts on a phenomenal one-woman show called “Kit’s Kaboodle“, bringing in audience members to play various parts, and she does this all across the PA, N.J and N.Y area. (Click Here for her Show Dates)… it’s really incredible, you’ve gotta catch one of her shows.

The article is here, and her biography (bet you didn’t know she was in “As The World Turns“) is here.

I met Kitty when she hired us to redesign www.kitskaboodle.com at the Pocono Record, btw….

All moved in…

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I’m currently working out the kinks with all of the new CGI settings, but for all intents & purposes, EricBrooks.Com is back in business.

Back to school

  • The Adorable BrooksKidz are getting ready for the grueling task of getting up at 5am for the bus again…
  • Eastern Poconos Community News is running a special print (and online) edition about how the “Zero Tolerance” laws are affecting students across the country. 

    So what do *YOU* like/dislike about going back to school? 

    • Moving to a new server…

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    Hey CyberPals!

    Expect intermittent service here, as I make the move to my new virtual home on Server-Space…

    $8.00 per month, full CGI support (since people have so much trouble with Greymatter) and they won’t block your friend’s email off the server unlike other webhosts (*COUGH*).

    Gotta re-write Perl locations, massive uploads… you know, all that fun stuff.

    Maybe even finish the Server-Space site while I’m at it… y’know?

    Anyone interested in a new webhost, let me know.

    The Legacy of Tocks Island Dam

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    Looking for some riveting reading this weekend? Check out The Legacy of Tocks Island Dam. This story has it all: Natural disasters, death & destruction, our Government going to extremes: taking homes and land by any means necessary, land owners committing suicide as their land is taken away, hippie protests, and the origin of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

    It also features photos that never made it to print, courtesy of The Monroe County Historical Society and the U.S. Department of the Interior.

    It was a three day series, that ran in the Pocono Record last week, and now it’s online. I’ve gotta admit that I really didn’t get a chance to read this until I put it together online this weekend… and it is MIND-BLOWING! Full of history that us New Yorkers moving in never knew. Go check it out, I’ll wait.

    Newly-revamped Guestbooks

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  • Check out the newly-revamped Guestbook from Heaven… it’s now database driven, and it has the customary email notifications/thank you’s that you all simply expect from me. (Is there anything you *can’t* do with DBMan??!!??)
  • The same goes for the Adorable BrooksKidz Guestbook… C’mon… sign their book, they love it!
  • Speaking of… I just found the missing piece to my scanner, so expect some pictures posted from our trip to the Circus last week.
  • I’m putting Christina, Ashley & Erika through an extensive training course in Dreamweaver, Fireworks & Photoshop… so expect a whole new look to their site real soon. Christina starts High School a week from today, and will be taking courses in Graphic Arts… thus the reason for giving her a head start.
  • For those of you who were kind enough to contribute to the Adorable BrooksKidz Defense Fund, expect a little surprise from them in the mail reeeeeal soon. They’d like to announce that their little hands are cramped, and they’re going to bed now….

    • Newz & Gossip

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    • Reports are in that BOBTHECORGI’s mom and her open-heart surgery went well, and she’s doing fine
    • The Other Cheek – Here is another gem via BOBTHECORGI.Fellow Pennsylvanian Tina is hilarious! She offers guidelines for those visiting an Intensive Care Unit that I’m sure several medical professionals would wholeheartedly agree with.
    • I was just informed, in my absence, that a dear friend lost her son in a motorcycle accident. Madeline Jacobs offers a thank you and a tribute to her 21 year old son, Jason, cut down in the prime of his life….This is the second time tragedy has struck, as she lost another son, Jordan, in an accident on her ranch recently. My thoughts and deepest sympathies are with her and her family right now. I can’t even imagine that type of pain.
    • BrooksKidz Update: – Yeah, things are slowly coming back to normal. (I posted a “readers digest version” of the whole thing on Kare’s Discussion Board, as so many people felt there was more to the story.)On Wednesday, the house got a last-minute inspection by a very attractive, very shapely, social worker named Stacy. Of course, I kept forgetting her name (I kept calling her “the one with the body”)….So all night, when her name eluded me, the girls would remind me by going “Staaaaaaaaacyyyyyy” (doing the “girl shape” thing with their hands). I come up here to check my mail to find a few love notes (in kids handwriting) that Staaaaaacyyyy left behind for me on my desk.Yeah… we’re gonna be back to normal in no time. :0)
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