Without me (-e- remix)

* The vote was “Blaze of Glory”, wasn’t it? * so…
I feel like kicking off the New Years party a little early.
This onez goin’ out to my homegirl, Mollie… and my man, Farid….
CUZ BROOKLYN’Z IN DA HOUUUUUUUUSE!!!!!!!!!

*Walks to turn tables*

*ZOOOGA-ZOOGA-ZOOGA-ZOOOGA!!!* < ~~ (click the link to play the music!) Erox: The -e- Show[Intro]
Two blogrolling girls go round the outside;
round the outside, round the outside
*scratches*
Two blogrolling girls go round the outside;
round the outside, round the outside
*scratches*

Guess who’s back
Back again
-e- is back
Tell a friend
Guess who’s back, guess who’s back, guess who’s back, guess who’s back

guess who’s back, guess who’s back, guess who’s back.. {*Eminem hums*}

... now this looks like a job for me...
[Verse 1: Eminem]
I’ve created a monster, cause nobody wants to see Eric no more
They want -e-, I’m chopped liver (huh?)
Well if you want The Enemy, this is what I’ll give ya
A little bit of wit mixed with some hard coding
Some MT that’ll jump start my site loading
than a shock when I get shocked at the hospital
by the doctor when I’m not co-operating
When I’m rockin the table while he’s operatin (hey!!)
You waited this long, now stop debating

Cause I’m back, I’m on the rag and ovu-lating
I know that you got a blog Ms. kd
but your Surreally site is complicating

So Zeldman’s friends won’t let me be
or let me be me, so let me see
They try to shut me down on MeFi’s screen
But blogland’s boring without me
So, come on and dip, rum on your lips
Fuck that, cum on your lips, and some on your tits
And get ready, cause this shit’s about to get cra-zayyy
I just settled all my lawsuits,
FUCK YOU, PA!

[Chorus: -e-]
Now this looks like a job for me
So everybody, just link to me
Cause we need a little, controversy
Cause the web’s so boring without me
I said this looks like a job for me
So everybody, just link to me
Cause we need a little, controversy
CAUSE THE WEB’S SO BORING WITHOUT ME

Marshall, Dre & Moi[Verse 2: Eminem]
Raizin’ Hellions, Miz Kitty’s rebellious
Embarrassed their parents still readin’ the AList
They start feelin like prisoners helpless
’til someone comes along on a mission and yells DICK!!!

A visionary, vision of scary
Could start a revolution, pollutin the airwaves
A rebel, so just let me revel and bask
in the fact that I got everyone kissin my ass {*smak*}
And it’s a disaster, such a castastrophe
for you to see so damn much of Dawn’s ass; you asked for me?
Well I’m back, nananananananananana
{*bzzt*} Fix your damn comments tune it in and then I’m gonna
enter in, in the front of your skin like a splinter

The center of attention, back for the winter
Erox: The -e- ShowI’m interesting, the best thing since ranting
What’s brewin’? ‘Round the bend, panting
{*bzzt*} Testing, attention please
Feel the tension, soon as someone mentions SLEAZE
Here’s my ten cents, my two cents is free
TRACKBACK, PINGBACK? YOU SENT FOR ME?

[Chorus: Obie]
Now this looks like a job for me
So everybody, just link to me
Cause we need a little, controversy
Cause the web’s so boring without me
I said this looks like a job for me
So everybody, just link to me
Cause we need a little, controversy
CAUSE THE WEB’S SO BORING WITHOUT ME

Up, Up, & away![Verse 3: Dre]
A-tisket a-tasket, I go tit for tat with
anybody who’s talkin this shit, that shit
Wil Wheaton, you’re due for a beat-in’
worse than them little MeFi cretins
And Godzilla? You can get stomped by Davezilla
You 90-year-old slant-eyed sil-ly sill-az!
You don’t know me, you’re too old, we resist
It’s over, nobody listens to your cease-and-desist
Now let’s go, let’s see the results
I’ll be there with a whole list full of new insults
I been dope, a linkwhore with a keyboard
you even stare as I polish my new sword {*knife slices*}
But sometimes the shit just seems
everybody only wants to discuss me
So this must mean I’m dis-gus-ting
But it’s just me, I’m just obscene

No I’m not the first king of controversy
I am the worst thing since reading Hoopty
to do mad blogging so skill-fully
and used it to make people ill for me
(Hey!!) There’s a concept that works
Twenty million other blog-gy bloggers emerge
But no matter how many fish in the sea
IT WOULD BE SO BORING WITHOUT ME!

Courtesy of Pegasong[Chorus: Eminem, -e-, Obie, & Dre]
Now this looks like a job for me
So everybody, just link to me
Cause we need a little, controversy
Cause the web’s so boring without me
I said this looks like a job for me
So everybody, just link to me
Cause we need a little, controversy
CAUSE THE WEB’S SO BORING WITHOUT ME

{*Eminem sings this twice:
Chemhielalala, lalalalala

Lalalalala, lalalala“*}

[Eminem] Kids!

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
HAPPY NEW YEAR, Y’ALL!!!!
Love,
-e-
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

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Up down in and out (Girl, you know what it’s about!)

I’m too old (and the wrong sex) to be a “Skeemer”, right?
Hey, have any of you guys ever heard of The Grand Skeem?

It’s a band out of NYC, I know they have a MASSIVE following in the NY/PA/NJ area, and they get a lot of airplay here. I’m trying to figure out if they caught on in the rest of the country. The Grand Skeem

We caught them Friday night at Fernwood for a charity show they put on for underpriviledged kids & a local hospice. These guys put on one hell of a show! The best comparison I can make for them would be a cross between The Beastie Boys and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Kind of a hard-rock/hip hop mix.

Anarchtica is like their second home, as they filmed their “Baby Got Back” video at Fernwood. Then premiered it before MTV showed it at the Stroud Mall.

Talented as hell, and really nice guys too… they’re gonna be big.

So here ya go…

On Sale in stores now!
On sale in stores NOW!
Buy it at Amazon.Com

It’s Party Time 

[RealAudio] |  [MP3]

In-N-Out 

[RealAudio] |  [MP3]

Baby Got Back 

[RealAudio] |  [MP3]

Shorti 

[RealAudio] |  [MP3]

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-e- piphany

“I love a few, like a few more, but hate many. I am not your best friend just because I relate. I am good at relating, but I am not so good at accepting everything I read. It’s just not me. Is it you, really?”
~ Ångel ~

“While weblogs are essentially a good thing, I feel like it put a lot more people, maybe too many people, on common ground. I think this is the first time that’s ever really happened on the ‘Net… I just cannot say I don’t miss the old days, when things were simpler because the scope was smaller, because I do miss them very much. “
~ Ångel (again) ~

I’d love nothing more right now to accuse Angel of flat-out PLAGIARISM for these two posts. They’re word-for-word straight out of my thoughts. Stuff that’s been in my heart for months, maybe years… only, they ARE her words. She managed to articulate this better than I ever could, and got it out first.

You have to understand first, that the Web that Angel and I (and quite a few of you) knew is a different one from the one we’re in now. Back then, you had larger-than-life “Web Celebs”: Zeldman, Powazek, Kottke, Miz Kitty, Halcyon, Heather Champ, Lance Arthur, Glenn Davis… you aspired to be like them. You stole bits and pieces of their source code to learn “how they did it”.

And here’s where I piss everyone off.
(Let me say in advance, “Fuck you” if you can’t take my brutal honesty.)
Then weblogs came and fucked it all up.
Then, when you thought it couldn’t get worse… Slashdot and MetaFilter fucked it even more.
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There’s no such thing as… WHO???

Dear -e-

I am in third grade.
Robby (who sits behind me in school) says there is no Santa Claus. This ruined my holiday, and I want him dead in the worst way. He says it is my parents buyeing the gifts and pretending it is from Santa.

Is this true? Is there really no Santa Claus?

Cindy P.      
Roanoke, Virginia
     


Dear Cindy:
Why do you listen to that jerk in your class, anyway? Isn’t this the same kid who said “Babies come from a cabbage patch”????

A few years back, my daughter was your age, and she came home crying because some trailer-trash-welfare-recipient kid told her the same damn thing… I looked her right in the eyes and told her:

“There IS a Santa Claus”.

To this day, I have NEVER lied to my kids.
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Is there a mouse in the house?

Don’t mind me… I will be a cranky bastard for the next few days.
Like the old African parable of the lion with the thorn stuck in his paw. Anyone who wishes to keep their head in the center of their shoulders, had better avoid me in the next few days…

You know those molars? The ones I’ve been grinding out of sheer aggravation, for the past 2 1/2 years? The exposed nerves? Well add that with a sinus infection from two days ago, which is slowly settling in those raw pockets of nerves in my mouth… and you have a blinding, searing, MADDENING kind of pain that I have probably experienced maybe once or twice in my whole life.

The soonest I can see a dentist is Tuesday. Until then, Ora-Gel, Tylenol 3’s, warm salt water, and swishing with vodka, so I can take just enough of the edge off, so I can suck on the nerve, pull it just so it’s out of the way of the infection, and whatever the hell metallic filling fragment seems to be touching it.

When the sun goes down, and the fever starts, I can scare a werewolf….
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
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Ugh… it’s that *month* again.

The unimaginable happens to me and those close to me every October. This is the month where the “worst case scenario” is almost a guarantee. Here in Anarchtica, it is to the benefit of all elected officials that statistics are in the extremes…

If you are in front of a judge this month, you are guaranteed to be incarcerated for even the tiniest of infractions. Prisons are filled to the brim this month, as judges, district attorneys, and anyone else up for re-election can boast of their “high conviction rates”, “low crime”, and how they’ve “taken criminals off the streets”.

You are nothing more than a sacrificial lamb for their statistics. You’re not quite innocent, but you are *definitely* not the hardened criminal they make you out to be. You are run through the system as “just a number”…

…and your family can’t do a damn thing about it.

Come November, the incumbents will win in a landslide…
Why? Because those living a trouble-free life will buy into this PR bullshit.

The recipients of this heavy-handed justice aren’t allowed near a voting booth for at least 60 days. Their family’s spirits are too broken to even consider voting these jokers out of office, though they should anyway.

Their voices will never be heard and their stories will never be told.
It’s a win-win situation for the truly corrupt.
It’s set up that way.

Not to worry. All is fine in my world…
At least that I know of. There’s nothing pending for any of us.

It was finished in my war last year, where losing meant “losing everything”. Victory over that war came at an unimaginable price to so many people around me.

Like I said, this is the month where the “inconceivable” happens.

There are still the bad guys, and old scores to settle. New plots of retaliation. I sit quietly in the darkness, with my glistening blade, and wait for them to come.

Welcome to my dark and scary world.

I approach October with baited breath, apprehension, and all the bitterness of days gone past.

I hate October.
But bring it on anyway.

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The First Amendment for dummies.

(Does this sound like anyone you know? I can think of at least five people off the top of my head….)

Idiot: “Dammit to hell, this ‘Freedom of Speech’ stuff is bullshit. We don’t have it!”

Me: “Sure we do.”

Idiot: “Everytime I open my mouth, someone attacks me in my comments.”

Me: “Well, they have freedom of speech too, remember?”

Idiot: “It’s not RIGHT!!!!”

Me: “Yeah, that “freedom” stuff is a bitch, ain’t it?”
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The Angel with no name…

(A conversation in the darkness)

“I did good, right?”

“You didn’t have to. We would have fought the armies of Hell for you.”

“I know… but there’s enough going on.”

“You didn’t have to do this. You were meant to be.”

“Apparently not. Hey, there’s an reason for all of this. We just don’t know it yet.”

You inherited my uncanny ability of bad timing…
And my sense of self-sacrifice.
Off to the Heavens, my little warrior angel….

Daddy will always love you.

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Goodbye, Pat

Ground Zero: The Untold Stories

(Originally printed December 23, 2001)
I really don’t talk about September 11th much.

I remember the grueling 12-hour day I put in checking the latest AP wires and keeping live coverage on the website, amid rumors that NY and NJ may have no way of communicating with the outside world… way before some of the events even made it on TV. Walking into work that morning, never suspecting for a second that this would lead to the devastation and unspeakable horror that we’ve all stared in a state of shock over the past few months.
I can’t think about it.
I won’t think about it.

I did a pretty damn good job at avoiding it, until this morning.

Joe Flounders lived only a few miles from me. His wife Pat begged him to flee his World Trade Center office after the first plane the other tower… He stayed behind to help a co-worker, suffering shock; trying to get him out also…

Moments later, the second plane crashed and exploded right through his office…
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Using Images on your buttons

“how do you get the fade effects on your buttons?”

Even though I know kd knows this answer… *wink*…

How to make your buttons go…

It’s all CSS, my dear!
1. I made a selector called .”btn”
2. In my css:
.btn { background: #FFCC00 url(img/btn.gif); background-repeat: repeat; border-color: #FFCC00; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;}

3. btn.gif
is the gradient background in the buttons.

4. <input type=”submit” class=”btn”>

You can more or less use any image as a backround anywhere on your page with css….

Any questions?

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The face of no hope

Ground Zero: The Untold Stories

September 11th, 2001 8:45 AM – It was a sunny Tuesday morning in Jersey City, New Jersey. Business as usual in the steel mill, overlooking the majestic skyline of New York City.

High above the workers, Larry operated his crane, moving large piles of steel across the yard.

Its not unusual to see and hear a commercial jet fly above him. However, an oncoming plane was particularly loud. It was louder than most, because it was flying at a far lower altitude than the rest of the planes that pass by.

So low that Larry can actually see the faces of the passengers.

The encounter took less than a nanosecond, but it seemed so much longer. Larry made eye contact with one passenger. A very sad man with a grim countenance.

It was the face of a man who knew he was about to die.

They were the passengers of American Airlines Flight 11, and it was just seconds before that jet crossed the water, and exploded on impact into One World Trade Center.

That man’s face will haunt Larry for the rest of his life.

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My name is Maria

Ground Zero: The Untold Stories

PREFACE: This was part of a series of stories I compiled last year called “GROUND ZERO: THE UNTOLD STORIES“.

It’s not about the act. It’s not about politics. It’s about the people affected by it. The events as seen through their eyes.

It’s still merely a .txt file in my hard drive. After the media basically ran September 11th to the ground (as I suspect they’ll do again in the next few weeks…) I felt people didn’t need this.

I also worried about how people would take this particular story as there is more than enough real-life tragedy of the attacks in N.Y.C. and D.C. to fill a thousand lifetimes.

The following story is grim and horrific. Those easily upset may want to skip it.

It’s the “fictional” story of a woman buried alive when the towers collapsed. The sights, the sounds… the terror.

I put “fictional” in quotes… because I sometimes wonder, given my connection with the other side. I wrote this in Mid-October 2001… when the screams of the long-dead still haunted my dreams. I was possessed. My fingers couldn’t stop writing.

When I finished, a woman’s voice whispered “thank you” behind me.
I didn’t bother to turn around. I knew I wouldn’t see anyone.

I feel it’s time for her story to be told….


Continue reading “My name is Maria”

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The Crossroads

Ground Zero: The Untold Stories

It’s not about the act. It’s not about the politics. It’s about the people affected by it. The events as seen through their eyes.

***** T h e * C r o s s r o a d s ********

Many of the stories you are about to hear came from actual conversations in a gas station/convenience store in Stroudsburg, PA.

A mere 60 miles from New York City, across Interstate 80, it was a place where many stopped to fill up their cars with gas, and get their morning coffee and newspapers, before starting their long commute to work.

In the summer of 2001, it was a happy place. With happy people. Many were New Yorkers who fled the crime and the cold steel for a better way of life in the Poconos years ago. Their jobs paid well, and their personalities were indelibly “New Yorkers”.. no matter where they chose to live. Full of life, sarcasm, humor, the “New Yawk” accent, and everything that goes with it.

They were in before the sun began to rise, to be greeted by cheerful workers who had fresh coffee, rolls, bagels and biscuits prepared for the “morning rush” beginning at 4AM.

A few regulars never returned after 9/11.
One can only speculate.

Those who did return were traumatized and messed up beyond description. Trying to put the unimaginable into words brought only tears from the strongest and burliest of them. Their spirit was broken, and a part of them will remain forever entombed in the rubble of the World Trade Center, or splattered on the sidewalks from a 100-story fall.

Across from the parking lot was a motel where a group of generous truckers from Indiana took a final rest stop before their trek into N.Y.C. It was also one of many places in the area where the stranded were forced to stay for the night…

Adjacent to both buildings was The Pocono Record. Amid rumors of further attacks nationwide, and the possibility that at least four states will soon be without power or communication… it began to set up as a command center to communicate to the rest of the world what was going on.

But it was in that 24 hour convenience store that the stories of triumph and tragedy were being told. It was the place where those across the nation stopped for coffee, braced themselves to enter a war zone, then returned to share their stories.

For a brief while, that place was to be known as “The Crossroads”.

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A woman’s view of the Poconos

While waiting for my discharge papers, I couldn’t help but hear the story of a woman adjacent to me in the emergency room.

Severe headaches, halucinations… the cause? Her husband slamming her repeatedly in the head with the butt of his rifle. This happened on Sunday. She was there that night with the State Police for evidence, to be treated, and to issue an arrest warrant for the husband.

She came back yesterday. Whatever they gave her wasn’t strong enough. AND her husband is still on the loose. He seems to “get away” every time they decide to get off their asses to look for him.

Think the Poconos are bad on New Yorkers? Try being a woman.

They’re very slow to arrest an abusive husband… and yes, this is sadly a fact of life all over the country. When a husband seeks to kill someone they once loved, orders of protection are totally useless. That’s another sad fact in the United States.

But ladies… miss a child support payment in the Poconos, and they will throw the fucking books at you. It doesn’t matter. Monroe County Correctional Facility is filled to the brim with women who don’t pay child support… doesn’t matter how many kids are in that house as you’re hauled away.

One such case was a woman who had four children, two were with her, two were with him. He never gave her a dime of child support, she wanted very little to do with him.

But that’s irrelevant. He filed charges and she didn’t. She did three months.

Another amazing tale was Linda Fogle. Her husband, James Proctor… unemployed, in a trailer filled with garbage & cat shit, beat his 3-month old baby to death because she wouldn’t stop crying.

Well, a life sentence for Proctor wasn’t enough for the Monroe County legal system, was it? Why not go after the mother who worked two jobs to keep the family afloat?

“‘Linda was out busting her ass, and now this,’ said Donna Fogle, referring to the fact that her daughter worked while Proctor stayed in the trailer. ‘He trashed the place, not Linda,’ she said.”

Well goddamn it… Linda should have been the “happy homemaker”, as well as the breadwinner and bill payer. Proctor was the “man of the house”, he shouldn’t have to do sissy & menial stuff like clean & babysit his own kids. That was *HER* job too.

At least that’s what the judge thought.

“Glaring directly at Fogle, [President Judge] Vican asked rhetorically, ‘Why would you allow these children to live under such deplorable conditions ?’…”
“Calling Fogle ‘lazy, stupid and unconcerned’ for the welfare of her children, Vican told her, ‘You had no right to impose that (squalor) on your children.’..”

Actually, his exact words were “irresponsible bitch”, according to the reporter.
Continue reading “A woman’s view of the Poconos”

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Lawsuit Part 2

Ahhhh… I love the smell of Napalm in the morning….

Percudani, companies sue newspaper again

“STROUDSBURG – A new defamation suit against the Pocono Record and reporter Matt Birkbeck, focusing on the newspaper’s Web site, was filed this month by Gene P. Percudani and his companies, Raintree Homes and Chapel Creek Mortgage Banker, Inc.”

More specifically, he’s annoyed at my running the Pocono Record Special Report: A price TOO HIGH.

While the report focuses quite a bit on Raintree Homes (aka “Y-Rent“), it hardly (in my PERSONAL opinion) singles Raintree out as the “only” builder doing this. The website version is no different. I have to half wonder if he plans on going after WABC (N.Y.C.) and the New York Daily News too.

Bring it on, Percudani.

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Night of the Idiot

“OMG!!! She was so ugly, she looked like she was just hit with a hot bag of ‘ What the Fuck ‘…!!!!!!”

– Overheard yesteday from a 16 year old with a mohawk. –

Well, my first day as a Mutated Self-Aware Computer Virus didn’t go as well as I had hoped. The first thing I learned is that you can’t expect to wipe out 120,000 hard drives when you pass yourself along in an email with the subject: “I’M A VIRUS!!!! CLICK ME, YOU ASSHOLE!!!”.

Ok. Three people on AOL fell for it.

The Next trip was trying to cheer up poor, sickly, KittyBat, who had her first BatChat last night. The instructions were really hard for moronspeople to follow, so I made a loverly graphic, with even more specific instructions. (LinkMeister did the same on the Z-List Blog)

Problem is it took me so damn long, that by the time I was done posting it, everyone went home.
But it was a pretty nice turn out. Even if they were all nervous because, well, a virus was in the chat room flirting with them.

Then next stop was The SickSider’s new home…

I didn’t mean to do it…
Everyone was having fun with the Microsoft-proprietary “Marquee” tag. So I did it. ‘cept I forgot to close my tag, and poor Kimberly’s entire page was whizzing all over the place and no one else could comment!

I wasn’t even worth a writeup on SARC.

All the other trojans & worms were teasing me and calling me a “hoax”…. :0(

It was more like “Night of the Idiot”.
Gonna be a better virus tonight. Watch.

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You can’t HANDLE the TRUTH!!!

Secundum Quid – Latin for “according to something”. If you’ve taken Logic in college, it’s also the concept of “Drawing a conclusion based on insufficient information”.

For example:
Fact #1 Mad people belong in an institution.
Fact #2 The flat tire made Mr. Jones mad.
Conclusion: Mr. Jones belongs in an institution.

Or from the IQ test:
“If some quips are quods, and all quos are quods…
Then some quips are quos?”
Makes sense to assume so, doesn’t it?

Unless you replace the words with:
“If some fish are mammals, and all dogs are mammals…
Then some fish are dogs?”

Once you grasp the concept of “Secundum Quid” you can alter the very fabric of reality… using your enemy’s own flawed thinking *against* them.

So now I pose to you… is the web fake?
Is everyone on the web a phony?

Do you have enough information to draw that conclusion?
Do you have enough information to draw that conclusion with those you know in real life?

There’s three sides to every story. One side, the other side (both using secundum quid, based solely on their perspective.), and somewhere in the middle is a thin, grey line called “the PURE truth”.

Rarely (if ever) do you see that side of the story. Even in real life “the history books are written by the winners”.

Weblogs are one-sided accounts based on the perspective of ONE person. You will know *only* what they want you to know. See *only* what they want you to see.

  • Conclusion #1: The web is as real, or as fake, as you want it to be.
  • Conclusion #2: Your entire LIFE, as you know it, is a LIE, based on your finite & limited point of view.
    How many times in your life were you “the last to know”?
  • Conclusion #3: Eric didn’t write this to clarify anything… he just wanted to fuck you up for the rest of your life with this little tidbit of knowledge.

Everything you know, is because someone told you it is so…
Think about it.
Pleasant dreams! :0)

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Rik Havyk’s greatest hits

Sheeesh… you would think on this… the HOLIEST of all days, the gOdOfMiScHiEf would be planning something pretty damn spectacular right about now.

Too busy… maybe next year.

So you will have to settle for reruns here on Enemy of the State…

Rik HavyykYou see, before there was a gOdOfMiScHiEf… there was Rik Havyk.

Rik was a wild woman, the “girl of your wet dreams“. She’d be free to chat with you on AOL, cyber any guy who caught her profile, she knew what you wanted, and you can trust her your deepest, darkest secrets… just so she can post it on a web page for all to see!

Here’s something for you guys to, uh, think about…. Rik Havyk was really a GUY.
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Birkbeck wins for “A Price Too High”

Congratulations are in order to Matthew Birkbeck of the Pocono Record for winning the Investigative Reporters and Editors award for his investigative series:
A price too HIGH“… blowing the Home Builder/Inflated Appraisal scandal in the Poconos wide open.

It’s been long known as the Poconos’ “Dirty Little Secret”, where creative financing is used to lure New Yorkers to buy homes which end up worth a fraction of the cost by a real appraisal. The end result is you have a house you can’t afford, and no way to refinance for a better rate. (And you know how I was burnt!)

The news report focuses primarily on Raintree Homes (who sued the Pocono Record and lost…BIG TIME.), but I can assure you there are many more uscrupulous home builders just like them. New Yorkers really need to do their homework, before considering a move to the Poconos.
(Check out this spoof site of Raintree’s… it’s hilarious!)

Congratz, Matt!!!!

Other Great Links:

  • IRE Awards2001 Winners
  • N.Y. Daily News – Poconos a Ripoff Haven, Suit Alleges
  • WABC News – 7 On Your Side: A Home Buyer’s Nightmare
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