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Must be the heat

Posted on Sunday July 13, 2003Saturday June 4, 2011 by Eric Brooks

As the ugly clusterf*ck that we like to call the blogosphere continues in all its anger and self-righteousness and cowardly trolldom, I have to wonder if perhaps Dan has the right idea.

I have officially hit my “flame quota” for the week.

I’d like to remind you that the “name the newsletter title” contest is still going on for the two or three people on the planet that is still speaking to me.

Attacks on commenters will no longer be tolerated here.
(Unless they’re really really funny. It’s a judgment call)
Disagreement is cool. It sparks discussion.

Well, I’m not quite sure

Posted on Sunday July 13, 2003Saturday June 4, 2011 by Eric Brooks

Well, I’m not quite sure if I’m welcome here anymore but I wanted to point a few things out.

1. The original intention of my post was to point out how Beermary has a track record of mis-reading things and attacking people. It’s now a train wreck gone out of control.

2. Donna and I were two *completely different* incidents totally unrelated to this “anti-gay” thread disaster.

3. Calling someone on my site an asshole makes you no better than these guys swinging off my chandelier and dropping banana peels on my floors right now.

4. I’ve stood by Matt’s remarks in my comments.

I’m not sure where you got the impression that I was delinking you, but I happen to enjoy your topics and your insight, as you’ve been around the block. Whether you wish to write off a slew of us over one topic gone awry… well, that’s your decision, and I’ll respect that.

Maybe it’s the heat. I know I’ve really been edgy the past couple of weeks.

Don’t get up. I know the way out…

A few brief notes.

Posted on Thursday July 10, 2003Saturday June 4, 2011 by Eric Brooks

Vote for Tammie! fun-loving Tammie would like all of us to take a minute and vote for her on Funjunkie. She has two entries, but the very last one on the bottom stands a better chance of winning. (not work safe). Come on, it only takes a few seconds to vote!
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Some light reading on a Sunday morning

Posted on Sunday July 6, 2003Saturday June 4, 2011 by Eric Brooks

End the Liberal Voluntary Extinction Movement:

“I have a degree in philosophy, so I get increasingly tired of some self-consciously Liberal snot-wad who has memorized a list of logical fallacies lecturing me about going ad hominem. Sorry, but in politics the fact that someone is a scumbag isn’t ad hominem, it’s relevant. That’s not to say that their claim that, say, Madison is the capital of Wisconsin is untrue because they are a proven lying and dishonest scumbag. However, when they claim an abstract such as their HAVING the moral authority to lead this nation, the fact that they are a lying and dishonest scumbag counts.Conservatives have one thing going for them: Conviction. This is not to say they are in the right, but that they have the drive and attention to detail of the organized serial rapist. As wrong as it may be, they are sadists dedicated to their craft.”

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Blast FROM the past

Posted on Saturday July 5, 2003Saturday June 4, 2011 by Eric Brooks

Wow… how cool is this?

While searching for, *ahem*, me, on the web (oh shut up! You do it too, ok?), I stumbled on someone who saved “Casualties of the Browser Wars“… which I wrote in 1999 for the now-defunct Internet Day news site.

I also scored a lot of design gigs over that article too. And, Oh… the death threats I got FROM Netscape fan(atic)s all over the world was awesome. They were coming in for weeks!!! :0)
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Vacation

Posted on Thursday June 26, 2003Saturday June 4, 2011 by Eric Brooks

(No not “hiatus”. The old crew knows what “hiatus” means. This is a good thing we’re talking about here.)

As of 5:01PM EST… I have officially gone on vacation.

Unless you count occasional bouts of unemployment, and the times I’ve been locked up and/or institutionalized… this is my first REAL vacation FROM work since 1988.

I love you all, but the web is the LAST place I want to spend my time.

If you lived in a resort community with two pools, a golf course, recreational staff and a nightly Hawaiian show… well, you would feel the same way too.

I’ll probably be hanging around behind the scenes tweaking things, and catching up on other projects. The kiddies are already waaaay ahead of me in the sunburn department, and I feel I need to catch up with them.

Maybe I’ll watch some TV too…
Watching Fox News is like watching an electronic adolescent that has appointed itself the strident, belligerent defender of the Bush administration and its foreign policy.
…who knows I may come back as one of those moronic warblogging nitwits? (Banner shamelessly swiped FROM Beastie.)

There’s plenty of coke in the fridge, and some great sites to surf on my links page.

And go give Chey and Todd-n-Robyn some love, k?

I’m outta here…

So long, suckers,
-e-

// Updated 10:48 PM: Comical Ali is back. Unconfirmed rumors say he’ll be replacing Letterman this summer. (via Fancy Robot)

Ding Dong, the bigot’s dead!* Strom Thurmond dead at 100. (via me and AP)

I’m off to watch Stripperella. Don’t let me catch none of you wimmen watching the network-not-allowed-to-be-called-SpikeTV, the ONLY network for men™!!!

(You know, it’s only a cartoon version of her movie Barb Wire… what, were they afraid of getting sued by Jane Fonda for naming it “Barbarella” next?)

* // UPDATE 6/28: Probably the smartest thing I’ve read all weekend:

“He was a stupid old man. Let him be. And if you do rejoice, don’t complain about people thanking Jesus for Paul Wellstone’s aircraft maintenance.”
–Reverend Mykeru –

Considering we met as we were both appalled at the fiendish glee that some people shared over a girl being ripped in half by a bulldozer, this is some very sage advice. I think it’s time I started thinking before pressing “submit” on a kneejerk reaction.

(Of course the tickets for my OWN funeral are still selling like hotcakes among all my hataz. Hey, what are ya gonna do?)

Hoo boy… I’ve done it now!

Posted on Tuesday June 24, 2003Saturday June 4, 2011 by Eric Brooks

Author/Blogger Paul Bauch paid me a visit (he’s got this cool tracking script), and gave me a piece of his mind in my comments.
Just kidding there. He was a perfect gentleman, and wanted to clarify that his book about blogging is more of a technical/informational nature, and the only rule is to have fun. He has several books on Amazon, and I would encourage you to buy them all.Nay! Buy SEVERAL copies! And I’m not saying that because I fear Matt and the MetaFilter Mob™, or getting beaten up and crying like a bitch, or nothin’ like that.
The Whacky Iraqi – Awards the “Finger of the week” to… (drumroll)

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A (brief) moment of sanity

Posted on Friday June 20, 2003Saturday June 4, 2011 by Eric Brooks

One of the cool things about terrorizing the web with a meme, is that you find yourself flooded with visitors FROM Blogdex and DayPop. As I continue to relish in all my smug jerkiness… I read a few other things on the front pages.

Most notably was Glenn Reynolds’ “The Good, The Bad, and the Blogly“. Which was, as he states on the page, a response to the sniping about Dave Winer’s (*takes a moment to kneel and genuflect*) “What makes a weblog a weblog?“.

Add that with all the furor of Rebecca Blood’s, and Paul, Meg, and Matt’s books on blogging, and I have to ask a simple, itty, bitty question…
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International Heckling Day

Posted on Thursday June 19, 2003Saturday June 4, 2011 by Eric Brooks

Bozilla The Clown
Yes. “HECKLING DAY” is finally here, kiddies! Nothing spreads lots of cheer, readership and lotsa hits like a good meme. Here is your chance to hit comments all over CyberTown and cause chaos and mayhem wherever you go… and drive your hit counters through the roof.

What is heckling day?
What, are you stupid or something? What part of “Heckling” + “Day” don’t you understand?
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I joined the looney bin… happy now?

Posted on Monday June 16, 2003Saturday June 4, 2011 by Eric Brooks

Reverend Mykeru has been talking about this place for a while.

I figure any place that covers topics about… uhm, well… let’s just call it “a boy and his gator, ok?” (I wouldn’t click that link at work, if I were you. BTW, why aren’t you doing your work?), and a place where Andy and Mykeru can amuse us with their hilarious on-going feud without fear of comments altered to read about “their pee-pees”…

…sounds like a fun place to me!
So I joined Mike Malloy’s “Truthseeker’s Forum”.
(I linked directly to the “Politics free-for-all”, that’s where the fun is.)

Bloggers, and their selfishness and stupidity, are really beginning to bore me these days. I’d like some meat with my topics now… thankyouverymuch.

EricBrooks.Com® – If I disowned a friend, simply for disagreeing with me on a point or two, I’d be one lonely dude right now.

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