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Old posts here from 1998 – 2003. Frankly, I’m too lazy to sort them, and I don’t think anyone cares, really.
I’m writing to you from Maspeth Queens, at my In-Laws (you’re all invited to stop by for coffee & cake, btw.).
Just had to prove that, while Blogger may still be experiencing technical difficulties…
My system, via a remote CGI script, is still going strong.
Eat yer heart out Ev!
Well the old Bushwick gang is resting easy, as an email just came through to all of us that Elias is alive & well in Florida!
The past nerve-wracking 30-something hours, consisting of us making calls to the morgue, The Daily News, police-friends pulling strings, and tons of comforting emails (one of whom included Patti )… It all finally came to an end as someone finally got in touch with him tonight… He’s touched to find out that we all still love him after all these years.
Heh heh… he’s "touched"…
I’m gonna fuckin’ kill him myself! :0)
I thank each and every one of you for your concern, and I apologize for returning such a small minority of email. But I do appreciate your thoughts, prayers and words of hope and comfort. Of course, I offer my heartfelt condolences to the other Diaz family for their loss….having shared it for a brief while.
We’re off to Florida to kick his ass now. See you in a few days.:0)
We love ya man… don’t ever do that to us again!
-e-
Yeah, yeah yeah… you’re probably as excited about my referral logs as I get while watching paint dry… or better yet hearing about *your* stupid logs. But I’ll share anyway…
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But what will I be best known for? “Scooby Doo Porn”… what else?
Not for having The Grinch in my Thanksgiving Card Shop since last year… am I ahead of my time, or what?
I sent you a Thanksgiving card, by the way…. have a good one!
Well, that was 12 innings of nail-biting fun! After much deliberation,I have decided to root for The Mets. Why? Because I have been to Shea Stadium more times than I can count, I always find myself rooting for the underdog, and the Yankees have already won 3 consecutive World Series games… give me one hell of a series, but uh, it’s somebody else’s turn, ok?
And the cigarette dumped in my iced tea when the Yankees took the lead has NOTHING to do with it! I wanna make that clear. :0)
Wow… it’s pretty amazing. Now that the kids are into The Facts Of Life on Nick At Nite, Ashley dug this out of one of my old photo albums, running around the house screaming
“Daddy dated Blair!!!! Daddy dated Blair!!!“.
Wow… memories of when Lisa Whelchel
visited “tha hood” in 1983. She was close friends with the pastor, Bill Wilson. That was her second visit to Metro Assembly of God in Brooklyn (I first got to meet her in 1980).She was a total sweetheart & really down to earth. I was running the house band there for the outreach programs. And well, you know how I feel about that place….
Aaaanyway….
Well, I can’t let Ashley down and think otherwise, especially as she’s telling all her friends at school Monday that her daddy dated “Blair Warner” and offering the pictures as proof; but the fact is, we had a couple of conversations that weekend, got this picture together, and that was about it. Sure I can lie to you too… I mean, how can you prove otherwise?
Besides, I had the hots for Jo at the time (Nancy McKeon, not The Webmistress). :0)
The only thing that remain is: What the hell kind of face am I making in this picture???? JEEZ, what I dork I am!
Weekend Surfing Picks….In honor of Lisa, the theme will be “re-runs”. These are sites I’ve picked previously, but you probably missed them before WHUZZUP! officially became a weblog, and extremely mega-popular with over seven (count ’em SEVEN!) hits per day! (besides, I’m lazy this weekend!) :0)
Elias Diaz has been our good friend since we were all teens. We don’t understand why he would be back in Bushwick, instead of home, with his three young children in Florida. The fact is, we’re not even sure if it’s him.
Also in the Daily News Article:
“Police also said they had received calls from Diaz’s concerned relatives in Florida.”
And that line makes us fear the worst… his emails were returned “undeliverable” today.
Like Zeldman, I want closure. Like Patti, I want to explode in rage at this senseless murder of my friend. If anyone reading this is from Bushwick, or knows anything about this,
please get in touch with me!!!
Should our worst fears be realized, we’re planning a giant cyber-sendoff.
If not, someone’s getting their ass whupped, when we all fly to Florida, for making us worry like this…. Stay tuned.
Jeff Clark, recovering from eye surgery, asks some people the musical question:
“What is the primary motivation for the production of your web content?
Put another way, why do you do what you do?”
So far three pages of really talented people tell us what motivates them. From what I understand, this will be an ongoing series where he’ll ask questions. Sorta like a “Slambook”… Kewl!
“Erox Graphics?” “Nooo… Erox Graphix”
“Erox Grafix ????” “Noooo…. Erox Graphix”
Hey, I kept the name long enough to run a copycat site out of business. Mission Accomplished.
SUBWAY SERIES!
I have waited my whole life for this!!!!!
Silly you… the war wont be in the stadium… it’ll be at the Tribe Called Brooks household, as Carole (from Queens) cheers on the Mets as Moi (from Brooklyn) cheers on the Yankees….
LET THE WAR BEGIN!!!!!!! (And hope the series is great too!)
….for a major announcement in less than an hour!
And no, I’m not The AntiChrist, thanks for asking. (via KareBlog)
We’ll return to our regularly scheduled program next week!
I’ll say it again….
After being sucked up into this whole, bloggy-hunka-linky-luv/blog-wars junk, I’ve gotten back to doing what I do best: Taking the nightmare (referred hereafter as “My Life”), all the negative energy thrown at me, and turning it into something positive (referred hereafter as “Eric Brooks.Com”).
See, last week’s chain of events was a real-eye opener to me: Blah blah blah blah blah; an “Avenging Weenie”; blah blah blah blah; Kare is a cutie (and helped me see the light); and constant reminders from folks who have followed this site from the beginning, and don’t understand what the hell is going on lately.
So now I’m thinking: “If someone were considering anyone of us for a web design gig, and read this stuff… what the hellheck would they be thinking about our professionality?”
If I see see something I like, and consider it noteworthy… I’ll be there to praise it. If you were kind enough to link to me, I will reciprocate. Flame me, and I will ignore your petty little ass (no promises on that one, though). :0)
Faith, I love ya to death… but you drive me insane sometimes.
Now to the rest of you: How long is my tongue supposed to stay yellow from that “Asbestos-licking” incident?
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