- Jayde Skies – How absolutely ironic that the site that inspired me to find a 3-D program liked my “CyberPal” doll so much. (Hi Jayde!).If anyone’s interested in Free Stuff: I used Anim8or, a free 3D/Animation program to make it.
- Offering the peace pipe to Graham (once again)… I just got off the phone with Mattel, and the “Grudnuk” doll is coming out in the next series (along with the “Mr. Jenkins” and the Matt Rossi blow-up” dolls.)…HAPPY NOW???
- With Matt gone, The Webmistress has been given the burdenous tasks of keeping me entertained and out of trouble. She delivers with her hysterical new version of “Footprints In The Sand“.Jeez, first Zeldman rips her ideas and content off… now K10K???? Take it as a compliment, sweetie!
Category: Old Stuff
Old posts here from 1998 – 2003. Frankly, I’m too lazy to sort them, and I don’t think anyone cares, really.
Buy this… buy that…
Not that I think there’s anything wrong with it… but everyone’s selling T-Shirts & mugs related to their sites. The only reason I’m holding out (’cause we all know I’m more than happy to turn a quick buck!). Press puts out. I have a conscience, and don’t want to sell you crap either. How are their shirts anyway?
In the meantime, I feel a parody coming on….
Order Today!!!!
Weekend Surf Picks
- Designer Minds – If someone had told me, two years ago, an upcoming talented designer was going to interview me along with several of my design heroes (Jeffrey Zeldman, Halcyon, Lance Arthur), I would have said: “What the hell are you on?” and “Do you have any left????”…. well guess what? Jeffrey “Skizz” Musante made it happen. I love this guy! (I thought his sister’s was the best interview though.) What really stuck me most of all in this piece, was the different perceptions we all have of “God”…….speaking of The Almighty….
- Bird Manna – “This is the amazing autobiography of a young man who believes he is in contact with space aliens, that he was abducted and taken to another planet for therapy, that the aliens are God’s emissaries, and that God has charged him with telling the world…” (quoted from the site). It’s a very interesting site. And I got the impression from CyberPal, Mark Frey, that he really, really, really wanted his site plugged here. You got it, buddy! Keep in mind folks (especially you close-minded religious types), we don’t have all the answers, now do we?
- Byun-O-Matic – OMG!!!! I was laughing hysterically with every page… especially Bryan’s mock-up corporate section…. it will brighten your day (and I *SO* needed it this evening).
And a big WHUZZUP to…
- s t r a n d e d – It only took three weeks to find her and thank her for putting in a plug for my Font Site. Really nice design work there, Xaymara!
- nothing online > realworld – I had apparently corrupted poor Matthew’s character last week, from my “Top 10 Signs Your Child May Be Too Old For Breastfeeding“. Well, my young Canadian friend, just know that I am essentially an Evil, malevolent being in my realm… my friends don’t call me “The Bastard” or “gOdOfMiScHiEf” for nothing. :0)
After this brief message….
Wheeeeee…. after having a four day vacation, earlier this week from the net, I may do it again…. I’ll probably build up my internet broadcasting empire(like I always dreamed) with a brand-spankin’ new E-TV – All Eric All The Time, more detailed features this time (since the first and only broadcast was in March).
What’s that?
HEY, FUCK YOU!!!!
Remind me again how much you jerk-offs are paying me to keep you fucking entertained??!?!
That’s it… all of you, OFF MY SITE….NOW!!!!!! You’re not allowed back here for THREE FUCKING MONTHS!!!!!
SEE YA!!!!!!
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Wait… not you! I was talking to them…. we’re still cool, right?
Alright!!!! Here’s what’s going on….
- Got the new Search Engine fixed. After almost 48 straight hours…. I figured out the problem… I have more crap on this site than this thing could index!!!! So I don’t have WHUZZUP! orEG2 Fonts indexed in it. Chances are, they’ll both get separate search engines.
- WHUZZUPDATE – Coming out Sunday, to commemorate my upcoming “mid-life crisis” (scheduled 31 days from today) FREE GIVEAWAYS from a hidden location!!!! (psst… I suggest you subscribe, ASAP!)
Something About Faith…
Yes Matt, add me to the list of people who consider you a DAMN FOOL for turning down Damnbaby Diva’s marriage proposal. (For those of you who missed Pete Milan’s brilliant reasoning on this; a “Damnbaby” is a woman who will walk past your average, living, breathing male, and the first words that come out of his mouth are “DAAAAAAMN, BAY-BEE!“.). Which is now triggering men to “pop out of the woodwork” (subtle Freudian/Jung pun intended) and profess their lust for Faith. Question is: What the hell did I write to give everyone the impression that I was one of them? Sure she’s witty, intelligent, probably rich and a redhead (which so happens to be the top of the female food chain)… but I made a little harmless comment about the young lady sleeping in her underwear, that’s all. Even Carole grilled me for fucking hours over that one. I’m a flirt, not a cheat…big difference! To add insult to injury, “my pal” then diverts his obvious hornbag surges towards her, and throws ME in the hot seat! How fucking immature can you get???? Did I mention Graham Freeman’s DEFINITELY got a thing for Faith? Read the back entries (if you can) on Virulent Memes. Come on Graham…how transparent can you get???? Like you really had a bone to pick with the Divas…She is kinda cute, ain’t she?Don’t be shy, Matt… you know you want her…Besides, I’m just dyyyyyying to give that “Singing/Talking Bass” to someone as a wedding gift…. :0)
What a friggin’ day!
Redesigned the site… of course, I can’t get the damn search engine to work….
My Referrer log is going nuts as Skizz debuts his latest masterpiece: “Designer Minds“… of course his server must have crashed because I haven’t had a chance to see it yet…. cool questions too. Stufff that you really have to think about… none of that “What’s your favorite color” crap. This is Skizz we’re talkin’ about… SKIZZ IS THA FUTURE, BOYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!
Faith sleeps in her undies… tee hee! She said some other stuff too, I don’t remember….
The Tribe called Brooks was in Brooklyn on Sunday for the final night of the Feast at Our Lady Of Mount Carmel. Our mission was threefold: To visit Uncle John (who is the Religious Educational Director there.) To see the Giglio (5 stories high, weighs several tons, lifted by a hundred testosterone-charged Italian men, and carried up and down the block.). And to get Steak & Mozzarella heros… (which of course were SOLD OUT).
Fuck it, I’m going to bed
(Picture of the Giglio courtesy of Doug Safranek)
Weekend Surf Picks
- Astounding Websites – Plenty of great sites to check out. My fave: Little Lea. her portfolio and presentation are awesome!!!
- Voices of Unreason will be redesigned on the fly… live on the internet Saturday. July 15th starting at 12PM (Pacific Standard Time/3PM Eastern….the rest of you FIGURE OUT YOUR OWN TIME ZONE!!!!).
Help Malki get laid!
Visit his website… with a certain amount of hits from his site to CrapTV, they’ll sponsor him to get laid. And if he hits a certain amount of hits, his classmates will sleep with him. Help the kid out willya???? I’m sure he’d do it for you!
(Via that cute, redheaded Erica chick )
New List….(via Ken Price)
Hopefully this one wont get me in as much trouble as the last one… :0)
Top 10 Signs That Your Child Is Too Old For Breastfeeding:
10. He can open your blouse by himself, with one hand.
9. While suckling at one breast, he caresses the other.
8. He has developed a bad habit of flicking his tongue.
7. He keeps slipping dollar bills in your belt.
6. He uses your milk as creamer for his coffee.
5. Your birth control pills interfere with his acne medicine.
4. After each feeding, he has a smoke.
3. He frequently invites his friends over for dinner.
2. You feel an uncontrollable urge to listen to “Dueling Banjos.”
1. Beard abrasions on areola.
Bushwick Days…Part One
Arguments are getting hot & heavy at MetaFilter. Based on a story on CNN.Com.
Adam’s kind of taking a hard-line, militant stance on this, bringing up some valid points about racism, cops & police brutality (which, yeah I can concede to a minimal point… ask Abner Louima.). But he feels it’s because this suspect was black that he was being beaten by the plice (white AND black officers, btw)… but the fact is: This suspect was a psycho, and when you do what he did (like shoot a cop for instance…) they’re gonna beat the fuck out of you even if you’re a light shade of cyan! I’d throw in my two cents, but at 55 comments and rising, chances are better people will hear me here.It wasn’t easy being a white boy, growing up in the mainly Hispanic & Black Bushwick section of Brooklyn. I had 20-some-odd years of hearing “What are you doing in MY neighborhood???” Lots of fights…won some, lost some. Had lots of good friends too. It’s everywhere you go. People are cool and people are assholes, no matter what color or religion they are.
Anyway… my point.
Around 1986 – 1987 I was followed around quite a bit by cops. Once I was thrown against a police car & searched… another time I was called over for shaking a friends hand while passing each other on Grove Street. It got to the point where I visited the 83rd Precinct and I was like “Hey guys, what’s going on here???”.
The Desk Sargeant’s answer was simple. I’m white. I don’t belong in this neighborhood. Cops saw me wandering around, and just assumed I was from Ridgewood or Maspeth coming in to buy drugs.
Oooooookay. Now I’m getting the “You don’t belong here’s” on both sides.
Did I hate them for it? No. They’re not mind readers. They’re just doing their jobs. They don’t have “Crook-O-Meters” scanning everyone that passes by. I bet they wish they did. When something looks unusual, they have to check it out. Drive on any given highway long enough, and you’ll see a Mercedes Benz with tinted windows pulled over. Could be nothing… Could be something. They could be drug dealers, or they could just be some well-meaning kids that take good care of their car. They’ll never know unless they check it out.
Sometimes apprearances and gut instincts are all they have to go on. It’s that very same thing that may cost them their lives, if they’re not careful enough.
There is the problem with racism in itself. No one seems to be able to put themselves in someone else’s place. If you were a cop, a black man, or a white man… just for a little while, then you can have a little more understanding where the other person is coming from. You would understand that people that are “different” from you are not necessarily your enemy. I guess being someone who faced this kind of stuff, it gave me a bit of understanding (and yeah, there’s a LOT more to my story that I’m leaving out.). Maybe I’ll never fully understand what black people go through, and how many more chances I got because of my pigmentation… but I do know what it’s like to be hated, simply because of the color of my skin…. even for just a little while. I’m actually grateful for that tidbit of knowledge.
A lot of friends of mine are police officers now, even one from “tha hood”. You couldn’t pay me enough to put up with the bullshit they do on a daily basis.
And on the bright side, with the cops watching my every move, I didn’t get mugged until I left Bushwick a year later…. :0)
Cursors and Glenn and Graham… oh my!
I’m proud as hell of this guy.
Alan Herrell (aka The Head Lemur) is running for the Board of Directors at ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ).
Should you vote for him because he’s always been a great friend to me, and one of my heroes???
No. That’s why I’m voting for him…>
You should vote for him because:
- He was the glue that held the historical etoy/eToys protest together
- He was the strongest supporter of May’s Million Mom March, keeping guns out of kid’s hands.
- He exposed the Evils of Double-Click’s hidden agenda.
- He continues to battle the injustices that corporations inflict on smaller websites at Domain-Issues.org.
- He’s not gonna take any crap from these corporations looking to take the web away from you and me…
- He’s not gonna let interNIC continue to “sell us down the river” everytime some fatcat corporation wants to steal your site from you…
Head On Down to Alan Herrell’s Campaign Headquarters for more information, what other issues he stands for, to make the web a better place for us.
To vote you have to sign up and become a Member-At-Large in ICANN (takes 30 seconds)
