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Lotsa Fonts! CD

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Lotsa Fonts!

You know you want one.

While I’m sure Ren and Alwin would have just been happy with me burning a plain disk and mailing it out… but you know me. I have to make a big production out of everything. (It’s going out today, guys. I swear!) :0)

Lotsa Fonts! will be available toward the end of this month to commemorate this site’s 5th anniversary on August 23rd. It will be a members-only deal, and it’ll only cost as much as shipping & materials (I have no intention of making money off of someone else’s hard work).

Over 2,000 free and shareware true type fonts for just a couple of bucks, right there on your desk.

Think about it.
More details in our next newsletter in about a week.

Still working my widdle fingers to the bone on the Pennsylvania Music Awards site.

Johnny has a tentative date for the SHOW next year at the Mountain Laurel Center for the Performing Arts.

… assuming we survive any potential terrorist attacks the grand opening next Saturday as Tom Ridge and Dick Cheney are expected in my neck of the woods (It *IS* named the “Tom Ridge Pavilion”, after all…silly.). Security measures have been… to say the least… scary.

EricBrooks.Com® – Where the Secret Service guys send me candy and flowers with every inner-cavity search.

Coming Soon…

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So how’s the Pennsylvania Music Awards site coming along?

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Funny you should ask…
I’ve been working on the layout in Photoshop for the past three days. I was up until 4:30 this morning hoping to finish the mock-up, as Johnny Kai has a meeting with a grant writer on Thursday.

I tell you, some of us old-skewl designers should CHECK out template sites like Template Monster or Boxed Art for inspiration and new techniques. It’s just like the music biz, baby… you have to keep up with the latest styles, or you can become yesterday’s news really fast!
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Blast FROM the past

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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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Mr. McGhee, don’t make me angry…

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I guess in light of tonight being the premiere of “The Hulk“, and inspired by many posts by pops on the subject…

Perhaps I should shamelessly re-plug my 3D flash movie:

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The First Episode of The Super Dudes – “Incredible, Ain’t it?”
NOW PLAYING ON NEWGROUNDS.COM

Maybe with a big enough pep talk, I’ll get around to making the second installment, where Captain America talks to kids in an inner-city school about drugs?

No. Nothing is sacred to me. Why do you ask?

HelpKat.Com

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Now someone actually *WORTH* talking about is Kat FROM My Single Mom Life. (found via Maria)

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“This is not your typical cyber beggar site as I actually need real help. I’m not asking anyone to pay off my debt or buy me new boobs or a diamond engagement ring. I am asking for help while I get the necessary treatments and possible surgery for my back.”

A good friend has set up a site for her called HelpKat.Com.

She suffers FROM scoliosis. All she’s simply asking for is help FROM the community to keep her utilities and other bills afloat as she undergoes surgery on her spine (she’s in a lot of pain). She works as a waitress. She’s on her feet all day. She’s always carrying stuff. She’s always bending. This will be impossible for a while after the surgery.

She’s asking for our help. She’s a sweetheart and deserves our help. I’ve also known Kat long enough to know she’s a very proud single mom who’d rather continue to suffer than take a handout FROM strangers. So obviously her situation has gotten *very serious* for this site to have been made.

Money’s tight for a lot of people. I know that. But $5 here and there FROM a LOT of people can really add up, and make a big difference fast. Can you at least spread the word?

The Super Dudes

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The First Episode of The Super Dudes – “Incredible, Ain’t it?”
NOW PLAYING ON NEWGROUNDS.COM

Let’s face it. If you’re willing to run around town in tights, have incredible powers that you use only for good deeds, with no insurance or financial compensation, rather than knock off a bank or go on a killing spree:

1) You really need to get laid.
b) You’re out of your mind.

Let’s take the mythos of our beloved superheroes a step further and make them more real. The good and the bad. Here’s what I’ve come up with:
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Tina’s movin’ on up…

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Anyone looking for The Other Cheek can find Tina at her new fancy URL: www.othercheek.net… lookin’ good, sis! 🙂

I just finished the last two panels of “The Super Dudes” (no, I didn’t forget… just no time with all this War Coverage I’m doing.)

God Bless the troops
I learned something new in the newspaper biz lately. You would think something monumental like a war would be good for us, right?

Wrong.
While circulation goes up, advertisers pull their ads faster than you can say “Saddam Sucks”. Within hours before the deadline for Saddam to go INTO exile, advertisers were calling in to pull their ads. Customers see advertisers as ghouls at times like these, trying to cash in on a tragedy. (They get angry letters like “How dare you sell cars/cell phones/houses while people are dying???” )

Why do you think September 11th coverage went commercial-free after a while? Public service FROM the tv stations, or all the advertisers pulled their ads? You tell me.
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Aloha, dudes!

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Sick of awards yet? Hope not…

First off. This is VERY IMPORTANT to me:
My good friend Johnny Kai, who does the entertainment here… is back home in Hawaii. He’s asking me to pull as many people over to the Hawaiian Music Awards & spread the word… and vote.

Don’t know who any of these artists nominated are? No problem.
LinkMeister, Ali, Jen, James, Loungebunny can help.
They all live/lived in Hawaii and or saw “Blue Hawaii” on Channel five once.

E-Mail them, IM them, call them day or night.
(I’ll post their phone numbers later… I’m sure calling “collect” is ok too*.).

Or do what I’ll do and just vote for anybody.
Cheating? No, of course that’s not cheating. Cheating is when we all SELECT the same person and make them win, when someone else should have.

I like to think of this as “creative voting.” :0) **

There’s also a message board if you have questions..

Just please. A large turnout would really be a good thing.
Or at least spread the word, can you????

http://www.hawaiimusicawards.com

How often to I ask anything here for myself… pretty please?
Mahalo!!!!

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