WHUZZUP!

Something About Faith…

Posted on Friday July 21, 2000Thursday June 2, 2011 by Eric Brooks

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)

Eric Brooks

What a friggin’ day!

Posted on Thursday July 20, 2000Thursday June 2, 2011 by Eric Brooks

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 Giglio - Click on image for a larger view. 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)

Eric Brooks

Weekend Surf Picks

Posted on Saturday July 15, 2000Thursday June 2, 2011 by Eric Brooks

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.

Eric Brooks

Bushwick Days…Part One

Posted on Friday July 14, 2000Thursday June 2, 2011 by Eric Brooks

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)

Eric Brooks

Cursors and Glenn and Graham… oh my!

Posted on Wednesday July 12, 2000Thursday June 2, 2011 by Eric Brooks

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)

Eric Brooks

Greetings from your friendly neighborhood stalker. :0)

Posted on Sunday July 9, 2000Thursday June 2, 2011 by Eric Brooks

HAHAHAHA!!! I needed a good laugh tonight, and I got one. Someone drops some anonymous crap at my guestbook . One of my homies let me know why sweet lovable me, who just endured the week from hell (along my family) is getting this verbal abuse.

Check out Jenett’s latest antics
(I originally wasn’t going to post anything… but this stuff keeps backfiring on him. It’s beginning to look like a “Wile E.Coyote/Road Runner Cartoon.. hee hee!!!!)

He’s posting private emails I sent him on the internet from last year.
Siccing brainwashed dogs over here, attacking me, without even asking my side of the story….
And he’s calling ME a stalker and I’M slandering HIM…. HAHAHAHA!!!!

Sorry, you ain’t my type. I’m flattered though

Sure he’s got the right to say what he wants on his site…(Personally, I think posting private Emails was pretty low, as well as calling me a stalker… when it ain’t me who looks obsessed here).

….But so can I.
And apparently I do it so much better. :0)
* Note: Half the crap he posted was from the summer of 1999.

* I’ve been over it for quite a while. This is all about HIM trying to get attention and have his ego stroked.
* He’s got the right to reject people, and I have the right to be furious about being rejected and express my feelings on the matter here in MY SITE.
* I also reserve the right to make fun of anyone I want
(especially when I know I hit a nerve)…END OF STORY!

Eric Brooks

Back and ready to kick some @$$!!!

Posted on Friday July 7, 2000Thursday June 2, 2011 by Eric Brooks

Mötley Crüe’s Flash Video – “Hell On High Heels” is now a cartoon video… made by the geniuses at Camp Chaos

A Girls Own Yearbook – Kim is hysterical! A lot of insights into her life & thoughts.

Sugar & Brine – Erica is the talented young lady who designed WalkingBitch’s White Trash Diner. I meant to give her a plug for a while… I really did. Last time I was there it had this cutesy “Retro” look. This week it has this dark, gothic theme going on, featuring Edward Gorey artwork… either way, she’s too cool.

Dark And Nightshade’s Pandemonium Productions – Pete Milan… any friend of Matt Rossi and The Webmistress is clearly a friend of mine. Matt & Pete team up to write some great stories, Buffy/Xander stories, a great weblog… {when I saw WHUZZUP! there with “You wanna get nuts?? Come on, let’s get nuts!”… I knew right then and there we’re gonna be buds!}… But best of all a pic of this hot looking redheadthat’s a link, so the cursor becomes a pointer and I find myself sticking my finger in her belly button everytime I’m there (I probably shouldn’t have written this.)… does this guy know what we like, or what???

Voices of Unreason – Mark Morgan put together an incredible collective of great stories from various writers…. SUBMISSIONS WANTED!

Steve Case’s Home Page – AOL/Time Warner mogul’s home on the web. Because I felt we all need a good laugh right about now. :0)

Eric Brooks

Put Out WHUZZUPDATE

Posted on Wednesday July 5, 2000Thursday June 2, 2011 by Eric Brooks

My official Newsletter….
NOW I’m officially on Hiatus.

Oh yeah…. Happy Birthday Ashley

Now… I’m outta here!

Eric Brooks

On Hiatus….

Posted on Monday July 3, 2000Thursday June 2, 2011 by Eric Brooks

Until further notice.
In the meantime… you can surf over to Website #35: Save-A-Dog. Or the Freshly redesigned Meyer Modular Homes, Reis Homes and Gresser Realty sites.

My contract ended with them July first… so it’s “Sayonara” to them as well as all my other cheapska freelance clients… I have a full time job ya know… I’m off the market (Unless, of course the improbable happens… and someone actually wants to pay real money for a website.) Especially since it cost a fortune finishing these jobs using my wife’s AOL account (all calls are long distance).

-e-

Eric Brooks

Life beyond the Internet….

Posted on Friday June 30, 2000 by Eric Brooks

Make no mistake. I’m not that vain to think anyone has noticed my absence on the web lately. Unless you send email to my home ISP or my POP3 eroxgraphix.com address {and hear from the Mailer Daemon}, you probably don’t even know I have no internet service at this time. It’s a blessing in disguise. My family needs me as we’re riding through the scariest week of our lives. I’d be offline anyway, because I have to keep my priorities straight here.

Again, for those sharing nothing more than morbid curiosity… I can’t talk about it. There’s no need for my friends and family to know and freak out over a chain of events, and share my frustration and helplessness… just for sheer fucking entertainment value. I’ll know what I’m talking about when I look back and read this entry in the archives (assuming it makes it) months from now….

This is the week we feared all these months. I’m writing this on June 29th, the WORST day of the WORST week of our lives.. in what feels like the calm before the storm.

You’d never know it, but I’m scared to death right now. Haven’t eaten in two days; barely slept last night; dull chest pains; quease and the shakes when no one is looking; and that same coppery taste in my mouth that soldiers get as they’re about to go to war….. For the sake of our children, Carole & I are staying brave and positive. She cries hysterically, after the kids are sound asleep, every night.

All hell is about to break loose in our world….

I believe God has heard all of my prayers. But we have an agreement that I don’t treat him like "Santa Claus", and lets me fight my own battles..MY WAY…and (hopefully) overlooks my breaking of a few commandments as I do it. Though I’d kind of appreciate a miracle at this point, He knows I’m too proud to ask…..and I still believe in Ben Franklin’s adage: "God helps those who help themselves."

I’m not jotting this down for anyone but me. I want this on the page for me to look back one day and remember how the Tribe called Brooks all worked as a team to fight the odds. Though everything fell apart in the 11th hour; and as grim as it looks…I know we’re gonna beat it. We’re gonna beat it all. If you hear from me again, it’s true. If not… then I guess we didn’t make it. Who cares? These are just words on a screen to a bored surfer doing their nightly rounds on the weblog circuit….

I predict I will come out of this very bitter and angry at society. Colder and crueler than you can possibly imagine… but you’ll all never know, as I have kept a "happy face" on all this time right? I see no reason to change that. I still love you guys no matter what.

I can’t even be angry with them. They’re nice people with families themselves…just doing their jobs…. following orders.

There is life beyond the Internet, you know. It’s called "REAL life." There are no "Undo" or "Reboot" options here.

New List….(via Ken Price)

Connect