WHUZZUP!

• Fight Tha Power! – Chuck D -vs- Lars Ulrich tonite about Napster. You KNOW, who “Tha Boy from Bushwick” is rooting for…. Chuck D is a college graduate & a savvy business man. It’s gonna be a SLAUGHTER! heh heh….Peep Chuck’s Public Enemy and Bring in the Noise websites… they’re PHAT y’all!* For all of “Selloutica’s” Former fans…
• Halcyon! – Took the Webby for best personal site! It’s like we ALL won a webby! YOU ROCK BRO! I’m now inspired to wipe out everything on my site and just post pics of my flabby, nekkid ass all over. Just the horror and causing people to lose their lunch will make me a shoe-in for next year’s Webbys.
• The Weblogs Strike Back – Not that I was expecting the weblog community to greet me with open arms. ironically, they agreed with most of it… and then accused me of “holding back” like I did with most of the “blogs” I trashed.Well, it was never my intention to make enemies with this…. it was a SPOOF, a SATIRE! However the page has gone through some re-writes, and expect a sequel… you little marys asked for it, now…..

My son turns 3 today. He’d LOVE a Batman e-Card if you can find one…

Baylink ROCKS, and I hereby link to you too buddy! Another weblog actually capable of independent thought. BTW, I have a moustache…it’s too light to pick up in the pic above…. :0)

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A lot of resentment going on at MetaFilter toward the so-called “Web Celebs” out there… not that I think the “superstars” are picking up on it….but I can feel it in some of the words they say when they post. We ALL bust our asses to make websites (that includes some elderly woman pouring out her life stories on Geocities). We all want recognition. Hell, we all deserve it.

My first rant/commentary since the December 1999 etoy/etoys saga:

“Shut The F*ck Up!!! (Death to the weblog)” awaiting your nasty emails at SoapBox.

The Webmistress can take a joke. Zeldman can take a joke. Hell, I was portrayed as a
Jack Nicholson/Bi-polar type for this today…so I can take a joke. (uh…I think JZ was kidding…)

Can YOU take a deep look inside and laugh?

BTW… WHUZZUPDATE, is NOT a weblog. Don’t make me try to explain this and expose my homophobic inner-child, okay? I’m making enough enemies aaaaaall by myself!

Maybe I’m a “closet fan” of the weblog…. who knows?

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Two words: PLAYED OUT
Sean, Chris & Tom, it’s been a blast being a mirror site for the “Elian_true” parody for a week… but, well. Let’s face it; as funny as it was (the first 47 times I saw it)… this sucker has died of overexposure!

You won a bittersweet victory against a tyrannical legal department. I had 25 million hits to my site this week (well, I can’t exactly prove that, since my counter is set to crash at 24.9 million…just take my word for it ok?)

I look forward to this being achived at Newgrounds and Sixsite one day as an “internet classic”…but for now? GROAN!

For the 5 of you out there, who hasn’t seen it… you can click here.

That’s Carole’s parents, my in-laws, in case you didn’t know. Yeah we were supposed to be in NYC this weekend to celebrate this with them, but at this moment we have car(s) trouble & couldn’t make it….

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<SIGH> Well, there’s a ton of problems goin’ on with the Tribe called Brooks lately…but unfortunately I am not at liberty to print this stuff. (Besides you all like seem to like the “Happy-go-lucky/Asshole” persona that you see on this page on a regular basis…)

They also don’t know that I say the word “Fuck” a lot on this page, so I hope they don’t scroll up or down. :0)

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Happy Birthday Tom Fulp!

Newgrounds.Com creator is celebrating his birthday today…judging by this picture, I’m guessing he turns…uh 14? Nah that can’t be! He’s in college and he & his buds are getting plastered somewhere in Philly… WHATEVER…

The Anachronist interviews Tom in The Kazm today. Pretty Cool-lookin’ site there!

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Speaking of cool sites… Check out Fuzzbox Twin.
Reminds me a lot of Jerry Barksdale’s band ABOMINANT.
Metal has GOT to make a comeback…and FAST!

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According to Salon, AP is backing off of all the Elian Movie sites– BULLSHIT!
The Geocities page where I have “Elian_true.swf” was shut down today due to “Violations of Terms of Service“. I WAS going to stop running the movie tomorrow… but now it’s the principle of it…. PECKERWOODS!

Fuckin’ Tom! Can’t leave him alone for five minutes, and he gets in trouble! The web is all abuzz again over legal eagles busting the little guys chops….Tom Fulp’s NewGrounds.Com and Playboy.Com designer, Sean Bonner, have both been hit with “Cease & Desist” letters from the Associated Press … Over that silly “Elian Wassap?” movie….

Well… once again let’s FUCK with the people that make the web… you’d think they all learned from the e-toys saga.

Now we’re ALL playing the movie. It’s not only running here, but on Ratbastard.org , Playboy.Com, and at least 20 other sites as of today….and I’m sure the list will grow…

Tom Fulp of NewGrounds, happens to be a good friend of mine (not that he’s a stranger to controversy…”Assassin” has been blamed for everything from Columbine High School to the ’29 Stock Market Crash)… he was the creator of the Furby Screensaver in my Free Stuff section… and he’s always there for me when I’m stuck with a shockwave question. So bring on the “Cease & Desists”… we’re ALL ready!

This parody is clearly covered by the “Fair Use Act“, and it’s another case of lawyers going after people who can’t afford to call their bluff….Personally, I think Tom explained it best on his site….

Wanna see the movie again?

I have been craving a Budweiser ever since that movie came out!

Mortgage Centers- Finally finished Gresser Realty’s Mortgage Center. Now you can calculate your finances eight ways to Sunday with great CGI scripts by the phenomenal Hugh Chou (two years ago I got them by sending a $20.00 donation to “Ronald McDonald House” that’s all he wants.)

Another extra-special thanks to Dave & Sarah Torok whose photo in the Poconos from 1994 graces it’s first page. Dave is a programmer/developer with some cool stuff on his site…. I just saw on his site that he sold his place in Upstate New York to move to Philly.

There’s no connection between their moving here and my contacting him for permission to use the picture… HELL, I’M TRYING TO GET OUT OF HERE!!!!!

Yes, you heard it here folks. The Tribe Called Brooks is unhappy in Blakeslee, PA and are making plans of an exodus sometime within the next year or so….

HAVE A GOOD ONE! Whether you celebrate Easter or Passover there’s cards waiting for you at the Card Shop from the Easter Bunny/Passover Rabbit…..

Also sent out the latest WHUZZUPDATE. Put out a shocking confession & gave them a direct link to the new “Peanuts” font. People not subscribed have to go searching for it at the Font site…. SORRY!