{"id":158,"date":"2000-05-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-05-26T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/?p=158"},"modified":"2011-06-02T17:13:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T22:13:30","slug":"memorial-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/memorial-day-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day Weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahhh&#8230;a three-day weekend where we honor those who gave their lives so we can enjoy those barbecues, teenage girls in bikinis, and the unofficial start of summertime!<\/p>\n<p><strong>R.I.P. Rockstar<\/strong> was redesigned &#8211; My true story as a struggling musician in NYC. Bring your Kleenex, a lot of people die in this one (no cats, unfortunately). And you all wonder why I&#8217;m a crazy suicidal bastard! :0) Ironically, this went up at the same time <strong>Zeldman<\/strong> writes &#8220;Web designers aren&#8217;t Rock Stars&#8221;&#8230; HEE HEE!<\/p>\n<p>Finally finished the flash version of <strong>Jack Hammer X-treme<\/strong> &#8211; They should be happy campers.<\/p>\n<p>Sometime tonight: New listings of homes in the Poconos at <strong>Gresser Realty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong> <\/strong>I had really nasty message here for <strong>Fierce.Com<\/strong>,<strong> Joe Jennett<\/strong>,<strong> Chris Donahue<\/strong>,<strong> Glenn Davis <\/strong>and every other self-appointed judge of &#8220;what&#8217;s good and what&#8217;s garbage&#8221; on the web&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to CyberPal, <strong>Charles Santana<\/strong>, another former resident of  the <strong>Bushwick<\/strong> section of <strong>Brooklyn<\/strong>, a man who really did something his life&#8230;.I saw the error of my ways.<\/p>\n<p>Charles &amp; I didn&#8217;t get out of that hellhole of a neighborhood using our fists, guns or telling people to &#8220;step outside&#8221;&#8230;we got out of the &#8216;hood <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>using our minds and using our talent<\/strong><\/span>. 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