May 4--May 10, 1998

Sheesh. A whole damn year down the drain. And what do we have to show for it?

Just the best friggin' bunch of readers we could hope for.

Thanks.

5.4.98

So here it is.

One year of pissed-offedness. One year of trying to avoid getting lame. One year of ignoring the living crap out of most of the other "e-zines" on this spidery waterworld we call Web.

We've gone from a stupid, birthday-related idea to a lumbering monolithic bureaucracy maintained by about 10 people. We've gone from a daily TV rag to cultural pepper-spray. We've gone from being maintained by an egomaniacal editor to... well... maybe things haven't really changed.

We've been featured in Entertainment Weekly, Yahoo! Internet Life, The Web Magazine and scads of other newspapers and weeklies. We were a Cool Site of the Day at www.coolsiteoftheday.com. Hotwired even noticed us, then quickly turned away. And we blushed.

We do it for fun. And we do it because, as insane as it sounds, people keep coming back. So all this (as dorky as it sounds) is dedicated to the readers who've been with us all along and to the readers who're just discovering us. Thanks for visiting, thanks for writing, thanks for cracking wise. It's fun because of you.

 

Special: AnniversaryHole!

Please, allow us to ramble for just one more minute...


The average American wants to know about your difficulties with trying on a scuba suit like we want a barium enema.


When we think of anniversaries, we think of roses, jewelry, and candlelight dinners, not "Honey, I got us a hooker. Happy anniversary!"

...compounding the problem is the fact that Rush looks uncannily like Fran Liebowitz, particularly in that scene where he snorts snuff off the back of his hand. Like Studio 54 on Funny Hat Night.


"You're mean!" (missed slap).

"Oh, yeah? Well, you've got bad hair!"


Evidently she's been playing in nightclubs for years too (hopefully with predominantly deaf audiences), and David Kelley, creator of Ally has been a long-time fan.


Beware the born-agains. These people dedicate themselves and every single conversation they have to the one topic that changed their meager lives.