I swapped strips with Bob Roberds for the April Fools swap in 2000. Below is my version of his strip Soap On A Rope. UPDATE MARCH 2013: Not sure what happened to Bob’s version of Super Jr as that strip and its archives are long scattered from site overhauls. I noticed that Bob has stopped updating Soap On A Rope as of 2009 — I haven’t been in touch so I’m not sure what he’s up to these days.
Today is the launch of the webcomics collective Alternative Brand Studio or ALTBRAND for shorties:
Party on! Kevin Smith story about his phone call with Prince.
I’m not going to argue with Wikipedia — On December 5, D.C. United defeated Vasco da Gama 2–1 on aggregate to win the Interamerican Cup (one of the greatest triumphs in the history of U.S. club soccer).
A lot of stuff happened in 1997. But let’s remember it’s the year humanity put a robot on Mars.
On the about page for the blog I describe my slash and burn strategy to websites (since websites existed). My first web “presence” was a GEOCITIES site where the HTML was lovingly handcrafted and CSS was a foreign language I’d yet to mangle. We spoke TABLES back then and we sounded pretty good for the times. I think I tried out the various “free” web-hosting options during the late middle part of the 1990s including Tripod where I think a one Jon “Goats” Rosenberg spent some time. All of that was swept away in the debris of the Web 1.0 …
Okay, some thoughts back on 1995… I got my first real job after graduating from law school; I moved from one coast to the other; I found an apartment and made new friends. All a bit of catching up on my otherwise delayed embrace of adulthood I guess. I had an email address at this point — it may have been moving that precipitating me switching from AOL to a ISP account and getting a non-AOL address. It may have been IBM.net, I’m not 100 percent sure anymore. (Remember when there were like 10,000 ISPs to choose from?). I was a …
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