HOLY SHIT!!!

FOX News would like to remind visitors to NYC that there is a smoking ban in effect, except on designated street corners. When Mayor Bloomberg says "No smoking on the streets"… HE MEANS IT!!!

“In other news, pop superstar Michael Jackson again finds himself in legal trouble when authorities in Santa Barbara ORDER him fingerprinted and booked on charges of ‘extreme creepiness, even for California.’

Jackson’s attorney expresses outrage, telling a press conference that his client ‘doesn’t even HAVE fingerprints.’…”

Dave Barry’s 2003 Year in review
… end this joke of a year with a laugh, I say.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!

Added 01/01/04 - Or you can travel back to a simpler time, four years ago, when redneck survivalists were at the bottom of the Y2K food chain. Y2K Mike: The first great practical joke of the 21st Century.. An EricBrooks.Com® classic!

If you’re one of those “Charity begins at home”-types that prefer to help an American in need, well here’s your chance:

While bouncing through Michele’s comments, I stumbled onto Gary Farber and his site. This gentleman is trying to raise money to keep FROM being evicted. He’s been down on his luck, out of work, and has a matter of days to make rent. More details on his site. I thought I’d spread the word.

Jon reports The Reasons for Christmas Project is still selling, go figure! A sale FROM Italy just came through the website today.

While continuing my segways in this post… I sent your copies of the CD out today. Better late than never?

I want to wish all of my good friends all over the world a Merry Christmas, and a Happy, safe, and kickass New Year!

…of course to some of my OTHER friends, I offer the alternate version of this graphic.
(I wouldn’t click that link at work, in front of the kiddies, or grandma if I were you.)

Time to wind it down and be with the family.
God bless you all!

Oh man… another season flying by this year. It seems like only yesterday that the Christmas Season started in September… where does the time go?

I’m going to try and squeeze a newsletter out before Christmas… but no promises.

Free Hannukah and Christmas E-Cards here… I’ll probably be making them Flash next year.

Photos FROM Dec 11th’s Reasons for Christmas live show are up on their site. I have to add a new review FROM the L.A. Times and I believe we’re going to wrap it up over there for now. Plans are being made for it next year to not only raise money for Pocono Area Transitional Housing… but it will be re-packaged with a new INSERT and raise money for a Pentagon Memorial for the victims of Sept. 11th.

A few people have asked here how well the sales went. I know the goal was to raise $300,000. I have no idea how close they got, but I know some major companies kicked in FROM the community:

• East Stroudsburg Savings Association not only fronted the money for all production costs, but bought a copy for each employee and sold them at every bank branch.
• The PA SKI Association bought a copy for each member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
• Aventis Pasteur footed the bill for the live show.

For those who have been too polite to ask where the copy of Reasons for Christmas that you won back in November. Please don’t take it out on your mailman… the embarrassing truth is, I haven’t been able to mail them out yet. I’m really sorry, and your gift will be coming to you later than expected.

Which brings me to the rest of the post…
I need to take up something with someone privately, so I ask that unless you’re a jolly dude dressed in red, or one of his helpers this is the end of the line for you guys. (Which I realize is a dumb thing to say considering I’m asking for privacy on a web page… but it’s something I need to get off my chest and will probably DELETE afterwards or I’m going to have a nervous breakdown.)
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My stats are ridiculously low… at least here on WHUZZUP. I hear that same complaint on a lot of blogs I visit too. Like people went off on summer vacation, and never came back. (Most likely it’s “Supply and Demand”. I couldn’t *possibly* visit every site I link to in one sitting. And I’m sure I’ve pissed off everyone at this point to insure I’m not a “must read” anywhere.)

Elsewhere, my stats dictate it’s painfully obvious that the people want escapism and entertainment.

You may think I’m out of my mind for saying this… but I’m relieved.
This takes the pressure off of me HAVING to write here constantly. I have way better things to do, like unroll a 2004 redesign (or three with a “skinning option”), make much-needed repairs on my fonts, free stuff, and e-cards sections… bring back the “The Guestbook FROM Hell”.

And most of all, not have to discuss politics. I hate talking politics.
It turns people off as much as my flame wars did.

2004 Predictions: If you thought blogland was ugly with the Iraq war… you ain’t seen nothing yet. The Presidential race will be the nastiest viper pit of mudslinging, and emotionally immature and ignorant turdfest imaginable, and the web will definitely be one of the frontlines.

As much as I’d love to slam back at all of the “bad asses” who are just beginning to be aware of world events, and are suddenly “experts”… I’d rather leave that to the pros.
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