luckyshirt: fireland: This morning I started a...

fireland:

This morning I started a new site called Chokeville. Someone just asked me to summarize it succinctly (like, let’s keep this short, weisenheimer, can’t be jawing about blogs all day when there’s tail to nail) and I said well, man, I guess it’s ten thousand little stories about a made-up city and — but he was already gone.

The first six stories are up now. I have an idea for a bunch more but that’ll get us to maybe thirty. Not sure about the other 9,970. Surely I’ll have a team handling the work for me by then, like whoever does Garfield.

Anyway this first batch provides an introduction to some of the characters we’ll be dealing with. I didn’t do this on purpose but I think every story features at least one person getting punched or stabbed.

Moving forward, I’ll be fleshing out the site (which I built yesterday out of 1997 HTML!) with maps, photos, illustrations, movies, podcasts, and whatevers, but this is the jumping off point. I hope you’ll jump off with me.

P.S. The above logo is by god damn Jason Permenter.

I like it when people make things.

I wish I weren’t sleepy and heading toward bed, because I right now want to say so much about why Josh is a hero to me. He’ll still be a hero in the morning and God knows he doesn’t need my superfluous dominy-dominy, but may I just humbly suggest that each of us tell three of our smart but more normal friends about Josh?

Not in the usual “don’t hesitate to call the police if you see Josh chatting amiably with a broken vintage clown marionette in your kids’ inflatable pool while wearing nothing but what appears to be a McDLT box (no, not even just that one time because, BELIEVE ME, there’s always more times)” sort of way. Because, you should still tell people that anyway.

More because Josh will be really actually famous soon. Also, he’s probably a genius.

And although I don’t begrudge him the resources, corner lot, and influence over zoning ordinances that will presently bring him his own inflatable pool, pretty soon everyone will act like they were a firelander from back in the day.

But your three friends, you, and I can all beam with pride that we loved him a bunch even when he was just one of the funniest people we know.

Tell those friends, get it while you can, and definitely bleach the shit out of that pool. Because they haven’t made McDLTs in a really long time.

Source: chokeville.com