The Morning After

First, my hat's off to Brit, who is quickly becoming one of my best friends in the world, for sticking by her Denver Broncos even though they did end up losing to the Steelers. There's nothing like a die hard fan and you live and die with your team like no other. Sure you may say, "Oh, our guys suck, they're going to lose," but in your heart you're thinking, "Win, baby, win!"

20 years ago my family moved away from Seattle. My dad took a transfer and my heart broke. Everything I knew changed forever but my devotion to the "god damned" Seattle Seahawks has remained in place. I've followed nearly every game for 20 years and I've sat through the ups and the downs my team has had and the mocking from people who notice my ever-present Seattle Seahawks hat.

Last night made 20 years of HELL worth it.

That said, let me just say "screw you" to all but one of the prognosticators working for SI.com. All but one called for a route of the Seahawks because they had NO CHANCE against Steve Smith. Steve Smith, Steve Smith, Steve Smith. And a "screw you" to FOX because even on the broadcast before the show, the FOX team pretty much came out and said the Seahawks had no chance.

Hell, even after the darn blow out, Terry Bradshaw made a farce out of the trophy presentation then immediately started mocking the Seahawks in favor of his Steelers (taking his cronies at the desk with him). Did they NOT see the three hours? I know there are reports that the game was so lopsided that Joe Buck and Troy Aikman started playing Tic Tac Toe on the telestrator because it was THAT bad, but uh, well, I guess the guys at the desk live in a world of their own.

You know what, low class has always been a sign of Terry Bradshaw (let alone to FOX for sticking that idiot on the field). I shouldn't be surprised that he'd turn things into a tasteless farce and he shouldn't be surprised when I don't go to his suck ass new movie either.

The Seahawks are now 3 1/2 point underdogs in the Superbowl. No one says the can win. The #6 seeded team is the team of "destiny." There's no way to stop the Steelers, blah blah blah. You know what? Heard it, proved it wrong and got no loving afterwards.

Such is the life of a Seahawks fan.

k9

Boo

So it's quite a long time later. Not much to say about that. I haven't had a lot of time and I'm working like crazy lately on a number of different projects. One of them, of course, is the latest (and probably last) redesign of this site for a long long time.

"What, like the last 3 redesigns you never finished?"

Sure. Something like that. The trouble with having hundreds of comic strips is the fact that you have to change every page. I used to use a template system in dreamweaver where I could just make some art changes and every page would be updated... well, that is, until the site got too big for it and it would crash everytime (with 1gb of RAM no less!).

So, slowly but slowly, I'm finishing this latest redesign. Unlike previous designs we actually have everything pretty much working linkwise in one form or another. Hell, we even have a links page that is a) actually updated, b) actualy works and c) links to LIVE PAGES YOU CAN VISIT LIKE RIGHT NOW! Go visit! Then come back to see what I have to say in the rest of this little entry.

The other big change is to the flash animation. Somewhere along the line I learned how to make comic-book style graphics with word balloons and other neat-o keen things. I honestly didn't like the look of the old strips that were converted to Flash (I mean why convert to flash if you're just going to make it look like the original strip?), so I think this is a step in the right direction.

If you like them (and I know I'm notorious for not leaving ways to contact me), my feedback address is jamesknine@reallycoolsite.org. Bitch, whine, say I'm stupid because Sarah Lane rules the world (to quote my friend Chris, "@@"), but just let me know what you think.

On that, I'm out of here for another few months.

k9