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WHAT
IN THE NAME OF TV'S GORDON JUMP IS THIS SITE, ANYWAY?
First
off, the name. "The Cat's Ass" is a phrase that means
"something especially cool," sort of like "the bees
knees," or "the cat's pajamas." I would have called
the site simply "catsass.com," if this stupid
bastard hadn't already taken it. I mean, honestly- mine is a
humor site, so the vaguely "edgey" name sort of fits...
But would you hire a dude to put your company on the web if he was
a one-man operation called "Cat's Ass Studios?" What's
that about?
"I'm sorry, Mr. Whoever from Cat's Ass Studios, but we've decided
to retain the services of FILTHY SANCHEZ DESIGN instead of your
company."
The
site would have THEN been called "catsass.com," but some
enterprising young firebrand jumped
on that name, securing it for reasons still unknown. So, since apparently,
anything having to do with the feline heinie is hot property on
the name registration front. I quickly registered the slightly more
cumbersome, but available, itsthecatsass, and it has led us both
RIGHT HERE, at this very moment.
Why I created this site? I'm a web-designer with delusions of grandeur,
and wanted to make a place to act as a central repository for all
the odd bits of creative doggerel that I end up making, and have
a world-wide stage upon which to display them. I worked at www.outpost.com
for 3 years, and used all of my design and copy writing skills to
push palm pilots and computer hardware and software... And despite
Outpost's "wacky" commercial campaign, the fact remained
that it was, and continues to be, a big, boring, electronic catalog
of computer stuff. Hardly fulfilling work.
I also hope, as the site grows, that it could become a sort of digital
publishing sandbox for some of my creative, funny friends to showcase
their writing or humor or whatever. And I hope that along the way,
it all proves to be at least mildly entertaining for you, the reader
trying desperately to avoid doing anything productive with his or
her day.
Do you think you would want to write something that could fit in
here? Do you ache to be able to send folks you know a link with
a by-line to something other than a "members.aol" or a
"geocities" site? Send
an email, pitching your idea, and links to samples of your writing
(or cartoons, or whatever) elsewhere, if you've got 'em.
-Josh Dobbin
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