I'm working on a tribute to the Johnson Smith Company, a novelty distributor formerly famous for having full-page ads in virtually every old comic book and kiddy magazine in existence. You might remember them better for their recent (and current) Things You Never Knew Existed catalogs. I've only mentioned them here and there on the site, but in truth, their collection of oddities helped shape my childhood just as much as anything else you've seen on the site. It'll be up tomorrow.
In other news, I'm currently experiencing the effects of two-year-old vicodin. It's for a toothache, I swear.
Remember to send in your entry for the Photog Art Contest by this weekend! I've gotten a bunch so far, and some would make Bitner proud. The Commercials page is slated for some big linkage today, so if you haven't checked it out yet, you may wanna do so before the onslaught of bandwidth-eaters arrives and makes X-E's server implode. Big ups to the guys over at ServINT for giving me a really great hosting package -- honestly, features like this would be impossible without their continued help.
Mmm. This stuff is actually pretty good. And here I thought wine and cheese were the only things that aged well. I should get toothaches more often.
Posted by Matt on 05/28/2003. E-mail me!










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I’ve had a toothache for the past few days, but that’s because I’m too chickens#%t to go to the dentist. I need to just nut up and make the appointment, cause I don’t have any 2 year old vicodin laying around the house, and asprin doesn’t even begin to work. I’ll just comfort myself with the knowledge that a new article is coming soon. Yeah, that’ll dull the pain.