I OFTEN GET EMAILS from folk who run other websites, asking for plugs for their sites on mine. And on rare occasions, sites are even recommended to me by people other than the sites’ own creators.
Today, a look at some.
Creating Your Own Funeral: Site creator Stephanie West Allen calls her site an info-repository for creating your own funeral or memorial service.”
It’s a basic links page to basic, relatively cheery how-to pieces (some by Allen) about “designing your end-of-life event, regardless of your age or state of health.” One thing you can say: It’s one artistic creation where you won’t care about the audience response.
Xiao Xiao: Described by the correspondent who recommended it to me as “deranged but weirdly hypnotic stick-men homage to Jackie Chan, The Matrix, and Crouching Tiger, etc. etc.”
It turns out to be a cute, albeit morbid, Flash animation of simply-rendered figures in various monochromatic colors, engaged in violent karate and knife fights in a setting reminiscent of ’80s video games.
Cranky Media Guy: Site runner Bob Pagani thinks I should put in a good word for his online narrative about a friend, Tom Kraemer, who (according to Pagani) “is in love with an imaginary woman.”
As Pagani explains, “Back in February, I loaned him my Mac and a copy of the imaging program SuperGoo. With them he made the face of a ‘woman….’ Now he says he is in love with the woman he created and wants to find her real-life counterpart. While I realize this is pretty odd, he is my friend and I do want him to be happy so I have put the picture of Tom’s ‘dream girl’ and the entire story
on my website… so that Tom can find his ‘dream girl’ and have a happy life.”
The Art of Kissing: Reader John R. Nicholson recommended this online posting of a 1936 how-to manual by one Hugh Morris.
This simple, one-page, all-text work is elegantly and tastefully written, even as it discusses such topics as “Why Kissing Is Pleasant” and “How to Kiss Girls with Different Sizes of Mouths.” While some readers might chafe at Morris’s insistence upon traditional gender roles (“He must be able to sweep her into his strong arms, and tower over her, and look down into her eyes, and cup her chin in his fingers and then, bend over her face and plant his eager, virile lips on her moist, slightly parted, inviting ones”), I believe all of you will enjoy the way he expresses his convictions.
Written long before the first computer, this is clearly the best site of today’s reviewed batch.
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