G21 TRIO: A Series of Voices
Big Corporations on the World Wide Wait must take us for FOOLS.
I mean, how many times have you stopped to wonder about how both major browsers, NETSCAPE and MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER, suggest that we make their megabuck, mega-hit-already splash pages here on the WWW our homepage?
What? Are these people nuts?
 FLISS USSHER's LONDON CALLING! kicks off the HOME ISSUE. Your first taste of the second issue of our anniversary electric slide!
 TRIO, our thrice-weekly commentary column: THOMAS HART " `MAKE THIS YOUR HOMEPAGE!': DREAM ON LOSER!"
VOX POPULI, YOUR reader-response page, is open-for-business again this week. Finally! Some letters that aren't about Thomas Hart!  HOT LINKS (Not From Louisiana) bestows an all-new SILVER SURF AWARD!
 POWERSBOOKS features the JILL BIALOSKY interview! Another must-read from our Lit-Crit Guy in Ohio.
ANOTHER Great Joke of the Day awaits you in THE HOUSE OF CARDS! TRIO: DAT ASS! RADIO RAHEEM explains why being an Ass-man is his private Guilty Pleasure.
TRIO: ROBIN MILLER "G21 FOR DUMMIES..." You have to read it to believe it!
 JENNIFER BLUE's PLANETARY MADNESS looks at YOUR influences!
 CULTURE CAST looks at "THE WATCHERS'' who are part of your life if you live in any major city these days.
You need to use The Message Board |
Or is it just that they think we're "Fresh Off the Boat,"" so speak, and think it's better to give them the "hits" which mean they are a popular site, as opposed to someone more deserving?
Like maybe our own splashpage, if we are a magazine like G21, or our personal homepage, if we're just your average Jean or Joe?
I've noticed that, for the most part, it is usually multi-monomanical-obsessed browsers and multinational sites that have the gall to even SUGGEST that we start each and every web-surfing session with them.
But even some of the Lesser Lights, some of those COMMERCIAL enterprise sites with delusions of grandeur beyond their ken(IMHO), have suddenly jumped onto this "MAKE US YOUR HOMEPAGE" sleazy medicine-show wagon.
Lest I puke, tell them we want them to stop this shite right now!
You see, In My Arrogant Opinion, asking for someone to "Bookmark" your site is presumptious enough. If I wanted to make a damned bookmark at your site, because I was impressed by the content or design, I think I'd be inclined to do so without your prompting.
But suggesting that your site is so damned important as to be where I should begin EVERY SINGLE WEBDAY I live?
DREAM ON, LOSERS!
Surf's up!