This week’s website recommendation is homestarrunner.com. Most are probably reading this and saying “Geez, thanks for the tip, Professor Obvious;” and granted Homestar and the rest of the gang have been apart of many of our lives for so long that this review is a bit like recommending Chaucer to someone as a promising new writer (and if you don’t know what I’m talking about then you need to read more). But I was talking with some co-workers the other day, and to my surprise they had never heard of this wonderful waste of time.
Homestarrunner.com is a collection of short flash animation cartoons following the adventures of Homestar and his “friends” living in the town of Town. The site is broken down into different features including the crown jewel that is “The Strong Bad Emails”, where the local “cool guy’ Strong Bad answers viewers’ emails.
The site is the creation of the Chapman Brothers, who thought up Homestar as a children’s book done in Mario Paint on their Super NES. From these humble beginnings the Brothers Chap have become masters of Flash Animation, as well as two of the funniest writers on the internet (which makes it funnier then anything on television).
I recommend that for your first time on the site take a Saturday where you have six hours to kill, because it’s a great way to kill time.


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Matthew Byrd