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Well glory be, time has flown straight past us all and ye olde blogue has suddenly turned two years old. Here are some of my favorite posts from the past few years (that you might have missed since no one really read it back in the day); a hodgepodge of stories, comedy and HARD HITTING JOURNALISM.

• Misadventures in House Hunting - a personal tale of trying to find a domicile in Upper Fells Point. With sexy results!!
• Federal Hill – still decidedly evil – a personal tale of trying to get a drunk guy – and his teeth – to a hospital. With sexy results!!
• Scientology Digest – 07/16/2008 – The evil church of Scientology hunts me down… to my mom’s house!
• Spontaneous Deadification: The New Threat to Baltimore? – Murder may be at its lowest, but a new threat is taking its place.
• The struggle of Little Havana – HARD HITTING JOURNALISM about a popular restaurant’s ongoing woes with the city.
• Fells Point Fun Festival canceled in favor of tax hike – oh those zany city council folks.

Mmmmmmm delicious re-purposed content. You love the way it tastes. Thanks for reading folks!

Continuing our list of websites you may have missed from the past ten years or so, the remaining five websites are examples of those beloved sites that are no longer with us. Whether it be the stiff competition from other sites, lack of interest or just bad timing, these sites for whatever reason didn’t last. It is with a single tear that we remember them fondly.

	pimpmybaby.com Originally intended as a site for people to gussy up photos of their respective babies and enter them in “hot or not” style voting contests, this site was shut down by perverted-justice.com in 2006 on the hit television show “Dateline: To Catch a Predator” under suspicion that the owners were running an underground baby hooker ring. Shameful.
	xtremerabbis.org In operation starting in 1993, XTREME Rabbis was a haven for Rabbis looking for an outlet to express their love of Xtreme sports and Xtreme lifestyles. Complete with photo profiles, chat rooms and forums it was the most successful website of its kind until late 2002, during which a great deal of infighting as to which member Rabbi was most Xtreme erupted, resulting in a BMX competition in which all 14 members of the website were killed in a massive wreck. The website was mothballed immediately.
	mushroomcloudenthusiast.net Formerly the Internet’s premier forum for appreciating the beauty and splendor of nuclear explosions, the site was tragical brought to a close during 2003’s planned “Shroomfest” during which the majority of members attended a nuclear test in Nye County, Nevada. The gathering was raided by the DEA, who were under the impression that the event would be an illicit drug use party. The fleeing cloud watchers evaded the DEA during a 3 hour chase, eventually finding themselves within a quarter mile of the blast radius and winding up instantly incinerated.
	sockssockssocks.biz An internet sock outlet, defunct since 2000. I can’t imagine why!!! Fun fact: the pets.com sock puppet was their original spokespuppet.
	enron.com Whatever happened to these cool dudes? I heard they were going places!!

2009 is over and done with and the shittiest decade seen by the world in quite some time comes to a close. However, one thing that didn’t suffer over the past decade is internet comedy. Oh the humanity, our lovable series of tubes has produced a wide menagerie of content that the world has since gawked at, passed onto family members and coworkers, and promptly forgotten about within five minutes. But there are certain sites I still visit on occasion simply because I remember they still exist, and they’re still awesome. Here’s the first five of the ten of them that sprang to my mind – some of which you may have missed.

	y2khai.com – Asian kid in an Elvis suit making flash videos of hip hop songs. Do you really need to know more?
	realultimatepower.net – A true OG of internet comedy. A website (and book!) dedicated entirely to facts and stories about ninjas, long before ninjas and Chuck Norris jokes became as played out as they are today. Still one of my favorites to this day.
	ulillillia.us – A guy with Asperger’s Syndrome (or something) with a website dedicated to …something. Video games? Trick and tips? Volumes and volumes of strange and unusual material not to be missed here. I highly recommend the image collection.
	mulletsgalore.com – Unfortunately defunct, this site was the be all and end all for mullet categorization and subsequent hilarity on the internet. I still have their bumper sticker.
	maddox.xmission.net – The Best Page in the Universe has been entertaining quite a number of people over the years and Maddox continues to kick ass – albeit very infrequently – with some of the most scathing commentaries around. A true pioneer of internets comedies.

Come back for the next five in 2010!