I am what you might call a procrastinator. Schoolwork, money making opportunities, keeping my room clean and my laundry non-smelly: it all ends up being low on the priority scale. As to what's high on the priority scale, well, there's nothing, really. I blame the Internet. There's just too much good stuff out there, damnit. Here's a brief sample, in no particular order.
1. www.romp.com-A Flash game with a bunch of episodes in which your goal is to get the main character, Jake, laid. This thing is funny, if only for purely unintentional reasons--the stuff this guy does to try to get girls would get the average male castrated with a rusty pair of those scissors they gave you in 1st grade. And trust me. That hurts.
2. www.salon.com-If the utter mindlessness of Romp leaves you needing some sort of intellectual stimulation (not porn, pervert), Salon is the place to go, giving you perenially well-written feature articles, as well as conveniently placed AP wire service news. Add a sex column and a few alternative cartoonists, and I tell you, it's a liberal's wet dream.
3. www.okayplayer.com-Started and still overseen by the Illadelph's own ?uestlove, from the legendary Roots crew, this is the ultimate site for the underground hip-hop fan. Artists sign up to have their site designed by the Okayplayer staff, and in exchange commit to have some sort of input in the general site. ?uestlove himself can be seen on the boards often, along with Skillz and Dilated People's Evidence. Plus daily news updates, Aaron McGruder's Boondocks comic and advance audio and video. Touch that illa-fifth dynamite.
4.www.fhm.com/games/topgames/launch.htm-FHM is educational. Now, it may not teach you about anything totally irrelevant, like, say, math or reading or writing, but it does teach you what the best 100 games on the Internet are. There's all sorts of crazy shit here: Dinkybomb, where your weird looking characters kill your opponent's weird looking characters with missiles; Tardis Tennis, a BBC tennis game where you can play as John Lennon, Queen Victoria, or Shakespeare; Spear Chucking, perhaps the dumbest and yet most addictive game ever; Insaniquarium, where you feed fish and defend them from aliens (don't ask); and my personal favorite, Rampage, that old school arcade game where you turned from a naked scientist into a monster who destroyed cities, and then changed back again.
-Alex Koppelman
