When you've had a growing website sitting around on a single server for over six years, stuff tends to accumulate. It's like your garage: once a bastion of orderly stature, it has since become a repository for everything too expensive not to throw out completely, but which is too cheap to get rid of at a yard sale. Sometimes, just sometimes, you muster up the courage to push up your sleeves and do a bit of righteous spring cleaning.
Well, not me. I'm too lazy for all that. Besides, some of the junk that's accumulated on the MRFH server has a fair bit of entertainment value, whether it be embarrassing or nostalgic. Keep in mind that in the first couple years of doing a website, not everything I did was for MRFH (but in retrospect, none of the other crap worked out quite as well). Here are some links (and commentaries) to a few odd pages kept in the bowels of MRFH, shrieking at the mere mention of sunlight.
When DnaError turned 17, he approached us with an idea to do a second "special" MRFH front page (the first being our Canadian takeover). All of our names (save his) were changed to alien names, and Dna whipped up a number of spiffy front page graphics that to this day are still a cause of retinal decay.
When PoolMan staged his coup on MRFH, he had a blast coming up with uniquely Canadian names for the staff. Stuff like "Thibideau" is how he staves off his growing need for blood. We got a bit of flak mail for pulling this stunt, but everyone now agrees that we were probably drunk when we did it.
Want to know what kind of lame parties were thrown at my college? Yeah, neither do I.
One of the best things about running the PCU website (which has since deteriorated) was getting positive little e-mails from some of the actual cast and crew -- these aren't made up, promise!
This is me, going through a decidedly dark time, and writing depressing poetry as most college freshmen are wont to do. Although I must say that part 6 still captures my personal vision for hell. (warning: somewhat tacky graphic language)
This was never released to the public, mostly because it wasn't finished. Just one of those in-progress projects that didn't have the momentum to cross the finish line. I tried to take a hack at explaining my stupid Rule of Two here, and also on a never-before-seen Rule of Two page. See? I do try to spare you my ego from time to time.
Our old FAQ page, before it was retired due to the updated What Is This? page. Basically, the FAQ was a pain in the butt to maintain and probably not worth the trouble, so there you have it.
Kyle's long-winded account of his F13 marathon is the stuff of legend. It's also why we literally keep him on a leash.
Kym's "memorial" page was one of the most fun things we've ever done at MRFH, brazenly killing off a quite-alive person, and then reaping thousands of confused e-mails over the situation.
I wish I had the foresight to collect and save every version of the front page that this web site has gone through... there really has been so many. This comes from circa 2001, and was our last major overhaul before our current incarnation.
Yes, if you've been here a while, then you'll remember that we didn't always put our updates on the front page, electing instead to have a separate page to list all the new reviews, etc. We discontinued this "feature" in early 1999. You can see how often we updated back then. This page also lists PoolMan's introduction to MRFH, on 9/10/98.
A while back we foolishly tried to collect all the links to various cult movie websites (of course, back then we only had like 50 movies to cover). For a fun experiment, check out how many of these links have since expired!
Ah, "The List." You see, back when we still cared what our readers wanted and had the hubris to think we could provide it to them, we had this continually updated list of movies that we would get to reviewing, some time or another. It was, without a doubt, the single biggest PAIN IN MY BUTT to handle. It had various incarnations, some bigger, some smaller, but finally I shamefully threw it in a broom closet, putting the last vestiges of corporate responsibility behind us.
This was actually made into an Annual Mutant Award category, and I don't think I ever officially posted this page.
Made obsolete by the FAQ and "What Is This?" page, the tour was supposedly designed to show people around the site, but ended up being overly complicated (I have a talent for this) and somewhat useless, unless you really need a hand to hold during a visit to a web site.
I'm sure I had some sort of honest reason why I did this, but it ended up being extremely subjective and ruining a few review pages with a largish graphic. Still, I like saying the word "tuckus".
Posted: February 8, 2003
Get Me Outta Here:
Dna's self-portrait, with several unidentified substances growing on his face
