The rise and fall of Suck.
Suck was a wry and intelligent website, original in many ways, with a style that burned brightly in the early days of internet journalism. It was funny in an unflinching way, treading paths The Onion wishes it could take. The writer who later became Wonkette sums it up like this.
"None of us got rich doing Suck, and we never were going to, but that’s not why we did it,” says Ana Marie Cox. “We did it because we felt the need for something like Suck. There was a bunch of other people who also did. It was critically acclaimed and we had a cult following, which is a recipe for a three-digit bank account, and that’s what it was. It was really satisfying to do, and it was kind of unworkable in the long term for most of us."
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I always mourn the demise of mackerel.com, one of the great artistic sites that convinced me that the Internet was a medium that could be used to good effect. Cindy Dabis is still producing spiralgirl.com which is one of my curent favorite sites to browse.
I'd type more but I have a korean woman to date.....
The site was "Suck" and the mouthpiece (oh, I'm adding to the joke, cute, huh?) is "Cox"?
Even in death, they issue a great parting joke...
If you're a 9-year old male it was great, anyway. ;-)
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