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fireland:

This morning I started a new site called Chokeville. Someone just asked me to summarize it succinctly (like, let’s keep this short, weisenheimer, can’t be jawing about blogs all day when there’s tail to nail) and I said well, man, I guess it’s ten thousand little stories about a made-up city and — but he was already gone.

The first six stories are up now. I have an idea for a bunch more but that’ll get us to maybe thirty. Not sure about the other 9,970. Surely I’ll have a team handling the work for me by then, like whoever does Garfield.

Anyway this first batch provides an introduction to some of the characters we’ll be dealing with. I didn’t do this on purpose but I think every story features at least one person getting punched or stabbed.

Moving forward, I’ll be fleshing out the site (which I built yesterday out of 1997 HTML!) with maps, photos, illustrations, movies, podcasts, and whatevers, but this is the jumping off point. I hope you’ll jump off with me.

P.S. The above logo is by god damn Jason Permenter.

I support any creative endeavor that strives for originality first and profitability second. I support anything that is difficult to explain. I support this.

I am officially obsessed. I’m brand new to this madman’s work, but I am on board in a big way. The trailer makes promises the first several stories have already kept, including undersea hideouts, hygiene prostitutes, and dead couriers. Soon to come: ambient terror, haunted suits and three-fisted fisticuffs. I shall put this in a pipe and smoke it, indeed.