Friday the 10th, part X: the Return of Jason

April 11, 2003 1:27 PM

Jason Pettus is back online. While offline, he was stood up by a swinger, tried out for a reality tv show, had his book courted, then rejected by a publisher, and had six teeth removed. Before there was a Blogger, before "weblog" was even a word, Pettus was chronicling his life and (mis)adventures as a novelist, poet, and porn aficionado struggling to geek out a living in Chicago. I can't believe I went 3 months with no daily dose of Pettus. Thank the stars, he hath returned, with a snappy new design.
posted by eustacescrubb (14 comments total)

... and the Geocities site is already croaked.
posted by coelecanth at 1:35 PM on April 11, 2003

MeFi'd already, and not terribly surprising. Linking to Geocities rarely survives more than a few seconds.
posted by Mwongozi at 1:35 PM on April 11, 2003

Arr. He's been MetaFiltered. Put down the "linking to Geocities" plank maties. This doesn't look very good for the "Before there was Blogger" universe.
posted by VulcanMike at 1:37 PM on April 11, 2003

I don't know Pettus personally, or impersonally for that matter, but perhaps he should consider switching from a Geocities site.
posted by eschewed at 1:37 PM on April 11, 2003

Oops. He boasts of having 15,000 visitors a day at the height of his site's popularity. I figured he was paying for extra bandwidth.
posted by eustacescrubb at 1:38 PM on April 11, 2003

"geek out a living"

I love a good turn of a phrase.
posted by WolfDaddy at 1:38 PM on April 11, 2003

"I can't believe I went 3 months with no daily dose of Pettus."

Geocities - Killing the good sites since 1996.
posted by y6y6y6 at 1:42 PM on April 11, 2003

All hail Google.
posted by sacre_bleu at 1:49 PM on April 11, 2003

He was unemployed for three months, hence the reliance on Geocities.
posted by eustacescrubb at 1:49 PM on April 11, 2003

Jason's former site was 'ilikejason.com' which expired on 01-mar-2003.
posted by jazon at 2:50 PM on April 11, 2003

People shouldn't post links to GeoCities sites on MetaFilter. They never survive past the first day, so the the post becomes irrelevant.
posted by erogers at 7:39 PM on April 11, 2003

They get hit hard the first few hours, but I was able to see the site just fine a couple of minutes ago.
posted by maudlin at 9:19 PM on April 11, 2003

Yep. It's up.
posted by eustacescrubb at 4:23 AM on April 12, 2003

eustacescrubb, you made my Saturday morning. Jason and I were friends in college and got into all kinds of artistic mischief in those days. I literally lost track of him about seven years back ... and now, thanks to your post, have gotten caught up on much of his life and fired him off an email to boot.

Thanks!
posted by bclark at 6:23 AM on April 12, 2003