The greatest web publishing effort of ALL TIME may have been suck.com. Filler was its crowning glory. I admit to being completely non-objective about it.
The combination of Heather Havrilesky's snark and Terry Colon's retro doodles made me desperate for Wednesdays.
Fortunately, the Filler archive is still available. The navigation links to certain dates are broken, but you can access them by tweaking the dates in the URL. Some of the themes are of their moment, but a few achieve a certain timelessness.
Heather Havrilesky (aka Polly Esther) now writes for numerous media outlets. For some reason, I have the idea that the Veronica (aka Angry Little Squirrel) character is based on (television critic and writer) Virginia Heffernan. I wish I could find some documentation on that.
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