Welcome, 6 to 12-year-old Long Island girls! There's an amusing item in today's Newsday that's likely to bring some atypical visitors to this site:
Holy Huckapoo!
When Huckapoo, our own homegrown Spice Girls, appeared in this paper last week, a reader wrote in asking whether the band has a Web site. Yes, and guess what it is? That's right, www,huckapoo.com. There are fan sites as well, including www.huckapoo.mind-games.org.
The oddest one, though, is www.radosh.net, run by Daniel Radosh, author of a recent Huckapoo article for New York magazine. Warning to readers: Some of Radosh's comments are a tad, er, spicy. And a warning to Radosh: The girls' parents read your site.
As thrilling as this is, anyone coming here looking for a Huckapoo fan site is likely to be confused, since most of what I write involves serious issues such as Social Security, the use of torture in the war on terror, and the acting and singing talents of Miss Lindsay Lohan.
But it's true that I have also written a ton of stuff about Huckapoo. For some spicy highlights, click "More."
� August 11, 2004. In which your hero becomes aware of the existence of five lovely lasses with improbable names, ill-advisedly uses the word "skanks" (which he will rapidly come to regret and not just because a friend of the girls threatens to break his knees with a baseball bat), and gets accused of being, along with his readers, "a bunch of fucking gay homosexuals that are fucking old as hell and have no fukcing lives."
� August 17, 2004. In which secrets (and one adorable photo) of the girls' pasts are revealed, a teenage boy's web site is killed, and we meet a Huckapoo runner-up.
� August 19, 2004. In which the terrifying scope of Huckapoo's ambitions slowly becomes clear.
� August 29, 2004. In which the MSM once again plays catch-up with the blogosphere.
� September 23, 2004. In which the ambition, and the terror, increases, and your hero says something really mean -- again!
� November 20, 2004. In which is heard a brief clip of the original folk-rock version of a Huckapoo hit.
� November 29, 2004. In which your hero introduces Huckapoo to bemused Upper East Siders, apologizes to the girls (and their parents) for earlier unfortunate comments, and promises to observe the Geneva Conventions against cruel and unusual mockery in all his future posts.
� December 10, 2004. In which Huckapoo -- or should I say Huckajew? -- is revealed to be a plot to turn pure American girls into filthy race-mixing whores (and not in the good way).
Again, that's just the highlights. For an index to the complete Huckapoo posts on Radosh.net, click here.
I will also restate my offer to answer any and all questions posted in the comments section about Huckapoo, as I am still brimming with trivia I was unable to use in my New York article, and it must come out or I will explode.
