Saturday 9 September 2006

Pic of the day: Screenshot showing the Breakup Girl screen saver. Saving screens (and supposedly relationships) the world over...

Short: Return of Breakup Girl

Yes, I have changed my standards. Intead of naming all short entries "fast forward", which is descriptive but no help in telling them apart, I now use the Short: prefix to warn users to not set aside their whole lunch break for this entry.

Back in the days where Breakup Girl was found on www.breakupgirl.com, I used to enjoy reading about this highly unusual superheroine. It was a very tongue-in-cheek comic, about a superheroine who averted romantic disasters almost exclusively. It was funny, insightful but somewhat amateurish, and it did not take itself seriously as a superhero comic. It did take romance seriously though. While I have no use for that, the topic has always fascinated me.

When the site suddenly disappeared, evidently axed by Oxygen whom they had sold out to, I was miffed for some length of time. Whenever I found one of my old entries pointing to what was now a search engine of doubtful value, I wished for the good old days when Breakup Girl was on the Net.

The good old days are back again, at least to some extent. www.breakupgirl.net has the old stuff and a little new as well. For all you people who are breaking up, or would rather prefer not to, it is worth a look. For the rest, it may still be worth a laugh.