Aggie’s
World isn’t ready yet.
I had a great creative
writing professor in college who taught me something
important. It was unspoken but unmistakable:
Don’t apologize for something you’re about to
perform in front of a
general audience. Do it well or don’t do
it. Respect that
the audience’s time is valuable.
Aggie’s World is the antecedent of Aliens
Ransacked My Room. I
started Aggie’s World as a personal homepage back in
1997. I knew
very little about HTML, nothing at all about Style Sheets, and
painfully little about good design.
What I did know was that most of my classmates had pages that went
something like this: “Welcome to my Rockin’ Home
Page! Here’s a picture
of me! Here’s a picture of my
room! Here’s a picture of my
friend Jake! He’s so crazy! Click HERE to
go to Jake’s home
page!” And so on. Who was reading these
pages? I bet even crazy Jake wasn’t reading them.
Back in the late Nineties, self-indulgent HTML drivel was called a
“Personal Home Page.” These days,
it’s called a
“’Blog.” Aggie’s World
was never about me, never directly, at
least. Aggie’s World was about my
stories. It was a labor of
love. It may not have been well-designed, but it was certainly
well-intentioned. I worked on it until graduation, but then I
moved on to other projects.
Aggie’s World has some great stories and some inspired
ideas. But
it also has a lot of junky layout, pixilated drawings, and obsolete
technology. It’ll be
back. Aggie’s World is the heart and
soul of Aliens Ransacked My Room. For now, though,
I’ve removed
most of it. I don’t want to have to apologize for
Aggie’s
World. I want it to be magical.
Meanwhile, since it's Christmastime, I'll leave up Aggie and the Present.
I hope you enjoy it.
-Artie Moffa
December 2005