Strong Sad's Lament

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Strong Sad's Litany of Crushed Hopes and Dreams

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This is a secret area on the Homestar Runner website. You can access this by watching the email ((StrongBadEmail/website)), then entering Strong Bad's page, scrolling to the bottom and clicking on the F10 button. It was updated for the first time in 17 months on August 5, 2004. Apparently, Strong Sad forgot the password for a while. It's "gray_n_grey584".

Tag lines

• Pre Aug. 7th: "Dancin-a with myseh-helf wah wah wah-o."
• Aug 7th: "Everybody dies frustrated and sad, and that is beautiful"
  • From Don't Let's Start by They Might Be Giants.
• Aug. 12th: "When you grow up, your heart dies."
  • This is most likely a reference to the 1985 motion picture The Breakfast Club.
• Aug. 19: "THEY'RE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOU!"
  • This is also the title of an Adam Sandler CD (warning: explicit lyrics).

Avatars

• The first avatar is the Irish author Oscar Wilde.
• The second avatar, with the white face and spikey black hair, is Morpheus, or Dream of the Endless, from Neil Gaiman's Sandman series of comic books.
• The third avatar is the character Graf "Count" Orlok from the silent movie Nosferatu.
• The fourth avatar (added Aug. 12th) is Lydia from the Beetlejuice cartoon.
• The fifth avatar (Added Aug. 19th) is Corporal Walter (Radar) O'Reilly from the hit TV series M*A*S*H.

Fun Facts

• When depressio first came out, you could get it by emailing Strong Sad.
• If you click on the "user profile" link and then click the "None" link next to friends you get to dig around in Strong Sad's fond reminiscences box under his bed.
• Info:

Name: Strong Sad

Email: depressio@homestarrunner.com

AOL IM: depressio111117

Quote: "Each day we die a little more."

Interests: Listening, Books, Listening to books, Calligraphy, Poetry, Safety, Being alone, Arts, Crafts, Arts b/w Crafts

Friends: None

• The Godspeed You! Black Emperor line may seem like a joke to people who haven't heard of the band, but Strong Sad isn't kidding. The band is known for having no vocals, sometimes fifteen minute long songs, and musical themes which reappear from track to track in "movements" which are not always specified on the album sleeve.
• For a short while on August 12th, 2004, heading to the front page of Homestar Runner (that is, the "come on in"/"watch intro" page) would instead bring up Strong Sad's blog. It was fixed before long, however. It's not certain if it was an accident or intentional, but given that it blocked all access to the site for a short period of time (without sneaking through the "404'd" pages), it's likely an accident.
  • Or was when the aforementioned accidental front-page mix-up occured, and will be again when TBC reupload it to the correct URL. Currently it's in the main directory (www.homestarrunner.com/lydia1.jpg) but it links to it from the Strong Sad Blog folder (www.homestarrunner.com/sadjournal/lydia1.jpg).

Tunes

Strong Sad's music of choice as he posts in his blog: (in order)

• Thursday - "Understanding in a Car Crash"
• Thursday - "Concealer"
• Matthew Sweet - "Altered Beast"
• The Smiths - "Meat Is Murder"
• Pet Shop Boys - "Discography: The Complete Singles Collection"
• Jerry Goldsmith - "The Poltergeist Motion Picture Score"
• The Promise Ring - "Say Goodbye Good"
• Butch Willis - "I'm the Kitty Cat"
• Godspeed You Black Emperor - "I can't tell where one song stops and the next one starts"
• Angelo Badalamenti - "Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me Soundtrack"
• Frank Zappa - "Uncle Meat"
• Peter Murphy - "Holy Smoke"
• Strong Sad's own remix - "The writings of Gregor Mendel read over some old Brian Eno stuff"