Strong Sad's Lament

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Sweetheart, you can't buy the necessities of life with cookies.

Strong Sad's Lament (or Strong Sad's Litany of Crushed Hopes and Dreams) is Strong Sad's personal weblog. It originated in the email website, in which it could be accessed by clicking on the "F10" image at the bottom of Strong Bad's website.

In his lament, Strong Sad expresses his frustrations with life, complains about Strong Bad's constant practical jokes, and describes his bizarre relationship with Homsar. It debuted on November 17, 2002, and within a week was on a two-and-a-half month hiatus. On February 3, 2003 it started again, and was regularly updated for nearly a month. It then went on a 17 month hiatus until August 5, 2004, when Strong Sad remembered his password and began posting regularly until September 9, 2004. The blog then went on a third hiatus until another post appeared on August 17, 2005. Once again, it appears to be on hiatus, since there has been no update since September 2005. Its current hiatus is acknowledged. (See [#Fast_Forward Fast Forward])

Taglines

As of date	Tagline	Quote from
Friday, September 9, 2005	"Sweetheart, you can't buy the necessities of life with cookies."	Edward Scissorhands
Thursday, September 1, 2005	"The earth swarms with people who are not worth talking to."	Voltaire
Thursday, August 25, 2005	"Why am I here?"	Fishing with John
Wednesday, August 17, 2005	"We're just blowing through naptime"	Arrested Development
Thursday, August 26, 2004	"You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake."	Fight Club
Thursday, August 19, 2004	"THEY'RE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOU!"	Carrie
Thursday, August 12, 2004	"When you grow up, your heart dies."	The Breakfast Club
Saturday, August 7, 2004	"Everybody dies frustrated and sad, and that is beautiful"	"Don't Let's Start" by They Might Be Giants
Prior to August 7	"Dancin-a with myseh-helf wah wah wah-o."	"Dancing With Myself" by Billy Idol
Wednesday, December 11, 2002	"Oh Oh, Lonesome Me."	"Oh Lonesome Me" by Don Gibson

Avatars

Image	Date	Description
	9/09/2005	Nostradamus "Bull" Shannon (Richard Moll) from Night Court
	09/01/2005	Bubo the clockwork owl from Clash of the Titans
	08/25/2005	Director Jim Jarmusch
	08/17/2005	Jazz musician Vince Guaraldi
	09/09/2004	English author Douglas Adams
	08/26/2004	Neil from The Young Ones
	08/19/2004	Radar O'Reilly from the M*A*S*H TV series and movie
	08/12/2004	Lydia Deetz from the Beetlejuice cartoon
	Unknown	Count Orlok from Nosferatu
	Unknown	Dream of the Endless from the The Sandman comics
	03/13/2003	Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde
	12/11/2002	Caricature of American writer Edgar Allan Poe

Emoticons

sebaceous brissly	less reticent devoid meh still alive.	getting frustrated	reticent torn more humbled than usual stalwart
slight self pitying whimsically whistful zonked.	rotten inside smarmy stereotyped and classified	the frig?

Posts

Date and Time	Post title	Current mood	Current tunes	Description
09.09.05 (1:32am)	Working For the Weak-End?	stereotyped and classified	Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing	Strong Sad tells about a favorite drink of his and counts the pixels on his screen.
09.01.05 (8:15am)	Parade on my Rain	stalwart	Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness	Strong Sad shares his thoughts on the rain.
08.25.05 (9:55pm)	A Curious Email	the frig?	Neil Young - Trans - Transformer Man	Strong Sad describes a weird email he received, and makes a joke that would work better out loud.
08.17.05 (2:19pm)	Stats n' Stumps	still alive	Tom Waits - The Black Rider	Strong Sad wonders how many times Homsar has visited his blog, and describes the wonders of sitting on a tree stump.
09.09.04 (6:54am)	Dinner for One	zonked.	Mr. Mom - Original Movie Soundtrack	Strong Sad explains his philosophy on food and how it should be eaten. He also learns gravity is against him.
08.26.04 (7:15am)	History Lesson Part II	whimsically whistful	Bowie at the Beeb - Five Years	Strong Sad and Johnny Appleseed have a falling out. Saddy Dumpington takes his washboard elsewhere.
08.19.04 (12:01am)	The Curse of Keen Eyes	more humble than usual	my own remix - The writings of Gregor Mendel read over some old Brian Eno stuff	Strong Sad observes others' lives and gets banned from Soiled Bargains.
08.12.04 (9:38am)	Dr. Scholls?	brissly	Peter Murphy - Holy Smoke	Strong Sad finally comes out about his elephant feet, er, soolnds.
08.05.04 (2:19am)	Long Time	smarmy	Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat	After more than a year, Strong Sad finally remembers the password to his blog: gray_n_grey584.
03.13.03 (3:12pm)	Weird Time	torn	Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me Soundtrack	Homsar invites Strong Sad to a tree-hugging party.
02.28.03 (4:08am)	More Like Writer's Blecchh!	getting frustrated	Godspeed You! Black Emperor content warning - I can't tell where one song stops and the next one starts	Strong Sad writes a poem about his cleverness.
02.20.03 (10:38am)	Post-it on my face	self pitying	Butch Willis - I'm the Kitty Cat	Strong Bad "helps" Strong Sad express himself.
02.14.03 (11:16am)	A Dark, Dark Day	meh	The Promise Ring - Say Goodbye Good	With The Cheat's help, Strong Sad feels lonely on Valentine's.
02.05.03 (9:16pm)	A New Year, A New You	rotten inside	Jerry Goldsmith - The Poltergeist Motion Picture Score	Strong Sad considers New Years resolutions. A month late.
02.03.03 (1:02pm)	From out of the darkness	sebaceous	Pet Shop Boys - Discography: The Complete Singles Collection	The pressure of a weblog gets to Strong Sad.
11.23.02 (1:00pm)	A New Pain	devoid	The Smiths - Meat Is Murder	Strong Sad tries to help Strong Bad whistle, but he ends up getting a pain in the knee called "Kreigh".
11.18.02 (1:00pm)	A New Beginning of the End	slight	Matthew Sweet - Altered Beast	Today is Not Strong Sad's Day. Maybe tomorrow.
11.17.02 (10:18 pm)	The Beginning of the End	less reticent	Thursday - Concealer	Strong Sad decides to give it a second chance.
11.17.02 (10:15 pm)		reticent	Thursday - Understanding in a Car Crash	Strong Sad's first post, in which he gives up on the whole weblog thing.

Fun Facts

Trivia

• Both "The Beginning of the End" posts have "current tunes" from the Thursday album Full Collapse. Mike Chapman took the photographs on the front and back of the album.
• The "A Curious Email" post was removed between January 26 and April 13, 2021. The blog was linked to on @StrongBadActual on February 8, 2021, a possible date on which the post may have been removed.
• The photograph from "A Curious Email" is of a painting inside the Grand Canyon Desert View Watchtower. Fred Kabotie painted images of various Hopi mythological stories and customs inside of the tower.
• The Dream icon is animated; he slowly cries tears of blood.

• Strong Sad's user profile reads:

>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

• Every alternate text (for links) is "Header".
• One of the auto-replies sent to people who tried to email Strong Sad through depressio@homestarrunner.com includes a link to this blog.
• For a short while on August 12, 2004, heading to the Index Page would instead bring up Strong Sad's blog. This blocked all access to the site for a short period of time, with the only way to reach the site being to sneak through the 404'd pages.

• Links:
  • In Strong Sad's user profile, click on "none" after "friends" to see what secret fond memories Strong Sad has.
  • In archives 1, click on "That guy" to hear a clip of Homsar saying "AaAaAaAaAaAaAaAa! When can we start the Jeffersons?"
  • In archives 2, click on "this" to see a short Powered by The Cheat clip of hearts being crushed on a conveyor belt, with the Grim Reaper in the background.
  • In current, click on "Post-its" to see an article about the invention of Post-its (link broken, archived here).
  • In current, click on "this" to see Homsar's party invitation.
  • In current, click on "Saddy Dumpington" to see a picture of Saddy Dumpington.

"I'm Creepin & I'm Creepin & I'm Creepin Party!"

• Strong Sad's e-vite reads:

Page title: PARSON BROWN PRESENTS!!

>You're invited to an:
>I'm Creepin & I'm Creepin & I'm Creepin Party!!

>Hosted By: Homsar
>Where: Almost There
>When: Friday March 14th - from '93 til... >Comments:
>Please come to my mega mix. >Bring Dips. Chips will be provided. >Bonfire. Social Graces. Late Night JengaJam. >4 live bands. 2 on the main stage, 2 on the Nokia SugarPhone SideShow Stage. Live acts TBA*

>*Most (all) of the live acts will be to hug a tree.

Remarks

• Strong Sad says he can't jump, despite jumping in Experimental Film and boring (really). He also does two jumping jacks in A Jumping Jack Contest, and one jumping jack the year before. He may be implying that he's no good at jumping. This may also be a reference to his "elephant feet", since elephants do not have the ability to jump.
• At the time of posting, there was never a "Mr. Mom Original Movie Soundtrack."
• Strong Sad does have Homsar as a friend, despite claiming to have no friends in his profile.
• "History Lesson Part II" employs a large number of Strong Bad mannerisms, such as:

This strongly suggests that the entry's author was actually Strong Bad, particularly since Strong Sad posted his password a few entries previous. However, in A Folky Tale, Strong Sad claims that Saddy Dumpington is a "legendary folk hero [he] made up". There are several possible solutions to this apparent contradiction:

The original drawing of Saddy is actually signed SS in the cursive writing only Strong Sad can create, further adding to the mystery.

• In "Post-it on my face", Strong Sad says he wakes up with a Post-it note on his head from Strong Bad. He then says "He thinks he is very awesome and also likes Post-its a lot." This is later proven in Biz Cas Fri 2, in which Strong Bad puts Post-it notes everywhere and claims they could save the company millions.
• If Strong Sad really did count 1310720 pixels and recount them in 6 hours, he'd have counted over 121 pixels a second.
• The first entry was posted at 10:15 am, but Strong Sad says his weblog's "life" lasted from 12:05-12:15. Strong Sad may have entered the wrong time, or the server the blog is on is in a different time zone.

Strong Sad's Mistakes

• Strong Sad made a typo in the "Post-it on my face" entry. He writes "If I type real quite, maybe he won't come in here," instead of "quiet".
• He also makes a typo in the entry titled "A New Beginning of the End," in which he misspells "unfortunately" as "unforuntately".
• Strong Sad has a third typo in the entry "A New Year, A New You"; he misspells "remembered" as "remebered".
• In "The Curse of Keen Eyes", he begins "Why I am cursed" when he means "Why am I cursed".
• In "History Lesson Part II", he misses a hyphen when he writes "and been his right hand man".
• In "History Lesson Part II", Strong Sad says that Francis Scott Key knew how to party orchestrally. However, Key only wrote the words to "The Star Spangled Banner" as a poem; it was later put to the music of an old English drinking song.
• In "Dinner for One", he misses the space after the period of his penultimate sentence.
• In A Curious Email, Strong Sad typed "worthwhile" as two words ("worth while").
• Lukewarm water is not quite warm, but not quite cool. If one leaves a glass of lukewarm water out too long, the water will become cool, not warm, unless there is an incredible heat wave. It is possible that the room temperature of an area is hotter than the glass (outside during the summer, if the heat is kept turned up), though.

Inside References

• Strong Sad says "Each day we die a little more" in Who Said What Now?.
• Homsar first said "JengaJam" in Where's The Cheat?.
• In different town, Strong Bad wants Strong Sad to bring him back a bust of Bubo from the Clash of the Titans Con.
• Homestar mentions "Night Court starring Richard Moll" in car.
• "Arts b/w Crafts" is another instance of b/w.
• One avatar is Neil from The Young Ones. Strong Sad dressed up as Vyvyan, another character from that show, in Pumpkin Carve-nival.

Real-World References

• Gregor Mendel is known as "the father of genetics."
• 3.14 are the first 3 digits of pi and they are mentioned twice.
  • Strong Sad remembered his password at 3:14 PM.
  • Homsar's e-vite is on March 14, or 3-14. March 14 is also Pi Day.
• The title of the 8/26/04 entry, "History Lesson Part II," is also the title of a song by the Minutemen (from 1984's Double Nickels on the Dime LP, one of Matt Chapman's favorite records).
• In "From out of the darkness", "Rock me like an e-Hurricane" is a reference to the song "Rock You Like a Hurricane" by the band Scorpions.
• "Parson Brown" is a character in the Christmas song "Winter Wonderland" by Felix Bernard and Dick Smith.
• The cellular phone company Nokia was the title sponsor of the Sugar Bowl until 2006.
• "I'm creepin' and I'm creepin'" is a line from Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg's "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang." mild language
• "Pallor if ya hear meh!" is a reference to professional wrestler Scott Steiner's catchphrase, "Holla if ya hear me."
• "Wet Naps" are a brand of moist towelettes.
• On Homsar's invitation, "from '93 til' ..." is most likely referencing the Souls of Mischief's first album, '93 'til Infinity.
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a band that is known for writing songs that are similar in length to symphonic pieces. Each song is divided into "movements," which would explain why Strong Sad can't tell where they begin and end.
• Strong Sad feeling "stereotyped and classified" is a reference to the song "Suburban Home" by the Descendents, which starts with, "I want to be stereotyped. I want to be classified."
• A George Foreman Grill is an indoor grill promoted by boxing legend George Foreman.
• "A New Year, A New You" is possibly a reference to Matt's band The New You.
• "Working for the weak-end" is a reference to "Working for the Weekend", a hit song by Loverboy.

Fast Forward

• In virus, the titular virus causes Strong Sad to have emoticon heads with descriptions. They are not the same emoticons from his blog, however (with the exception of "getting frustrated", which was in the February 28, 2003 blog).
• Strong Bad would list tree hugging (which Homsar invites Strong Sad to do) as #4 in his bottom 10.
• In A Folky Tale, Saddy Dumpington makes an appearance.
  • Saddy also appears in Toikey TV.
• In email thunder, Strong Sad says to not look at his blog, as he hasn't updated in years.
• The "slight/self pitying/whimsically whistful/zonked." emoticon is used in the title of The Deleteheads Download (also written by Strong Sad).
  • The Deleteheads Download emails are also sent through the depressio@homestarrunner.com email.
• A screenshot of the blog appears as a background during the song in Back to a Website.

See Also

• SBCG4AP Dev Blog

External Links

• read "Strong Sad's Lament"

• watch The Cheat's Valentine's Day animation
• view the Flash file for The Cheat's Valentine's Day animation
• download homsar_jeff.mp3