A tale of birth, death, and reanimation…
Gather around the eternal flames of obsession and here this soothsayer’s tale of wonders. Back in the days of yore, circa 2003, there arose a mighty internet presence known as The Rat Lab. This website was the digital embodiment of it’s strange and mysterious creator, the master of few talents but juggler of many, David Amlaw. Ah, yes, I see you have heard of this man whose deformed sense of reality and reason brought us such things as The Rat Lab, The Original Oddzone, why even this very site itself where future oddities such as the new Oddzone and the soon to be released video game Space Smuggler Blooze will be revealed. Now I am sure you are beginning to imagine the depths of bizarre and unusual The Original Oddzone must have dove. For though it was short lived, ill conceived, and as little known as gOddliness itself, the lives of the few that experienced it have never been the same.
Seeing was no longer believing as fanatics of freakishness feasted their eyes on the many Oddpictal Oddlusions. The depraved Oddzonians oggled over the nostalgic potpourri of weirdness in the Retro Zone. Visitors to the site seemed to revel in gross abstractions of what we all know to be good and true, and though there were few who tasted the strange frivolous fruit, once they had a taste their hunger could not be satiated. They wandered the Halls Of The R-Teests in search of the chalice of orange nectar known to distort one’s sense of normalcy into something which resembled a monocle wearing, freestyle beard growing, sideshow uni-cyclist octopuss reciting Hamlet. Where could it possibly go from there? I’ll tell you where. From there it went to the truly noodle warping and fully saturated in strange Isle Of Odd, where many remain to this day.
Conceived in the year of our lord 2003 AD and dying in 2004 at the tender age of one year old The Original Oddzone mutated the minds of those who dared partake. This soothsayer says one year was far too long for such reckless foolhardiness but it appears that the mad scientist who started this experiment is still not satisfied and plans to resuscitate the corpse of the corrupt infant and prance the reanimated horror around again, feeding it the innocent minds of the sane until it grows into a three eyed orange skinned scaly bird squid behemoth to rival the mighty leviathan. Can this world be ready for the magnitude of odd that is about to be unleashed upon it?
It is too soon to tell, I suppose. I feel it is only fair to warn you all to prepare for what is about to come. If you have the mental fortitude to withstand the disorganization and general chaos of The Original Oddzone perhaps you should have a look at what we are all up against by clicking on the following link.
Good luck and godspeed. This soothsayer is out.