by Epor Alucard
Tony Vahl and Damian Hospital get asked the question all the time- “Whatever Happened to Tashman Technologies?”
It is apparently very alive and well.
Newer DailySkew fans may not remember Tashman, but it was the controversial storyline that put the DailySkew on the map. Damian and Tony would write short stories about an office that ran and sold teleporters in the future. These teleporters dominated the courier shipping industry. But the technology was simply a backdrop to an insane and emotional office drama.
And that’s where one of the creators got into hot water.
His front office at his real job didn’t appreciate the skewed presentation of their stories which painted the workers as victims of an irrational boss surrounded by irrational partners and managers. The first Tashman origin tale actually revealed scandals which may have hit too close to home to some members of the front office. Tony and Damian maintain to this day that Tashman is a parody of any American office, not based on one specific office, or any specific people. In fact, they say, Tashman is simply like the movie Office Space or the comic strip Dilbert- just in the future.
The co-founders of DailySkew and Tashman decided it would be best to compromise and run a neutral parody feature called Daily Balance, where management and ownership were portrayed in a better light.
Suffice to say, Damian and Tony eventually put an end to it…or did they?
Inside sources say that Damian and Tony had never stopped writing Tashman stories, and actually created a time-line of events, and wrote an entire-feature length novel covering every aspect of Tashman’s drama and history, but it remains unpublished to this day…perhaps one day in the far future it may be available, but Damian and Tony won’t comment on it, and continue to neither confirm nor deny anything about the greatest company that never was: Tashman Technologies.
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“You’re fired!”
bring it back
what is “dracula rope”?
You decoded the secret? Guards- seize him!
I personally enjoyed my time as Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Balance. I have fond memories of those days. It was a more innocent time, when writers still believed that there was an internet audience that wanted to read fictional stories and parodies.
Now that I’m a porn star, I have to admit that there are times I long for the innocence of writing for the sake of expressing an opinion. Oh, well. Time to go back to work.
I need to read this.
Since when did DailySkew blogs become so personal? Where are the major social issue debates? Oh…DailySkew “sold out”. No wonder the baseball site doesn’t get updated anymore.
Parody is the last form of “invention” of a mature genre, in L&L. This IS a parody, to be sure, but not JUST a parody ala Spaceballs. It is also a clever satire. The parallel between ordinary people (like Shawn) and Zombies is made from the opening grocery store sequence. It is even suggested by the title: both an allusion and an implicit comparison: Shawn = dead.
Looks awesome! Every time I get on, their never fighting a boss..
Love it…she’s dumb for not approving it !!!! You not BIG till Wierd Al makes a parody of you !!!! SHE SUCKS !!!!!!