Beef-Cake

Beef-Cake, the self-proclaimed "Best Source for South Park Crap", was a fansite for South Park that remained open on and off from 1997 until 2003, run by Taison Tan and Jonathan "Elvis" Davis, with Tan largely running the news section and Davis overseeing the sound archive, with Shannon "Black Bart" Greene, Kenn "Wolf" Haspel and Vinnie Mannino also contributing.
==History==
In December 1998, the site was divied into three sections, one for each contributor:
www.BEEF-CAKE.com is a conjunction of all the South Park stuff you could possibly need. Whether it is information, sounds, images or goodies, www.BEEF-CAKE.com is the best place to find it. Below are the three sites and owners from which to choose: 
Taison Tan offers the latest news and other goodies that you will only find here first in his mega site, A South Park Information Center. 
Jonathan Davis' Beefcake Sound Archive is the best place for all the sounds of South Park you could possibly need. It has them categorized by episode. Try a mirror site if you have trouble downloading.  He's also got great commentaries, the beef-cake cam and of course you can't forget the always fan-original South Park HAIKUS.
Shannon Greene (a.k.a. Blackbart) features a huge image gallery at Blackbart's South Park page and he is the one who makes all the sounds for the Beefcake Sound Archive. Shannon's also got some South Park related goodies such as DOOM II stuff.Beef-Cake.com (December 12, 1998)
That November, a new chatroom had been added, and the new homepage boasted hosting "2,340 of the BEST South Park wavs on the 'Net!
and 1,200+ User Submitted Haikus!"Beef-Cake.com (January 27, 1998)
By the end of that year, Blackbart's portion of the site was already largely discontinued.Beef-Cake.com (January 27, 1998)
It's former message board was eventually usurped by Go Timmy Go, but remained online for sometime, with Willie Westwood among its posters.Alternative to GTG (August 17, 2000
By September 16, 1999, the previously separate sites were combined into a single, larger site by Elvis, organized by episode.
You may also notice the new layout. Now, instead of having THREE great sites, we've combined our resources. The sounds, images, and scripts are all under one main centralized 'Episodes' page, which are broken up by season.  Finding the media you want hasn't ever been easier!
Kenn Haspel, whom you may know as Wolf from his previous column on the now defunct "Archive" has written up some GREAT episode synopsizes (with more to come in the near future!) Also, each episode's page is full of information, so you can quickly find out what song Chef sang in that episode, the original air date of the episode, and just how Kenny died, along with other show highlights.
The new "interactive" section of the site contains things for you to take part in. Contests, chat room, message boards, and writing your own SP Haikus are included there.
As always, the best news will be found here, on the main page. So make sure you check back here for the latest and greatest.
Unfortunately, there are some areas of the site that I've had to hold off on in the haste to get the bulk of the site back online. DYN's, (Did you notices?), song lyrics, some episode scripts, and a few other things still need some work.  Please be patient.  We'll plug the few holes over the next few weeks.  Give us a break :)Beef-Cake.com (October 9, 1999)
As a result of his work on the website, Elvis was hired by South Park Studios to manage their new website then under development.
In May 2001, Elvis posted two cryptic updates:
Hey folks... looks as though Beef-Cake is still up for the time being.  Freaky.  Well, the beef-cake email addresses don't work, but there's a new one to contact me if you really want to.
Oh, and I got "let go" due to "budget cuts/schedule changes" from southparkstudios.com.
However, the pink slip had some hope to it, in the "future" it may be possible that they will "be able to use" me.
Looks as though I've already been used.
Oh, and you can be assured of an interesting new storytime, not unlike the truth behind THH stuff, when we're back online...
===Closure===
By November 27, 2001, the website was no longer online, and Elvis released several final statements:
Ok folks, after kicking it around in my head a few weeks now, I've finally decided the fate of beef-cake.com.
With much dismay, I'm calling it quits.  The size and extensiveness of the site and the maintenance necessary to keep it running smooth and fresh is just too much for me.  The never-ending battles against bandwidth, servers, storage, etc  are as fun as waking up and finding blood on the bed sheets.
So its with a heavy heart that I throw my arms up in the air after all of these years.
I had fun.  Hope you guys did too.  But, this is it.
Needless to say, beef-cake wouldn't be beef-cake if I didn't talk about a few things before I left...
Click one of the links on the left if you care about what I have to say about wrapping things up, once and for all.
Thanks gang.  It's been fun.
-Elvis
One additional statement covered the newly-launched South Park Studios official site:
I think South Park Studios sucks.  Its like, an uglier version of Comedy Central's site except is has pictures of the office.  Wow.  The Hellhole is more interesting, and that has only been updated twice in the past month and a half. 
Other than that, its pretty much the same.  Way to go Fung Ku.  You designed your asses off.
You bloody tools.
The sounds were offered to another web designer if they were to launch their own site, under circumstances.
The site was relaunched as a personal blog by Taison and Elvis later on, without the South Park information, and remained online into 2004.<ref>Beef-Cake.com (June 30, 2001)
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