Post by Brian Roebuck on Sept 9, 2007 7:04:29 GMT -5
Aliens, Elvis, Bat Boy mourn death of Weekly World News
Published: Wednesday, 5 September, 2007, 01:23 AM Doha Time
By Larry Lebowitz
MIAMI: The Weekly World News is dead, and in the words of its ripsnorting right-wing columnist Ed Anger, the tabloid’s dwindling legion of fans should be “pig-biting mad” about it.
Based for most of its 28 years in Palm Beach County, Florida, the Weekly World News delivered the guiltiest of pleasures with wheelbarrows of wit, screaming headlines and a black-and-white design sensibility straight out of 1952.
Depending on your perspective, the WWN gloriously chronicled or shamelessly fabricated an alternate reality populated by amorous space aliens, babies born with angel wings and gardeners who marry their vegetables.
It was a cracked universe where Elvis still lives, Bigfoot could steal your wife, and the US military deploys Bat Boy, with his superior cave-manoeuvreing skills, to “take a bite out of Bin Laden.”
www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=170718&version=1&template_id=46&parent_id=26
Published: Wednesday, 5 September, 2007, 01:23 AM Doha Time
By Larry Lebowitz
MIAMI: The Weekly World News is dead, and in the words of its ripsnorting right-wing columnist Ed Anger, the tabloid’s dwindling legion of fans should be “pig-biting mad” about it.
Based for most of its 28 years in Palm Beach County, Florida, the Weekly World News delivered the guiltiest of pleasures with wheelbarrows of wit, screaming headlines and a black-and-white design sensibility straight out of 1952.
Depending on your perspective, the WWN gloriously chronicled or shamelessly fabricated an alternate reality populated by amorous space aliens, babies born with angel wings and gardeners who marry their vegetables.
It was a cracked universe where Elvis still lives, Bigfoot could steal your wife, and the US military deploys Bat Boy, with his superior cave-manoeuvreing skills, to “take a bite out of Bin Laden.”
www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=170718&version=1&template_id=46&parent_id=26