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[defrog]

ITEM [via BoingBoing]: Back issues of Weekly World News are now available at Google Books.



God I loved WWN. It was home to some of the most creative writing ever seen in print, and Ed Anger practically invented Glenn Beck. Or Stephen Colbert, depending on how you look at it.

WWN still lives online, of course. But it isn’t quite the same. Over half the stuff they put online is Odd News stuff you can find on the average blog nowadays. And you can’t beat the artwork in those tabloid layouts.

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[dr-nebula.livejournal.com]

Classic MIB 'hotsheets'.

*g*

[gvdub.livejournal.com]

A friend of ours was the New York City stringer for WWN, which meant trolling all the local papers for oddball little stories or pictures they could use to fill the space on the page not taken up by brilliant satire and specfic. I miss the print editions.