Parody
A piece written in 2006 for the unpublished book, Mutant Pets, Alien School Boards, and Yard Sales: Weekly World News Book of Suburban Legends:
JITTERS, Wash. – Just when the residents of Jitters thought that the streets of their once bucolic little community had become saturated with fast food, retail, and specialty store franchise outlets, along came the Queequeg Coffeehouse chain.… Read the rest
Here’s a quartet of Weekly World News shorts I wrote for the paper in 2007. The first article is previously unpublished.
CANNES, France – Interpol today announced the first in a series of arrests across Europe that will, according to Inspector Niles ‘Butch’ Bottomswale, “break the back of one of the world’s cruelest crime syndicates.… Read the rest
A long, long time ago, I wrote for Crazy Magazine, Marvel’s answer to MAD Magazine. While MAD was and remains an institution (and knowing the MADmen as I do, I can vouch for the need for one to hold them), Crazy was, at the time–late-1970s/early-1980s–way more cutting edge.… Read the rest
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