Writer's Block: Hocus pocus

[theoldwolf]

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"Alien psychic boondoggle cripples human scum!" Even as a youngster, I'd get my eyes out of joint rolling them so hard because my dad loved to read the National Enquirer. He was a pretty smart guy, and I can't figure out for the life of me why he went in for that tripe.

Let's go back even farther than that - remember the old "Charles Atlas" ads that appeared in the comics?



Naw, I never gambled that stamp, either...

Comments

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

With the post the way it is every stamp is a gamble.

Hocus pocus?
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[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

Did your dad take the Enquirer seriously? Did he find it funny? (That kind of humor gets old for me fast.) Or did he find it intriguing to imagine if the stories were real?

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

I haven't a clue. I never could get a straight answer out of him...

[dhlawrence.livejournal.com]

The Enquirer was trash. The Weekly World News, though--THAT was journalism!

[alaskawolf.livejournal.com]

some really off the wall stories there :P

[ghostwolf.livejournal.com]

I've bought the Weekly World News only for its amusement value. The names they use are nearly as comical as the stories themselves. I consider the Enquirer to be no more than a nationally-published gossip-over-the-back-fence sort of thing.

And I remember the Charles Atlas adverts; I can't see that as being any better or worse than the modern-day Weider nonsense.

[(Anonymous)]

Watch out or the Bat Boy might get you Olde wolf.

I used to read these rags for the Krazy stories they had just for laughs.

I used to get a kick out of those ads.


Wolf Lynx

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

When I was 8 or so, the Enquirer was notorious for printing grotesque pictures like people in cars eaten up by tankers full of acid and such. That was replaced by the paparazzi madness...

Batboy's my good buddy, we play pinochle every Saturday night.