This makes me sad, in the same way that I get sad because America's proud tradition of hucksterism is increasingly subsumed within politics and televangelism. (Where have you gone, PT Barnum? Getting ripped off by the spinny-dart-machine guy at Coney Island just isn't the same.)
The last WWN I bought offered the untold story of brave American GI's facing down vampires in Afghanistan. Now we will never hear the horrific followup, as one of them ("It's just a scratch, Sarge; he never got me") brings the worst vampire cooties of the Caucasus back to these very shores...
Edit: And here's a New York Times followup, mostly talking about Ed Anger. I'm really going to miss Ed Anger.
Man I tell you what, that IS a same! One reason I'm saddened to hear this is becasue I had aspirations of one day writing for them, them and WWE an the soap opera Passions.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about WWE but writing for Passions is still something I'd love to do.
My uncle used to get all worked up when ever I brought one of those magazines around. You see, when they first started pubishing them a lot of people though they were for real. He was one of them.