FYI: my new blog

[Paul Di Filippo]

PRESS RELEASE



July 9, 2008



Welcome, friends, to an exciting new world of weird!



In fact, many worlds—and so big, we could only call it—



WEIRD UNIVERSE.



WEIRD UNIVERSE is the new superblog that brings together three well- 
known creators and experts in all things weird.



Alex Boese runs THE MUSEUM OF HOAXES, a well-known enterprise devoted  
to debunking in amusing fashion the more outrageous claims foisted on  
a credulous public.



Paul Di Filippo has been paid to put weird ideas into fictional form  
for over thirty years, in his career as a noted science fiction  
writer, and has recently begun blogging on many curious topics with  
his three fellow writers at The Inferior 4+1.



Chuck Shepherd is the purveyor of NEWS OF THE WEIRD, the syndicated  
column which for decades has set the gold-standard for reporting on  
oddities and the bizarre.



Now these three staunch and intrepid correspondents—under a beautiful  
new banner by legendary underground cartoonist Rick Altergott—are  
pooling their expertise to bring you the most wide-ranging daily  
collection of weird reading material anyone could ask for.



WEIRD UNIVERSE will feature Chuck Shepherd’s daily feed on the most  
oddball news items of recent vintage.  Regular posts such as “Follies  
of the Mad Men”—a history of Madison Avenue’s more dubious  
achievements—will alternate with lists, historical oddities,  
commentary and speculation.  Together, the mix will cover every  
aspect of a human and natural cosmos that is not only “stranger than  
we imagine, but stranger than we can imagine.”



We believe in the power of the weird.



To entertain, to elucidate, to edify.  To humble, to horrify, to  
honor.  To shock, to surprise, to scandalize.



Most vitally, we believe in the power of the weird as the final  
frontier of gloriously untameable human nature.  In a world that  
grows increasingly homogenous, regimented, authoritarian, timid and  
fearful, the weird stands as humanity’s last best hope for  
spontaneity, ingenuity, bravery, goofiness, laughter, astonishment,  
and crazy wisdom.



We believe in the power of the weird.



Visit WEIRD UNIVERSE, and you will too!



For more information, contact any or all of the participants:



Alex Boese

Paul Di Filippo

Chuck Shepherd





LIST OF LINKS



SITES

http://weirduniverse.net/

http://museumofhoaxes.com/

http://community.livejournal.com/theinferior4/

http://www.newsoftheweird.com/

http://www.rickaltergott.com/



EMAIL ADDRESSES

alex at museumofhoaxes.com

pgdf at cox.net

WeirdNews at earthlink.net
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