Archive for the ‘Weird News Weekly’ Category

There’s been a few bits and pieces on the weird fiction radar lately and since I’ve been doing a lot on video games I thought I better get back to my books. So here goes: Cthullu’s News Desk at nine. Jeff Vandermeer and his wife Anne have released The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals. Read more

Due to a general slackness on my part, weird news weekly has a bumper issue this week, to make up for the lack of action this past month. Sorry! Sam Raimi is going to direct World of Warcraft: The movie. READ MORE If it couldn’t get any weirder, Michael Jackson’s hair will be turned into 10 Read more

The utterly incredible fallen princesses photographic series. Think Beauty with botox. READ MORE Ronald Weasley has swine flu. Have a chocolate frog. Oh yeah, and the new Harry Potter movie was released. READ MORE [caption id="" align="alignright" width="454" caption="Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down Read more

While you may know Joe Shuster as the illustrator of Superman, you may not know his alter ego as an illustrator of fetish art. A long lost book of his secret illustrations has come to light. READ MORE [caption id="attachment_207" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The secret's out: Joe Read more

The cute vampire from twilight, Robert Pattinson, has been hit by a cab in New York while trying to escape fans. Don’t worry, he wasn’t hurt. He’s a vampire, remember? (And to answer the question why he could survive in sunlight – Ray Bans) Read More [caption id="" align="alignright" Read more

Some day my fresh prince of bel air will come… Disney’s latest princess movie features a ‘black’ princess, who spends most of the movie as a frog. READ MORE Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters: the video game. READ MORE An Egyptian man cuts off his penis to protest against his parents Read more

Kevin Costner eat your heart out. Astronauts have turned urine into water. Yum. READ MORE The WOW pod, complete with viking horns and toilet. READ MORE Can robots ever be like humans? Of course, haven’t you seen Bicentennial Man… They’re annoying and played by Robin Williams. READ Read more

New tourist destination: Riverside, Iowa. Visit the future birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk. READ MORE The best weird news ever. Superheroes are real and fighting crime. READ MORE Just as good. We are one step closer to invisibility cloaks. READ MORE The age of robot soldiers is upon us! Come Read more

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are back, with the announcement of a new live action movie to be released in 2011. Cowabunga, dudes! READ MORE Scientists are having a hard time trying to fit hobbits into the evolution tree. Hobbits you say? The real ones in Indonesia. READ MORE Robot Read more

Annie Proulx’s Brokeback Mountain was declared adults only on Amazon this week. Because there’s two men in it wearing provocative cowboy hats and traipsing round the mountains. Why else would something be restricted? Oh, yeah, they’re gay. Ish. READ MORE MIT nerds have Read more