Today is the debut of Clickhole, the new site from The Onion that takes on your Buzzfeeds and Upworthys, and it's already off to a very encouraging start. Here is the funniest video so far.
The "Abortionplex" — that flight of Onion fancy that some think is real — has a Yelp page that's racked up a slew of satisfied user reviews. Next up: the CGI animated family feature. Get to work, Hollywood! [BoingBoing]
The Onion is getting a TV show! It's coming to IFC, and judging by this teaser trailer, will be similar to the side-splitting news clips found online. Catch a sneak peek here.
"After weeks of being sleepy all the time and never finishing his din-din at night, area daddy Howard Lewis was put in a bye-bye box early Monday morning so that he could go on a vacation with the birds and clouds in the sky." [Onion]
Is the Onion still funny, or have you just gotten used to reading it so you haven't seen it decline from its '90s heyday to the pool of mediocrity it is today? How about Boing Boing, McSweeney's, CNN.com, or Perez Hilton? It's time to feel bad about what you like, for that is the path to enlightenment, or at least to…
A reader points out that Spring Street Networks, which produces personal ads for Nerve, The Onion, the Observer, and the New York Times (among others) is taking the system offline today for an upgrade, temporarily eliminating the social lives of a frightening portion of the New York singles population.
NY Press editor Jeff Koyen appears to have permanently turned his weekly editorial into a sort of personal journal. His "What I Did This Week" essay contains the usual "been hanging in Brooklyn bars" bit, more analysis of local 'zines, and another bizarre swipe at The Onion. (Yes, The Onion.) "New issues of two…
From The Onion: "Kidnapped Hilton Sisters Appalled at Captor's Basement" NEW YORK According to Monday's New York Post, hotel heiresses Paris and Nicky Hilton are aghast over the condition of the basement of their kidnapper, William Henry Buntz. "My sources tell me that Paris and Nicky are bound-and-gagging over the…
More reader "corrections/appendices to rumors":
NY Press Editor Jeff Koyen goes afterof all people (er, publications)free weekly satirical newspaper, The Onion. "...there's some hope that [The Onion] may weather these tough advertising times and remain a welcome presence on the corners," Koyen writes. "[But] not if they keep fucking up." He then complains that…
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· New York City real estate public auction [via Muxway]
