YOU GOT YOUR POLITICS BLOG IN MY ALT-WEEKLY: If you’re in LA you can get a whole week’s worth of national political scandal & shame by picking up the newly redesigned City Beat. The column is called … Weekette! [LA City Beat]
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Yes, good. Soon there will be major product integration and Wonkette will be discovered for not using real beef in it’s burgers and outsourcing it’s writing to children in Bangladesh.
its time for a drink dear….ill get excitied when its in my…uhmm…alt thingy…
Copying is the best form of flatery and evidence in a copyright suit.
Wall Street Journal has a political scandal & shame column too. It’s called **Wallette.**
Hey, I checked this out and was terribly disapointed to find no mentions of buttsex, gin or pandas. So the site seems to be a failure both as an ape of us and as an alternative newspaper.
It reads well in online magazine format. To be honest, I didn’t think it would so much, but it does!
Is this online edition identical in content to the print version?
Ken Layne,
Man, thanks! I am thrilled to back. I can hardly wait to bad mouth every politician that comes down the pike or up the drain.
Thanks again,
Mr-Clark
[re=14979]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: The buttssex and gin mentions are in the back: in/outcall, full/half’n'half, escort, SMBD, furry play ads. I hope Ken got a piece of that profitable action in return for Weekette.
Sadly, Lionel, no panda-ering anywhere.
Isn’t a copy-cat of something so amazingly profitable and culturally influential as this long past due already? I’m surprised there’s no “Saloon”; “Slayte”; or “Huffinton Post” yet.
[re=15026]liquiddaddy[/re]: It’s a licensed/syndicated/whatever weekly Wonkette digest, not a copycat effort. As far as I can tell from here.
Context is everything–the individual posts seem funnier when published in an alternative weekly than when surrounded by other, equally hilarious and trenchant work by the Wonkette team.
Does it have any pelicans?
A Ken Layne liveblog from last Tuesday is reproduced and I feel a bit sorry for Jim Newell. I mean, as it stands if you want to know what clothes Jim Newell wears, you need only google the phrase ‘Jim Newell wears’ and you get this:
http://i25.tinypic.com/eb8vx2.jpg
Weakette.
Weekette should reach into it’s Wallette and pay Wonkette for copying…ette.
[re=14963]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Wonkette, like Soylent Green, IS PEOPLE! Uh. Whatevs.
it’ll read much better without having this peanut gallery of snide commenters make lame “ironic” jokes.
[re=15062]Q[/re]: I’m sure they are.
[re=15069]metropolitan[/re]: We will find a way in somehow.
[re=15063]TGY[/re]: You mean “delicious,” right?
Needs pitchurs. And might I say congratulations — this interwebs thing might just catch on now that the print media has become aware of it.
I for one welcome the new overlords of “times I am waiting in a diner/for a movie.”
[re=15056]wheelie[/re]: Yeah, and the Sun also rises.
It looks much better in unbelievably tiny print in the news section than it does on our sad, sad website that won’t even import, like, “heading 3.”
Wheelie: It’s identical to the online version except it’s capped at about 3,000 words, and Ken & the Gang are pumping out about 50. Also, no funny pictures.
[re=15056]wheelie[/re]: Don’t feel sorry. They’re comfy.
I have never seen this particular alt-weekly. How close is “Weekette” to the Filipino tranny hooker ads?
But, but . . . no one READS here in L.A.
Other than Variety and the Hollywood Reporter.
Words HURT.
LaCitybeat? Sounds a little bit FRENCH to me…
[re=14963]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Wonkette is people!
[re=14963]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: That’s change I CAN believe in.
[re=15181]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: eople,
People who need people
Are the luckiest people in the world
Were children needing other children
And yet letting our grown-up pride
Hide all the need inside
Acting more like children than children
Lovers
Are very special people
Theyre the luckiest people in the world
With one person,
One very special person
A feeling deep in your soul
Says you are half now youre whole
No more hunger and thirst
But first be a person who needs people
People, people who eat people
Are the hungriest people in the world.
With some persons
Some very well-done persons
A feeling deep in your bowel
Says you are half as youre full
No more hunger and thirst
But first be a person who eats people
People, people who eat people
Are the yummiest people in the world.
[re=15188]NotUrEvryDayWEzl[/re]: http://thebollywoodfan.blogspot.com/2008/02/on-change-we-can-believe-in.html
These folks provide endless, um, CHANGE (although it’s a Bollywood blog, which is kinda funny).
Dear Ken Layne,
I am going to copy Mr. Clark. I think that you should make tons of money on this endeavor and then give me lots of it.
Sincerely,
Mr. Clark
[re=15214]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Careful…Mr. Clark might take your advice and sue you.
[re=15198]shortsshortsshorts[/re]:
Shessh! I was starting to get all nostalgic for the days when I didn’t know Babz was only loved by teh gayz, and then you go an ruin it with soylent green jokes (or lezbo jokes I’m not sure which)
No “Visit scenic and friendly Compton” ads?
Howdy from Doody.
I have this thing I like to do in my spare time called “Wank It.” Does that count?
Ronald. On the propaganda thread you asked for the complete Malcolm X speeches DVD.
Get it here http://malcolmxfiles.blogspot.com
[re=15128]@ commiegirl[/re]: Um . . . my question was whether the online version of LA CityBeat’s Weekette and the print version (presuming there is one) will be the same length. No matter.
Weekette= the shorter, more feminine side of 7 days. Brought to you by ‘buttsecks,”pandas,’WALNUTS! or WALNUTZ!,’ ‘Soylent Green,’ and… ‘Balack Hussein Osama.’
[re=15078]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Sure. Delicious, tasty people. Not necessarily ‘people with good taste’. Charlie Tuna always confused those two in re: Starkist.
Hey, Ken! Just how much are they paying you for the cut n’ paste job?
[re=15160]Neilist[/re]: Variety has too many words.
The L.A. rag should be called WEAKette.
Geez.
June 12-18, 2008: This is the week that wasn’t yet.
Wheelie: Um, sorry.
[re=15373]@ commiegirl[/re]: I’m sorry. My reply to you was a bit dickhead-ish. I apologize.
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