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Alien Revives Tabloid Corpse! [Weekly World News]
Gawker — ... . McGinness has "revived" the website, which AMI had promised to keep open (as publishers tend to do), and might even bring back the print edition. The idea is that online advertising, licensing and movie deals can succeed where the prior incarnation failed. Plus, it's something of a golden age of satire, what with the Onion and Daily Show and so forth. The new site already has old staples ...

Weekly World News Wastes No Time Giving a Political Endorsement
Jossip — ... The new Weekly World News is more topical than its predecessor, featuring mainly election-related jokes and Photoshopped pictures of the candidates with Bat Boy or Bigfoot. Hmm…is it just us or is the website set up exactly like ...

Republican Aliens Heartbroken Over McCain Loss
Best Week Ever — The Weekly World News, the self-described "World's Only Reliable News" source, has a pretty serious breaking story: Not only are extra-terrestrials tuned into American's political doings... but they're also Republicans. So as you can imagine, the aliens are devastated. And if you need proof, please check out the following hyper-realistic photograph of a naked alien comforting McCain: "It's like looking into a mirror." -- Alien. Though, to be fair, it IS possible extra-terrestrials cry digital paint tears. ...

Phil Bronstein: Happy Now? Is Obama Optimism Here to Stay?
Huffington Post Entertainment Blog — There's too much harmonic convergence going on. Watching Fox is not helping stem the tide of giddiness welling up in me, with the "We Are The World" Capitol Mall musical Sunday and people infused with optimism everywhere I go. The country has gone ...

TV in the Movies – Gonna go BACK in time
CliqueClack TV — If vampires are all the rage in movies and television, then time travel has to be a close second. The ability to travel through space to another era continues to fascinate humanity. For centuries, scientists have studied the laws of physics to determine the validity of time travel. Even the most brilliant minds have been unable to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the concept is possible. At present, no one has successfully traveled forward or backward in time, or if they have, they must be stuck wherever the hell they went. If you read the Weekly World News, there are thousands of ...

Can Humans Awaken Their Bat-Senses? [Super Powers]
io9 — We may not all have pointy ears and sharp teeth, but Spanish scientists are convinced that inside every human lurks the best bat-power: echolocation, or navigating by sound. And they're determined to show us all how to unlock it! Juan Antonio Martínez and a team of researchers at the University of Alcalá de Henares taught a group of volunteers (and themselves) to make palate clicks similar to those used by dolphins — although at a much slower rate. The series of protocols they developed then called for subjects to learn to aim their own sounds, and then to recognize their echos to identify objects ...

Macaulay Culkin IS The Father!
Dlisted - Be Very Afraid — Here's your daily dose of Michael Jackson fanfiction courtesy of The Sun ! They have it on good authority (aka the visions they saw after dropping acid while watching The Good Son ) that Macaulay Culkin is Blanket Jackson's biological father. Even Claire Cruise has filed this under CRAAAAZY TALK. A source said that 29-year-old Macaulay donated sperm which was used to create 7-year-old Blanket. The source went on to fart, "This isn't just chitter-chatter, even Culkin suspects he's Blanket's father. So many names have been mentioned as prospective dads, and this is probably the wackiest yet. But ...

New Thom Yorke/Flea Band to Play Surprise Los Angeles Gig Tonight
Pitchfork: Latest News — Photo by Colin Greenwood Last week, if you told me Thom Yorke was going to debut his still-nameless new band with Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers the same day Kid A was named Best Album of the Decade by some website, I probably would have directed you to WeeklyWorldNews.com. But that's exactly what's happening tonight at L.A.'s Echoplex, according to a message from the man himself on Radiohead's Dead Air Space blog. "It's not that big, it'll be total chaos and it's kind of a rehearsal but if you are near by..." writes Thom. Tickets for the gig go ...

Weekly World News TV show: Bat Boy’s obviously in, but what other characters would you like to see?
PopWatch — The Weekly World News is going Hollywood, offering up rights to its colorful cast of “characters” and developing a TV show with DreamWorks . Presuming it doesn’t take the fake-newsy angle that the short-lived mid-’90s show based on the fantastical tabloid did , could this actually be cool? I think so — done right, of course. It could go sci-fi drama ( Lost ) or it could go ironic kitsch (the Land of the Lost movie). It could fit in nicely with the likes of FlashForward and Fringe , both of which feature phenomena the WWN would be all over reporting — and maybe even serve as a fun send-up of the ...