Goddamit, I’m admitting defeat. Whatever the Mercury tries to do that’s a little bit wacky, the local Asian Reporter always, ALWAYS beats the pants off us. Yeah, we released a print version of the internet, but there’s just no way we can match the Reporter‘s consistently idiosyncratic mix of local news, zany international stories and mind-boggling headlines.
So here, in deference to my favorite paper in town, is a small collection of Asian Reporter headlines and covers I’ve collected over the past several months. Keep up the good work, guys.
- This week’s, for example. Not only a Nepalese midget as front page news but also the moon is marrying thousands of couples?
- A classic.
I like to imagine that Polo has something to do with those headlines.
Also: Blogtown needs a “Like” feature.
Interesting that Sun Myung Moon weddings are still making headlines.
I recall there once being an Asian Reporter article about a meeting of the WTO, that is the World Toilet Organization.
Long overdue.
My favorite headline was a few years back, “Asia Fest: You had to be there!”
Fuck a description, you just had to be there, fool, and you definitely weren’t.
Yeah, they had an article a while back about Cambodians who have started building shrines to Pol Pot. The person they interviewed basically said “Hey, he was a terrible dude, but he was powerful in life so he’s probably like a wicked powerful ghost now.”
Crazy stuff!