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October 19, 2003

Strange News for Strange Times



Well, as I'm staying in Buck's condo while here in New York City, it makes a lot of sense for me to tell you about his new book that's being released next week. It's an easy book for me to promote because it's so funny and insightful. Buck has one of the best jobs on the planet investigating everything from Michael Jackson's flirtation with Judaism, to a guy who legally changed his name to GOD (and later threatened to sue Buck for taking his name in vain...) and even interviewed the developer of prosthetic testicles for the guilty owners of dogs whom they, well, got guilt because of what they did to their dogs.

Weird? You bet it is, but if you want to find trends early, you do need to look on those edges of society and see what's trying to push their way in. Thankfully, most of the fringe stays there or quickly fades away, but there are other parts of that edge that give you hints of what will be mainstream soon enough. All that weird stuff that you now see as part of the mainstream today had to start someplace and somebody has to report it. Once you read Buck Wolf's take on it, you'll know he's the right one for it.

For the past five years, part of Buck's job is to investigate the fringes of culture, in a column called News You Might Have Missed for abcnews.com. Click here for a link to his complete archive of articles. While there, you might want to also check out his write up of my book in one of his early columns, Dinkwads, Doggie Rogaine & Dining With Jesus.

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