Book • “Bat
Boy Lives” provides hours of
fun, both interesting and weird.
Sterling Publishing
New coffee-table book provides entertainment
By Joseph Serna
Online Forty-Niner
Contributing Writer
In case you haven’t checked your Email lately, beware of the aliens seducing
our earth women through spamming.
Did you ever wonder what happened to Ms. Cleo, the psychic who wanted you to
call now for your free tarot card reading? Perhaps she went the way of Madame
Mona, the psychic whose head exploded after answering every question the caller
had wrong.
Don’t scoff —we’re all skeptical until we notice
the disc jockey spinning at the club is actually an alien.
His story is found in only one place.
In line at the supermarket, next to the Skittles, Twix and M&Ms sits the
best candy of all, but it’s not edible.
That is, unless you’re the Bat Boy.
Sitting there in all its black and white glory, asking the reader to
suspend disbelief for a few short moments and read about the upcoming
alien invasion
or Elvis’ latest letter to a fan, the Weekly World News can satisfy almost
any imaginative junk-food fix your brain has ever desired.
Coming on the heels of Halloween, we can all mentally gorge on candy
until we’re
sick with a new book that brings almost 200 pages of Weekly World News photos,
headlines, and stories to bring us the “truth” no one wants to
talk about.
As author David Perel, in conjunction with the WWN editors, writes
in the introduction, there are two types of the WWN readers, those
who believe the stories folded
between the 22-pound horsefly and Bigfoot photos, and cynics who think they’re
smarter than the former.
Either way, whoever picks up this book didn’t do so by accident. This isn’t
the latest Stephen King novel or Dan Brown mystery, you can’t read the
last sentence, close the book and sigh, “That was it?”
A more likely reaction may be to flip the last page, and continue looking for
more. There has to be more, what about the story about the clouds of God and
the devil facing off over a Dallas Cowboys football game?
While we may be shorted that gem, there are plenty others to read, and possibly
laugh about.
Divided into six chapters, the book covers everything from politics and the paranormal,
to pop culture and religion. Every magazine article in the section, relates to
the topic at hand.
One of WWN’s most famous characters, err, subjects, is the bat
boy found in a West Virginia cave.
His fanged, pointed-eared face graces the cover of “Bat Boy Lives,” but
while some may argue he should have remained in the cave, the stories within
belong in the living room.
For those awkward moments when guests arrive, sit down, and have nothing to do
until you toss the TV remote at them, make sure they notice those glassy-bat-boy
eyes staring at them, ready to pounce on their imagination and tell them how
they actually served pizza at the Last Supper.
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