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by Mathew
Ingram
DOG CHURCH
Is the Virtual Church of the Blind Chihuahua a real honest-to-God church, with down-to-earth Christian beliefs and a great sense of humour? Or is it a parody of other weird churches? You be the judge.
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CAPTAIN TRIPS
The story of the original Captain Trips is one of the most bizarre tales I have ever read, about a little-known chap named Al Hubbard who hung out with Timothy Leary and helped start the acid movement of the 1960s.
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GO BROMWYN
Follow the Amazing Adventures of Bromwyn Bunny, devoted to the international travels of a stuffed bunny rabbit, Bromwyn Bunny, who appears in photos with famous landmarks and celebrities.
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DEATH NEWS
Is Death News what the Internet is for? Apparently it is. It's devoted to out-takes from TV news programs from around the world featuring murder, mutilation and various other kinds of revolting images.
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ACCESS MANSON
George Simson of Access Manson is married to one of the original members of the Manson Family, and his site has a list of all the "lies" about Manson, and some of Chuck's own patented insane ramblings about this and that.
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Using this handy all-in-one index of Weirdness/Coolness, you can check out all the bizarre sites I've surfed by. I'm not claiming that these sites are the newest or even the weirdest and/or coolest, just that I thought they were worth taking note of.
Weird One | Weird Too | Weird Three | Weird Four |
| Weird Feature | The Stupidfun Page |
Crash Site
-- Hard to describe 'zine. "Boredom and apocalypse, home of hopeless sexuals" if that gives
you anything to go by. First-person columns mostly filled with aimless bravado, and lots of
cool graphic-type stuff. There's lots of cool sections like "Ask Satan" and "Effective
Brainwashing" to keep you entertained.
Career Guide for Engineers and
Computer Scientists
-- It starts out semi-seriously. Then it gets weird, with pictures of graduates
working in fast-food joints, or lying in the gutter with captions like "Joe, PhD Physics
Stanford '86, and Mike, PhD Biochemistry UC Berkeley '88, have become entrepreneurs in
Times Square." Is it a joke? You be the judge.
Diaries on the Internet
-- A central list of diaries on the Internet, including one called An Ongoing Erratic
Diary and A Year in the Life of a Nerd. I love this kind of crap.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
-- Mr. Smarty Pants writes a syndicated column for the Austin Chronicle in Texas, in
which he relates various kinds of trivia, including for some strange reason an entire
section specially devoted to "flan facts."
MONK ...Travel with a Twist
-- Monk is also a magazine, or 'zine, devoted to chronicling the travels of a couple of
guys who decided to buy a motor home and just travel around North America meeting strange
people and having all sorts of weird adventures. All filtered through their dry sense of
humour.
Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the
Postmodern Scene
-- For those of you who just can't get enough of the weird and wacky post-literate, post-
meaningful prose of Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, those nutty postmodernists from Montreal,
this site is designed and devoted to their theories about postmodern panic, organized like
an encyclopedia.
Urban Legends Reference Page
-- Yes, there's a whole sub-category of urban legends that have to do with Disney. Was Walt
frozen? No. Is there a private bar located somewhere within Disneyworld (where liquor is
otherwise banned)? Yes, there is. Do women regularly lift their tops and expose their
breasts while on the Splash Mountain ride (which takes a picture of riders automatically at
one point during the ride)? Yes, they sure do.
Inconspicuous Consumption
-- The Web-based version of a fascinating 'zine by the same name, which chronicles the
progress of Paul Lukas (who clearly has too much time on his hands) as he investigates one
weird food item at a time, such as Sweet Sue's Canned Whole Chicken. He even interviews a
guy at the company that makes it. Weird, but wonderful.
The 60 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
-- This used to be the 50 greatest conspiraces of all time, but I guess some other really
good ones have come along, what with the Heaven's Gate cultists and comet Hale-Bopp and
all that. Check out the archives, especially the JFK and UFO stuff, but be careful --
there's a ton of it.
Centre for the Easily Amused
-- Just what it says. Tons of fun, from the Short Attention Span Site of the Day, to the
Random Silliness sites. "Our hard-working experts have been exploring the Internet since
long before it was trendy in their search for the Ultimate Guide to Wasting Time," say
the creators.
The Strange Case of the Lost Elvis
Diaries
-- Reporter Jeff Parish's journey to find the legendary lost journals of the King himself.
Is it for real, or just another Elvis hoax? Don't be cruel, check it out.
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