Word: lampooner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Vellucci has long had an interest in plants and animals. In fact, he has battled for years with the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-exclusive Bow St. social club which used to publish a so-called humor magazine, over frequent attempts by the 'Poonsters to kill the Liberty Tree in front of their castle...
...paper supply in your house super's office. You needn't wait for the first snow of the winter to impress parents strolling through house courtyards. Imagine: toilet-paper snowpeople in Mid-November! And if your House experiences a run on those fluffy white rolls, old copies of the Lampoon might just finish...
...vast majority of zines, however, settle for the slightly irreverent. Some have literary aspirations, others revel in white-trash culture; some have , a weirdly tight focus, others purposefully ramble. Diseased Pariah News uses gallows humor to lampoon the daily trauma of living with AIDS; Processed World ridicules the consumer culture of Popeye's chicken shacks and Subway sandwich shops; the I Hate Brenda Newsletter lambastes former Beverly Hills, 90210 star Shannen Doherty for everything from her pancake-white makeup to her recital of the Pledge of Allegiance at the 1992 Republican Convention. Dirt Rag is a service zine for dirt...
...across David Sedaris' name in a collection of "alternative new queer writing" edited by novelist Dennis Cooper (he of the Jeffrey Daumer-like heroes and highly-theorized fascination with rimming). Sedaris' entry in this in-your-face collection was called "Glenn's Homophobia Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 2," a lampoon of self-righteous activism and P.C. paranoia. (Glenn indulges in frequent digressions about cruel ex-boyfriends and screams intolerance when a cornerstore cashier resists an inelegant, intrusive seduction). It was funny, a little off-color but not quite as deliberately smellyas some of the other offerings...
...Harvard Lampoon is hilarious. No, really...