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This is True [v8]: Invisible Man Disappears From View (And 500 Other Bizarre-but-True Stories and Headlines from the World's Press)
by Randy Cassingham
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+ "May convince you that the nation's capital isn't the only place where strange things happen. This is True even adds some zinger commentaries to outlandish real-life stories." --USA Today
+ "Randy is a founding father of Internet humor, which wouldn't mean a thing if 'This is True' wasn't reliably funny. It is." --Jim Rosenberg's Monologue
"This is True" is the first entertainment newsletter on the Internet, created by Randy Cassingham as an e-mail newsletter in early 1994. TRUE's mission is to provoke thought through social commentary. But if readers aren't entertained by the stories, they won't read very many. Thus its vehicle, weird-but-true news from legitimate news sources from around the world. The result spans the gamut of the crazy things we humans think we can get away with: this collection of jaw-dropping examples of the human thought process, and the realization that we can do better — a LOT better!
What sort of stories?
+ Man locks himself in a bunker for two weeks to get away from Christmas.
+ After 9/11, airport security detained a retired Marine Corps general for carrying something "suspicious" -- his Congressional Medal of Honor that he was taking to show to students at the West Point military academy.
+ The suspect in a shooting is located in the courthouse: he had reported for jury duty.
The weird-but-true stories come from all over the world, each one punctuated by Randy's wild commentary — a tagline that is humorous, ironic, opinionated, or (with luck) some combination of the three. "Truth is stranger than fiction," Randy likes to say, "because fiction has to make sense."
This is Volume 8 of the series, collecting the eighth year of stories and headlines from mid-2001 to mid-2002. The newsletter is still active, too: see www.ThisIsTrue.com for details.
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