National Lampoon Magazine, Radio, and Vinyl Memories

[alwynsw]

I think my favorite comic from the magazine was Trots and Bonnie, but it lost it's appeal when we finally saw Bonnie's boobs.

From "How to Write Good" 1971

"My advice to the would-be-writer is that he start slowly, writing short undemanding things, things such as telegrams, flip-books, crank letters, signature scarves, spot quizzes, capsule summaries, fortune cookies and errata. Then, when he feels he's ready, move up to the more challenging items such as mandates, objective correlatives, passion plays, pointless diatribes, minor classics, manifestos, mezzotints, oxymora, exposes, broadsides, and papal bulls.
And above all, never forget that the pen is mightier than the plow-share. By this I mean that writing, all in all, is a hell of a lot more fun than farming. For one thing, writers seldom, if ever, have to get up at five o'clock in the morning and shovel manure. As far as I'm concerned, that gives them the edge right there."

And I loved "Lite Porn"

The beautiful young nurse leaned over the patient, a young man in traction, and smiled. "And how are you today. Lewis?" she asked brightly.
"Horny, still," the youngster immediately replied. "C'mon! Get me out of this contraption! Please, I want you!"
"Ha, ha!" she laughed as she moved to the next bed.

[DiverDave]

1. Buy this magazine

or we'll shoot this dog.
The dogs expression still makes me laugh.

[REP]

2. "Hope As They Haggle With a Hare-Lipped Hooker!"

I love the Aesop Brothers. Hell, I love Rodriguez's cartoons in general. There was one of a vending machine of "Mom's Delicious Soups" with a maintenance guy adjusting a dial labled "more delicious" at one end and "less delicious" at the other. Another favorite was a bunch of cops raiding a topless bar - only to rush out, nauseous, when they found the topless dancers all had had mastectomies.

Zimmer vs Son-O-God. Sgt Shriver's Bleeding Hearts Club Band. Easy Writer. Serial Killer Trading Cards (included Union Carbide). Then PJ O'Roarke became editor and it began to stink to high heaven.