One of the many things I read is Randy Cassingham's free weekly newsletter, This is True. The format is simple: Randy collects odd stories from newspapers, then adds his own one-liner. Here's an example from the latest issue (THIS is TRUE for 25 January):
ALL WRAPPED UP: When Chris Kirk, 33, went away on a business trip, his friend Luke Trerice, 26, took care of his Olympia, Wash., apartment for him. Kirk arrived back home to find everything in his place was wrapped in aluminum foil. Everything. The walls, the kitchen cabinets, even the spare change on his bedside table. Rolls of toilet paper were unrolled, wrapped, and rolled back up. "It went surprisingly fast," Trerice said of the project, which took 4,000 square feet of foil. "The toilet was hard. The molding around the doorways took a very long time." Trerice is "known for large-scale strangeness," Kirk said. How did he react when he first saw his home? "I heard him open the door and gasp," said a neighbor. (Olympia Olympian)
Then, the inevitable scream: "Curses! Foiled again!"
