Robert Hoffman

Friday, August 25. 2006
It seems that Robert Hoffman, one of the 3 founders of the National Lampoon passed away. For those who only know of the National Lampoon via movies, mainly Animal House, the real genius was in the magazine. I still have several dozens of old, vintage NL mags tucked away in storage, but I keep the National Lampoon 1964 High School Yearbook Parody on my office bookshelf. Do yourself a favor and try to grab a few off eBay.

What's even sadder is that the official National Lampoon website has not even a single word about it. Unforgivable.

PS: Yes, co-founder Doug Kenney was "Stork" in Animal House.

And then there were just 8

Friday, August 25. 2006
Poor Pluto. Well, I guess dwarf planet isn't so bad.