A few quirky links from around the Web:
- After more than 65 years, Archie Andrews has finally decided to tie the knot … with Veronica Lodge. Archie Comic Publications announced yesterday that the long-standing love triangle will finally come to an end when the red-headed boy picks the raven-haired girl in Archie Marries Veronica Part 1: The Proposal, which will arrive in comic book shops on Aug. 19. Poor Betty!
- A new horror novel from Japan’s Koji Suzuki (author of The Ring, which was later turned into a bad Hollywood flick) is being printed on rolls of toilet paper, making it easy for those troubled by the recession to choose between buying basic necessities and a new book. It’s a 2-for-1 deal!
- “I am a proud non-reader of books. I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life,” says Kanye West, in an interview about, uh, his new book.
- And finally, for you geeky literary types, Pop Matters takes a long look at “Star Trek’s Lost Legacy of Literary Pretension.”