Book of the Dead
Creepy does not even begin to describe this magazine of morbidness planned by a Dubai publisher:
A monthly magazine celebrating the lives of famous dead celebrities is to be launched across the region by Corporate Publishing International, Campaign Middle East can reveal.
Called Goodbye, the "niche" publication is expected to hit the streets from the start of next month, priced around AED10 (US$2.70).
Well, at least you can't defame the dead.
The idea came to de Sousa after he was reading a celebrity magazine that carried coverage of Pope John Paul II’s funeral. "I kept on seeing dead bodies of famous people being featured in magazines and thought about what these people had contributed during their lives."
Exactly what magazines does this gentleman read? Corpse Weekly? The Embalmer's Chronicle? Photographs of dead people while they were alive fair enough, but in the name of all that is holy please save the cadavers and coffins for Necrophilia News.
A monthly magazine celebrating the lives of famous dead celebrities is to be launched across the region by Corporate Publishing International, Campaign Middle East can reveal.
Called Goodbye, the "niche" publication is expected to hit the streets from the start of next month, priced around AED10 (US$2.70).
Well, at least you can't defame the dead.
The idea came to de Sousa after he was reading a celebrity magazine that carried coverage of Pope John Paul II’s funeral. "I kept on seeing dead bodies of famous people being featured in magazines and thought about what these people had contributed during their lives."
Exactly what magazines does this gentleman read? Corpse Weekly? The Embalmer's Chronicle? Photographs of dead people while they were alive fair enough, but in the name of all that is holy please save the cadavers and coffins for Necrophilia News.
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21 Comments:
I'm thinking of publishing a magazine for clothes made out of furballs. Each item will have a picture of the cat (the original owner). I'll call it "Furball Aficionado". What say you?
somber weekly?
nothing morbid...it's perfectly normal...i ready the orbituary daily..sometimes friends u have not seen for a while..u know what i mean
clayfuture,
these cats are fleeced,killed or sheared like sheep?
it's quite sensitive for cat affcionado like me...
The UAE publishes more magazines than any country in the Middle East and North Africa. In fact, I think it publishes as many for the whole lot put together.
We are talking about over 160 titles here. Like everything else in this region, excess seems to be the recurring theme.
black feline, there is a difference between an obituary column and an ENTIRE magazines dedicated to dead _celebrities_. I mean, really.. if one of your friends were a celebrity, I don't think you'll wait for that magazine to come out to tell you that they were dead.
My prediction is that it will fail and shut down a few months after it goes live. I can see Red Bull advertising there... "Red Bull gives you wings to use in the after-life!" ;)
Black feline -
No! It's the furballs the cats cough up!! Haven't you ever seen one?
i wonder where the ad revenue will come from?? grave diggers, coffin suppliers?
Hehehe! I know the publisher quite well, and at one point I had an idea to create a website called www.deadgits.com - mainly as a resource so you could catch up on folks who'd popped but nobody told you about it.
Anyway Dom, you nicked my idea!
I really dont know what goes on in De Soussa's mind. Has he stopped making sense with excuses for ad revenue?
Both CPI and ITP need to cut down on the number of publications they put out and need to specialise and be investigative in their reporting. merely printing press releases gets you nowhere.
Well, I think ITP has done just that with Campaign Middle East.. now that's on just about every creative director's blacklist.
Not many people accept criticism.. let alone the creative types ;)
I'm in Texas, and we are housing thousands of people who lost everything due to Hurricane Katrina. How come no one in the UAE is talking about it? Do you guys know this is going on??
Yes, we do, and yes, we are - just not necessarily here. Have a look at the foreign pages of our newspapers, and many of the letters from US expats living here.
clayfuture,
as a matter of fact..No..it must be a phenomena...not in my side of the world...anyway, the asthmatic cats here caused by the sand dusts will need to cough substiantially in order for u to make even a decent piece of undie! Good luck to your BIZ...i would have thought goats here will be a better alternative...
of course we are talking about it..in fact Qatar is gracious enuff to donate US100 mil...BUT the matronly madam rice declined the offer...said USA has all the resources to settle the crisis...it took them 6 days to recover from the shock (the federal government)before any concrete action was taken. God help them..the federal government!
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Anon - had to censor your comment unfortunately. That the allegation is "well-known" is not likely to protect me from a defamation action! Here's the safe bit:
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Mohammed elzubeir: I work in the publishing industry. There are over 500 titles in UAE, not 160. And yes it is completely ridiculous
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Yet another nonsense idea tracked down by our good ol' SD!
I can't take the credit for this one - it was actually spotted by George from Pepped.com on UAE Community blog!
Hey Mr. Texas,
What makes you think that we should discuss Katrina on a DUBAI blog? Jeezuz.. You don't see me going on a Dallas-centric blog complaining that they didn't cover the death of Sheikh Zayed. Get a life.
And yes, as others have pointed out, the papers do cover it.
i think theres such an infestation of cheap glossy mags here
It was very insulting not to have proper press coverage of zayed, all the US media covers is the death of tyrants like Reagan and Fahd.
In any case on behalf of the Emarati people, we wish you the best in recovery, and I wish georgy boy a vacation in hell.
You won't even find a single expat in the UAE who would speak anything but praise for Sheikh Zayed.
I doubt that can be said of any other world leader, anywhere, ever.
Least of all Bush.
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