Writers Strike Cripples Celebrity Satire, Sex Video Website
By (Reuters)

Writers wanted.

WEST CHESTER, Penna. – The three-month-old Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) strike has flattened the tires of Postcards from the Pug Bus, southeastern Pennsylvania’s leading celebrity satire website.

Phil Maggitti, editor in briefs of Postcards, confirmed yesterday that the recent absence of new material on the site is a consequence of the WGA walkout.

“It’s ironic, in the true sense of the word, that our two staff writers have engaged in a work stoppage for higher wages,” said Mr. Maggitti, speaking by phone from his quaintly appointed den.

“We don’t pay them anything for their ‘work’ in the first place,” he continued. “So even if I doubled their wages, two times bupkis is still bupkis. Besides, they’re not even in the goddamn union.”

Ironically, again in the true sense of the word, traffic at the cutting edge Postcards site hasn’t dropped as much as one might have expected.

“Off the top of my head,” said Mr. Maggitti, “I’d say we’re down roughly 35 percent, despite posting only seven new articles this month. That’s a testimony to the strength of our back catalog, particularly the exclusive pieces about celebrity sex videos that we’ve featured.

“We have the inside stories on the Rachael Ray, Jessica Sierra, and Vanessa Hudgens videos, and they’re still drawing a lot of rubberneckers and their rubber appendages.”

For the duration of the WGA strike, Postcards from the Pug Bus hopes to feature the work of unknown satire writers.

“Give us your pissed off, your demented, your celebrity obsessed, and your homeless writers looking for a break,” said Mr. Maggitti. “If they send it, we’ll post it; though we do reserve the right, of course, to edit for content, style, and the proper use of irony and coincidence.”