Well since my nice little thread has devolved into a bashfest of reading choices, I think a little payback is in order.
Gets out crowbar and Louisville slugger.
Bash it if you want to but lowbrow works, and I'll take a non-nude pictorial of an attractive up and comer over Playboy's airbrushed nudes of some has been or never will be anyday. Can you say Farrah Fawcett?
Playboy is a magazine lost in a time warp, much like its founder (I'm sorry folks, but an 80 year old man dating a flock of girls whose ages combined, don't add up to his is just laughable). The sophicated style the magazine tries to portray comes off as pretentious, and the interviews two issues out of three are with some spoiled brat Hollywood celebrity whom I could care less about. The line from "People vs. Larry Flynt" is absolutely correct,
"Who is this magazine for anyway? I mean, it's like if you don't make 20 thousand plus a year, you don't jerk off. Seven million people buying it and nobody's reading it."
And despite trying to sound sophisticated, a yearly subscription to Playboy
costs about the same as a yearly subscription to Maxim. I guess after tooting their horns about how much better they are than everyone else, they decided that they needed that Bubba trucker/sanitation worker demographic after all.
As a subscriber to both publications, they could each do me a favor and ditch those absolutely useless fashion and gadgets sections, which display gear and clothing that they know 80% of their readerships could not afford, or would not be seen dead in. Use the space for another pictorial.
No, no. Retarded is People Weekly. Retarded is all those women's magazines which weigh as much as a cinder block, and make their readers wade through 50 pages of scented advertisements before even reaching the table of contents.
There, that sure felt good.

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