must-have magazines

Playboy and Maxim -- ah to be single.

 

I got Playboy for 3 years when I was married.

 

I dropped my subscription once they made changes to try to attract the Maxim/FHM/Stuff reader. Of course, Stuff is now dead and I have to figure FHM's in trouble.

 

Big news out of Conde Nast, Portfolio and Men's Vogue are going to 10 issues a year.
I've really liked Portfolio. It has been a good read, but they spent a ton of money starting it up and they weren't getting the ad dollars.
At least they didn't fold it.

 

I've been married 11 years, been a Playboy subscriber a lot longer than that.

I've picked up Portfolio a few times. Pricey up here in canada but some good reading. I'd love to find a site that has good deals on the Economist up here.

 

in the atlantic's "fiction 2009" special, paul theroux has a piece with several vignettes on men, women, love, sex, infidelity, etc. it's terrific, and i'm definitely envisioning a movie.


also, chris jones is a hot commodity these days: a page 2 column in espn the mag, and a lengthy piece in the current esquire.

 

7. MY GRADUATE STUDENT

the subjects are a 62-year-old head of a respected department of poli-sci at a famous university, and a 24-year-old polish student with a "slyness in her blue eyes." (at least they weren't sabra eyes...)

on a class trip to d.c., klara tells the prof she wants him in her hotel room.

"with a twinkle in her eye she described in detail one of the most extraordinary perversions i ever heard."


so, what do you suppose that perversion is?

 

Rooting for the Nats?

 

when i think of moddy amid this madness of the nats' winning streak, i envision him on the couch in nothing but underwear, an industrial-size tub of fluff between his legs, scooping out handfuls and shoving so much in his mouth at once that it shoots out like a belush zit explosion when a dunn homer makes him apoplectic.

 

in the current british gq (with bruno on the cover), there is a story titled "THE MILF VS THE COUGAR"

centered mostly around the explolsion of MILF/cougar porn.