Archive For The “These magazines are terrible” Category

Real Quick: Glamour is shocked. I mean eviscerated. I mean shocked.

By | February 23, 2011

Do you like irony? I like irony sometimes, when it’s funny, or when it’s apt, or when it serves a comeuppance to a person or institution in need of one. I’m less fond of irony when it fills me from boot-soles to eyebrows with aghast indignant eye-popping head-exploding what-the-fuck-fresh-hell-is-this rage. This post is in regards […]

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Real Quick: Actresses who eat things are FASCINATING.

By | February 16, 2011

Yesterday the New York Times ran an article discussing the frequency with which interviews with famously beautiful women talk about what they eat. Or how they eat. Or about how they talk about how they eat, boy howdy, do they ever eat! I ate some food the other day and damn, I ate the shit […]

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Real Quick: Jennifer Aniston looks wicked creepy in Allure

By | January 19, 2011

I have poked fun at Jennifer Aniston around here before, for apparently not knowing what a Cobb Salad is, though I am not as a rule anti-Aniston. I honestly don’t have a horse in that race. I’m pretty sure the only film I’ve ever seen her in was Office Space, which probably says something about […]

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Love yourself, but not too much: Seventeen’s mixed message

By | August 9, 2010

Tonight’s episode of Huge will feature a scene related to Seventeen Magazine’s “Body Peace Project”, an effort launched in 2007 in collaboration with self-esteem guru Jess Weiner. The main thrust of the project seems to be the Body Peace Treaty, which can be read and electronically signed on Seventeen’s website. Signers of the treaty pledge […]

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