We’re just saying…When will Google News tell all their other news sources out there exactly when they intend to cut a sweet Associated Press-style deal with them too? Who still reads Time magazine and why is their new print publication schedule a story? When Katie Couric bitch smacks the other network’s anchors via ratings success starting September 5th, how long will ABC allow Charles Gibson to drone on? Will Air America’s Janeane Garofalo respond to Howard Stern co-host Artie Lang and his “fucking idiot” comment during William Shatner’s Comedy Central Roast? Better question: Why is Air America still (barely) on the air? Does anyone believe Whoopi Goldberg in her recent New York Times interview when she said she’s never seen “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and hasn’t spoken to the host in 20 years? What the hell happened on the set of The Color Purple? Does anyone really think that Mother Jones appointing two editors-in-chief (Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery) will actually work? (Cue the cat reorws and hisses!)
Ridiculous magazine feature of the month goes to Details magazine, the (allegedly) straight men’s periodical so obsessed with homosexuality that they even have a regular feature devoted to the topic called “Gay or [fill in the blank with supposedly questionable manly activity/individual].” Surely you remember this regular column, it’s the same one that, back in 2004, forced Details’ editor-in-chief Daniel Peres to issue a public apology in the face of mounting protests outside their offices for their “Gay or Asian” bit. Apparently, the hubbub only served to solidify the mag’s obsession with all things gay. The latest feature, incredibly titled “Watch Your Back,” poses the notion that poor schlub straight men are now under attack by the gay mafia in a new trend called “heterophobia.” (We much prefer the well done, “The Buysexual Agenda,” New York Magazine August 18, 2003.) This latest bout of “trendspotting” by Details should have had a disclaimer at the end…Something like: Dear Readers, Because Cargo magazine was so viciously slammed and ultimately shuttered for being “too gay” we are trying our damnedest to let you know how straight Details is, so bear (heh) with us…
Speaking of the ambiguously straight, the cover of this month’s Wired magazine, featuring the girlish figure of musician (Gosh! I’m a deer in headlights!) Beck, is so pink and frilly that we almost forgot that the cover headline, “The Rebirth Of Music: Now Bands Are Taking Over And Fans Are Getting What They Want,” is complete rubbish. Yeah, right, and Roman Polanski prefers older women, and “The Long Tail” is absolutely worth the 226-page read…
A moment of silence for Hype Stalker for our coming-out party last week initiated by our appearance on media-pro-must-read Romenesko (We exist! We really exist!), and the subsequent harshing by Jossip and MediaBisto’s FishbowlNY. This is all getting way too sexy for us. Where were all these people when we were bashing Kurt Andersen’s brains out every week just a couple of months ago? Eh, better late than never…
