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Does anyone here read Missbehave magazine? It's a fun, loopy girlmag. Singer Kelis ("I'm Bossy!") has her own advice column, the fashion spreads are bright and colorful and out-there. Shmancy writers, like Cintra Wilson, occasionally contribute. There was an article on how to dress like a stripper a few issues ago, and a Heatherette spread starring Lydia Hearst. It's "downtown" without the overly-precious, gushy NYLON sensibility, and some of the writing is satisfyingly freewheeling. Folio reviews the mag so far, pointing out that the "mag's models are less kempt, more ordinary, and more overtly sexual than most." Oh noes! Oh yes. How could you not love something with a swimsuit spread starring furries?
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It's like what Jezebel should be.
I met Kelis once, and she called me "good-lookin'." If I'd played my cards a little more boldly, I'd be waking up with that milk shake instead of Nas.
Sheila, of course I read it - can't you see that's ME on the cover darlin?
Great! Another mag directed at making tweenagers into prostitots. As if Bratz and the Pussycat Dolls didn't already corner this market.
O-o-o... o-o-o!
I've been a purchasing this fine rag since it first came out.
Love the monthly ghetto nails!!!
How could you not love something with a swimsuit spread starring furries?
Let me show you.
I too would like to kidnap Michael Cera. Explain away Missbehave.
I, too, would like to kidnap Michael Cera.
@ExecutiveIntern: Ha! Maybe it can happen if we work as a team.
And the best part is that my place of employment comps it for me!!!
Shhhh... they dont know what they're buyin.
P.S. "Vishnu vs Shiva"?
Is Hindu mythology the hot new tweenager trend?
That Easter Bunny is so showing off and thinking "I come more than once a year, take that Santa!" Uh huh
@EleanorRigby: I hope you don't mind hours of Arrested Development jokes. I look forward to working with you.
@: Oh yeah? Well, be sure to send me pics of the outtakes, Neal!
Plus Orange Julius? I love orange juliuses!
I love this, I got into it a few months ago... it's like cosmo, if cosmo wrote about things you actually cared about.
Because your everyday life doesn't resemble niche-market pornography enough already.
@TheHonJudgeSmails: SNAP!
@ExecutiveIntern: I've made a terrible mistake...
I once saw Kelis at Bowery Ballroom. Her nip slipped for the enirety of one song. I guess I literally saw her milk... shake.
@TheHonJudgeSmails: surely, you jest
@LeGagneur: Orange Julii, please.
No it's not. It's terrible. It's for 18-22 year olds, the graphics are ridic and the grammar is one step above txt-speak. The fashion spreads are the worst. I'm surprized it's still operating, it's so poorly organized and held together, not to mention started by the editor's girlfriend from Complex who had no editorial experience (and it shows....). It's great if you're a white girl who wants to be more "urban".
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@bess marvin, girl detective: I'm dead serious. Ostensibly, Jezebel wants to help women reach their highest potential. From what I can tell, it employs young female angst and the attendant rage as its primary method toward this goal. From my perusal of Missbehave, it appears to be a publication bent on furthering the cause of women by guiding them on how to celebrate their womanness; to capitalize on their femininity. That is a movement I can get behind. And proceed to roger thoroughly.
@sheila: ok you got me, so it wasn't my best gay day. I'll work on that one.
@TheHonJudgeSmails: respectfully disagree. Jezebel has think pieces, containing sometimes elaborate permutations of thought. clever as this may be, it appears to be a typical pop culture magazine project: frivolous, ephemeral. the analogy seems misplaced.
@hamburgerhotdog: i dunno, "missbehave my friend?" doesn't have the same ring as "guanabee my friend?" nor look as creepy.
@ExecutiveIntern: @EleanorRigby: You may have Michael Cera. As long as you keep your mitts off John Cena. He's mine. http://z.about.com/d/prowrestling/1/0/i/4/-/-/cena.jpg
@TheologicalSong: seeing gizmodo wang in chocolate is a think piece?
I was unaware how much I wanted to sleep with Amber Heard until right now. Or even that she existed. Thank you, print journalism!
But I cock my eyebrow at the juxtaposition of "kid sister" and "booty shorts".
@mitchel_stevens: Well, they will buy you meth if you shut up [www.missbehavemag.com]
And you can't deny the genius of this article: [www.missbehavemag.com]
@TheHonJudgeSmails: BURRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNNN. (I agree.)
@TheHonJudgeSmails: You know, I sat for a few seconds before hitting submit, wondering about that...
@TheHonJudgeSmails: outwardly directed female rage is so much better than the lack of self-respect/utter self loathing that most girls pick up in middle and high school. And does "capitalizing on your femininity" mean taking stripper aerobics classes and pretending to be bi-curious because that is why so many 16-26 year olds are insufferable twits happier to flash vag than do anything meaningful. <------rageful rant
@TheHonJudgeSmails: Yes, jezebel should be a group of white girls posturing in black venacular, waxing poetic about getting their nails "did" and buying $200 kicks while extoling on how amazing shitty graffiti looks when screenprinted on t-shirts. That's exactly what the world needs more of.
And since you missed this: [jezebel.com]
@moff: Well, girls love a confident, powerful man. And you DID blow up Alderaan, after all.
@hamburgerhotdog: I misspelled vernacular.
Yes, I read it, I luvs dem colors!
@BettyCrocker: Oh, ew! John Cena? Really? The Marine? Michael Cera is far hotter than him.
@EleanorRigby: Ooo! Can I come along? I'll drive the stair car and shoo away hop-ons!
@hamburgerhotdog: i stand corrected. i'll wait for the ad.
@moff: oh and ps, I'm one uppin you, I gotsa picture:
[www.flickr.com]
@hamburgerhotdog: so true. And my unimaginative name is completely unrelated.
I need to think of a new one.
@hamburgerhotdog: I admit to being one of said white girls. But they pissed me because they sent me a renewal notice after I received only 2 issues. Why do magazines do that? I send them a "WTF, yo?" email about it. No "Our bad, yo" response as of yet.
@missbehave: But you have an adorable red panda sticking out his tongue, so I cannot object.
@hamburgerhotdog: Are you judging it purely from the mag's blog?
@SoleilMoonPie: I'm not entirely convinced it wasn't created simply to advertise all the crap made by Married to the Mob/Alife/all the other places in the LES making ugly limited edition sneakers and patterned hoodies.
@PimpMyCouch: Sweet, we can pick up some frozen bananas to eat on the way.
@hamburgerhotdog: ha thanks--sometimes i think it's about to puke, sometimes i think it's being adorable. depends on my mood.
@ExecutiveIntern: They totally left out Brahma too. And now poor Brahma is all lonely and has an eating disorder. But he is coming out with a poetry book in the fall.
Really? I always thought the writing was worse than Nylon's--like Diablo Cody if she were trying to be "urban"--and there was even more product placement in the fashion spreads. I'd like to think it would take more than a couple of "homeboy"s and furry fashion spreads (so edgy!) to buy our demographic.