God, such bad decisions. Tara Reid?? Why? How many men are still interested in wanking off to her as opposed to being curious about what a nude body looks like with bad scarring from some shitty plastic surgeon/butcher's work ?
And Jimmy Jellinek?? Really?? They hired the EIC of Maxim which represents everything Playboy stands against. Why? Simply because there's semi-nekkid chix in Maxim so that should, uh, translate well to this other nudie mag ova here, right bro? This was a seriously bad move. Jimmy Jellinek belongs on Askmen.com, an unfunny, dull, boring online shithole for stupid men who think they're badasses for making a rape joke or saying "I'd tap that ass so hard." about some unfortunate starlet. If Playboy really wanted to be taken seriously as a mag for fairly smart guys who like a little T&A with their music critiques and their pro-marijuana legal analyses, they should have hired someone from the New Yorker. If you don't understand your own brand, how can you expect the market to do so?
...which is a little sad, since this last issue of Playboy may be the best one I've seen from them. Pretty girls, new fiction by Nabokov, and full-page cartoons by Gahan Wilson, which is something no other magazine does anymore (granted, not all the cartoons are great). It's a cliche to say that you read that magazine "for the articles," but honestly, that's kind of the only reason left now that you can see as much nudity as you want on the internet.
@Perhaps Not: Ohhh, this is like the prolonged last hurrah of an aging drag queen. Every time you think it's finally over, she comes back with yet another surprise, something fresh and innovative, something intelligent and poignant all at once. Only it doesn't last. I remember when they had a great pictorial of Shannen Doherty with some beautiful underwater shots that were nothing sort of poetic. I thought they had finally rid themselves of the Steven Wayda school of cheap, gaudy, fuschia-lit, 80s-rut lechy cheese. But no. They similarly disappointed with their fiction after the Guts high point from Chuck Palahniuk. Yeah, this is sad.
@Wrapitup: Drag queens and Playboy in the same comment? I salute you, sir. Yeah, it really is like that, though. This month it's Nabokov's final novella with Sasha Grey as Lolita and a fantastic art photo spread in which the girls actually look like they're having fun; next month it's Tara Reid, an interview with Puff Daddy, and a pictorial history of the bunny outfit. If you want to know what's wrong with the magazine, look at any of their centerfold spreads. There's a fine line between "Wow, nobody has skin like that!" and "Seriously, dude, nobody has skin like that."
@Perhaps Not: Thank you, I appreciate it. Everything you said is true except for the fact that I am female. And your last sentence needs to be engraved on the walls of digital artists everywhere.
Um, that's a picture of John Edwards' BabyMamma. If David Pecker were the BabMamma, I'm sure the Enquirer would have managed to get him on the cover you posted.
the supermarkets should buy them and distribute the rags free to shoppers; which is more or less what happens now except for the supermarkets buying them part
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And Jimmy Jellinek?? Really?? They hired the EIC of Maxim which represents everything Playboy stands against. Why? Simply because there's semi-nekkid chix in Maxim so that should, uh, translate well to this other nudie mag ova here, right bro? This was a seriously bad move. Jimmy Jellinek belongs on Askmen.com, an unfunny, dull, boring online shithole for stupid men who think they're badasses for making a rape joke or saying "I'd tap that ass so hard." about some unfortunate starlet. If Playboy really wanted to be taken seriously as a mag for fairly smart guys who like a little T&A with their music critiques and their pro-marijuana legal analyses, they should have hired someone from the New Yorker. If you don't understand your own brand, how can you expect the market to do so?
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Thank Gawd (to use Flyntian orthography) that Hustler is "above" all that.
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Hell, I refuse to pay $1 for something I can get from Gawker for FREE.
Media Lords, your New Media? You aren't doing it right.
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/I secretly love reading Star.
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i always read them in line. i never buy them.