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more about #spy more comments → lobstr: Ah, Spy's Separated at Birth .. I see what you did there. I more enjoyed their Celebrity Math.. for (Kurt Andersen - Harry Anderson) x k.d. lang = Joh... more » redqueenmeg: They both kind of remind me of the head vampire from The Lost Boys. more » BlinkyMcChuck: I find putting aside my serious material for matters of lesser consequence to be the winning career move, basically. more » MincnglyWhrdL'mer: so, does anyone else here know what an undergrad at artscenter LA costs? about 145K, just for tuition. yeah, he better be good. or something. more » Hydroceph: Being a professional visionary at an art school sounds exhausting. Maybe that's why looks like an emaciated George Will (minus the bow tie). more » ian spiegelman: Wow, there's a place at the LA Art Center for "Guys who ripped off Mad Magazine and said they were inventing something"? I'm just waiting for jolly ol... more » MisterHippity: OK, so here's how the TYSOL Contest will work: When you post a comment that's a contest entry, type the word "tysol:" at the beginning of the comment.... more » MisterHippity: Hey folks. If you're looking for the Top Chef live-blog post, it should be up soon. Stand by ... more » Pop Socket: If Spy were still around, I imagine them running a Fine Print feature of Twitter posts by celebutards. more » hortense: Twitter me this, twitter me that. Hello to all my twittereans, This is the shaq Love u guys 1:10 PM Jan 1st from txt It truly is the greatest Twitter ... more » Tara Incognita: I read Cottage Living. Everyone around me wants a McMansion, and CL made me feel like I wasn't weird for not wanting that. more » Edward Lionheart: Yeah, Spy, great mag. All those "fearless" pseudonymous writers attacking the people they'd soon be sucking up to--along with people who couldn't figh... more » AuntPenny: I miss The New Yorker circa Tina Brown. It fufilled the dark part of my soul that is constantly drowning in schadenfreude. more » AuntPenny: Not only do I miss Sassy, but I miss Phil Hartman's "Sassy" sketch on SNL. I just stepped in a big PILE of Sassy! more » Cheap Shot: I miss Raygun and for David Carson's crazy design sense as well as The Utne Reader. more » -
#itsthehair
It's No Coincidence that Spy and Ferris Bueller's Day Off Both Came Out in 1986
Someone sent along this side-by-side of Kurt Andersen and John Hughes, two men whose sensibilities came to define the late '80s and early '90s, for better and for worse. Where have we seen this bit before? -
#visionaries
Kurt Andersen Gives Up New York Column
Kurt Andersen is, at long last, giving up his column in New York, the magazine he edited 12 years ago. Now he has time for things that are, somehow, even less important. More » -
#omg
Spy Founder Joins Twitter
Kurt Andersen, who invented "snark" in 1986, is now "microblogging" at Twitter, the official web service of imagined pithiness. More » -
#deathofprint
Three Magazines I Actually Miss
All the magazines are dying! It's the Internet's fault. No, actually magazines have always died. Statistically, 80 percent of them fail. Which is what makes the medium such a perfect object for nostalgia. -
