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hannapdx
11/24/09

In reply to Time Inc. Folding InStyle Weddings
Oh no! I'm getting married in 2011, how will I ever know how to plan my own wedding without the help of overpriced wedding mags?!!!
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Perhaps Not
11/24/09

In reply to Time Inc. Folding InStyle Weddings
In a related story, jeepers h. christmas Christina Hendricks is so unbelievably hot I'm afraid my monitor is going to melt and fuse with me desk.
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manchops
11/24/09

In reply to Time Inc. Folding InStyle Weddings
more and more reasons to LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE!
I mean, seriously! Start submitting the mag titles now, this could SAVE the whole industry!
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rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny
11/24/09

In reply to Time Inc. Folding InStyle Weddings
I really don't understand how you couldn't make money on a bridal magazine. Your readers only get them for a year (unless they've gone way overboard) and then you can start recycling content (with some new pictures and up to date references). The only work to be done is selling ad space.
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manchops
11/24/09

@rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny: because the demo is so directly targeted (as in: I just got proposed to! I need to plan a huge wedding! Where do I start? What do I do?) the advertising in these mags was huge! and at top rates. Sorta like a mag for people who just won a million dollars and had never heard of a retail store.
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ArtfulSlinger
11/24/09

@manchops: Shouldn't then the magazine just become more targeted in region? So the ads could coordinate with the content, like New York Mag. You do a few editions, have local affiliates, etc.

Im here all week Time Inc, whatever you need from me.
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manchops
11/24/09

@ArtfulSlinger: You're right, and that's probably what's happening. Local mags and newspapers always do special wedding supplements and are teaming with all those tuxedo rental, caterer kinda ads. Face it, the big glossy wedding mags were basic nuptial porn. Hard to afford these days...
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ArtfulSlinger
11/24/09

@manchops: Not only that not at all helpful compared to the blogs. There are hundreds of blogs just focused on printed collateral, let alone dresses, decor, rings, etc.
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manchops
11/24/09

@ArtfulSlinger: basically the demo got younger, like all the demos, and use the internet. I've been in magazines for a dozen years and could never believe how they just sat back and let this happen.
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sweetpickles
11/24/09

In reply to Time Inc. Folding InStyle Weddings
Another piece of the straight marriage industrial complex's soul: ripped to shreds! Now our lady partners will have to consult gay blogs to see which napkins are hot this season.
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Wrapitup
11/24/09

In reply to Playboy Now Able to Afford Tara Reid
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?
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AzureTexan
11/24/09

In reply to Playboy Now Able to Afford Tara Reid
Tara Reid: Will Pose For Gin
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Perhaps Not
11/24/09

In reply to Playboy Now Able to Afford Tara Reid
...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.
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Wrapitup
11/24/09

@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.
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Perhaps Not
11/24/09

@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."
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Wrapitup
11/24/09

@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.
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Perhaps Not
11/24/09

@Wrapitup: Ha! I beg your pardon. Shows what happens when you assume (Don King threw me off). And thank you for the compliment.
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lostarchitect
11/24/09

In reply to Playboy Now Able to Afford Tara Reid
Oh boy. Frankenboobies.
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mladen
11/24/09

In reply to Playboy Now Able to Afford Tara Reid
Penthouse to counter with the Hipster Grifter.

Thank Gawd (to use Flyntian orthography) that Hustler is "above" all that.
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lostarchitect
11/24/09

@mladen: she's nothin' special, but i'd rather see her naked than tara reid.
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johnny_carsick
11/24/09

@lostarchitect: At this point, is there anybody who hasn't already seen Tara Reid naked?
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lostarchitect
11/24/09

@johnny_carsick: Good point, but I'm trying to save the eyes of anyone who's left.
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johnny_carsick
11/24/09

@lostarchitect: NO! NO! NOT THE REID! AHH! MY EYES! OH, SHE'S IN MY EYES! MY EYES!!!!!!!!!"
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CumaeanSibyl
11/24/09

@johnny_carsick: THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING

/someone had to
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DahlELama
11/24/09

In reply to Playboy Now Able to Afford Tara Reid
What is the going rate for full-frontal surgery scars these days? A box of wine and a carton of Marlboro Reds?
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DennyCrane
11/24/09

In reply to Playboy Now Able to Afford Tara Reid
vom!!!
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Novaload
11/13/09

In reply to Euna Lee Wins Imprisoned Reporters' Book Deal Race
They shouldn't get to keep any money from this--it should go to pay back all the resources used to extricate them from their own stupidity, and then the rest should be divided amongst all of us who had to listen to all the BS about them and by them while waiting for the weather report or some other far more important bit of news. They should also have to go do some anonymous community service while meditating on their unsuitability as "reporters." #eunalee
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Maxichamp
11/13/09

@Novaload: No kidding. For months, they denied crossing the border. When they were freed, they used euphemisms like "touched the border". You can't be a little bit pregnant. You broke the law. Live with it. #eunalee
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OldSpinDoc
11/13/09

@Novaload: And what were the people these lovely ladies were 'reporting" on going to do when the story ran?
I'm sure Harriet Tubman would have loved to read media accounts of her railroad while she was still shuttling people through it... #eunalee
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Novaload
11/13/09

@OldSpinDoc: Indeed. The local 'contacts' were reportedly begging them not to go further toward the border; and their translator and others said the Korean equivalent of Sod it! and vanished--all concerned for their safety after the Clueless Chicks 15 minutes were over. The Clueless Chicks were not, of course, concerned about them. #eunalee
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Maxichamp
11/13/09

In reply to Euna Lee Wins Imprisoned Reporters' Book Deal Race
It was strange during their imprisonment how they would flash her picture on the news and it's always that weird myspace-y picture. I mean, couldn't the family provide a more normal picture? #eunalee
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Betty Draper
11/13/09

@Maxichamp: I thought the exact same thing. #eunalee
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The Real JR
11/13/09

In reply to Euna Lee Wins Imprisoned Reporters' Book Deal Race
because you are not as interesting as your circumstances, no matter what Oprah says.

PREACH!!! PREACH IT!!

I think this simple truth is at the very core of why Gawker exists: Because some people take themselves way too seriously (ie: famous for doing nothing) which make them ripe for the snarking.

Dudes, doesn't the Lings realize that there's a HUGE fascination regarding what the hell is going on behind borders in North Korea. (Hell, wasn't that why they were there to begin with?) Why do I care about the beauty of Ling Sisterhood(tm) when i could get a firsthand account of Dear Leader battshittery with bonus Clinton on Air Fuck One action? #eunalee
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rudi_freude
11/13/09

@The Real JR: Maybe because The Sisterhood of the Traveling Lings sounds like it has box-office potential. #eunalee
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Magister
11/13/09

@rudi_freude:
While a variation on the "Ya-Ya Sisterhood" (The Ling-Ling Sisterhood) could be mistaken for a film about Dick Nixon's relationship to a couple of pandas.
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Niko Bellic
11/13/09

@The Real JR: there's a HUGE fascination regarding what the hell is going on behind borders in North Korea

Wait, what? Did they capture Carrie Prejean now? #eunalee
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rudi_freude
11/13/09

@Niko Bellic: Niko. Niko, Niko. You're being inappropriate. #eunalee
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