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Tara Incognita
12/15/08

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I read Cottage Living. Everyone around me wants a McMansion, and CL made me feel like I wasn't weird for not wanting that.
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Edward Lionheart
12/15/08

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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 fight back. The reverence people have for this magazine is just weird... nonstop cheap shots... OK, this Gawker, but no one claims Gawker contributes anything to society.
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Carol Gardens
12/15/08

@Edward Lionheart: Huh? Hardly anyone used a pseudonym at SPY. Only a few of the front-of-book columns had one. But it IS awfully funny where Graydon Carter ended up.
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AuntPenny
12/15/08

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I miss The New Yorker circa Tina Brown. It fufilled the dark part of my soul that is constantly drowning in schadenfreude.
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AuntPenny
12/15/08

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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!
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Cheap Shot
12/15/08

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I miss Raygun and for David Carson's crazy design sense as well as The Utne Reader.
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Tart of Darkness
12/15/08

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Embarrassed to say, but I miss Victoria. It has been revived a couple of times but for all intents and purposes it's dead. I loved that it was such a lush counterpoint to Martha Stewart Living.
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Dickens_Ghost
12/15/08

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I miss a relevant Rolling Stone.
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Weegee's bored
12/14/08

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I loved Spy. I love Gawker for some of the same reasons.

Hair halfway to his ass, my then-17-year-old son had his photo in Sassy as a teen heartthrob. I was never so proud.
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Trixie from Toronto
12/14/08

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I long for Spy all the time, but sort of see some similarities here at Gawker.
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Stephanie Rosenbaum
12/14/08

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Egg! It was Hal Rubenstein's mag, and was awesome for the whole 5 minutes it was out there. And Details, back when it was a downtown-ny rag, before it became the men's glossy it is now. Rubenstein had a great restaurant column called I'll Eat Manhattan in the old details. Very sassy and fun. And FAD magazine, an oversized fashion-art-design mag based in SF. Had my first writing job/internship there--they had no $ for staff, so I got a lot of clips...
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BookishLookish
12/14/08

@Stephanie Rosenbaum: Hal R. is one of my heroes.
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flossy
12/14/08

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Isn't all of Gawker kind of like one big "We miss Spy magazine" post?
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BookishLookish
12/14/08

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Aw, you guys, now I am starting to feel sad. No more A&S Books on West 40th Street, which was loaded with vintage magazines. Vreeland-era issues of Vogue, Town & Country and Playgirls from the 1970s...
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Crabbie
12/14/08

@BookishLookish: I almost feel vindicated for hauling my collection of old mags all over the country. Still regret losing the original PAPERs I had, the foldout copies with superb typography. Black and white only, and waaaaay more compelling than the full-color perfect bound book they have now. Sigh, now I want to go drink buck-twenty-five screwdrivers at the old Park Inn.
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Carol Gardens
12/15/08

@Crabbie: I have a complete run of the early PAPERs starting with the first issue. I wrote for them and even got paid for doing paste-up on the early issues. Paste up! That was a long time ago!
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Carol Gardens
12/14/08

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Not really a mag but...SOHO WEEKLY NEWS! My bible in high school. Also, WHOLE EARTH REVIEW has an excellent run in the early 90s. Duplex Planet, anyone?
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Multiphasic
12/14/08

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When my sister left for college, she bequeathed unto me three years worth of Sassy and Raygun back issues, as part of her ceaseless but sadly ineffectual attempts to make her little brother extremely awesome and somewhat gay.
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metalkate
12/14/08

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too much first-person in your posts (not just this one, that other one too). engage us more by making assumptions about YOU and WE. if something reminds you of They Might be Giants, don't say "it reminds me of They Might Be Giants," say "it sounds like They Might Be Giants," or get all snarky with it and say "You hipster douchebags will eat this up because it sounds like They Might be Giants."

Not afraid to be disservicey!
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Owen Thomas
12/15/08

@metalkate: I find your presumptuousness absolutely delicious!
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