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 = John Hughes
@lobstr: I think my all time fave was when they went through celebrity garbage and then had it analyzed by a nutritionist, a psychologist, and others...they never said whose trash it was, just gave you clues..*awesome*
@valhalla_i_am_coming: They had a lot of brilliant classics, my favorite being how they made a fake Tiger-Beat-type teen giggle mag called Republican Beat and got Newt Gingrich to pose with a tshirt..
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' Willian Gaines to crawl our the ground and straight up murder this liar. Him and Graydon Carter.
If there had ever been anything special about Spy, it would have lived. But it was nothing but privileged children ripping off MAD with other people's money. Please. It existed for, maybe, five years. National Lampoon was better, so was MAD. Spy never had a following and the fossils who worked there are still claiming that they influenced the writers who were reading National Lampoon and MAD.
NO ONE read Spy. Just accept it, Graydon and Kurt. No one bought your Spy book. No one cared. Period. How dare you come back and whine that you meant something. Let's compare your numbers to Lampoon or MAD. Would you like to?
@ShanghaiLil: I completely disagree with you. As a Mad subscriber until the age of 12 when I discovered Nat Lamp (amazed that they sold it to me!) I found SPY equally innovative and (to use the overused word) smart. (Disclosure: I wrote a total of 2 articles for SPY.) It started to sink when the initial team left, not before. Lots of people cared then and I find your rant very amusing, since Gawker is one of those media phenomenon heavily influenced by the SPY attitude.
That said, who the hell read that huge novel Kurt wrote? I've seen multiple copies sitting at Housing Works priced at a buck or two and no one ever takes it home.
@ian spiegelman: National Lampoon was also great because I was regularly photographed for it during the early-mid 80s. My aunt was a photo stylist and writer for the Lampoon. I gotta dig those old issues out.
Also, like everyone else in the 80s, they were all sleeping with each other (and cheating on their wives/husbands) and snorting coke to get through the day and make it to the next bender.
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. (You don't have to use all caps -- lower-case is easier.)
Here's an example:
tysol: "Does I look like a veterinarian to you? Then why did you bring me this animal stool sample?"
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.
@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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I more enjoyed their Celebrity Math.. for
(Kurt Andersen - Harry Anderson) x k.d. lang = John Hughes
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about 145K, just for tuition. yeah, he better be good. or something.
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If there had ever been anything special about Spy, it would have lived. But it was nothing but privileged children ripping off MAD with other people's money. Please. It existed for, maybe, five years. National Lampoon was better, so was MAD. Spy never had a following and the fossils who worked there are still claiming that they influenced the writers who were reading National Lampoon and MAD.
NO ONE read Spy. Just accept it, Graydon and Kurt. No one bought your Spy book. No one cared. Period. How dare you come back and whine that you meant something. Let's compare your numbers to Lampoon or MAD. Would you like to?
Spy never mattered, and neither did any of you.
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How's this order?:
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That said, who the hell read that huge novel Kurt wrote? I've seen multiple copies sitting at Housing Works priced at a buck or two and no one ever takes it home.
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Also, like everyone else in the 80s, they were all sleeping with each other (and cheating on their wives/husbands) and snorting coke to get through the day and make it to the next bender.
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Here's an example:
tysol: "Does I look like a veterinarian to you? Then why did you bring me this animal stool sample?"
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Wondering what I'm talking aobut? Wanna know what a "TYSOL" is? Go read the Top Chef post. And then join us in the live blog!
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It truly is the greatest Twitter of all time.
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I'm so in love.
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