Daily Archives: Monday, February 17, 2003

Those witty Brits: I don’t get it. Just because a magazine’s advertising tries to be witty by using poor, old hungry people to set up a visual joke, why should viewers be offended? (To anyone just landing on this blog … Continue reading →

rexblog flashback: It’s been several months, but back in October I blogged about the “trend” I was noticing of magazine publishers appearing in laptop computer ads running in magazines other than their own. The subject of that post, Christy Haubegger, … Continue reading →

Boys, give peace a chance: David Carr reports that editors Art Cooper of GQ and Greg Gutfeld of Stuff don’t see eye-to-eye. In a note to Gutfeld’s boss, Art wrote: “I know that very little embarrasses you, pal, but your … Continue reading →

Long may he write: The Chicago Sun-Times’ Debra Pickett writes that long-time Playboy Magazine columnist Asa Baber, 66, is still writing, despite having ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease. This gives me a chance to link to one of the most moving … Continue reading →