The Los Angeles Times Magazine has been in decline at least since 1986.

They have tried to recast themselves as the New York Times Magazine, as a Southern California Lifestyle Thing like Sunset Magazine, as maybe four other things. Nothing works.

This week they managed to hit a new low with a feature article on a young woman named Cory Kennedy ( Read more... )

The neocons take over in the expected putsch after the New Times bought them ( Read more... )

Newspaper Nishikie is a huge archive of Japanese topical illustration from the 1870s: crime, politics, suicide, all kinds of weird topics. Below you see "Sumo Firemen". Thanks, Ursi!


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Country stolen by criminals with intent to devastate ( Read more... )

Poll Which?

Bill O'Reilly doesn't want to smear the nice Reverend.

Playboy begins video "Bodcasts".

Faux folksy fuck flails at flip, frivolous fun.

via waxy.org links

1. The Condoleeza Hairdo Alert System has been activated. Please make a note of it.
   
   
2. You may not have to constrict your anus 100 times in a row. Try improving your brain function with a cellphone ringtone! Ah, the Mysterious East.
   
   
3. North Korean dictator/space alien Kim Kong Il remembers all the nation's phone numbers, according to his press agency. ( Read more... )

Waiting for my mother at the doctor's office just now I picked up a magazine called "Organic Style", thinking "this should be good ( Read more... )