12 November 2005Now that we're out of Katrina footageI know, we've spent entirely too much time on the subject of Maureen Dowd. But said subject does tend to spawn interesting tangents. This Dowd-related item at The Passing Parade generated some comments to the effect that there might be a conspiracy to put another woefully-overexposed female, Jennifer Aniston, on every last farging magazine cover in the nation, if not actually on The Nation itself. Now quoting me, from April 2003:
To: customerservice@bigmagazinepublisher.com
For some unaccountable reason, this month's subscription copy was fitted with the wrong cover, an error which stood out blatantly. I mean, a magazine that does not have Jennifer Aniston on the cover? What were you thinking? Either I'm way ahead of the Zeitgeist, or wait, was that MoDo on the cell phone? Posted at 5:02 AM to Warn Mode Due(uh-oh, is she looking over here?) Posted by: McGehee at 1:25 PM on 12 November 2005But I would not feel so all alone; Why cant we have Halle Berry on magazine covers all year long? I wouldnt mind that at all. Posted by: akaky at 4:56 PM on 14 November 2005Second the motion. A show of hands, please. |