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Is it time to bring back magazines?

A long time ago Southern Living had regular recipes that you could usually find ingredients for, but now they're super fancy and use stuff I ain't never heard of.
 
This is a magazine I can endorse:



Not everyone's cup of tea, but good listening in a low-lit encironment with not a lot of other distractions around.
 
I used to live near a paper recycling plant. This was in the early 1980's so they weren't as widespread as they are now. It was also rural North Yorkshire so it was quite backward.

Anyway, for some reason they seemed to recycle an awful lot of girlie magazines. The big bales of these things were packed high inside a big wire compound but they weren't kept very well and the straps often gave way or became loose.

On windy days, we used to hang around the back of the paper recycling plant as random pages were blown over the side of the fence. (look, it was the 1980's, I was about 12 and there wasn't the internet). We used to run around scrabbling for bits of naked women and (our favourite) the letters page. These became HOT currency in the playground and occasionally we had to match up issues or swap to get a full centrefold. As these were "unsold" magazines we used to be able to piece together almost a full issue of "July Razzle" or some such nonsense. (look up Razzle magazine to see the delights of what we used to look forward to, I can't I'm at work and there is only so much leeway in the advertising industry)

Simple times - you can't do that with the internet now!
 
Southern Living sent a subscription letter. I CAN GET 14 MONTHS OF FANCY GRITS FOR $10!!!!11
 
Every Southern magazine should be running a tribute to The Lady Chablis this month. :(

The Lady Chablis, Sassy Eccentric in ‘Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,’ Dies at 59

By NIRAJ CHOKSHISEPT. 8, 2016
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The Lady Chablis, the transgender performer featured in the 1994 best seller “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” and in the film version, died on Thursday in Savannah, Ga. She was 59 and had been performing until about a month ago.

The cause was pneumonia, said Cale Hall, a longtime friend and a co-owner of Club One, where Ms. Chablis performed for three decades.

Ms. Chablis was a standout character in the book, in which the author, John Berendt, introduced the world to Savannah and the sometimes eccentric people who live there.

“She was The Lady Chablis from morning to night,” Mr. Berendt said in an interview on Thursday. “She had a great repartee. She was sassy, and she had a way with words. She was creative.”

They first met when Ms. Chablis, who had just received her biweekly estrogen shots, insinuated herself into Mr. Berendt’s car for a ride home.

“She had both hands on her hips and a sassy half-smile on her face as if she had been waiting for me,” he wrote.

She would become the book’s most popular character, Mr. Berendt said. She was also his favorite.

“It’s not as if she died without knowing,” he added. “She knew. And she also knew she was everybody’s favorite.”

After the book came out, Ms. Chablis appeared on “Good Morning America” and “Oprah.” Readers from around the country went to see her at Club One. She published an autobiography, “Hiding My Candy,” in 1996 and the next year played herself in Clint Eastwood’s film adaptation of the Berendt book.

She was born Benjamin Edward Knox in Quincy, Fla., on March 11, 1957, and never finished high school. She took the name Chablis as a teenager. As she recalled in Mr. Berendt’s book, her mother, inspired by a wine bottle label, had intended the name for a younger sister but had had a miscarriage. Ms. Chablis immediately expressed interest in the name.

“I said, ‘Ooooo, Chablis. That’s nice. I like that name,’ ” she was quoted as saying in the book. “And Mama said, ‘Then take it, baby. Just call yourself Chablis from now on.’ So ever since then, I’ve been Chablis.” She had her name legally changed to The Lady Chablis.

Survivors include two sisters, Lois Stevens and Cynthia Ponder; and two brothers, Charles Whiteside and John Fairley Jr.

Ms. Chablis performed about once a month and never changed her risqué style.

“Like she would say, ‘This is not a Disney production,’ ” Mr. Hall said.

Her last performance, he said, was on Aug. 6, to a packed house.
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I kinda miss wizard and toyfare. I read MAD and cracked when I was younger. I'll thumb through prowrestling illustrated when i see it. The back page of the front cover still has advertisements for some weird mail order fantasy wrestling game with a shitty drawing of a very retro looking wrestler on it. It makes me reminisce to a simpler time. Any type of magazine featuring sexy women seems very pointless now. The internet has enough actual nudity to sustain any pervert for a million lifetimes. I still get game informer in the mail talking about video games I'll never play. Only because My nephew uses my game stop membership. I read through it while on the shitter. The only purpose a magazine ever really had in my life was just to read it on the shitter.
 
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