Cultural decay, in magazine form

The Second Cup has these new lattes that are raspberry and dark chocolate and basically bourgeois, foamy, sugary goodness. They come with free magazines. If you're a girl, they give you Elle, if you're a boy, Canadian Home & Garden or some shit. I guess. I don't know any boys who would drink a raspberry and dark chocolate latte. Boys miss out on all kinds of great things. Anyway, I put the Elle in the loo along with the latest Vice and Industrial Worker. (My bathroom reading is eclectic. My real reading is eclectic, but more tasteful—at the moment, I'm reading Settlers by Sakai and Perdido Street Station by Miéville.)

So I ended up reading Elle for the first time ever. I occasionally read shitty fashion magazines at the dentist's but this is so much worse. It's particularly bad in contrast to Vice, which, for all its libertarian sexist and racist garbage in the past, cobbled together a really fantastic issue on "Girls" that made perfect bathroom reading.

( cut for a guided tour through a fashion magazine by someone who doesn't ever read fashion magazines )

The rest of the weekend was spent in meetings, watching La Chinoise (like Raspberry Reich but without the gay porn), and messing up my hair.

Cultural decay, in magazine form

The Second Cup has these new lattes that are raspberry and dark chocolate and basically bourgeois, foamy, sugary goodness. They come with free magazines. If you're a girl, they give you Elle, if you're a boy, Canadian Home & Garden or some shit. I guess. I don't know any boys who would drink a raspberry and dark chocolate latte. Boys miss out on all kinds of great things. Anyway, I put the Elle in the loo along with the latest Vice and Industrial Worker. (My bathroom reading is eclectic. My real reading is eclectic, but more tasteful—at the moment, I'm reading Settlers by Sakai and Perdido Street Station by Miéville.)

So I ended up reading Elle for the first time ever. I occasionally read shitty fashion magazines at the dentist's but this is so much worse. It's particularly bad in contrast to Vice, which, for all its libertarian sexist and racist garbage in the past, cobbled together a really fantastic issue on "Girls" that made perfect bathroom reading.

( cut for a guided tour through a fashion magazine by someone who doesn't ever read fashion magazines )

The rest of the weekend was spent in meetings, watching La Chinoise (like Raspberry Reich but without the gay porn), and messing up my hair.