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Here's the cover of the new, January 2007 issue of Texas Monthly magazine:



The fine print on the lower right-hand side you can't read says: "Yes, this is a photo illustration. If we don't say so, Dick Cheney will shoot us in the face."

Cheney's hunting accident is one of the "2007 Bum Steer Awards." But the picture and caption is just...wrong.

I just spit my soda on my keyboard
ROFL

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I received our copy of Texas Monthly in the mail yesterday and just shook my head. I subscribe to the magazine for Kimberly. I asked her to please paraphrase the article for me so I could cancel the subscription if necessary. I don't think she has read it yet.......

I agree that the picture is wrong.

I'm not really a Dick Cheney fan but Texas Monthy has always been a crappy, pro-liberal magazine. Trash it.

Yep
I just giggled at that

You accidently shoot someone in the face, people are going to make fun of you. Small price to pay.

Texas Monthly is an informationless piece of coffetable crap published for brainless twits of faux intellect for places like River Oaks and doctors offices. Most people only get as far as the pictures. Some don't get past the cover. There are fewer readers than buyers. This time, they were smoking too much dope at the editor's desk. Willie will love this cover. He probably has a copy in his bus now, waiting to "roll" again.

casingpoint wrote:Texas Monthly is an informationless piece of coffetable crap published for brainless twits of faux intellect for places like River Oaks and doctors offices. Most people only get as far as the pictures. Some don't get past the cover. There are fewer readers than buyers. This time, they were smoking too much dope at the editor's desk. Willie will love this cover. He probably has a copy in his bus now, waiting to "roll" again.

I read TM, am I a brailness twit?

txinvestigator wrote:

casingpoint wrote:Texas Monthly is an informationless piece of coffetable crap published for brainless twits of faux intellect for places like River Oaks and doctors offices. Most people only get as far as the pictures. Some don't get past the cover. There are fewer readers than buyers. This time, they were smoking too much dope at the editor's desk. Willie will love this cover. He probably has a copy in his bus now, waiting to "roll" again.

I read TM, am I a brailness twit?

I read it as well. And while it does lean a little to the left, it's not like reading the New York Times. Being a lifelong Texan I enjoy the articles about our great State.

And the cover on this month's issue is actually a homage to the famous over of National Lampoon's cover in the 70's that said "if you don't buy this magazine we'll shoot this dog". It's called satire. After all if we can't laugh at ourselves we shouldn't laugh at others.

If you haven't picked up a copy in a while give it a try. Last month's issue would be a good one. They listed the top 60 something Taco's in Texas. While it's purely subjective it was great reading. And what better job could that have been? Driving the state eating Taco's. Mmmm!!

Just my 0.02

David

texas297 wrote:And the cover on this month's issue is actually a homage to the famous cover of National Lampoon's cover in the 70's that said "if you don't buy this magazine we'll shoot this dog".

The January 1973 issue. Some of our members weren't born yet. The issue cost a whopping 75 cents.

texas297 wrote:It's called satire. After all if we can't laugh at ourselves we shouldn't laugh at others.

And there are different gradients of satire, as well. For example:

Txinvestigator and texas297, or course there are execptions like y'all to the Rule of Twits. By and large the magazine is a lightweight in journalism, a carmelized, BBQ'd version of The New Yorker Magazine. The basic formula is to go in and skewer, lambast and satarize anybody unfortunate enough to get on their radar screen. Then surround that with platitudinal articles on quaint subjects like the Shiner Brewery or some limestone creek in the Hill Country with an endangered populaton of swish tailed minnows, just like the ones working at Texas Monthly. And God forbid when those tea sippers come down on The Aggies. The infamous Texas journalist Molly Ivins once wrote the Houston Post was a piece of dog poop rolled up in newsprint delivered on your doorstep every day. The Post folded during the same era of Texas journalism that Texas Monthly began publication. Go figure.

Skiprr wrote:

texas297 wrote:And the cover on this month's issue is actually a homage to the famous cover of National Lampoon's cover in the 70's that said "if you don't buy this magazine we'll shoot this dog".

The January 1973 issue. Some of our members weren't born yet. The issue cost a whopping 75 cents.

texas297 wrote:It's called satire. After all if we can't laugh at ourselves we shouldn't laugh at others.

And there are different gradients of satire, as well. For example:

More poignant, but it's still not as funny as the original.

casingpoint wrote:The Post folded during the same era of Texas journalism that Texas Monthly began publication. Go figure.

Only comment I have here is that I had a piece published in Texas Monthly back in the 70s, probably around 1978, and I don't think the Post folded until 20 years later. Wait; lemme go look this up...

Ah, closer than I thought; but the timing was different. Texas Monthly was founded in 1973 by Michael Levy. The Houston Post was started in 1880-81. That original publication stopped in 1984, and the name was resurrected a year later, in 1985, by the merger the Houston Evening Journal and the Houston Morning Chronicle. For many of its years, it was owned by the Hobby family. It closed down permanently in 1995 when Hearst Corp. ate 'em.

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming...

texas297 wrote:
I read it as well. And while it does lean a little to the left, it's not like reading the New York Times. Being a lifelong Texan I enjoy the articles about our great State.

I don't like it when a newspaper or Television bends the news to fit their own editorial slant, and while I'm literally a card carrying Libertarian, I wouldn't want to limmit my reading or information soley to that which mirrors my point of view. It would make a very small world for me. Molly Ivans writes for TM, She and I will probably never agree on much of anything, but she is a great writer, and very funny. More imortant she makes me think.

Most of all its about Texas, the people and the places, which are some of my favorite things.

casingpoint wrote:Txinvestigator and texas297, or course there are execptions like y'all to the Rule of Twits. By and large the magazine is a lightweight in journalism, a carmelized, BBQ'd version of The New Yorker Magazine. The basic formula is to go in and skewer, lambast and satarize anybody unfortunate enough to get on their radar screen. Then surround that with platitudinal articles on quaint subjects like the Shiner Brewery or some limestone creek in the Hill Country with an endangered populaton of swish tailed minnows, just like the ones working at Texas Monthly. And God forbid when those tea sippers come down on The Aggies. The infamous Texas journalist Molly Ivins once wrote the Houston Post was a piece of dog poop rolled up in newsprint delivered on your doorstep every day. The Post folded during the same era of Texas journalism that Texas Monthly began publication. Go figure.

I am soooo glad to be informed of this. To think I have been wasting my time........