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At least they spell ‘Y’all’ right…
The other day I came to work to find someone had left me a copy of Y’all — the Magazine for Southern People.
And I was excited. Now, I’ve spent enough time in Deep East Texas to know “Southerners” are culturally a far piece from “Texans” — but I was excited to have a magazine for people at least somewhat like me.
I’d tried Men’s Journal — but I wasn’t in that league. “Be the first on your block to hike Bulgaria’s Rila Mountains,” it told me. Heck, I’m still working on mountain biking the Barton Creek Greenbelt (I discovered on Wednesday that I can be thrown completely over the handlebars even while biking at speeds slower than plate tectonics).
I’d tried Men’s Health — but the constant barrage of photos of chiseled jawlines ate up my self-esteem. Trust me, I’ll be dead for some time before you can see my cheekbones.
Texas Monthly? The stories I can locate between the advertising sometimes thrill me (the occasional rating of the state’s barbecue) and sometimes don’t (the frequent berating of the state’s politics).
But Y’all looked promising: The magazine’s “North Carolina Bureau” is run by some guy named Jason “Pig” Thompson. Sadly, though, Y’all is just lots of glossy pages of annoying fluff.
An example? In the July-August edition, there’s a feature on the Aflac duck — a Dixie Duck, they tell us — that doesn’t say anything about who had the idea to make a duck say “Aflac!” and what kind of drugs they were taking when they thought that up.
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By Zenkicker
July 9, 2005 12:40 AM | Link to this
Brilliance.
Especially on Texas monthly: It's like the most talented writers in France have taken over the office.