Magazine Run

I still go back to the corner kiosk every month even though I know it’s kind of pointless. This time Front Mag was doing the Glee thing—those two actors in school uniforms, which is exactly what a magazine like that goes for. Some interviews with Lostprophets, gaming coverage, British festivals.

NEON actually has something to say. Food writing, a piece about how pointless it is to plan your whole life out right now, digital feminism stuff. Vice is being Vice—crude and deliberately offensive, writing about British hooligans and Chinese pop bands like that’s where culture happens. Maybe it is.

After you’ve worked through all that there’s not much left for the rest of them. Ilovefakemagazine pulled Grunge back up. i-D with their home-is-where-the-heart message. Wendy had cute horses and photo frames.

The thing about magazines is they still feel necessary even though everything in them is online already. There’s something about the choices someone made to put these specific things together in this order, on these pages. It makes you look at things differently than when some algorithm is deciding what comes next. Maybe that’s reason enough to keep buying them.