sex (and dinosaurs) sell. is it not disgusting that you have to pander to the masses when selling magazines? when national geographic has to resort to putting out a swimsuit issue, you know something's wrong. and don't be telling me we need to see "one hundred years of swimsuit pictures." it's all for marketing purposes, these scantifly clad national geographic women. nothing redeeming or inventive about a retrospective of swimsuits. and not nearly enough skin either. if you're gonna do a swimsuit issue, do it right. forego classiness and education. go for crass and botox and silicon. sheesh.



i was about to grab a national geographic to read when i looked at the cover and was revolted by some half naked seductive female on the cover. oh whoops, that was a maxim. national geographic actually had a cover about dinosaurs.



as did scientific american. which brings me to a sudden startling realization. magazines are putting dinosaurs on their covers because they know i like dinosaurs and want me to buy the issue! the article is barely anything news worthy or revolutionary. dinosaurs just appear on science magazines so that they can keep circulation up! whoa now conspiracy theory. whoa now nelly. this is despicable. i refuse to be led around by my single celled brain and buy magazines just because they have a dinosaur story as a "feature." they know i like dinosaurs. i know i like dinosaurs. and they know that you like dinosaurs. so they put dinosaurs on the cover to fool us into buying a magazine. luckily i circument the whole buyer-seller relationship by camping out at the bookstore to just read and re-rack. i will show you, the man, that i will not be coerced into buying your damn magazine. but i will read your interesting, informative and thought-provoking article. thank you for keeping me abone of dinosaur happenings.



i could never work for a magazine company. having to continually put half naked women and dinosaurs on my covers just to make money. how shameful. but then again, it's not like i'm adverse to half-naked women and dinosaurs. they are probably both up in my list of top one hundred favorite things. so i guess the system is alright. don't you hate it when you go to the bookstore and get all activist and bitter about the world? just read man. it's fundamental.



on a side note. does putting sex and dinosaurs as my blog title totally discredit my gripe? does it make you want to send me money or just read and re-rack this post? i'd prefer if you sent money. vegas calls this weekend. i promise profits from all contributions.