Thursday, August 10, 2006

Review

24 Seven Magazine has gone through several changes since its inception a few years ago. Originally a kind of lowbrow Tucker Max for expatriates (link warning: possibly the most vulgar and offensive material you will ever see on the internet that does not involve pictures), the magazine was bought by Reese Richards about five months ago, and has morphed into... well, I don't know exactly what it is supposed to be any more. Consider this sample from the July issue:



Now, a satirical headline making fun of an entire faith? Count me in. I love this kind of thing. But, I don't get the joke in the misspelling of 'Mormons'. More Moms? So I went on to read the rest of the article, and it was amazingly unfunny. Shrill, illogical, and without a decent polygamy gag to be found. So maybe this is some kind of deep satire, making fun of the kind of people who would make fun of Mormons. If so, then I guess I got zinged. You can read the whole article by downloading the .pdf of the issue from this page. But the file is 5.5 megs, and it's not funny anyway, so you probably won't want to.

4 comments:

Michael Turton said...

"World's most disprovable religion?" I thought that was Scientology....

Michael

Big Ell said...

I agree that the article wasn't funny. The headline was probably just a typo, much like the use of tia chi (tai chi) in the editorial of this month's Taichung Voice.

Chaon said...

That was not a typo. That was a secret pinyin system that you don't know about.

Big Ell said...

That was a secret pinyin system that you don't know about.

Shit, no wonder I am always so confused, secret pinyin.