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This month's Esquire cover profile of Jessica Simpson is so awesome I had to excerpt it for you. Writer Lisa Taddeo, who was also notably responsible for last month's Heath Ledger fan fiction, is clearly determined to outdo all other pants-creamingly overwrought Esquire celebrity profiles and the result is a single page so hyperbolically, preposterously Esquire it pulls off in a single page what Tom Junod would need 10,000 words to achieve, starting with a preamble about her "hair like Clorox sunshine" and "breasts like plucked guinea hens, undercooked and overstuffed." Click the pic for more brilliant celebrity vaguiography. (Also, how Tyra is the way Esquire constantly remakes its "iconic" photos of years past?)
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Dear Ladymags, You Could Learn Something From The World's Worst Celebrity Profile
Conventional wisdom holds that women's magazines aren't as good as men's magazines. That would be correct. Because where the general sin of men's magazines is going overboard — overthinking, overreaching, overwriting, women spend more money on stupid crap so their magazines don't have to win any prestigious awards to justify their existences as anything other than mindless profiligography! Anyway, that's why we like to solicit the advice of manly men's magazine male writer Tom Wolfian (not a real name!) to critique the ladymags for us. He's very busy and very important!
In this installment: Why women's magazines can learn from the "Worst Celebrity Profile Ever Written." More »
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Dear 'Glamour' Blogger Alyssa Shelasky: You Could Stand To Learn A Thing Or Two About The 'Edgy' English Language...
Conventional wisdom holds that men's magazines are better than women's magazines. That would be correct. Below, our manly men's magazine writer Tim Wolfian offers 'Glamour' dating blogger Alyssa Shelasky some gentle advice on love, literacy, Sexy Euro and Edgy English Teacher...
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When Writing About A Pretty Lady In Iraq, At Least Do A Decent Job Describing Her Prettiness
Conventional wisdom holds that women's magazines aren't as good as men's magazines. That would be correct. So we hired a manly-man type men's magazine contributor to "coach" our favorite ladymag writers. You are so welcome in advance!
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