Never heard of it. Must have been a Family Circus publication.
Cultural studies challenge: compare the golden age of a given magazine onto the golden age of a given television program, website, or rock and roll band. What do their respective zeniths have in common?
Points off for pretentious references to "the Zeitgeist". Late papers will not be accepted.
1: It was great. I am unable to convey how funny it was, in a 'yes, we writing for this magazine are precisely the people Red State Republicans just innately want to punch, a lot' kind of way.
I only read it a couple of times, but I do remember when they sent cheques for piddling amounts (like 5 cents) to big-time celebrities, to see who was cheap enough to cash them.
Ah, SPY. Still, at how many SPY parties did they throw a sofa off the roof?
Still, at how many SPY parties did they throw a sofa off the roof?
SPY never struck me as an m-fun kind of magazine.
SPY was the funniest. magazine. evar in its heyday, & the first magazine I ever subscribed to. I ran across a dozen or so issues in a box a while back (because I'm a packrat), and most of it is still funny. Their breezy epithets were especially sharp, though I'm surprised none of EK's commenters cited my favorite: "socialite war criminal Henry Kissinger".
I loved the epithets. I still can't see Donald Trump without thinking "short fingered vulgarian" and cracking up.
And it was named after the magazine Frank Sinatra worked for in High Society. How could you not love that?
Now I want to go on eBay and look for old issues. But that would be nuts.
Might: The SPY of the mid-90s? Discuss.
No, seriously, in the post, "worth" s/b "worthy".
I liked the one where they went around asking New York's top chefs to make a twinkie.
Was SPY where the "separated at birth" thing began?
19: Yes.
For former readers, the archives at http://fawny.org/spy/ are worth poking through (not sure how useful they'd be for the uninitiated, since the stuff reproduced there is mostly just enough to jog memories).