CLICK "SUBSCRIBE" (above, right)TO GET THE WEEKLY CINEMASOLO WEBISODE A musical list of the names of defunct magazines. (To the tune of I Am a Very Model of A Modern Major General by Gilbert & Sullivan) By Bill Dyszel The many paper publications writers once were writing for Have mostly disappeared and left a handful all are fighting for They went by names like Mirabella, Cosmo Girl, and Living Well Amazing Stories, Omni, and Organic Style and Mademoiselle And Spirit of Aloha, which you may perchance have read in flight And also Windows Sources, HomePC, Musician, Cue and Byte And 7 Days and Audio, and Quick and Simple and Cachet And, PC Magazine, but no understood that anyway. When Budget Living says they're broke, you know conditions aren't so nice. And don't forget Success, whose claim to fame is that they failed twice. McCalls, Industry Standard, House & Garden all have gone away And Rosie sank as fast and deep as Underwater USA. When Country Journal, Harper's, Jewish Woman, Coronet and Mode Have followed New Age Journal as they all were flushed down some commode When Blueprints future plans have all been relegated to the past And National Lampoon will surely not be who is laughing last. When Women's Sports and Fitness, Golf for Women, Gusto, Sync and Spy Are only sold along with Lifetime at that newsstand in the sky All writers start to fear that their careers are headed for the drain A lot like Talk and Child and Life and Look and Lear's and George and Jane. The ...
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National Lampoon website wouldn’t let me log in. I’m old enough to remember buying the Magazines. They were great. Talented staff.
Mad Magazine and Lampoon had some of the best song parodies ever. I wasn’t a High Times reader – the world doesn’t need me on drugs, as evidenced by my videos. Thanks for commenting!
Mad Magazine National Lampoon and High Times 1953-1981 R.I.P.
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better to laugh than cry… says one Photoshopped out of existence. brilliant.
so, we’re supposed to take the laptop into the lavatory, now?
Thanks for commenting. You’re right – it’s sad, especially for all the people who worked at those magazines. It’s a really tough haul for them.
As a fellow freelance writer, I found this entertaining… but with a sad truth behind it all.
Thanks, it’s definitely gallows humor. I wish another kind were available. -bd
Ain’t no ‘splainin’ this stuff! Thanks for watching! -bd
Me too! Hang in there! -bd
Why bother? They’re exterminating themselves.
YES! magazines need to be exterminated
So sad. I hope ours is never added to the list.
As a writer, I find this both very funny and very painful, which I’m sure was the intent. Great, great song and video. ..bruce..
Good catch - I should have said “Harper’s Weekly,” a different publication which has come and gone from time to time since the 19th century, but is currently gone. I put up the wrong cover. I’ll fix that in the director’s cut.
Harper’s didn’t go out of business.