Sunday, March 06, 2005
Woes of A Magazine Libertine
OK first lemmie give you the rundown of my magazine fetish. Now see some grrrls are make-up floozies. Others are designer sluts. The majority of us are shoe trollops (for me it's gym shoes). A lot of us are hand bag harlots. A bunch of females are jewlery jezebels. But I'm a magazine libertine. Don't know what libertine means - look it up! Anyhow I've collected magazines since I was a shorty. My aunt use to have subscriptions to all the fashion mags like Elle and Vogue and other like Essence blah, blah, blah. I collected teenie bopper mag at some point. All of the earlier collections have since become scrap books for design ideas, the teen crap got disposed of. Boxes and boxes. When I recently moved most of my belongings to "the farm" my parents had much to say about the super heavy boxes which were split between my book collection and my magazine collection. I even have the premier issue of VIBE which I have seen sell for bout 30 bucks. So yes I got a thing for magazines but I dont buy them as faithfully as I use to. I've done away with my early 90's collection of SOURCE, with exception to a couple I decided to keep. I've gotten rid of the majority of VIBE that I had collected. And I really stopped buying both because I grew out of that type of *ish or they just started to suck. Propaganda. I do have odds and ends of the likes of Paper, Surface, Trace, Fader and on and on and on. You get the drift?!
So my constant for sometime was
which one day whos parent company went belly up after trickin out the original sistahs that started the Mag. It had become watered down but I still bouth it faithfully, errrry month. So I was blew when 1, 2 then 3 months went by and I found out it was no longer. I was frustrated as all hell because Essence was a lil too grown for me and the fashion mags were a lil too cragguh for me. So there was a hole in the hoezone for my demographic of magazine junkies. No fix in sight.
Then came
And I thought the lil magazine whore inside me would finally get paid for her favors. The layout was dope, the content was on point and there were black grrrls like me strewn all in it. It wasn't for the youngin's, wasn't too mature for my taste, wasn't for the fellas. The glass slipper fit well.
BUT NOOOOOOoooooooo! What do I find today looming on the net since the last week of Feb? SUEDE IS SHUT DOWN.
I guess there will not be a magazine that suitably fits my demographic;
Median Age: 31
Ethnicity: 70% Black 30% Other (Latin, Asian, Caucasian)
Education: 64% ollege Educated
Employment: 70%
(as per Suede)
So what's the publishing industry REALLY sayin'? Young black grrrls don't buy magazines?
So as homage to the now defunct Suede I've redesigned this blog inspired by the aforementioned.
youlike?
OK first lemmie give you the rundown of my magazine fetish. Now see some grrrls are make-up floozies. Others are designer sluts. The majority of us are shoe trollops (for me it's gym shoes). A lot of us are hand bag harlots. A bunch of females are jewlery jezebels. But I'm a magazine libertine. Don't know what libertine means - look it up! Anyhow I've collected magazines since I was a shorty. My aunt use to have subscriptions to all the fashion mags like Elle and Vogue and other like Essence blah, blah, blah. I collected teenie bopper mag at some point. All of the earlier collections have since become scrap books for design ideas, the teen crap got disposed of. Boxes and boxes. When I recently moved most of my belongings to "the farm" my parents had much to say about the super heavy boxes which were split between my book collection and my magazine collection. I even have the premier issue of VIBE which I have seen sell for bout 30 bucks. So yes I got a thing for magazines but I dont buy them as faithfully as I use to. I've done away with my early 90's collection of SOURCE, with exception to a couple I decided to keep. I've gotten rid of the majority of VIBE that I had collected. And I really stopped buying both because I grew out of that type of *ish or they just started to suck. Propaganda. I do have odds and ends of the likes of Paper, Surface, Trace, Fader and on and on and on. You get the drift?!
So my constant for sometime was
which one day whos parent company went belly up after trickin out the original sistahs that started the Mag. It had become watered down but I still bouth it faithfully, errrry month. So I was blew when 1, 2 then 3 months went by and I found out it was no longer. I was frustrated as all hell because Essence was a lil too grown for me and the fashion mags were a lil too cragguh for me. So there was a hole in the hoezone for my demographic of magazine junkies. No fix in sight.
Then came
And I thought the lil magazine whore inside me would finally get paid for her favors. The layout was dope, the content was on point and there were black grrrls like me strewn all in it. It wasn't for the youngin's, wasn't too mature for my taste, wasn't for the fellas. The glass slipper fit well.
BUT NOOOOOOoooooooo! What do I find today looming on the net since the last week of Feb? SUEDE IS SHUT DOWN.
I guess there will not be a magazine that suitably fits my demographic;
Median Age: 31
Ethnicity: 70% Black 30% Other (Latin, Asian, Caucasian)
Education: 64% ollege Educated
Employment: 70%
(as per Suede)
So what's the publishing industry REALLY sayin'? Young black grrrls don't buy magazines?
So as homage to the now defunct Suede I've redesigned this blog inspired by the aforementioned.
youlike?
