Her battle with vaccinations over, Jenny McCarthy has returned to the only thing she’s been good at: posing nude for Playboy. The 39-year-old says that she “doesn’t have any qualms about posing nude even though she’s a mom to 10-year-old Evan,” to which Evan’s 10-year-old friends readily agreed.
Let’s face it. You read Playboy for the articles. You’re so into the literary graces of the magazine that not only do you subscribe to the physical publication, but you read it online, too. The only thing is, you can’t read it at work, because you might get fired, unless you work at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Fear not, because Playboy is going to launch a site you can read at work–without all those pesky naked women that are trying to get you in trouble. Soon, thesmokingjacket.com will launch. Based on the name, we assume it’s going to a bit more covered up, and post celebrity mugshots and legal documents.
As the print world spirals into oblivion, magazines are trying everything to hold on to their empires. One of the most famous, Playboy, demonstrates just how little relevance they actually hold.
In an attempt to snare younger readers with “hip” imagery, Playboy featured Marge Simpson on their November cover.
You know, from The Simpsons?
That show you may have watched 10 years ago? They’re retro hip now like Saved by the Bell, Limp Bizkit and AIDS, right?
In related news, Playboy has finally embraced the sad cartoon porn market, which is already dominated online.
There was a time when I considered myself up on all the latest happenings in pop culture. I knew all the big players, all the latest news and gossip, and I knew it all because I could read the celebrity magazine headlines while my mom and I waited to put our groceries on the belt and check out. I was probably seven.
Since then, I can safely say I have focused more on what, rather than who, is cool. I pay attention to certain types of music and certain genres of movies. I watch certain types of shows with certain ads aimed at my demographic. Slowly over the years, it seems I have drifted farther and farther out of contact with what is “fresh,” as the kids say these days. I think.
I realized just recently that basically all of what we define as pop culture is really just what the females of the species find interesting. Let’s run down a few of the latest headlines, shall we? Continue reading The McBournie Minute: Pop should represent the populus
