Doctor’s office magazines

I was at urgent care for a yet to be diagnosed ailment yesterday for 90 minutes. The magazine choices were essentially, House Beautiful, Time, and People. Having not looked at any of these for at several years, I read them all.

Thing I already knew.

House Beautiful’s sole purpose on this earth is to make you feel crappy about your own house. (Actually, I also once heard it referred as a “gay mag.” Probably correct.)

Thing I learned.

It is much better to have People on a deserted island than Time.

I had forgotten how insipid Time really is. Now, of course, People is insipid too. But,

1. People doesn’t pretent not to be insipid.
2. Some of the actress model types I had never heard of (and quite a few I had heard of) are very attractive. Imagine that.

But back to Time. I read one issue (I think) cover to cover. The cover was on twentysomethings who won’t become adults. I swear these articles are written using computer templates. They are all the same, article to article, issue to issue.

Paragraph 1: Personal interest story setting up hypothesis. (In this case, twentysomethings won’t grow up.)

Paragraph 2: Some obscure academic to put this in more global terms.

Paragraph 3: Is this good or bad? Another obscure academic to say’s its bad.

Paragraph 4: Another obscure academic to disagree.

Blah, blah, blah

Conclusion: One thing is for sure, this new trend is here to stay!

Give me People anytime!