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I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.

Buffy ,'Chosen'

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§ ita § - Mar 28, 2008 5:48:45 pm PDT #8091 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Budget Living sounds cool. Is it anything like Real Simple? I almost fell for that magazine.

Window box flowers/herb gardens for apartment living.

You can get that upside down tomato one. You know what else you should have? Infomercial/product of the week--you know the sort of product. Nothing normal like air fresheners, but instead something like Shamwow! where it's like they're selling you a whole new technology that you just can't continue to live without.

Jesse - Mar 28, 2008 5:49:34 pm PDT #8092 of 10001

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Real Simple is infuriating. Budget Living was cool.

§ ita § - Mar 28, 2008 5:50:51 pm PDT #8093 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Real Simple is infuriating.

Tell me more.

Jesse - Mar 28, 2008 5:53:51 pm PDT #8094 of 10001

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OK, I've only looked at a couple issues, but it seems like all "buy this $300 cardboard box, and your crap will be transformed!" and "how to prepare for your trip to Nice this year: step one, fly first class."

Tom Scola - Mar 28, 2008 5:56:34 pm PDT #8095 of 10001

Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

"how to prepare for your trip to Nice this year: step one, fly first class."

Well, doy.

Amy - Mar 28, 2008 5:56:43 pm PDT #8096 of 10001

Because books.

I like Real Simple because it's so clean. Really spare design, easy on the eyes, and good recipes. Also, organization porn! If you're into that.

Jessica - Mar 28, 2008 6:12:38 pm PDT #8097 of 10001

If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Really spare design, easy on the eyes

Oh god, I *hate* Real Simple's design. Their random-ass use of negative space makes me want to roll the magazine up and use it to beat the crap out of their layout department. It's friggin' unreadable.

ChiKat - Mar 28, 2008 6:21:10 pm PDT #8098 of 10001

That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

But the magazine I miss most of all is the dear, departed Mode.

I loved that magazine. I miss it.

§ ita § - Mar 28, 2008 6:37:07 pm PDT #8099 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm with Amy. It's not as budget as I'm going to assume a magazine with budget in the title is. However when they pick a "best for your money" it wasn't usually too much money.

And I like the negative space.

My main problem was that it was targeted towards women. Not sure why that was bothering me at the time.

Good god. I'm obsessing over every ad with food in it. And I should really get up and get my next nasty-assed "juice".

Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 28, 2008 6:59:15 pm PDT #8100 of 10001

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I miss the GQ of the 80s, when it was by gay men for gay men, and featured fashions, travel destinations, lifestyle tips, and models that represented what I would have liked my life to be like.

Anorexic scowling yuppies drinking Stolichnaya Elit who wear corset-tight sweater vests and no socks while being dry humped by strippers in velvet-roped after hours clubs will not be influencing me to buy anything except a different magazine.

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