Dead people don’t have physical space to invade; nor can they be ‘near’ anything. Hugh Heffner’s no closer to her right now than he was a week ago.

Thank you. I was around 25 when this debuted. I rolled my eyes at Carrie most of the time but it was fairly fresh. Even at 43 now, I still often think of the episode where Miranda wants to talk about her new Personal Digital Assistant and finally tells everyone off for letting men define their lives. Or the episode…

Working actors never get the credit they deserve.

Sex and the City is soooo bad.

I have a small collection of 70s playboys for this reason. The centerfolds are gorgeous and the palettes are all orange and green and yellow and everyone has pubes and awesome tan lines. I framed a couple and hung them in my Grandma Cave.

Although I suspect his motives were not so altruistic but just to ensure that women he knocked up would be able to have their little problem “taken care of.”

Although I suspect his motives were not so altruistic but just to ensure that women he knocked up would be able to have their little problem “taken care of.”

You are correct, Penthouse and Hustler are pretty clear that their magazines were meant to be in visual opposition to Playboy’s “Girl Next Door” image. Hustler makes Playboy look like a damn NOW newsletter based on how much they manage to objectify women.

It’s a more complicated scenario than just “he was a creepy dude who basically objectified women” although he most certainly was. I wrote a pretty extensive paper on early Playboy and the rise of men’s magazines in college, and women did draw benefits from Hefner’s philosophy and the culture he tried to promote. He…

Did he? (I only ask because I thought one of the big selling/sticking points with Playboy,at least for the first half of their existence,was that the women had to be “all natural”,and not have those things,to be considered). It seemed like Hustler/Penthouse/etc. were the purveyors of the “fake everything” trend. Side…

Actions speak louder than words.

Of all the post about Hugh’s death, Jez’s was the one I wanted to see most as to see how he was remembered. He has a complex legacy: publisher of some of the best authors of the 20's century, great art, amazing photographers (Annie Leibovitz, Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton among others), insightful interviews, early…

Whatever else may be said about Hefner, his contribution to American journalism through the mid 1980s remains impressive.

I think they missed part of the article. I’m sure it should have read:

Seconded. My military fam gives zero fucks about people “respecting the troops.” They just want working equipment/competent leadership when they’re deployed and a health care system that works when they’re discharged.

‘“We pulled them out of the box, taped them down. There was no ill-intent,” he added. “If someone thinks that I mean personal harm to someone, they don’t know me.”’

Black people built this country. Not like everyone else. More than everyone else. For free.

This. For most black people, for better or worse, THIS is our country. We can talk about “back to Africa” but I have to guess that most of us don’t know where we would go if we did go back “home.” Where is “home:” Ghana? Nigeria? Kenya? I wish I knew but I don’t. Now, I’ve never met a white person that didn’t know…

“Black people built this country. Not like everyone else. More than everyone else. For free.”