Men's magazines should be fun. They should be informative. When I was a teen, I used to feel pretty cosmopolitan reading my monthly GQ. I liked the writing. A lot of it was high calibre. They mixed smart stuff w/ goofy stuff. A lot of it was way out of my league price-wise but so what. So why don't I read them anymore? I buy a whack of magazines every month but I can say none of them is fashion-related or is describable as a men's mag in the classic sense. Frankly, my appetite for reading about men's clothing is pretty much insatiable, so this is odd.

So what do you think? Are they actually worse today? Were they better before? I don't know. It just might have been where I was coming from. Some questions worth discussing:

(1) What do you guys still read?

(2) What did you used to read and think still holds up today (would like to hear more about that Town magazine mentioned before)? What were the good years and why (who was writing?)?

It's easy to complain about stuff today, but I am admittedly more interested in hearing what was good and is still worth tracking down now. It's ridiculously easy--if expensive--to pick up old magazines. However, it's foolhardy to do at random.

In trying to find some evidence for something else I was going to post about, I found the following article: http://www.amconmag.com/article/2008/apr/07/00020/ . I don't read this magazine or anything, but it was a rather in depth (albeit reactionary, old-fashioned and ideological) piece on men's magazines that some might find interesting.