Slog - Comments on David Horsey's One-of-a-Kind, Totally Original Idea

Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball

Jubilation T. Cornball — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:33:48 -0800

The King is Kind.

Comment by bluh?

bluh? — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:34:28 -0800

The P-I still exists...?

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:40:44 -0800

Um, guys?

Like, I hate to burst your bubble, but nobody on the east coast in the MSM reads the Stranger.

They only know about the PI and the Times.

Comment by bluh?

bluh? — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:40:49 -0800

For that matter, Vanity Fair and the New Yorker still exist? The mind boggles, considering their circulation number must be in the single digit(s).

Comment by heywhatsit

heywhatsit — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:41:11 -0800

Who cares?

Comment by bluh?

bluh? — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:44:40 -0800

Will@3, I used to live on the east coast and I can assure you no one there has heard of The PI, The Stranger, the Seattle Times, or Seattle, for that matter (maybe briefly during that grunge thing).

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:49:43 -0800

I do believe if I hear one more word about the New Yorker cover, or see one more parody of it, my poor head is going to ESPLOAD.

Comment by Bellevue Ave

Bellevue Ave — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:51:07 -0800

I like the curb stomp in a diaper image.

Comment by rb

rb — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:56:40 -0800

Erica, isn't that chip on your shoulder heavy?

Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball

Jubilation T. Cornball — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:58:16 -0800

@4, too bad you missed the article profiling Si Newhouse, Chairman of Advance Publications, which noted the New Yorker and VF as having achieved seriously impressive levels of profitability and readership. The Italian version of VF alone made $100MM in ad revenues last year.

Facts are fun!

Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball

Jubilation T. Cornball — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:59:03 -0800

Doh! Article was in this past Sunday's NYT.

Comment by A

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:00:50 -0800

Y'know, I just don't like Monica Guzman.The fact that she does that for a living kinda makes me a little sick. Her profile on the PI site is so stupid. "A product of her wired generation" etc.

Comment by orNot

orNot — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:03:30 -0800

The Right Coast people aren't that stupid to not know where Seattle is.(even without grunge) I used to live there too. I also read Dan's column in the Westchester Weekly, so it was a pleasant surprise to find out he lives in Seattle.

Comment by bluh?

bluh? — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:14:41 -0800

@13, I didn't say they were ignorant of Seattle's existence or location, just that no one out that way cares about it or ever thinks about it, the way you would never care or think about, say, Omaha or Flagstaff or Hartford or Sitka.

@10, the NYT still exists?

Sorry, kneejerk response, emphasis on the jerk part. I'm not actually sorry, either.

I actually hadn't heard about the "controversial" New Yorker cover until I fired up my computer an hour or so ago.

Comment by Is it Cranky Wednesday?

Is it Cranky Wednesday? — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:25:17 -0800

Erica, Obviously you have a huge axe to grind.

But no matter how much you complain about their content, thousands and thousands of folks will still read the PI. They get millions of hits a month on their website, and the Stranger doesn't even come close. Never will.

So give it a rest.

Comment by Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:31:20 -0800

Erica, I can't figure you out. Are you more jealous of Monica's good looks or Horsey's Pulitzer?

Please settle this bet!

Comment by Bluh still exists?

Bluh still exists? — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:31:24 -0800

@4 some circulation numbers for you. Found them on the internets, you should give it a try sometime.

Vanity Fair 1,161,788
New Yorker 1,062,018
NYT 1,077,256

Comment by Mahtli69

Mahtli69 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:31:48 -0800

Uh, Erica? I don't think the idea of spoofing a New Yorker cover is the part that was plagiarized.

Rather, it's the details of the two cartoons that are eerily similar ...

Both have a Constitution in the fireplace. One has McCain in a walker, the other in a wheelchair. One has a portrait of Dick Cheney over the fireplace, the other has Bush. Both have Cindy McCain with a handful of pills.

Of course, some of these cartoons practically write themselves. See this cartoon from Bill Bramhall of the New York Daily News that came out on 7/15/08 (same day as Horsey's). I guess pills and walking aids are too easy to pass up.

Question: If you put a million monkeys in a room and gave them each a pen and paper, would one of them draw an old Horsey cartoon?

Comment by Mahtli69

Mahtli69 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:38:12 -0800

And, in a bizarre case of this coming full circle, the comment,

�COPYCATS!!!! You are going to get sued by Horsey.�

was made by ME in the Vanity Fair comments section after reading this comment on Slog yesterday. So the Stranger (or, at least, the Slog Commenters) scoop the P-I once again.

Comment by michael strangeways

michael strangeways — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:42:31 -0800

This Horsey has been thoroughly beat and is quite dead.

Move on.

Comment by Vince

Vince — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:45:21 -0800

Humor is funny. Jaded argument not so much.

Comment by bluh?

bluh? — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:45:59 -0800

@17, I'm just killing time by trolling the comments section, but don't those numbers seem surprisingly high for the two magazines, assuming they're real? Do you know anyone that reads or subscribes to those magazines? I don't even see them in doctor's lobbies anymore.

I was kidding about the NYT; that number seems relatively low for that newspaper, in comparison to the magazine's supposed numbers. Maybe the glossies are counting all the returned, unsold issues that end up bundled in Mexican landfills?

Comment by NapoleonXIV

NapoleonXIV — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:51:41 -0800

The main difference between Horsey and the rest being that Horsey can't bother to draw Cindy McCain worth shit.

Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball

Jubilation T. Cornball — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:04:27 -0800

@22, I subscribe to both. And Wallpaper, Butt, Out, Conde Nast Traveler, Adbusters and Hello!

Comment by elswinger

elswinger — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:16:02 -0800

Has no one started a blog collecting all the satires of the New Yorker's original cover? There must be dozens of them out there.

Comment by michael strangeways

michael strangeways — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:22:57 -0800

Butt.

Best.
Magazine.
EVUH!

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Comment by Rhiannon

Rhiannon — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:38:03 -0800

What is this, the third time in a month that Erica has picked on Monica's PI blog posts? You're protesting a little much, hon. I think you're jealous of a female blogger who gets more hits than you do.

Comment by Prospero

Prospero — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:37:47 -0800

Like the Stranger has never, EVER complained when they think someone has gotten a story idea from them. Time to grow up, kids.

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