Online Design Mags: Some Thoughts

1. Holy shit I miss Domino Mag SO VERY HARD.

2. Here are some things that I enjoy more than the experience of reading an online mag:

• Getting a pap smear.
• Reaching my hand into Oliver's mouth after he's picked up a random, nasty-assed chicken bone on the street and I gotta retrieve it.
• Preparing my tax returns.
• watching the Nate Berkus show.

You get the picture. I'm sorry, but it's just true: the format of that shit does NOT translate online. Reading a magazine is FUN! Reading an online magazine is ANNOYING (though, I will say, I do not feel this way on the iPad. That shit is dope). That pdf flippy thing just sucks a dizzle. And if I'm on my little laptop at home its impossible to see anything. And that page-turny mechanism makes me suicidal. And that weird thing that goes down when you zoom in and the page shifts in the opposite direction makes me want to stomp on a baby's face. I just H-A-T-E the format.

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