Have you guys seen Advertising Age's top mag covers for 2007?

a few for your amusement :)



TEXAS MONTHLY
This cover took home the "Best Coverline" award from the Magazine Publishers of America at last fall's American Magazine Conference, but it's even more than that. It's also a genuinely frightening image. Beyond even that, the cover is an hommage to perhaps the best cover ever, National Lampoon's 1973 masterpiece that threatened, "If You Don't Buy This Magazine, We'll Kill This Dog."


THE NEW YORKER
Although we by no means endorse magazine covers that depict people sitting on toilets -- that's disgusting, folks -- sometimes an image just kills with its timing. Columbia students laughed in September when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was translated as telling them, "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in your country." Here, a neighbor in the adjoining stall either has a "wide stance" or would like to discuss the issue further.


NEW YORK
The right photo plus the right pull quote equals a cover portrait that is neither cruel nor promotional. Given the audience figures circulating toward year-end, in fact, this July cover looks downright generous. But it's not; a profile of Katie Couric's "impossible year" demands a chance for Ms. Couric to say that this isn't quite how she hoped things would go, either.

http://adage.com/article?article_id=122611

At the supermarket this morning while waiting for my son to get some Subway sandwiches a guy strolled by. I swear by goodness he was the spitting image of Dick Cheney sneer and all.

He was causing a commotion because half the customers was turning to stare. Some were following him to get a second look, and I know he could tell why. I was hoping my son would come so he could have seen.

Dick Cheney has a double, how awful for the poor man.

Carnac The Magnificent: Name three people you usually associate with bombs.