Many moons ago, I posed the question: Is there a market for a monthly magazine that is a cross between Vogue and Foreign Affairs?
Well, I recently learned that Jezebel took a cut at what such a magazine might look like: 'Jane's Defence Weekly' is a weekly military mag covering topics pertinent to national and international defense and security, and the main reason our dad was impressed this one time we told him we were writing a story for 'Jane' magazine. Below, we take the pun wayyyy further than we ever probably should have by asking 'Jane's Defence Weekly' reporter Nathan Hodge to interpret world events in the flip, casual, sophomoric voice a 'Jane' reader would understand!
Here's a snippet: Q: Angelina Jolie was just named to the Council on Foreign Relations. Do celebrities really help solve anything? Hodge: I think Angelina Jolie would do a better job of winning hearts and minds then say, [former Bush flack] Karen Hughes, who recently did a a listening tour of the Middle East as the lead State Department outreach person for boosting America's image in the Middle East. It was a failure. The problem you have in the military is that there's a belief you can invent a ray gun that you can zap people with and they will like you. The way you want to go about solving conflicts it is by improving your information campaign--winning hearts and minds of people. It's like how we won the Cold War - we won because people didn't want to wear shoes made in Leningrad and wanted to listen to bootleg Deep Purple records. Q: Are all the celebs trying to heal Africa right now, or are any of them digging missile defense? Hodge: Do you know who Jeff Skunk Baxter is? Q: Uh, no? Hodge: He was in the Doobie Brothers. He's really into missile defense. Q: Whoa, so he is! Weird.
Oh, Skunk rocks! I heard him rant about how electronic collaboration should be more like great jazz. (Or something. It was a while back.) |