July 2005 Magazine Round-Up

In GQ, there's a feature called "The 20 Hamburgers You Must Eat Before You Die" in which a writer searches for the 20 best burger joints in the US. Seattle's Red Mill Burgers comes in at #17, and #1 for Onion Rings. There's another Real World article "Leaving Reality", a clever article written by John Jeremiah Sullivan. It focuses mostly on people, i.e.. The Miz and Coral, from the second season of the Real World in NYC-one that I didn't watch, but I am familiar with these people from Real World/Road World Challenge. It's about what happens to the cast members after they've finished their 15 minutes of fame. There's a well-written feature, "The American Dream CASE# RS106247", about Russian immigrants from rural Russia that end up in Jacksonville Florida to live their American dream. The Politics column answers the question: What does congress do with their time? It looks at how congress spends it's time and money.

Harpers also has a large in-depth feature on pork spending by congress in the article, "The Great American Pork Barrel." It also has Haruki Murakami's best short story, "Chance Traveler," since the excellent collection, The Elephant Vanishes. I also found Eric Hoffer's (author of Among The Believers) notebook fragments intriguing.

And Esquire has features on 10 Men, none of whom are all that interesting to me, but Chuck Klosterman has written his usual entertaining article(Crazy Things Seem Normal...Normal Things Seem Crazy) on Val Kilmer, whom Klosterman called "advanced" in an earlier column, noting that, basically, he was doing roles that were beyond other actors' conception. Very funny.

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[AzianBrewer]

With Jessica Simpson on the cover.

[MC]

And the famous Simpson twins...