Sitting in front of me, on the large leather ottoman that also doubles as a blanket storage device, is a copy of Combat Aircraft magazine. According to the cover, it is "The World's Top Military Aviation Magazine," which would lead one to believe that there are multiple military aviation magazines. This thought disturbs me as much as if you had told me when I was 8 that there wasn't just one Bogey Man, but a Bogey Man in every closet. I have no idea how this magazine got there, and I have avoided it for weeks hoping that it would disappear as mysteriously as it had come. Alas it has not, so I cracked the cover last night to discover what is possible the most boring magazine in the world. Initially I thought there was no way that a magazine about combat aircraft could be boring. I mean, at the very least there would be a lot of cool action shots of things getting blown up by expensive airplanes and helicopters. But no, not a single picture of an explosion. Just a bunch of articles cut-and-pasted from Wikipedia about different crappy aircraft from all over the world. You'd think regular readers would get bored of the technical jargon after a while and move on to a magazine like Bowhunter or something.
Anyway, now I'm technically "the type of guy who reads combat aircraft magazines" so I guess you can assume I'm going to start posting some pretty uniformed nationalist tirades against Barack Obama on this site. Just a warning.
photo: flickr - williewonker
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