Lads will be lads?

I am eager to respond to Dan’s last post, and to the article to which he refers, but I’m waiting until I can get my hands on a copy of Maxim, which is being surprizingly impossible (perhaps because Eva Mendes is on the cover this month?) this weekend in Turners Falls, MA. I’ve always had strong opinions about Maxim and its cohorts, FHM and Stuff, and about Playboy as compared to more (porno)graphic skin mags, but I’ve never actually done more than browse Maxim in the gas station. I did manage to find copies of Stuff, and serendipitously, the final issue of FHM ever, which begs the issue of why FHM is dying while Maxim seems to be flying off the shelves. I’d love to think the mag’s failure is because FHM as an abbreviatrion for "For HiM" is just idiotic, but I’m guessing that’s not what it was. I will report on all this and much more this coming week. Hold your breath, lads and lassies.