2 Magazines

As always, read my two monthly magazines, National Geographic and Playboy.

July Nat Geo was excellent! The story about Angkor and why that civilization disappeared was entrancing, with great graphics of the water systems they had there. And great photography also! It was one of those stories that I subscribe to the magazine for. Also, the Garrison Keillor piece about state fairs was great prose and again great photographs. The photo essay on devilfish---holy crap those are big animals! It really gave a sense of wonder of the creatures, diverse and splendid, we share this earth with.

July/August Playboy, because they are going bi-monthly I have heard, was quite a good one too. Ironically had a article about Billy Mays that came out right before he died. But the Alec Baldwin interview was really interesting. He is conflicted in a lot of ways, and admits it to a point. And seems very open to discussing his faults. A few months ago, Playboy finished a series of articles looking closely at the male sexual system. This month they look very closely at the female system. And it is an enlightening article. I mean, do you know why it is called the "G Spot?" But it really looks at various theories of female sexuality from a physiological view. Is there a g spot? Or is there only clitoral orgasms? What and why is there a clitoris? And, what is the clitoral system...really, what we see is only the...ahem...tip of the iceberg. There is so much we still do not understand about female sexuality, even anatomically.

As always I am entertained and learn a lot from both these publications!