Found my copy of Radar when I checked the mail last night. Wonder when it got there. Have got to start checking that box more often. Sometimes the mailman takes it back when it gets too full.

Can't stop to read anything this week, but couldn't resist flipping through. So first reactions:

Wow, lots of content. Pages and pages of Spy kinda stuff. Way too cranky to consume that this morning--I'm immune to humor in a bad mood. But "The World's Gayest Logos" spread caught my eye--of course it did!--had me chuckling right through my pretend PMS.

Shame they couldn't have sold more ads, though. Guess advertisers are leary after the first go-round. Goofballs.

Now, the articles. Last time I thought the Spy stuff was . . . the best stuff since Spy, but the features were a bit unmemorable.

This time? Gotta get back to you on the stories, but at least I'm likely to find out. Usually I can dispose of a magazine in about twenty minutes, because I'm lucky if one piece in the bunch grabs me. Really lucky.

Why do I keep subscribing to this crap? Right now I have Details, Atlantic, NYer, Esquire, GQ and Vanity Fair on my coffee table. Can't remember the last story I read outside the Atlantic. GQ and Esquire I rarely bother to open. Just a bunch of this idiotic magazine fluff. Who the hell are they writing this shit for?

If I'm going to waste time I'll do it on the web.

Did I have a point? Oh, I'm itching to read every piece in this Radar issue. Except one, actually, the long one they really featured, oddly. Maybe cause it's about an infantry unit and I've already been in one of those, and written about them since then, and lived in Kuwait, and . . . No big mystery to me. Prolly just me, though.

All the other ones were immediately intriguing. That's refreshing. Some kind of record.

But that's the way it should be. So much material out there.

Look, I managed to review this whole issue without ever reading it. Heeheehee.

Will soon. Promise. And seriously, the subject matter is half the ballgame.

Will get back to you. Hopefully this weekend.

Oh, it's due on newstands next week, apparently.

Mildly interesting piece about it in the NY Sun. Very mildly.