Snippets from Maxim

Maxim Magazine, the magazine for men is by far the coolest magazine I have seen in a long time. It is full of cool gadgets, interesting information, advice, jokes, reviews of all the latest and greatest and well, good looking women. Playboy it is not! And I know this sound so cliche, but I do read it for the articles! And to prove it, here are some really funny and cool little bit of information gleened from its December 2007 pages!

A silver lining to global warming. pg. 44
All that melted glacier has to go somewhere, and what better place that to your liver! Brewmeisters in Greenland are using H2O that's been frozen in the island's massive icecap for 2,000 years to make dark and pale ales they claim are fantastically polluntant-free. Farewell, mercury-infused hops. It was delicious while it lasted.

Bacon Porn: The sexiest sentence ever written. pg. 52
"Who, under any circumstances, is not rendered almost helpless by the tantalizing sound of bacon sizzling slowly in a skillet, by the taunting backwoods aroma that permeates the air, by the luscious textures of crisp fat and toothsome lean meat, and by the explosion of mingled salty and smoky and sweet flavors that virtually explode in the mouth?" - from The Bacon Cookbook, by James Villas.

The Great Weird of China: pg 116
Freestyle Grave Robbing: The black market for female corpses is resurgent in China. Recently deceased or "wet" women fetch up to $5,300 from parents who don't want their dead sons to be bachelors in the afterlife. Earlier this year, a grave robber confessed to murdering six women. Killing, he told police, was much easier than digging bodies out of the ground.

Lethal Injection Marathon: While America's courts wrestle with lethal in jection, China has put it on wheels. At least 40 "Death Cars" - vans that bring mobile lethal injection to remote communities - help China build on its 2006 world-record exectution tally of 1,010.

And the best, or rather, the worst snippet of them all: A reveiw of a perfume to be released on the world in December: pg 36

Can you smell the sex in the air? You can if you want to. VULVA Original is a "beguilling vaginal scent" that, according to its makers, "intensifies erotic fantasies" for men who sniff it. We took a whiff and it vividly transported us to a sexual fantasy of ours: the one where we're doing it inside a dumpster behind the Red Lobster.


There you have it. Useless info from a pretty cool magazine. And if you think Maxim is just for the guys, I can tell you that the person who introduced it to me was a girl who subscribes to it!


Later!