Mangesh Hattikudur
Thrilled Not be on this List!
by Mangesh Hattikudur - December 16, 2008 - 7:31 PM

Of all the lists we were shortlisted on this year (NYTimes Bestseller, MacArthur Genius Grant, Nobel Prize in Medicine, etc), this is one we’re happy we didn’t make. I can’t figure out whether this song is depressing, funny or annoying (it definitely Venn diagrams nicely in between all three). But it does make me happy to know we’re not mentioned in the mix. (Of course, if you want to keep us off the list, feel free to subscribe here.)

There are a few glossies that they left off that I think deserve a mention: Might magazine, Fuse magazine (or maybe Fuse-Work-Life? I only saw one issue, but it stayed on my desk for ages), Business 2.0, Lingua Franca, MyGeneration, Life and Varmint Hunter (which thankfully was reincarnated as Predator X-treme). Aside from the ‘Hunter, early editions of mental_floss were influenced by pages from all of those. If you can think of any other dead magazines deserving of eulogy, feel free to drop them in the comments.

Link via HuffingtonPost.

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Comments (10)

  1. A parodist is only as good as his fact checker. Harper’s hasn’t folded yet.

    posted by Matt on 12-16-2008 at 8:01 pm

  2. oh, great catch!

    posted by Mangesh Hattikudur on 12-16-2008 at 8:11 pm

  3. Thats the same tune from Tom Lehrer’s “Elements”

    posted by Jordan on 12-16-2008 at 9:45 pm

  4. I was glad to see Spy get a “shout out”, as it were. They folded years ago but they’ve been missed.

    posted by Debi on 12-16-2008 at 10:21 pm

  5. @Jordan: It’s a Gilbert and Sullivan tune originally, “The Major-General’s Song” from Pirates of Penzance.

    posted by Julia on 12-17-2008 at 1:46 am

  6. I miss Omni. And now I have an ear worm. I’ll be “hearing” Gilbert and Sullivan all night now.

    posted by Pam on 12-17-2008 at 5:47 am

  7. @Pam

    I know. I’ve got “I’ve Got a Little List” running in my head now.

    posted by Mike on 12-17-2008 at 10:40 am

  8. Yes, many of these magazines have been gone for a long, long time. National Lampoon folded the same year our magazine did: 1992. At least we had an excuse: our magazine was for Commodore computers. :)

    posted by airship on 12-17-2008 at 2:12 pm

  9. Radar just ceased publication, and now I’m stuck with a subscription to Star instead. :-(

    posted by Andréa on 12-27-2008 at 2:23 am

  10. There’s now a sequel to this, The Freelance National Anthem, at http://www.youtube.com/cinemasolo. For post-holiday shoppers, an ode to Ikea goes up tomorrow (12/28). -bd

    posted by bill dyszel on 12-27-2008 at 1:47 pm

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