Show I read the articles J Jeren eren W. W Canning Managing Editor I stopped by the local Eleven 7 on Friday night to pick up a couple of beverages and some beef jerky jerk for the night While standing in line waiting for the nicotine addict in front of me to count outher out outher outher her total in nickels and dimes I saw Knowles' Knowles face staring back at me from the cover of lOa Sports Illustrated's annual Swimsuit Issue Of course being a fan of the magazine I had to pick up a copy to see seethe seethe seethe the latest fashions in women's that's my story and Im I'm sticking to it I slapped down the magazine along with the drinks and jerky then the cashier rang me up for a total over S 10 10 Now I dont don't know about you but I dont don't think Ive I've ever spent more than 8 at the Sev That's when Sis Si's grand plan hit me Photograph be beautiful women in exotic locations with limited clothing put it in a sports magazine and sell it to men at six bucks a pop Now that's good marketing By the way The Globe Swimsuit Calendar will be released this summer When I got home I kicked back on the couch beverage and magazine in hand As I flipped through the pages looking at the fine I couldn't help but realize that the annual issue has changed They have added in shock value photos such as the infamous body paint swimsuits First off if you dont don't have a swimsuit on its it's called skinny dipping not modeling and second wouldn't the paint wash off in the water This years year's issue even included a portion that was in D 3 I didn't see anything wrong with the D 3 until I caught my father flipping through that section with the red and blue glasses on his face Im I'm still laughing at that image Near the middle of the magazine which everyone flips through slowly page by page the reader stumbles upon an unpleasant picture of Burt Reynolds provocatively posing in inan inan inan an advertisement That hairy mess nearly made me want to gouge my eyes out but thanks to the beautiful Marissa Miller on the following pages I reconsidered Now I know that nearly all of the photos have been airbrushed and to the maximum of the programs program's abilities But the annual magazine is a peace of history Its It's American I tried to get a friend to top p pose se for a picture so that I could have this column printed on their back like Rick Reillys Reilly's column on the final page of the Swimsuit Issue but all I got was a big red mark in inthe inthe inthe the shape of a hand on the left side of my face |